Q: Visibility Control

|| Note: To see your saved changes, please log out of the vendor portal and log back in. The article describes how you can control what your vendors can see in their portal. There are instances where you wish to hide certain information from your vendors. Be it Unit Price, Sales, Discounts, Profits, Commissions, Deductions, Payouts, Order Tags, Shipping Address, Billing Address, Customer Information or even Custom Properties attached to products from Shopify. <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/cf9b185a0b087000/vs00_h9kom7.jpg" alt="Visibility Control" /> When you choose to un-check or de-select a sales-related metric like Discounts or Profits, the respective columns would be hidden from the Dashboard, Reports and Orders page in the vendor portal. For example: In the below screenshot, you will only see that the selected options available are displayed. This is also carried over to the orders page in the vendor portal as well. <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/cf9b185a0b087000/vs01_uui7qn.jpg" alt="Dashboard view" /> || Note: To see your saved changes, please log out of the vendor portal and log back in. For Order-related information like Order Tags, Shipping Address, Billing Address, Customer Information, and Custom Properties, these can be viewed when you click on the ellipsis icon. The details will slide off from the left side of the page. Please refer to the below screenshots for samples. ![Ellipsis button](https://stor

Question 1

How to re-assign vendors

Accepted Answer

Upon installation of the PuppetVendors app, chances are, your vendors/seller names on your store are not properly set up and you would like to do so before importing your orders. Once you have imported the orders, you may also realize that a setup/change is required.

|| Note that when you make a change to your vendor/seller on your Shopify store, the changes do not apply to existing orders. Given this, you have to manually re-assign them from within the app for past orders. New orders will automatically be assigned to the correct vendor/seller going forward.

There are two ways on how you can re-assign your vendors through the PuppetVendors app. One way is to go to the **Dashboard **tab, choose your Vendor and hit the Report link.

Through the Dashboard tab

Alternatively, you can also go to **Vendors **> Manage Vendors (Commissions and Profile) > choose your vendor and hit the Reports link.

Through the Vendors tab

Upon hitting the reports link from any of these tabs, you can choose the items you want to re-assign and hit the Edit Selection button.

Choose your items for re-assigning

A pop-up window will appear. From under the Re-assign Items/Delete Items sub-tab, go to the **Re-assign Items to

Question 2

Demo - Merchant Portal

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This article demonstrates the features and functionality of the Merchant running the marketplace. For easy reference, we have divided this demo into segments

Question 3

Set-up Paypal payouts

Accepted Answer

The article gives you important information on how to get started making payouts to your vendors via Paypal on PuppetVendors.

PayPal Requirements

To use this feature, you must meet all of Paypal's requirements listed below.

Have a PayPal business account. If not, Click here to signup
Once your PayPal business account is set-up, make sure that you have confirmed your identity, email and have your bank account linked to your PayPal business account
Permissions from PayPal to use their payouts feature (scroll to the last section for instructions to this)

If you based out of the United States (US), you are charged a fee of USD $0.25 for each payout. These are fees charged by PayPal and not PuppetVendors. PayPal fees for other countries can be found here

Connecting PayPal to PuppetVendors

After meeting PayPal's criteria above, you will need to connect PayPal to PuppetVendors. Steps on how to do this is listed below.

Create a new developer account or log in to your existing account by clicking on here -> [Log in or Sign up](https://www.paypal.com/signin?returnUri=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.paypal.com%

Question 4

Visibility Control

Accepted Answer

|| Note: To see your saved changes, please log out of the vendor portal and log back in.

The article describes how you can control what your vendors can see in their portal.

There are instances where you wish to hide certain information from your vendors. Be it Unit Price, Sales, Discounts, Profits, Commissions, Deductions, Payouts, Order Tags, Shipping Address, Billing Address, Customer Information or even Custom Properties attached to products from Shopify.

Visibility Control

When you choose to un-check or de-select a sales-related metric like Discounts or Profits, the respective columns would be hidden from the Dashboard, Reports and Orders page in the vendor portal.

For example: In the below screenshot, you will only see that the selected options available are displayed. This is also carried over to the orders page in the vendor portal as well.

Dashboard view

|| Note: To see your saved changes, please log out of the vendor portal and log back in.

For Order-related information like Order Tags, Shipping Address, Billing Address, Customer Information, and Custom Properties, these can be viewed when you click on the ellipsis icon. The details will slide off from the left side of the page. Please refer to the below screenshots for samples.

![Ellipsis button](https://stor

Question 5

How to create Custom Items (subscription, shipping fees, tips, etc.)

Accepted Answer

This article demonstrates how you can add or deduct total payouts for one or more vendors.

Common use cases for custom items are to

Deduct fees
Pay tips
Subscription - recurring
Shipping Fees
Penalty
Any payout adjustments

${frame}Custom Item - Subscriptions, Fees, Shipping, and Deductions, etc

Go to Settings > Custom Items and under Create Custom Item part, fill out all the necessary details - Title, Amount, choose how the amount will be deducted, the vendor and which date this will be applied. Lastly, hit the 'Create' button to create the custom item.

Creating Custom Items

Question 6

Enable and set-up White Label feature - GoDaddy / Namecheap / Shopify

Accepted Answer

The article describes how you can set up your custom vendor portal domain once you have enabled (upgrade) to add the White-label add-on.

Visit the Settings navigation at the top of the page
On the left hand navigation, click on White-label followed by Branding and Domain.
Enter your desired custom domain in the format of your-website.com. This will be the new domain where your vendors will be able to access their portal and view sales and manage their products.
You are now correctly set-up in Puppet Vendors.
The next step will be to set-up a CNAME with your domain provider. Common domain providers are GoDaddy, Shopify, and Namecheap and below are how-to guides on how to set them up.

How to set-up a PuppetVendors portal CNAME on GoDaddy

Sign in to your GoDaddy admin.
Select an individual domain to access the Domain Settings page.

Select your Shopify domain

Select DNS to view your DNS records.

Select DNS

Click on t

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