Any user with an account on the MERN Marketplace application will have the option to update their accounts to seller accounts by making changes to their profiles. We will add this option to convert to a seller account in the Edit Profile
page, as shown in the following screenshot:
A user with an active seller account will be allowed to create and manage their own shops, where they can manage products. Regular users will not have access to a seller dashboard, whereas users with active seller accounts will see a link to their dashboard on the menu as MY SHOPS. The following screenshot shows how the menu looks to a regular user in contrast to a user with an active seller account:
To add this seller account feature, we need to update the user model, the Edit Profile view and add a MY SHOPS link to the menu that will only be visible to sellers, as discussed...
