Marketplace requires Accounts (Chapter 7): an order posts to the ledger — bank, payables and commission income in one entry — so the module stands on the chart of accounts and its open periods. Companies on the marketplace operator business profile start with it switched on; everyone else turns it on like any module (§0.4).
Before the first order, three things should exist:
- Sellers — suppliers flagged as marketplace sellers (§13.5), each with the payables control account their supplier record already carries (Chapter 4).
- Commission rules (§13.5) — at least the house rule every order will be priced by.
- A receiving account — the bank or cash account marketplace money lands in. An order can never post without one.