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Now that you have finished setting up your Main Account and configured your Secure eOrder System, it is time to enter your products into the database. The items you enter here will appear on your dynamic secure eOrder Form, along with the price for the single item and a blank for "Quantity". Your customers will enter a number into the blanks for the items they wish to order, and the eOrder form does the rest.
Add Products to Database
This is where you will add your actual products to the database.
To Begin..
- From the Web Merchant eManager select Add Products to Database from the drop down menu in the Product Related Activities section.
- Click on the GO button.
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You will be taken to a page entitled New Products.
Below the title will be the current number of products you have entered. If this is your first time entering products, this number will be 0 (zero) .
Next you will see a New Products form. This is where you will enter information for each of your products. Note that each product must be entered in it's own form, one at a time.
If you want to add another product, press the Save and Add Next button. If this is your last product to add to the database for now, press the Save button. That's it!Product Code
- DO NOT use spaces, dashes, symbols or funny characters.
- Alphanumeric characters are best.
- The maximum allowable length of your product code is 20 characters.
- You should have a strategy behind your product codes, similar products having similar codes.
Title
Enter a title for the product or short description. Don't get too wordy. This description should be appropriate for an invoice or receipt.Attributes
This option is not available in the eOrder Form. Please leave this field blank.Weight
If your shipping charges are in anyway weight related, enter the approximate weight of the product.Shipper Costs
The final three boxes allow you to specify three shipping charges for three different shippers. For example: You may assign UPS to Shipper 1, Fed Ex to Shipper 2 and USPS to Shipper 3.
- Enter the per-product shipping charge for this product. DO NOT use a dollar sign ($)
- DO NOT enter the Shipper names into the box. Enter the shipper charge only.
- If in doubt, review the information in your Cart Setup for different Shipping Charges methods.
Use the Return to Main Page link to return to your Web Merchant eManager.
Edit Products
You may edit product information after
you have entered it. From your Web Merchant eManager select Products
from the drop down menu in the View Database section. Click on the red
Edit This Record link above the product you wish to edit.
Link
Your eOrder Form to Your Website
The final step in setting up your Toolbag
account is to link your website to your Secure eOrder Form. To do this,
you simply place a hyperlink in your web page that will take your customer
to your eOrder Form. You may place as many of these links in as many
places as you like. You may use text links or graphic links. It’s
up to you. For example, on your product page you might put a link that
says Order Now! and make it a hyperlink to your eOrder Form.
? eOrder Form URL To determine the
URL for your eOrder Form simply replace the emanager.htm portion of your
eManager URL with safeorder.htm For example, if your
eManager URL is http://www.gochargeit.com/toolgroup/mywebsite/emanager.htm
then your eOrder Form URL will be http://www.gochargeit.com/toolgroup/mywebsite/safeorder.htm
Email
List of Product Codes
For your convenience you may use this
option to have the system automatically generate a list of your product
codes and email it to you.
To Begin..
- From the Web Merchant eManager select Email List of Product Codes from the drop down menu in the Product Related Activities section.
- Click on the Go button.
A full list of your product codes will automatically be emailed to your contact email address.