Managing Company Accounts

A company accountA user account that can be created under a Contact. Once an Account has been created, the Contact can be assigned Roles and access the Commerce Manager. A user account is automatically created for a user who registers from the front-end public website which allows a customer to login prior to checking out. They default to the "Everyone" and "Registered" roles and permissions. is part of the B2B features on the EPiServer Commerce sample site, where businesses can manage their purchasing and deliveries from the e-commerce website. Companies can add their employees to the company account, and orders can be delivered to multiple addresses.

Do the following to add a company account:

1. In Commerce Manager, go to Customer Management and Organizations. Select New Organization, and add the company information.
2. Under Primary Contact, select the user1. The number of unique IP adresses that visited this page/URL during a specified period. 2. A person using a product, or someone visiting a community website either anonymously or as a registered member. that will be the administratorAn administrator manages the system settings, works with access rights and adapts the platform to suit the needs of the users. In EPiServer CMS, the administrator has access to both the editorial and administration interface. In EPiServer Commerce an administrator also has access to the Commerce Manager interface. of the company account. The admininstrator must be registered on the website with an account.
   
   
3. Under Contacts for the organization, select Add to add memebrs to the company account. You must at least add the administrator as a member of the account. Thisis needed to provide the account administrator access to the company account management features. Click OK to save the changes.
   
   

Administering Company Accounts

When the administrator goes to the My Profile Page, it will be a Company Profile page instead, from where the administrator can manage do the following tasks:

• Edit the settings of the company account.
• Manage members of the company (create/edit/delete).
• View comments posted by members of the company.
• View orders purchased by members of the company.

The personal My Profile page of the company account administrator can be accessed by typing in the URLUniform Resource Locator. Also known as a web address, for example http://world.episerver.com. in the address bar, for example: http://<domain>/en-US/My-Profile/My-Orders/

Delivering to Multiple Addresses

Multi-address delivery is a feature allowing for company users to dispatch deliveries to multiple addresses. The dispatch to multiple addresses option will be available for company account users during the checkoutThe procedure of buying one or more products in a webshop. Involves defining shipping and billing addresses, shipping methods and payments. procedure. You can specify different quantities, delivery addresses and shipping methods for each delivery.

Each delivery can have its own shipping methodA shipping method manages a set of information and rules that determines the shipping cost and displays it on the front-end public site while a customer checks out an item from his/her shopping basket. The shipping fee is added to the total price of the purchase. A shipping method is mapped to a shipping provider visible to a back-end administrator in Commerce Manager. This allows the public site to display friendly names such as "Ground Shipping" to the customer and this is mapped to a provider such as UPS. Therefore, when a customer picks "Ground Shipping," he/she will be using UPS. but there will only be one billing address option.

The functionality of the company account related page templates are described in more detail in the Company Profile section under Page Templates.

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