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Merchant Management

The Merchant Management main screen serves as the central control panel for managing all aspects of a selected merchant's configuration across environments (e.g., production, QA). It is designed for use by platform administrators, onboarding specialists, or implementation engineers to view and update the full suite of merchant-specific settings:

Merchant_Management_Main_Screen.png

The Merchant Management feature is relevant to the following user roles:

  • Merchant Customer Service

  • Merchant Customer Service Administrators

  • Merchant Administrators

  • Hub Administrators

  • Hub Operators

This page describes the following:

Accessing the Merchant Management Feature

The Merchant Management feature lets you view and edit the following merchant information in an easy to access manner.

  • Summary

  • General information

  • Contact details

  • Configurations

  • Countries

  • Logistics

  • Shipping

  • Flat shipping rates

  • Market proposition generator

  • Return reasons

  • Financial information

To access the Merchant Management feature
  1. Navigate to Merchants > Merchant Management.

  2. Select a merchant from the merchant menu.

    The merchant's Summary information is displayed by default.

Importing Merchants

The Import tool lets platform administrators import a merchant's configuration and settings from one environment to another. This is especially useful during deployment, onboarding, or when promoting tested configurations from QA or Staging to Production.

The Merchant Management feature is relevant to the following user roles:

  • Merchant Customer Service

  • Merchant Customer Service Administrators

  • Merchant Administrators

  • Hub Administrators

  • Hub Operators

To import merchants
  1. Access the Merchant Management feature.

  2. Select a merchant from the Merchant menu.

  3. Click Import Merchant.

  4. Choose an origin environment from the Choose origin environment menu.

  5. Choose a merchant to import from the Choose merchant to import menu and click Next.

  6. Provide the required parameter values for your QA environment.

    You can click the information icon for information about the parameter.

  7. Verify that your parameter values are correct and click Import.

Summary
Description of Parameters

The following table describes the Summary feature. Comment: Is it okay to publish these live examples?

Parameter

Description

Example

Parent Merchant

Shows the parent merchant, if one exists

Arlettie

API Platform

Shows the merchant's API platform

ShopifyEmbedded

Browsing Platform

Shows the merchant's browsing platform

ShopifyEmbedded

Original Merchant Type

Shows the merchant's original merchant type

Enterprise

Current Merchant Type

Lets you select a merchant type

Merchant ID

Shows the merchant ID. You can copy it by clicking the Copy icon

2069

Site URL

Shows a link to the merchant's site

https://arlettie-e-shop-marque-blanche.myshopify.com

Parent Company

Shows the parent company

None

Replacements

Shows whether replacements are enabled or disabled

Enabled

Return Days

Shows the amount of return days set for returns

30

Fulfillment Days

Shows the amount of fulfillment days set for orders

10

Returns Portal URL

Shows the link to the merchant's return portal

https://web.global-e.com/Returns/Portal/mZK8

CS Email / Help Center

Shows the merchant's customer service email address

Tracking Portal URL

Shows the merchant's tracking portal URL

https://web.global-e.com/Order/Track/mZK8

Country

Shows the merchant's country

France

CS Service Level

Shows the merchant's customer service level

CS VIP

Shows the merchant's customer service VIP level

CS Procedures

Comment: What does this show?

Merchant Tier

Lets you select a merchant tier:

Sensitive Merchant

Lets you set whether the merchant is sensitive or not

The Comments section is located below the Summary parameters where you can view and write comments. Verify that you've clicked Save to save your changes, or Undo to undo them before saving.

General Information

From the General Information page you can view and modify the following parameters:

General:

  • Merchant name

  • Website URL

  • Merchant name for statement

  • Merchant unique name

  • Merchant internal name

  • Business unit

Merchant Vertical:

  • Vertical

  • Vertical type

  • Type of business

  • Is Luxury

Merchant Settings:

  • Manifest type

  • Merchant currency

  • User currency

  • Culture

  • Calendar

Merchant Address:

  • Country

  • Address1

  • Address2

  • Zip Code

  • City

  • State

  • State/Province

Verify that you've clicked Save to save your changes, or Undo to undo them before saving.

Contact Details

Comment: Speak with Itay Cohen.

Configurations

From the Configurations page you can enable, configure, and manage API-related settings for your merchants. Specifically, administrators can use this feature to toggle or assign values to various API-related options that control how the platform integrates with merchant services, such as returns, shipping, fraud detection, and order dispatching.

The Merchant Management feature is relevant to the following user roles:

  • Merchant Customer Service

  • Merchant Customer Service Administrators

  • Merchant Administrators

  • Hub Administrators

  • Hub Operators

To configure your merchant API-related settings
  1. Access the Merchant Management feature.

  2. Select a merchant from the Merchant menu.

  3. Select Configurations.

    The Configurations screen is displayed.

Searching for and Viewing Missing Configurations

If needed, you can search for and view missing configurations.

To search for and view missing configurations
  1. (Optional) Select a configuration from the --Search Configurations-- menu.

  2. Click the red link labeled <number> required configurations are missing.

    The Required Configuration screen is displayed:

    Required_Configurations.png
  3. Define the Value for the configuration that you want to set.

  4. Click Add Configuration corresponding to the configuration that you defined.

  5. Click Close.

Edit Configurations

Delete Configurations