Seller groups are an easy and convenient way of managing different commissions, badges and other various settings for sellers in the store. There is a default seller group, which applies a default commission setting for all the new sellers, which by default are assigned to the default seller group.
There is a special inheritance system of applying any setting like commissions or seller badges. It goes this way: Seller’s individual setting -> Concrete seller group setting -> Default seller group setting (store setting). This means that if seller has for example commission setting set for him, then these individual settings will be used for calculation of commissions and not the ones of his Seller group or default store settings. If seller does not have individual setting set for him, but is assigned to any non-default seller group, then seller group setting will be used. And only in case if there is no individual setting for seller and seller is not assigned to any non-default seller group, default store setting is used.
Seller groups can be found in Admin -> MultiMerch -> Seller groups. Here new seller groups can be added and old ones edited. Description and name of a seller group is a multilanguage field. Commissions and badges for all the sellers, belonging to that seller group can be specified here.
Seller group settings apply to all the sellers within the group, who do not have individual settings defined for them. A seller always belongs to one group. Default seller group is created during installation and cannot be deleted. All the new sellers by default are assigned the default seller group. Therefore settings for this seller group should be checked carefully.
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