Merchant feature

You can use the merchant feature to manage merchant information by storing and managing the store-specific properties from the Payment perspective.

In the Payment perspective, multiple stores can share the same merchant. The merchant information is used by the payment side to facilitate payment operation and management.

When you set the association between your store and a specified merchant, the payment processing component maps the merchant configuration to a set of merchant configuration information NVPs that are specific to the merchant and the Payment plug-in. These NVPs are passed to the plug-in API by way of the plug-in context. If a Payment plug-in requires the merchant configuration property, the stores that use the Payment plug-in must specify the value of the merchant configuration property. However, if the Payment plug-in does not define a merchant configuration property, the stores that want to use the Payment plug-in do not need to do anything.