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Kick off your marketplace with ease
Learn about the participants involved in launching a marketplace with Nautical.
Participants in launching a marketplace
- Nautical: Powers your marketplace backend and storefront with a comprehensive platform for managing vendors, product catalog, inventory, orders, fulfillment, and payouts.
- Marketplace Operator: Operates an online platform where buyers and sellers exchange goods or services. Marketplace operators typically earn revenue by taking a commission or transaction fee on each sale made through the platform.
- Seller: Sells goods or services on your marketplace.
- Buyers: Purchase products from your marketplace (your customer).
Access control
In Nautical, a staff member is a user account for someone who will manage the behind-the-scenes aspects of your marketplace, such as a marketplace operator or seller admin.
Generally, marketplace operator staff members have access to all data. Whereas seller staff members can only access data relevant to their seller account, such as their warehouses, products, and orders.
When adding a staff member, you must assign them to a permission group. A permission group is a set of individual permissions that define what users assigned to that group can see and edit.
Permissions are generally broken down by the ability to manage objects like products, collections, payouts, and so on. You can create as many permission groups as needed for the different roles in your business.