The different layouts of Loopfront

See and study how Loopfront is experienced by your users.

Here, as an administrator, you can assess which platform display best suits the various participants (users) in your ecosystem.

Remember that users also have varied rights according to the user role they have been assigned.

Following the introduction of role settings in Q3 2024, buyers and observers now do not see the inventory by default, only the marketplace. If you want to change this, you must go to the system's role adjustment page in organization settings.

Below, the user roles' menu layout (layout) is presented in descending order according to privilege level.

Administrator and Member

Buyer/Seller

Buyer

Observer

All - Marketplace

Member and Administrator see and have access to all pages in Loopfront, and are the only user roles that see the Reports page and the Locations page.

Members and Administrators are also the only users who can visit and use the page for user invitations and other organizational settings in accordance with access level via the gear wheel at the bottom left.

Buyer/Seller

As of now, the buyer/seller role sees both Marketplace and Inventory. This is to be able to register objects and post your own advertisements.

The user role Buyer/seller is intended for open and decentralized internal marketplaces, where buying and selling (possibly given away / change of internal ownership) must take place freely.

The buyer/seller has access to the "My listings" sub-page under Marketplace, which indicates its executive role as both buyer and seller in the internal marketplace.

Buyer

By default, the buyer only sees the Marketplace. The buyer has access to the subpages

"Find materials" and "Orders" on the Marketplace, where find materials shows the advertisement overview and orders shows orders. Order can be looked up to follow the status of one's own orders and read one's own order history.

The Buyer user role is intended for centralized internal marketplaces, where a warehouse or project donates surplus to the internal marketplace that participants can buy / desire / take over.

NOTE: After the last change in roles, the buyer now only sees the internal marketplace. If you want the buyers in your ecosystem to also see the stock (may be relevant in projects), you must go to role settings in the organization settings page.

Buyer - when inventory is turned on

Here, the buyer has access to the subpages "Find materials" and "Order" on the Marketplace, as well as "Our materials" and "Want to buy" in the Inventory.

The buyer can only read the inventory overview, but cannot register or change data in accordance with the role's user rights. Stock may be limited if location access is used.

Observer

The observer is the most restricted user role, and can only read the pages it has control over. By default, the observer only sees the marketplace.

NOTE: After the last change in roles, the observer now only sees the internal marketplace. If you want the observers in your ecosystem to also see the inventory (may be relevant in projects), you must go to role settings in the organization settings page.

Observer - when inventory is turned on

The observer sees here both Inventory and Marketplace and can read what is located in both areas. Stock may be limited if location access is used.

All - The Marketplace

As you can read from the extended sub-menu for member and administrator above, all the user roles' Marketplace is divided into two or three sub-menus:

Find materials - Overview page for all advertisements on the internal marketplace
My listings - Overview page for ads on the internal marketplace posted for you (the logged-in user)
Orders - The overview page for all orders and their current status

The marketplace can be easily filtered between internal, external or both by using the drop-down boxes.