Before making your site available to Customers for Shopping, you must perform the following:

 

• Configure GL Features defining GL Account Types and GL Accounts
• Configure Order Features
• Define Credit Terms
• Configure Sales Tax
• Define Shipping Carriers, Methods, & Fees
• Configure Product & Inventory Features
• Define Product Unit Types
• Define Product categorizations including:
• Product Brands
• Product Classifications
• Product Types
• Detail Categories
• Create Contact Company records for Vendors and Manufacturers
• Configure Payment Features
• Create Item record for each Product
• Enter Initial Inventory quantities if using Inventory Control features.
• Define Shopping Catalog Product Categories
• Assign Products to Shopping Catalog Product Categories

 

It is also a good idea to define a Quick Registration form for new customer registration.

 

If you are going to offer special pricing to select groups of customers or if you are going to offer quantity level pricing you will need to define Price Groups.

 

If you are going to display Comparable Products you will need to define Comparable Brands.

 

If you are going to display Document Collections as part of your Product Details you will need to define Related Document Types (Document Collection Categories).

 

If you are going to offer downloading of digital products you will need to configure Product Downloads.  Product Downloads is configured from Product & Inventory Features Management.