Vendor fields

Vendor fields are fields presented on the vendor application and on the vendor page. Access the setting by going to Garnet > Admin Panel > Vendors > Vendors fields.

The page lists every vendor field in alphabetical order, with the fields shown depending on another one nested below it. Type in Filter vendor fields by name to find a field. Below the list, the Vendor profile form panel sets the order of the fields and their sections.

Create or edit a field

Click Add field, or click a field in the list, to open the editor.

• Name and Description: the description is displayed in a lighter shade of grey below the field, to help the vendor fill it in.
• Type: the kind of answer, from short text to an image or a date. Each type is described in field types. The type cannot be changed once the field is created: create a new field instead.
• Scope: who sees the field. Vendor shows it to vendors and admins, Admin to marketplace admins only, and Hidden to nobody.
• Show when ...: shows the field only once another field has a value, or a given value.
• Optional: set it to mandatory when visible to make vendors fill the field in.

The application form asks for the fields you select in the application settings.

Field limit

Shopify allows at most 40 fields on a vendor profile. The count sits next to the Vendor fields title in Garnet > Admin Panel > Vendors > Vendors fields — for example Vendor fields (12/40) — and turns red once all 40 are used. Past that, Shopify refuses to create a new field, so remove fields you no longer collect to make room.

Group fields in sections

The Vendor profile form panel shows the vendor profile as your vendors see it: fields grouped in sections, with the fields in no section on the right, in Unused fields.

• Drag a field from Unused fields into a section to show it to vendors, and back to hide it. A field in no section is neither shown nor required, and keeps its value.
• Drop a field on another field of the same section to swap them. Drag a section by the handle on its left to move it.
• Click Add section below the last section to create one. Hovering the title of a section shows a pencil to rename it and a bin to delete it: its fields go back to Unused fields, they are never deleted. Clicking the title collapses the section.
• A field depending on a field in no section is greyed: it can never show. While you drag a field, the fields depending on it show the value they wait for.
• The pencil on a field opens its editor.

Nothing is stored until you click Save, below Unused fields. Sections left empty are removed when you save.

Edit, move, delete fields & prevent missing data

Click a field in the list to open the editor, where Delete removes it.

If vendors are already registered and you remove a field, the value of this field will not be visible on their settings page. Data is not lost but it is not displayed.

If a field is renamed or edited, the vendor's past data will remain.

When you create a field, all vendors will have an empty field in their settings page. As an admin you can fill up this value if necessary for data consistency.