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Newest Upgrade Features
Note: If you have any questions regarding these features, please call 800-798-5612.

Contents:

Upgrade Date: October 2006
Pricing Maintenance
        Dead Item & New SKU cross reference
        Multiple Ship To's
Coming Soon:
        Shipping and Tax Profiles
                   
-Creating and applying custom shipping and taxes to customer logins
               

Upgrade Date: July 2006
Order History 
          
-Limiting Your Order History
           -Deleting Specific Orders from Order History      

Pricing Maintenance

            -Wholesaler Programs and Catalogs
            -Website Setup
        My Lists & History Upgrade      


Upgrade Date: October 2006

Dead Item & New SKU Cross Reference
If a product has a dead item number or new SKU, your customers will now be either redirected to the new item number for their product, as well as alerted (if the product is no longer available) that the product has been discontinued. In addition, if an item with a new prefix is on a shopping list, it is automatically added to their shopping list.

Multiple Ship to's:
Your customers can now create multiple shipping and billing addresses to your customer logins.

To add a New Address:
Log in to the website, then click on the My Lists and History link on the left hand menu. Next, click on the My Addresses Link.
Next, click on the Add an Address Link. Fill out the information on this page, and click SAVE.

To edit an existing address:
Log in to the website, then click on the My Lists and History link on the left hand menu. Next, click on the My Addresses Link.
Click the EDIT button in the field of the address you wish to change. Then save your changes.


To select an address as the billing or shipping destination for an order:
Log in to the website, then click on the My Lists and History link on the left hand menu. Next, click on the My Addresses Link, OR you may begin the checkout process. When you are viewing the table containing your billing and shipping information, simply go to the billing or shipping address which is correct for this order, and select either Select as Bill To OR Select as Ship To for the order you are taking care of.

Note: the following feature will be available with our next update. This information is made available to you now as a preview of upcoming features.


Shipping and Tax Profiles
You can now set up specific shipping and taxes to apply to individual customer logins.

               Code: enter a short description to identify which tax and delivery table you are creating. For example: delivery1.

                Description: type in a description of the tax and shipping charges. For example: Bob Smith Delivery Charges.

                Tax Rate: enter in the appropriate tax rate for this login.

Next, you will select which shipping charges are appropriate. You have the following choices:

                Free Shipping On ALL Orders: all shipping is free--however, you may say, for example, that free shipping applies to
                orders over $50.00.

               Drop Ship UPS: you have a choice here to apply shipping charges based on A) your cost or B) the order total. In addition,
               you can apply an order minimum, and give free shipping for orders over a certain dollar amount.

               
For all products that cannot be shipped UPS (Freight Items): You can also calculate delivery charges for products
                that cannot be shipped by UPS. Here you will calculate based on a percentage from A) your cost or B) the order total.

Once you are finished, please be sure to save your changes.

To apply custom delivery charges to an Account:
First, you must create and save the custom tax/delivery charges in Pricing Maintenance and save them. Next, go to the Accounts link and select the account number you wish to apply custom tax and shipping charges to. In the account detail area, under the Basic Information area, type in the TAX CODE which identifies your custom tax/billing you wish to apply to this account, and save your changes.


Upgrade Date: July 2006

A new look for familiar pages
Customer Log-in information, account detail screen, and My Preferences have a new look.

Order History
Order History for your customers and customer accounts will now be automatically limited to 6 months. In addition, you may now delete your order history up to the following:

  •  180 days (6 months)
  •  150 days (5 months)
  •  120 days (4 months)
  •  90 days (3 months)
  •  60 days (2 months)
  •  30 days (1 months)
  •  14 days (2 weeks)
  •  7 days (1 week)

Deleting Individual Orders:
We have changed the format for deleting specific orders from your order history. This is to prevent accidental deletions of customer orders. To delete a specific order YOU MUST PROCESS THE ORDER BEFORE YOU CAN DELETE IT. Once you have processed the order into your order history, you will click on your order history link, and then click on the order number of the order you wish to remove. Once the order detail pops up, you can then scroll to the bottom of the detail page and click the Delete Order button.

Pricing Maintenance

Wholesaler Programs and Catalogs
We decided to take the Standard Contracts link and integrate it with the Wholesaler Programs and Catalogs link, so that you may more easily access specific contracts, flyers, and matrixes and apply them to your customer accounts. Instead of two links, you now have one, with all the same features and functions in one area for your convenience. The new page is now called Standard Contract Management.

Website Setup
We have added some settings here to allow you to make changes to information displayed on your website along with others. Settings in this area apply to ALL customer accounts. You will be asked to fill this information out as soon as your website is upgraded.

            Use Catalog Information from: Select the wholesaler whose pictures and item details you    
            would like to display in your online catalog. If you have one wholesaler, you will select the correct
            wholesaler for your website. If you carry multiple wholesalers, you will select which wholesaler
            whose content you would like displayed in your website.

            Show MSRP?: This allows you to display the retail price for the products in your online catalog to
            your customers. If the product is on sale, listed in your common contract, or just the regular price
            based on their account settings, it will be shown as Your Price. If the item is a contract item, it
            will be shown as Contract Price. Retail price will be shown as: MSRP: $1.99 (for example). If
            there is no discount offered to the customer and the item is list price, no MSRP will be shown.
         

            Show Discount?: This allows you to show your customers the discount they will receive by
            purchasing the item from you. If the discount is less than $10.00, it will show a dollar amount for
            the discount. If the discount is over $10.00, the discount will be displayed by the percentage
            of savings they are getting by purchasing an item with you.

            Time Zone: Select the correct time zone for your location.

            Company Information: Here you will be able to make any corrections or changes to the
            company information that is displayed on your website. In addition, you will also be able to select
            the correct time zone. This will enable you to have the correct time displayed on customer orders.

            Email Settings: You can now select up to 3 email addresses for copies of your customer orders
            to go to. Only the Primary Contact Email will receive notifications of new customers who have
            logged into your website.

            PayPal Pay Link Information: If you would like credit card purchases to go through PayPal,
            simply insert the correct email address for your PayPal account. You must have and active
            account with PayPal in order to be able to use this feature.

            Delivery (Gasoline) Surcharge - Applies to Free Delivery Accounts: You can set a delivery
            charge amount for your customer accounts. Simply put in the dollar amount for your Gasoline
            surcharge (or flat delivery rate, whichever applies) in the box labeled: Charge per order.

            If you would like free delivery to apply to purchases over a certain dollar amount, you will put the
            minimum purchase amount for free deliveries in the box labeled:
No surcharge for orders equal
            to or over:

My Lists & History Upgrade
We have added several links and upgraded some existing one in this area for the convenience of you and your customers. Here is what they are and what they do:

My Lists: Here your customers will create and edit their shopping (favorites) lists. We have also added a new feature to this area. Once customers click on a list name, they will be taken to a shopping list which is empty (or if it is an existing list, to the items on the list) Instead of Searching for products using the usual methods, they can add specific products here by product number by typing the product number into the new ADD ITEM feature found on this page. It will make it easier for both you and your customers to create and maintain their shopping lists.

Account Lists: Here your customers will be able to view and shop from the other shopping lists of the other logins assigned to their account. Only the person who created the lists will actually be able to modify the lists, but others will be able to view and shop directly from them. This feature is not available to customers assigned to your DEFAULT account.

Order History: Order history for all users has now been limited to 6 months.

Account Order History: Here users may view the order history of other users of their account. Only the Account Order Administrator has access to this information, and the account must have the Order Administration feature turned on.

Custom Contract: There have been no changes to this feature.

 

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