Basic setup of Merchant Manager store within minutes:The following is a quick guide to setup your store and be online within minutes. For more detailed instructions on any step, please refer to their respective sections in this Help documentation. Note, this guide assumes you have already activated and logged into Merchant Manager admin tool.
Basic setup of Merchant Manager store within minutes:
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On the Merchant Manager admin interface, click Settings tab along the top. |
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Enter your contact and store information. Click Save Changes. Let's proceed with payment and shipping options. |
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In the same Settings tab, click Payment submenu option. |
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Check the box next to the payment options you wish to offer to your customers. Once checked, the option-specific settings appear. If you select one of the merchant account options (e.g. LinkPoint credit card gateway, or PayPal, etc), then please be prepared to enter your merchant account details. Click Save Changes. |
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Click Shipping submenu option. |
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Check the box next to the shipping options you wish to offer to your customers. To enable a particular option, hover your mouse over it and click edit. Enter its settings. If you select UPS, USPS or FedEx, then please be prepared to enter your shipping account details. Click Save Changes. |
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OPTIONAL: If you are required to charge your customers tax or plan to sell internationally, then click Taxes submenu option. Click Add new tax button on right side, select country and state(s), enter a name for this tax class and its rate. Click Save Changes. |
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While you can customize the look and feel of your store to a greater degree, for now let's just add your company logo and add your own text to the store Home page. Click Display tab along the top, followed by Template submenu option. |
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Next to "Company Logo", click Browse and locate your company's logo or image file on your computer. Highlight the file and click Open. Click Save Changes. |
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In the same Display tab, click Pages submenu option. |
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Under the Site Pages section, hover your mouse over Home and click edit. Enter text relevant to your store using the editor tool, or, if you prefer, you can enter (or copy and paste from an existing page outside Merchant Manager) HTML code. (To enter HTML, click HTML along the top row of the editor tool.) Click Save. |
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Now let's start setting the stage for the actual products or services you plan to sell. Click Catalog tab along the top. |
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Create a category for your products. Enter its details and click Save Changes. It now appears under the Category List on the right side. Click Add new category button on the right side to create additional categories. Repeat as necessary. To create a subcategory, click Add new category as usual, enter subcategory name, use Parent category dropdown menu to select appropriate parent category. Click Save Changes. |
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In the same Catalog tab, click Products submenu option. |
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Click Add new product button on the right side, and enter its details. Click Save Changes. Repeat as necessary. |
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OPTIONAL: If any of your products have variation (e.g. size, color, bonus features, etc), then click Attributes submenu option, followed by the Add new option button. Alternatively, you can create attributes on-the-fly on the Add new product page itself. |
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Click View Your Store on the right side, review the changes you made on the store and emulate the steps a customer would take to buy from your store for testing purposes. |
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Remember, this is just a quick start. We strongly encourage you to explore and customize (and experiment with) all of Merchant Manager's capabilities prior to going live with actual customers. |
