Mercantile Supply · Merchant guide

Trade application form

A form for businesses that want a trade account. Applications arrive in your email; you decide who to approve and set them up as a company in Shopify.

Where to find it

In the theme editor, Add section › Trade application form. The theme starts with it on: Page template "reseller-application".

Settings

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Density Follow theme · Compact · Normal · Spacious Always Space, columns and image shape in this section. Follow theme uses Density in Theme settings › Layout.
Text size Default · Smaller · Standard · Larger Always Makes this section's text and title smaller or larger than its Density sets.
Color scheme Always
Use as page heading On · Off Always On when this form is the page's main heading (H1). Off if the page already has one.
Heading Use as page heading is off Leave blank to use the standard heading.
Text Use as page heading is off A line under the heading. Leave blank to use the standard one.
Extra questions Always One per line. Each becomes a text field, and its answer arrives in the email.
Country dropdown list Always Comma-separated. Leave blank to list every country, in the shopper's language.

Which settings reveal which:

flowchart LR
  use_page_heading["Use as page heading"]
  heading["Heading"]
  text["Text"]
  use_page_heading -- "off" --> heading
  use_page_heading -- "off" --> text

Blocks

Apps can add their own blocks here.

Before you start

  1. Create a page with the page.reseller-application template. See Pages and templates.
  2. Better still, install Shopify Forms and add its company account request form here as an app block: each application then arrives in Shopify admin as a company waiting for approval.
  3. To approve an applicant by hand, create a company for them. See B2B.