# Vendors and sales employees

Customers

Two lists under **Customers** are about people who sell rather than buy: **vendors** - the sellers of a marketplace - and **sales employees** - your own sales staff who look after customers and earn a commission.

### Vendors

**Customers → Vendors** lists the vendors with their e-mail and whether they are active.

![The Vendors list with Nordic Craft Collective, Alpine Rental Co. and Vintage Velo, their e-mails and active flags](https://grandnode.com/Plugins/Theme.GrandNodeCom/Content/kb/customers/vendors-list.webp)

Customers → Vendors.

#### Create a vendor and give someone access

1. Click **Add new**, enter the vendor's **Name**, **Email**, description and picture, set **Active**, and save.
2. Open (or create) the customer account the vendor's staff will use. Set its **Vendor** field to the new vendor and add it to the **Vendors** customer group.
3. That person can now sign in to the vendor panel at `/vendor` and manage the vendor's products and orders.

Products are assigned to a vendor on the product's General tab. The full marketplace set-up - vendor settings, applications from the storefront, vendor reviews, commissions and the vendor panel - is described in [Vendor panel (marketplace)](https://grandnode.com/docs-vendor-panel).

**Customers → Vendor reviews** is where you moderate reviews customers write about vendors, the same way as product reviews.

### Sales employees

**Customers → Sales employee** lists your sales staff: name, e-mail, phone, whether they are active, their **Commission** percentage and display order. Click **Add new record** to add one.

Assign a sales employee to a customer on the customer's page (**Sales employee** field). Orders of that customer are then attributed to the employee, the order shows the commission, and the employee can be used in reports and filters.

### Related

- [Customer groups](https://grandnode.com/customers-customer-groups)
- [Vendor panel (marketplace)](https://grandnode.com/docs-vendor-panel)

- [Web page](https://grandnode.com/customers-vendors-and-sales-employees)