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Merchants

Merchants are the people behind the products in your marketplace. They can be a single person or a team of people. Your company can also be a merchant in your marketplace. If you want to publish products of your own, you’ll need to create a merchant profile for yourselves.

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Merchant properties

Merchants have name (which isn’t necessarily unique) and a hash which is unique. Other properties can be added and selected by you in the Store settings page. Available properties:
  • Business name
  • Location
  • Profile picture
  • Cover picture
  • Website link
  • Support link
  • Twitter link
  • Instagram link
  • Custom fields (tiers, badges, etc)

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Merchant profile page

Merchants can have a unique url, that is used to access their profile page. Something like https://sidedish.store/@merchant To set a url for all merchants go to the Store settings page.

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Creating a Merchant

Merchants can be created in three ways:
  1. In the SideDish admin dashboard
  2. By using the API, from your own app.
  3. By merchants themselves using the New Merchant embeddable component.
Once a merchant is created, it isn’t yet published. You will need to publish them in the Dashboard app, or by using the API.

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Merchant teams

Merchants can have multiple people working on their team. Adding people to their team can be done from multiple methods:
  1. In the SideDish admin dashboard
  2. By using the API
  3. By the merchants themselves, in their Team page, available from the Merchant embeddable component.

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Merchant possibilities

Successful marketplaces require full cooperation from the merchants. They are the ones who can create products. To better assist them with this, SideDish provides the following features:
  • Self management of their profile page
  • Self management of their team
  • Self management of their payments
  • Upload documents
  • Creation of products
  • Editing of products
  • Responding to reviews
Since we fully support every action from the API, you can have all these functionalities from your own app and your own components.

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Authenticating merchants

If you want to use SideDish’s interface and the prebuilt components, you’ll need to authenticate your merchants. Merchants can be authenticated in two ways:
  1. By you, using the API to create End User tokens. See here
  2. By utilizing SideDish login page.