Website Profiles (Found in: Update Web Catalog Pricing)
You may have noticed at the beginning of the quarter, when you logged in as administrator, the system asked you to fill out a profile for your company. This information included your primary wholesaler, and any contracts (flyers or quarterly pricing) that you carry from that wholesaler. If you carry multiple wholesalers, you will need be sure the information for those wholesalers is correct as well, and filled out in the order that you wish them to appear in your online catalog. For those customers who did not fill out this information, we have taken the time to do so for you. However, in the future, you will need to submit this information each quarter in order to update your pricing. Please take a moment to go to the Pricing Maintenance link and view both the Master Products Maintenance and the Wholesaler Programs & Catalogs links to ensure the information we have put in there is correct. If it is not, please resubmit this information and we will have it posted on your website by the next business day.
 
This area is designed to replace the Pricing Update Complete sheet that is sent to you via email each quarter, and will give you real time information about what is loaded into your website. These features will allow you to see and edit what is loaded in your website without having to call us for this information.

If you carry customized pricing in your contract columns, you will also need to make sure  this information is included when you fill out or edit your profile (for example HON minus 40 percent).

You may fill out the information for an upcoming quarter no sooner than 7 days prior the beginning of the quarter.

Standard Contracts Upgrade
Another feature we are introducing this week is an addition to the Standard Contracts link found in Pricing Maintenance. You will now be able to assign individual Flyers to any or all of your accounts from this area without having to go into each account to turn on your quarterly (column) or special pricing.

You will also be able to create a description to a Contract which will appear in the Account Detail area instead of the existing text of: Contract 1, Contract 2, etc. If you carry the Biggest Book, for example, you will fill out the description area for that Contract column with Biggest Book. This will enable you to see what the  contract (promotional) columns contain without having to look it up, making setting up and maintaining your customer accounts easier for you.
 

Mail Server Upgrade
Effective 3/12/06, the eQuality mail server has been upgraded. You will now need to go to the following address to access your email online: http://www.equalityis.com/iclient . Your user name and password still work with the upgraded system. If you currently use Outlook or Outlook express, your current settings will not need to be changed. If you have any questions about the new mail server, please give us a call.

Automatic Messaging System (AMS)
Beginning this week, we have inserted an automatic messaging system into each of our customer websites. Once you log in as administrator, any information we need to let you know will pop up--similar to the Welcome message your customers see on your website. Only you, the administrator, can see these messages, your customers cannot. We have implemented this system in order to keep our equality customers informed about the goings on with the company in a more timely manner, including information about upgrades and our company.

Newsletters will no longer be sent via email. If we put out a new issue, we will provide a link to it with the messaging system. You will be then directed to the Newsletter link in your Administration Manual where it will be stored to read at your leisure.