SoftwareSilo Sales Staff gives sales representatives their own Magento 2 storefront workspace. Staff members sign in separately from customers and administrators. They can work with assigned accounts, help customers buy, and keep their identity attached to the resulting order.
Built for account ownership: Assign customers to an individual representative or a staff group. A customer can have one primary contact and, when enabled, several supporting representatives. Staff may be limited to assigned customers or receive access to all customers within the permitted website.
A sales portal instead of broad admin access: Representatives use a dedicated frontend login and dashboard. Customer lists, search, orders, reports, account actions, and allowed sales tasks remain separate from everyday Magento administration. Session, password reset, login token, and blocked-page settings are configurable.
Work in the customer's real buying context: An authorized representative can open an assigned customer account, use that customer's catalog and checkout context, prepare the cart, and place an order on behalf of the customer. A controlled return action takes the user back to the staff workspace afterward.
Create new customers during a conversation: Staff can register a customer from the frontend when both the store configuration and individual permission allow it. The merchant decides whether the form includes customer group, address, VAT details, and staff-managed password setup.
Price changes remain explicit: Selected representatives can edit cart item prices. The permission is stored per staff account, and the store separately decides whether a zero price is allowed. This supports negotiated phone orders without giving every staff user the same pricing power.
Eligible orders can be corrected by their owner: A permitted representative can reopen one of their assigned orders in configured order states, adjust it through the cart and checkout, and keep the original order identity. This workflow should be tested with payment, inventory, tax, and ERP integrations before release.
Order attribution is part of the data: Magento quotes and orders retain the staff ID, staff group, and calculated commission amount. The admin order grid can display these fields, and authorized administrators can reassign orders when responsibilities change.
Percentage commission is included: Each staff account can have its own percentage. The calculation basis can use net subtotal excluding tax, net subtotal including tax, or a product-discount mode. Cancelled orders reset the stored commission. Confirm the chosen basis with finance before using it for payouts.
Order and product reports are included: Staff and administrators can review attributed order and product activity. Filters, configurable visible columns, and CSV exports help with operational review. These reports are not a payroll or commission-payment ledger.
Customer notes and communication stay close to the account: The customer assignment can carry a working note. Email rules decide whether order messages go to the customer, representative, or both, with optional CC and BCC recipients. The customer dashboard can show the assigned contact when desired.
Quote Management is optional: The separate Quote add-on gives staff and customers a quotation workspace with products, prices, statuses, history, attachments, PDF output, customer feedback, acceptance or rejection, and quote-to-order conversion.
Customer History and Customer Visits are optional: Customer History records structured interactions with topics, descriptions, dates, email delivery, and attachments. Customer Visits adds appointments, customer confirmation or cancellation, visit types and outcomes, ICS files, reminders, and optional Google or Microsoft calendar synchronization.
Integration and login options are separate: CSV Import/Export supports bulk staff maintenance. SOAP/REST and GraphQL provide separate integration paths for staff, groups, assigned customers, authentication, and customer-context tokens. SAML connects the staff login to an identity provider. Two-factor authentication and Hyvä compatibility are also sold separately.
Choose the product by workflow, not by the phrase sales rep: Some Magento extensions mainly assign a backend user to customers or calculate commission. SoftwareSilo is intended for teams that need a customer-facing sales workspace and order-on-behalf process inside the storefront. Compare the actual daily journey before comparing prices.
Start with one team and realistic orders: Define customer ownership, permissions, pricing authority, email recipients, commission basis, and handover rules. Pilot the process with phone orders, normal customer orders, reassignment, cancellation, and any purchased add-ons before rolling it out to the full sales organization.