Managing Departments

Overview of Departments

What are departments for?

Why should you use them?

Creating sub-units of a company with unique access to products and categories, ticket templates, and payment and shipping methods.   

To establish sub-units of a company to give access to certain products, ticket templates, and payment/shipping methods.   

A department is a sub-unit of a company in MarketDirect StoreFront. Thus, each company can be subdivided into two or more departments. You can then associate certain users within the company to a department for the following purposes:

         Products & Categories—to control what rights users associated with the department have to manage or purchase products and product categories.

         Ticket Template Management—to control what rights users associated with the department have to manage product ticket templates.

         Payment Methods—to designate specific payment methods for members of the department.

Note: A department automatically inherits all the payment methods of the company unless you specify payment methods at the department level. If you specify payment methods at the department level, only those payment methods will be available for the department (i.e., they will override the company-level payment methods). The payment methods, however, must be enabled at the Print Shop-level. See the "MarketDirect StoreFront Organization Model for Shipping and Payment Methods" diagram below.

         Shipping Methods—to designate specific shipping methods for members of the department.

The Departments page is used to add, remove, or update information about designated sub-units of companies whose employees use your MarketDirect StoreFront.

To create or edit a new department

Note: You can also add departments from the Department Information section of the Manage Company page.

1.        From the Select Company pull-down list, select the company to add the department to.

2.        Click Add New Department.

3.        Follow the steps in the topic Add or Edit a Company.

See Also

         Managing Departments

          Managing Companies

         Add or Edit a Company

         Cost Centers

         Accounting Codes

         Spending Accounts