Sales channel accounts

Why this screen exists at all

SCREENS.md tags it · SKIP — “standard provider/account CRUD”. That is right about the fields and wrong about the screen, so this promotes it, the same move source-formula.html made. Three things the rest of the system already depends on have no owner anywhere else:

• The margin floor. OPEN-ITEMS P1 and MR-075 both say it: the listing builder draws a read-only 35% and its facts strip says set on the sales channel — not mocked yet. Every under-floor warning is computed against a number no screen can set.
• Channel fee % and ad rate. D21 gives margin a real basis — price − cost − shipping − channel fee − ad fee — and MR-064 hard-codes 13% and 2% into a fixture.
• The listing seeds. MR-025 operating defaults, MR-012 package set, MR-026 ladder are all described as “copied from the account”, by screens that copy them. Nothing writes them.

Why the rows are accounts, not channels

RESOLVED-DECISIONS §4 freezes Sales Channel → 1..many Channel Accounts → 0..1 Store. The account is the operational level: eBay does not disconnect; seller vd_outlet disconnects. A channels list would have put the thing that breaks one level below the thing you see first, and rolled three account states into one channel chip.

There is no Sales Channel record. Sales Channel survives as a column. Paul’s call, and it costs something — see the open block.

Three names for one account, and they differ

Name is ours and editable on the record. External account is the provider’s and we cannot change it. Account ID is the immutable channel_account_id every listing, command and external ID is bound to. Collapsing them would have been tidier and wrong: an operator recognises eBay — outlet, a support ticket quotes vd_outlet, and a reconciliation quotes CA-03. The name is the pinned column and the one the search matches first.

Columns, sorting and widths

The column model, the sort control and the picker are ported from source-formulas-list.html, not reinvented — same COLS shape, same modal, same aria-sort handling. Drag-to-resize is the one genuinely new part: a handle per head, a 64px floor, and double-click to put a column back. Widths need table-layout:fixed, because with auto layout the browser re-solves every column the moment content changes and a dragged width does not survive a re-render.

Name cannot be unticked. A list whose rows cannot be identified is not a shorter list, it is a broken one, so the pinned column’s checkbox is disabled rather than absent — the reader can see the rule instead of wondering where the control went.

The money rules are hidden by default and worth adding. Turn on Margin floor, Final value fee and Ad rate and the cost of having no Sales Channel record becomes visible in one glance: CA-02 and CA-03 sit under one channel carrying 2% and 2.5% ad rates. That is the open question below, drawn rather than argued.

Two status columns, never one

active is the operator’s switch (is this account taking new listings?). connection is a system fact (does the credential still work?). They are independent, and the interesting combination is active + connection lost — an account you believe is working and isn’t. CA-03 is that row, and it is the only row with a tinted background.

A lost connection does not flip active off. Auto-deactivating would silently change what happens on reconnect, so the switch stays where the operator put it and the list carries the contradiction instead.

Fixture

CA-01 / CA-02 / CA-03 are SAMPLE-DATA’s existing rows, unmodified. That file’s Status column is the active flag and has no notion of connection, so it needs a Connection column added rather than existing rows rewritten — which is what lets CA-03 be active and lost at once. CA-04 is new: it wires Visible Science, one of the architected-not-built stores, and gives the create drawer somewhere to land.

CA-02 renders account chip only — no store. That must read as correct, not broken.

Decision trail

• MR-062 — the sidebar block, identical in every file; the current section is the only dead item. Sales channels stops being a not mocked yet stub in all eight files as of this round.
• MR-065 — the 284px→58px collapsible rail, carried over verbatim.
• MR-066 — the person-item / machine-item split. The record’s connection card is its second instance.
• MR-070 — create returns and the slow half follows. Here the slow half is the OAuth handoff.
• MR-075 / OPEN-ITEMS P1 — reversed and closed respectively. See below.