A seller starts life as a supplier (Chapter 4). On the supplier record, three fields switch the second hat on:
- Marketplace Seller — the flag itself. Only flagged suppliers can be sellers.
- Seller Status — where they stand in your pipeline: Applied, Verified, Active, Suspended. The record carries actions that walk the pipeline — Verify, Activate, Suspend — each a deliberate, confirmed step, so a seller's standing is a decision on record, never an accident of editing.
- Seller Tier — the tier label your commission rules read (your own naming: standard, premium, whatever the tiers are called on your marketplace).
Everything else about the seller is the supplier record doing double duty: their contacts, their payables control account, their statement. When you later pay them — for marketplace orders, for ordinary purchases, or both — it all gathers on the one balance.