Opening Merchants

Merchants have requirements to be able to open in the system

1. Contract
2. Opening date

If those things aren't set up, the merchant can't open.

All merchants use the same process to open. Use the "Opening Artist Alley" as your example to open anything else.

Opening Artist Alley

1. Complete a contract
2. Save the contract as a fillable PDF
3. Put a copy of the fillable PDF in `snafucon-bacon\web\contracts` and name the file 'YYYY_aa_contract.pdf' where the YYYY is the current year you want to open for
4. Commit the file to the repository (make sure it gets deployed before the planned open date)
5. In BACON, go to the staff section
6. Under other, choose Year Manager
7. Click the year you want to open. It should be listed as "current"
8. Click Edit {Year} under Actions
9. Under the Artist Alley section, set your open date, and if you have one, a closed date
10. Save edits

Artist alley should now open on the open date!