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[Vendor Group Addon] CedCommerce Vendor Group Addon is a powerful module for the Magento 2 E-commerce platform, which helps website owners in sorting out accessibility, configurations and commission distribution for different categories of vendors.

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Vendor Group Addon

User Manual

Version - 2.0


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Table of Contents I. Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 4

II. Enable/Disable Group ........................................................................................................................... 4

III. Add Group ............................................................................................................................................. 5

I. Group Info ......................................................................................................................................... 6

II. Group Configurations ........................................................................................................................ 6

III. Group Resources ............................................................................................................................... 8

IV. Group Vendors ................................................................................................................................ 11

IV. Edit Group ....................................................................................................................................... 12

V. Filterable Grid ................................................................................................................................. 12

VI. Support................................................................................................................................................ 13


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Overview Vendor Group Addon for Magento 2 is basically an admin panel module which provides several

admin panel features. With this addon, the website admin will have the facility to create groups

of vendors and all the features provided to the vendor will now be provided depending on the

group to which he/she belongs.

These groups will further classify the vendor according to the website, store and store views. As

per the default feature of Magento 2, websites were at the apex followed by store and store

views but now, there is something above websites also and this is nothing but the Group.

A Group can have multiple vendors but a vendor can only be a part of any one group. If a

vendor belongs to two groups then before becoming a part of 2nd group he/she will first be

unassigned from the first group so that he/she can belong only to a single group. This is

specifically done to keep a track of the rules or conditions that need to be applied to a vendor.

If a vendor will belong to more than one group then which of the rules will applicable to

him/her can’t be decided as each group will have different rules and conditions like different

discount rules, tax rules, etc. Therefore, because of the same reason common vendors among

groups are not allowed in the Vendor Group Addon.

CedCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace should be installed prior to Vendor Group Addon as

Vendor Group Addon depends upon CedCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace. With Vendor

Group Addon one more sub menu gets added to the CedCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace

main menu, in the admin panel, and that is “Vendor Groups” to provide group related features.

Enable/Disable Group To enable the Vendor Group Addon, go to Marketplace > Vendor Configuration and select

“Yes” in the “Enable Vendor Group System” dropdown and click on “Save Config” button to

save the system configuration settings. Selecting “No” will disable the Vendor Group Addon and

it features won’t show up on frontend.


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Add Group The website admin can add a group by going to the left menu section and selecting

Marketplace > Vendor Groups. This will open the Vendor Groups page displaying the grid

containing the groups that have been created so far. By clicking “Add New Vendor Group”

button a new group can be created.

Vendor Groups sub-

menu to open

Vendor Groups grid

Select Yes to enable

Vendor Group.


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Following page will open for adding a new vendor group:-

i) Group Info

The basic group information like group name and group code are to be provided

here. “Group Code” should be a unique field to identify the groups easily.

“Group Name” field can include any value in characters.

ii) Group Configuration

It provides configuration settings to the website admin. These settings are

similar to the configuration settings of CedCommerce Multi-Vendor

Marketplace. They are being provided here to organize the facilities of the

Add New Vendor

Group button to

add a new group


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vendor according to the group. In other words, the vendor features and facilities

can vary from group to group, for example, in one group the vendor can have

the option to create three types of products while in the other group he/she may

have the option to create only one type of product.

The settings which are not present here will be taken from the configuration

settings of CedCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace and those which are

present and have been changed by the website admin in this section, will

override CedCommerce Multi-Vendor Marketplace settings and thus, Vendor

Group Addon settings will be reflected.

Given below is the screenshot of the Group Configuration section:-


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iii) Group Resources

This section provides the website admin the authority to limit the vendor panel

features available to the vendor at frontend. The website admin can select the

tabs or features which he/she wants to be displayed in the vendor panel

navigation menu at frontend. Only the features selected from here by the

website admin will show up at frontend in the vendor panel. Rest of the features

will not come if they are not selected. The screenshot has been given below:-


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Vendor panel (frontend) before limiting access:-

Access can be selected

from here. On selecting

‘All’ all the vendor panel

features will be disabled

at frontend

All the features are

available in the

vendor panel


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The website admin can select the features to be displayed at frontend and then click on “Save

and Continue Edit” button to save the changes done so far and carry on with editing.

Vendor panel (frontend) after limiting access:-

Do not select the

features to be disabled

Dashboard features and profile

view have disappeared as they

were not selected


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Here, we can see that default page that opens up first as soon as the vendor logs-in is

“New Product” page, but, when the Resource Access was not limited then, the

dashboard page was the first page which opens up. This is because, whichever feature

will be present at the top in the left side navigation menu in the vendor panel at

frontend, that page will be treated as the default page and will open up after login.

Thus, when “Dashboard” the topmost feature, the dashboard page opened up and

when the topmost feature in the navigation menu was “New Product” then new

product page opened up.

iv) Group Vendors

This section displays the grid of vendors with their status as

“Approved/Disapproved/New”. The website admin can select the vendors he/she

wants to include in this particular group. The “Reset Filter” button should be clicked to

display the list of available vendors. The screenshot is given below:-

If a vendor already exists in a particular group then on assigning him/her in some other

group first of all he/she will be unassigned from the previous group and then included in

the current group.

After filling all the information, click on the “Save Vendor Group” button to save the group and

display it in the grid.

Vendors can

be selected

from here


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Edit Group The website admin can edit the details of a group by clicking on the row of the corresponding

group that is to be edited, to open up the Edit Group page. Thereafter, the group details to be

changed can be provided and “Save Vendor Group” button should be clicked to save the

changes made to the group.

Filterable grids

All the grids of Vendor Group Addon can be filtered on the basis of the columns present in them

by entering the required values for filtering and then clicking the “Search” button. The records

which match the filter conditions will be listed.

Before filtering:-

After filtering:-

All the records

are displayed

Filter condition

Search button to display

the result of filter condition


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Support

If you need support or have questions directly related to Vendor Group Addon, please use our

Online Message Form to contact our support team or send us an email at

[email protected]

Best Regards,

CedCommerce Team

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