The Pismo platform offers seller management APIs to help you manage digital marketplaces, merchants, receivables schedules, rates and fees, advancements, and settlements. This section contains detailed steps for this and other configurations within the seller management flow, which you accomplish using the API endpoints.

How to get started

The Pismo support team works closely with your team to create seller marketplaces that match your business needs. If you're already using other Pismo solutions, you can skip some steps. However, you should make sure you understand the following onboarding steps.

Overview of required onboarding

The following steps summarize how you work with Pismo and use the Pismo platform to set up your digital marketplace. The Seller management onboarding guide describes these steps in detail.

1. Create your marketplace.
2. Create a Merchant program using Create program based on template with type set to MERCHANT.
3. Use Create merchant to create one or more merchants, representing businesses, setting program_id to the ID of the Merchant program you created in step 2. Make sure you create a creditor for each merchant by filling out the Creditor object fields in the endpoint. You configure the MDR, sales tax, and any other fees the merchant has to pay in the Creditor object.
4. For each creditor, use Create creditor operation to configure the MDR, sales tax, and any other fees the merchant has to pay.
5. Use Link merchant to marketplace to add the merchants to the marketplace.

Overview of seller management

Once you've completed the required onboarding, you can follow the rest of the steps in this get started guide starting with planning.

Step 1: Plan seller marketplaces

Identify the business decisions to consider.

Step 2: Create program for the marketplace

Build the foundational processes and rules for your marketplace.

Step 3: Define processing codes

Define the processing codes that integrate with the seller rules.

Step 4: Running seller marketplace operations

Understand how to manage sellers day-to-day and oversee seller marketplace operations.

Step 5: Test

Ensure the marketplace works as expected before launch.

Step 6: Monitor

Continuously monitor your marketplace and provide ongoing seller support and settlement.