Merchant Account Types and Hierarchy

Skipify recognizes two types of merchants, stand-alone and parent. Underneath parent merchants there are child merchants. If you are unsure of which configuration you need, please ask your implementation manager.

The stand-alone merchant type is for merchants who have only one set of configurations and payment gateway credentials.

The parent merchant type is for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and platforms that manage multiple E-commerce businesses. Parent merchants can contain any number of child merchants.

• As a parent merchant user, when you sign in to the Skipify merchant portal, you will have elevated privileges to manage any merchant that belongs to your parent merchant account.
• Any configurations (except payment processing credentials) set on the parent merchant will be inherited by all child merchants unless a configuration has been explicitly set on the child.

Onboarding Merchant Accounts

Skipify will create your standalone or parent merchant account.

The merchant portal or Onboarding APIs are available to create new child merchants and manage merchant configurations. Check out the onboarding docs for more details.

Merchant Account Configurations

Configurations can be set:

• in the merchant portal
• during time of merchant account onboarding via POST /merchants and related POST /configs, POST /merchant-external-credentials APIs

Note that Button cobranding configurations is set via the Checkout SDK integration.