For site administrators, one of your first tasks after installing and configuring WebSphere Commerce is setting up and managing access to your e-commerce site. This involves creating organizations that will participate at your site, as well as defining the users that will be members of those organizations. After an instance is created, there are sample business models that administrators can publish that will set up the organization structure.
In some cases, the organizations joining your site may be buyer organizations, or else, you may have customers registering at your site who are engaged in a business-to-consumer relationship with your business. Regardless if you are administering a business-to-business or business-to-consumer site, defining the organizational structure of site is an important step in managing the types of access that members have to your system.
In this section, you will provide the high level steps that you need to take to define the structure of your site. If you are using the sample business models provided, you can skip ahead to the next section on access control. If you want to define your own organization structure, continue with the following steps.