Community Manager Account Administrator

Creating a vendor is one of the first tasks you’ll perform as an administrator of your sampling program. When you create a vendor, you set up a relationship between the vendor and your brand.

Once you’ve created vendors in your sampling program, you can nominate their products and add them to sampling campaigns.

Prerequisites

You’ll need a fulfillment contact for each vendor you create. You must ensure you have their:

  • Fulfillment contact name
  • Email address
  • Preferred language

Create a vendor

Note: Only users assigned the Account Administrator role can create a vendor.

  1. Sign in to the Bazaarvoice Portal .

    If you can’t sign in, contact Bazaarvoice Support . Learn more about Portal permissions and user accounts.

  2. From the Portal menu , select Sampling Administration > Vendors.
  3. Select Create vendor.
  4. Enter the name of the vendor in the Vendor search field.
    Note: If the vendor name you enter appears, use it. If you need to create a new vendor, change the existing vendor’s name to avoid creating duplicate vendors.
  5. Enter the vendor fulfillment contact’s first name and last name.
    Note: The fulfillment contact manages the shipment of products from a warehouse to the member for a specific vendor company. They aren’t necessarily the person purchasing an opportunity.
  6. Enter the fulfillment contact’s email address.
  7. Select the fulfillment contact’s preferred language.
  8. Select Create vendor.
Note: Create a user account for the person responsible for the created vendor and give them access to the Sampling solution. Their role and permissions will depend on what areas of the solution you want them to access and work in.

Edit a vendor

Note: You cannot edit a vendor name, but you can edit a vendor’s fulfillment contact details.
  1. Select the vendor you want to edit from the Vendor name column.
  2. Update the fulfillment contact’s first name, last name, email address, and preferred language as required.
  3. Select Save.