Organizations

In the Organizations section, Commerce Manager users can create new organizationsGroups or sub-groups of registered users and customers. An organizational unit is a "child" or subsidiary of a "parent" organization. Within Commerce Manager, you can assign an organization as a parent of another organization. For example, the parent company Company X, and the organizational units are Company X West and Company X East. Organization units include regional branches or departments or you could name them by business categories such as "Computer and Electronics" or "Clothing and Accessories." Organizations can be structured into a tree structure with sub-units with different levels of permissions assigned to each. So for example, you can set up your company as a parent level organization while your departments such as Sales & Marketing, IT/Development, and Operations as organization units. With this scenario, you can allow users in each departments to have access to only relevant subsystems, screens and functionality within Commerce Manager. Same as "organization units". or organization unitsGroups or sub-groups of registered users and customers. An organizational unit is a "child" or subsidiary of a "parent" organization. Within Commerce Manager, you can assign an organization as a parent of another organization. For example, the parent company Company X, and the organizational units are Company X West and Company X East. Organization units include regional branches or departments or you could name them by business categories such as "Computer and Electronics" or "Clothing and Accessories." Organizations can be structured into a tree structure with sub-units with different levels of permissions assigned to each. So for example, you can set up your company as a parent level organization while your departments such as Sales & Marketing, IT/Development, and Operations as organization units. With this scenario, you can allow users in each departments to have access to only relevant subsystems, screens and functionality within Commerce Manager. Same as "organization"., which are basically groups or sub-groups of assigned contactsUsers that are created either when an external customer registers on the public site or when a Commerce Manager admin creates them directly from the Commerce Manager; typically, users that are internal to your organization are assigned to organizations or organization units and assigned varying permissions based on role. By default, new users that are created by registering from the public site are given the "Registered" and "Everyone" roles..

Organizations can be categorized into different types such as organization or organization units (i.e., regional branches, departments) and also business categoriesUsed for categorization of content. Categories are used for instance when creating filters for searching, listings and navigation. such as "Computer and Electronics" or "Clothing and Accessories." Organizations can be structured into a tree structure with sub-units with different levels of permissions assigned to each. For example, you can set up your company as a parent level organization while your departments such as Sales & Marketing, IT/Development, and operations as organization units. With this scenario, you can allow users in each departments to have access to only relevant systems, screens and functionality within Commerce Manager.

The Organizations section also comes with a new customizable filtering feature to display organizations and sub-units based on any of their attributes such as name, organization types, business categories, etc.

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