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| Quick Guide To Manage
Your Online Business Using eStoreComplete |
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1. Authorize the program for accessing your eBay account |
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eStoreComplete can fully manage your eBay business. You need to
authorize eStoreComplete program to access eBay web site on behalf of you
in order to use the features.
eStoreComplete program only saves your ebay business information on your
local machine, and only communicate with web from your local machine, except
the instant message from eBay which has to be listened to on the server
then pass to you.
Once you have done authorization in eStoreComplete, the program can manage
your eBay business as following:
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Share product database with your local store, your own web store, and eBay
listing.
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Share / automatically manage inventory for your local store, web store, and
eBay listings.
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Create eBay listing from existing product database offline, preview, then
submit in batch mode.
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Create web page for eBay store using the "What You See Is What You Get" web
page editor.
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Manage ebay orders, message / feedback / dispute; print sales receipts /
shipping labels.
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Create integrated sales report for local store, your own web store, and eBay
listing.
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Manage your eBay customer database locally.
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View all ebay history data offline.
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Receive instant notice from ebay for new orders / messages etc. (* require
subscription)
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2. Setup account, configure program |
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In order to properly manage your local / online store, your account and the
eStoreComplete program need to be configured properly. The information you
provide will be used for building product database, automatically generating
web page, replacing auto-text content in email or receipt, and managing your
local and online sales.
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Account/Program Settings
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Channels Setting
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Tax Setting
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Payment Setting
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Shipping Methods Setting
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Default Shipping Option
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Product Categories
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Product Attributes
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3. Build product database |
eStoreComplete can help you easily manage your product database. From the Store
Manager toolbar, you can click "New Product" button to launch Product
Editor to enter new product information, or click "Product
Manager" button to search then open existing products. Product information is
categorized for easy viewing and editing:
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Basic product information: |
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Common information: shared by all sales channels (Product ID/title etc)
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My Web Store Information: specific to your web store
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eBay Specifics: defined/required by eBay listings
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Specific For Sales Channels: |
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eStoreComplete can help you to submit products to marketing channels like Yahoo
or Google. You need to provide information required by the channels. If there's
predefined information, you may get it from eStoreComplete directly; or you can
define your own channels and product specifics using the "Channel Manager" and
"Set Product Fields" (can be launched from "settings" menu) tool in
eStoreComplete.
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Tax, payment, and shipping |
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eStoreComplete allows you to create global setting to apply to all products by
default. You can also customize for each product.
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Product Description: |
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Web store description header: for web store only
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Web store description detail: shared with eBay listing
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Web store description footer: for web store only
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eBay description header: for eBay listing only
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eBay description detail: read only, auto-replicated from web store description
detail
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eBay description footer: for eBay listing only
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4. Create web site
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To simplify your work, eStoreComplete program provides a Web Page/Site
Wizard to create web page/web site automatically based on the
product information in your database. (So you should build product database
before creating web page/site). The wizard can be launched from "Settings" menu
for creating web site, or from the tool panel in web page editor for creating
web page.
In addition to the web page wizard, there are also Component Wizards
to help you automatically insert web page content like site navigation, product
categories, and auto-product information. The auto-generated components in the
web page are locked for auto-refreshing from product/web page database; you
have to unlock them before edit (once unlock, program will not automatically
refresh the content when it's changed in database)
From Store Manager toolbar, you can click "New Page" button to
create new web page, or click "Web Page Manager" button to search and open
existing pages. You may also create a new web page by coping from an existing
page. Just open the existing page first, then from the web page editor left
tool panel, click "Copy Web Page".
By default, opened existing page will be in preview status. To start editing,
click "Edit Page" from the web page editor left tool panel.
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5. Manage eBay listings |
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eBay Listing Manager in eStoreComplete can fully manage your
eBay listings. Instead of entering product information for each listing, the
program can pick up the product information automatically from your product
database which is shared by all of your sales channels. You can set and save
all of your listing detail locally before submitting to eBay. eStoreComplete
then can help to verify your listing settings locally and allow you to preview
the listing detail and resulting fees.
To make your work easier, you can save your listing settings as template (you
can save multiple templates) and then use it for new listings. Or you may
simply just copy the existing listing as new listing to share the same
settings.
eBay Listing Manager can help you check the listing status. Just click "Refresh
Status" button to get the bid status. eBay Listing Manager can be launched from
Store Manager toolbar button.
eBay Listing Manager also has links to Product Editor, Mail
Manager and Sales/Order Manager. You can select
the listings, then click the links in the menu to check/send ebay
messages/feedbacks/disputes, check orders, or view/edit product
information
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6. Manage eBay, local store and online store sales |
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Sales Manager in eStoreComplete can automatically download
your eBay and web store orders then save them to your local database. You can
then search/manage the orders locally using the Order Manager (launched from
sales manager window); or view order item detail from the receipt
viewer/editor, which can also help you to print the receipt and shipping label.
Sales Manager can be launched from Store Manager tool bar button or from the
system tray icon menu.
Using Order Manager, you can select orders then click in the
menu to generate emails to notify your customer about the order status.
There also is a User Manager to help you manage your customer
database. (also launched from sales manager window).
Both Order Manager and User Manager can be launched from Sales Manager toolbar
buttons.
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7. Manage ebay and online store messages |
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Mail Manager/Mail Editor can save big for you! Instead
of going to different places in eBay web site to check or send messages,
feedbacks, disputes, best offers or second chance offers, you can do all of
them in one place --- the mail manager which can also be used to send/receive
regular email.
Even to save you more, you can create mail templates to send group mails. The
content in the mail templates will be automatically replaced with the customer
or order information for each receiver before they are sent out.
Mail Manager/Mail Editor are in the same window which can be launched from Store
Manager toolbar button or from system tray icon menu. In the
top-right corner of the Mail Manager window, there are two menu style buttons
you can click to switch the Manager/Editor views.
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8. Manage purchase order, inventory, sales return |
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Inventory Manager in eStoreComplete can help you track
inventory changes.
Purchase Order Manager helps you to create/manage your
purchase orders.
Return Manager can be used to manage your customer returns.
All three programs are in the same Stock Manager window and
have similar user interface to Sales/Order Manager. To switch
among Inventory Manager, Purchase Order Manager, and Return Manager, click the
menu style button in the top-right corner of the Stock Manager. The display
style of inventory records viewer/editor, purchase order items viewer/editor,
return items viewer/editor can be customized. Switch to the view first, then
click "Options" button in the Stock Manager window tool bar, you can set styles
for the current view in the popup window.
The Stock Manager window can be launched from Store Manager window tool bar or
from system tray icon menu.
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9. Check inventory, sales, financial report |
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eStoreComplete Report Manager is the place where you view your
product activities(Product Report), keep track of inventory
status(Inventory Report), analyze your sales(Sales Report)
and finance(Summary Report).
The report settings are very flexible, you can select the report time range,
display format, report sub-type, and displayed data fields etc. You can even
make your report setting for each report type as default setting so that you
can quickly view the report in your settings whenever you create a new
report. When you save the report, you have the option to save just the
report setting or save the setting and the data(so you can view the same report
again, otherwise the same report settings may generate different views when the
data is changed in the database)
Same as receipt/PO/Inventory/Return manager, you can customize your print
content and preview them before you print. Report Manager can be launched from
Store Manager toolbar button or from system tray icon menu. Then from Report
Manager toolbar, you can click the button to create different type of reports.
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Product Report |
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Product report can check sales status or product activity records for a single
product |
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Summary Report |
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Summary Report is used for check the total income and spending for all of your
products/sales, or you can check activity records (sales, inventory, purchase
order, return) for all products.
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Sales Report |
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Sales Report can be used to check all product sales in all sales channels. You
may check it by time or by products. |
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Inventory Report |
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The report helps you to keep track of your inventory status. |
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10. Set online/email advertisement |
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Online advertisement editor allows you to edit your online
advertisement in a way similar to web page editing, and you will see how your
advertisement will look while you are editing. You can also create the email
advertisement in the ad editor. Online advertisement editing
is based on the advertisement template from the web site that will provide you
the advertisement service. So the advertisement format requirement may be
different when the template is different.
Email advertisement editing can be treated as web page editing
because the email content need to be hosted in the web site when it's sent out.
(So you have to subscribe web store seller or higher account in order to send
out email advertisement)
Advertisement manager is the place where you can set your
advertisement strategies.
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