Create and Manage Sub-Resellers
Subaccounts in Weebly Cloud are owned and managed by your account. These subaccounts, or "subresellers", allow you to manage the activity and settings of each of your resellers independently. Each subreseller has a unique reseller_id, unique reseller settings and access to their own customers via Cloud Admin. Subresellers are not invoiced directly by Weebly. All site activity is billed to your account with your configured wholesale pricing.
Parent resellers have the ability to create and manage their subresellers using the Cloud Admin and also via the Sub-Account API.
Parent resellers have the ability to create and manage their subresellers using the Cloud Admin and also via the Sub-Account API.
Note: The ability to have subresellers is not available to all Weebly Cloud accounts. Get in touch with your Account Manager or Business Development contact for more info.
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Use the Cloud Admin to Create and Manage Subresellers
You create and manage subresellers from the Accounts tab of the Cloud Admin (available only to team members with a role of admin or technical).
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To create a new subreseller, click Add Account.
To create a new subreseller, click Add Account.
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Enter the following information:
Enter the following information:
- Brand Name: The brand name of the subreseller. Displays in the footer of any free sites. They can override this setting using the Cloud Admin for their account.
- Brand URL: Full url to the subreseller's website. The link in the footer of a published site will go to this site. They can override this setting using the Cloud Admin for their account.
- Admin Name: User that is an admin for this subreseller and will have access to the Cloud Admin for that subreseller. When you create a new subreseller, you need to create one admin who will then be able to access the Cloud Admin to complete configuration of Weebly Cloud.
- Admin Email: Email for the admin. Weebly Cloud uses the email as the username for logging into the Cloud Admin. An email is sent to this address once creation of a subreseller is complete, with instructions on how to log into the Cloud Admin.
- Publish Settings: How this subreseller's sites are hosted and published.
- Available Weebly Plans: The Weebly plans this subreseller will provide.
- Ecommerce: Whether or not this subreseller's sites support ecommerce.
- Manual User and Site Creation: Whether or not this subreseller can create users and sites using the Cloud Admin. If site provisioning is managed through your system, then this should be turned off.
Note: Subreseller sites do not have access to the Weebly App Center.
The user set as the Admin is sent an email with a link that allows them to create a password and log into the Cloud Admin.
They use the Cloud Admin in the same way as a standard reseller, with the exception of Billing. The Billing tab is hidden because subresellers are not invoiced directly by Weebly.
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Once you create subresellers, you can manage them from the same page. You can view the number of sites the subreseller owns and use the Options button to change the following:
Once you create subresellers, you can manage them from the same page. You can view the number of sites the subreseller owns and use the Options button to change the following:
- Test mode: by default, all newly created subreseller accounts are in test mode. This allows them to take some time to set up Weebly Cloud, including creation of test sites. Once you click Exit Test Mode, the subreseller is live, and sites not associated with test users will be invoiced. Users created after this point will not be in test mode.
- Suspend/Reactivate: When you suspend the account, the subreseller no longer has access to the Weebly API, and none of their team members will be able to use the Cloud Admin.
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You can also log in as the subreseller to troubleshoot. When you click Login, you are logged into the Cloud Admin as the admin team member created when the subreseller was created.
You can also log in as the subreseller to troubleshoot. When you click Login, you are logged into the Cloud Admin as the admin team member created when the subreseller was created.
Use the API to Create and Manage Subresellers
You can create subresellers programmatically using the Sub-account API. You need to include the name, url, domain, admin name and admin email in your POST request. By default the settings configuration is inherited from parent. Instead, you can use the API to set different values for their settings.
Create a Subreseller
A new reseller ID is returned. The subreseller is set to be in test mode. Any settings not provided are set to the parent's values.
Once created, you can update subresellers using the PATCH endpoint. You can also create the resellers API key and secret.
You can use the Team Member API to create the Cloud Admin users for the subreseller. You can also use that API to create a one-time use Login link (like the one that is sent in the email).
You can use the Team Member API to create the Cloud Admin users for the subreseller. You can also use that API to create a one-time use Login link (like the one that is sent in the email).