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The WebCommerce Back Office
The Back Office is your Headquarters in WebCommerce. Just like in a real
store, it’s in the Back Office where you tell WebCommerce (think of it
as your employee) how you want your on-line store to be managed and what
information and features you want.
Store Properties
--
Indicate whether your store is ready to accept orders,
where your store logo graphic is located, who the store email/phone
contact is, whether or not you take credit cards, whether or not you’ll
be processing credit cards in real time, etc.
Shipping
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Select from 6 different formulas: flat rate,
weight threshold,
price
threshold,
percent of order total, per item, or no shipping.
Taxes
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Select which states you collect sales tax from and how much.
Categories --
Create sections to organize your products to make it easier for your
shoppers to navigate through your store. Research shows that the number
2 reason why shoppers will leave your store is because they can’t find
what they’re looking for. We recommend you use the categories to
organize your merchandise in an attractive and logical fashion to make
it easy for shoppers to find what they want to buy.
Options
and
Values
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Create the product options and values you offer such as
size (small, medium, large), color (blue and yellow), or flavor
(chocolate and vanilla).
Products
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In the product database, you will enter product name,
SKU, description, full size
and thumbnail graphics, up to 4 upsell links to let your shoppers know of
other products that they might be interested in, price, weight, etc.
Orders
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View how many orders you have, and update their status (void, shipped).
Build/Delete “Preview Store” --
Look at your store or any changes you’ve made before you publish it
for “real” on the Web. This comes
in handy when you’re trying to decide which of the included store
templates you want to use (which you can always modify on your own if
you want).
Build/Delete “Publish Store”
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Where you actually “publish” your store and make it visible on the Web
to shoppers.
Logout
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This is a particularly useful feature that allows you
to log off from WebCommerce so that no unauthorized user can access the
Back Office. So if you need to leave your computer for a time, you can easily
log off WebCommerce without logging off the Internet. It’s also useful for
merchants or developers who manage multiple stores and who need to
easily get from store to store (each store has its own login ID and
password).
A short word about security:
Besides the passwords described above,
there are additional levels of security that you don't see and which we
can't disclose (for obvious security reasons). You can rest easy knowing
that we have taken every precaution to make sure that all your store
information, your shoppers' order/credit card information, and your
product database are as safe as current technology will allow. Includes
such items as SSL encryption.
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When you choose "Build Store" (whether for a Preview store or a Published
store), WebCommerce takes all the information you've entered through the
Back Office and automatically builds your store -- in just seconds!
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