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Americart Setup V7

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Overview

Americart and Virtual Cart are older, very basic shopping cart systems with limited features.  However, their sister shopping cart, Americommerce, is compatible with Stone Edge through a generic shopping cart license.

This shopping cart's capabilities:

• Orders can be directly imported from the web site

• Product records cannot be directly imported from the web site

• Customer records cannot be directly imported from the web site

• Custom (order) Fields can be imported from the web site

• Manual Inventory Synchronization is not supported with the web site

• Real-time Inventory Synchronization is not supported with the web site

• Order Status Updates are not supported

Shopping carts can be defined during the Setup Guide when the program is first installed, or you can enter them at a later date by following these instructions.

Configuring the Shopping Cart

Integration Script

• Americart/VirtualCart integration is configured by the vendor, there is no Stone Edge integration script to install in your cart.
• Contact Americart or VirtualCart support to configure your web store to work with Stone Edge.

Configuring Stone Edge

   Create the shopping cart definition

1. Go to Main Menu>Settings>System Functions>Shopping Carts.

2. If you have not yet setup a cart, the program asks if you want to do so now? Respond Yes.

3. Select Add New. The fields displayed on this screen vary based on the cart type.

4. Enter a value in Store Name.

5. Select xxx from Cart Type.

6. Enter your CartID/UserName. This should be the username you use to log into your web store.

7. Enter your password in Cart Password and in Reenter Password. This should be the password you use to log into your web store.

8. Choose whether to Select automatically generated emails from this cart.

9. Select Save and the definition is added to the Carts List.

The shopping cart definition is complete! If you have not yet entered or imported supplier information, do that before you import products or all of your products are assigned to the Default Supplier record.

Importing Supplier Information

• Refer to the knowledge base topic, How to Import Supplier Information from a Text File, by selecting the link at the bottom of this page.

Importing Products

• This feature is not supported.

Importing Customer Records

• This feature is not supported.

Configuring Custom Order Fields

• Custom order fields can be imported from this shopping cart

• Custom order fields let you collect supplemental responses (required or non-required) from your customers during checkout.

• For more information about setting up custom order fields in Stone Edge, review the Knowledge Base topic, Configuring Custom Fields.

Product Attributes, Order Options, and SubSKUs

Product attributes (variants, options) refer to the sizes, colors, finishes, etc. in which the product is available.

Americart and VirtualCart append product attributes to the item name, which is how they are displayed in the shopping cart.

There are three ways to handle product attributes in Stone Edge when orders are imported:

1. You can retain the standard SKU as the main product, put the attributes into fields Option 1 through 10, and put the entire field supplied by Americart in the Freeform Options field.
2. You can retain the standard SKU as the main product and put each attribute in a separate line item. Items that are options for the main product (color, size, etc.) are stored with the SKU, "Order Option". The Price and Cost fields are set to zero and Stone Edge does not track the QOH, as it can with the main product.
3. The third choice is to have Stone Edge build subSKUs for your products with attributes. Stone Edge can then track QOH at the attribute level. For example,  if you sell T-shirts and each shirt has a color and a size, you want to know how many of each size and color you have in stock, not just the total number of T-shirts. The process of building subSKUs takes a "parent" SKU, such as "ABC001" and creates specific "subSKUs" for each combination of the product's attributes, such as "ABC001-Blk-XL", and "ABC001-Blk-L", etc. When orders are imported, Stone Edge replaces the parent SKU with the subSKU and puts the attributes into the Option 1 thru Option 10 fields. The QOH of each subSKU is decremented as orders for those unique product attributes are imported.

For more information about these Stone Edge processes, read Options, Attributes and Sub SKUs, and Build Sub SKUs.

Importing Orders

1. Go to Main Menu>Import My Orders>Import My New Orders.

2. Choose the appropriate shopping cart definition from Select Shopping Cart.

3. Select Import via Internet.

4. If this is the first time you are importing orders from this cart, you are asked if any of the orders have already been shipped. If so, specify the cut-off date. Refer to Knowledge Base topic, First Import, for general instructions.

5. If this is not the first time you are importing orders from this cart, select an existing batch or create a new batch of orders to import.

6. Refer to Knowledge Base topic Import Orders, for general instructions.

Configuring Order Status Updates

• This feature is not supported.

Configuring Real-time Inventory Synchronization

• This feature is not supported.

Additional Information

Configuring Custom Fields

Shopping Cart Functions

First Import

Import Orders,

Set System Parameters

Americart System Parameters

Created: 1/2015

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