Importing Yahoo! Store Orders via Real Time Order Link

This method of importing orders from a Yahoo! Store into the Order Manager makes use of Yahoo's "Real Time Order Link". The Real Time Order Link prompts your Yahoo! Store to send information about new orders to a Web server as soon as the orders are placed by your customers. Stone Edge Technologies has set up a secure server for that purpose. As orders are placed, they are sent to and stored on the Stone Edge server temporarily. When you click Import via Internet on the Import Orders dialog box, the Order Manager retrieves the orders from the server and confirms that they were imported successfully. Those orders are then deleted from the server. 

 

Store Manager Settings

 

  1. In Yahoo! Store's Store Manager, click Real Time Link (below Order Settings). Note: If this option is not available to you, you must contact Yahoo! to enable it.

  2. The Real Time Delivery dialog box opens:

 

  1. Enter the following URL into the Orders text box: https://www.stoneedge.net/yahoo/yahoo.ashx

  2. Click on the Format drop down list next to the Orders text box and select Yahoo! Format.

  3. Click Update.

 

 

Set System Parameter

 

  1. Go to the Main Menu>Maintenance Menu>Maintenance tab>Set System Parameters button.

  2. Click on the Yahoo group.

  3. Click on the YahooUseInternetImport parameter. 

  4. Click True.

  5. Click Save.

  6. Click Close to exit the Set System Parameters dialog box.

 

 

Import Orders

 

1. Go to the Main Menu and click the Import Orders button.

2. The Import Orders dialog box opens:

 

 

  1. Click on the appropriate Yahoo! Store shopping cart.

  2. Click on the Import via Internet button.

  3. The Import archival data? dialog box opens. Note: You will only see the message boxes in steps 5 & 6 if you are importing orders for the first time. In the future, if you need to import old orders, go to Main Menu>Maintenance Menu>Import/Export>Import Old Orders.

    1. If the orders that you are importing from your shopping cart have already been processed and shipped, click Yes.

    2. If the orders that you are importing from your shopping cart are new and have not been processed and shipped, click No.

  4. The Select a Date dialog box opens. Click on the last day on which the Order Manager can assume that all orders have been processed and shipped. Any orders dated afterward will be "unapproved" in the Order Manager after they are imported.

  5. If any records in your shopping cart do not contain line items (e.g., you entered a test order), you may see a message box stating that an order does not include any ordered items. Click OK.

  6. When the Order Manager has completed importing all of the orders in your shopping cart, you will see a confirmation message box. Click OK.

  7. If you selected the option to print an order summary after importing orders in the Store Setup Wizard, the Select Printer for Order Summary dialog box opens. Note: The Select Printer for Order Summary dialog box may not open if the system parameter UsePrinterMenu (in the Reports group) is set to False.

  8. You can print to the default printer or you can print to a different printer by clicking the Selected Printer checkbox and clicking the name of the printer in the Select a Printer list box. If necessary, click on a printer tray in the Select a Paper Source list box. Click Print.

  9. If you will always print to the same default location, click the Don’t display this menu any more check box, and it will not open each time you import orders.

  10. Click Cancel to exit the Select Printer for Order Summary dialog box.

  11. Your view returns to the Import Orders dialog box:

 

 

  1. Click on the View Orders from Last Import  button.

  2. The View Orders dialog box opens, automatically filtered by Orders from Last Import. These are your new orders.

 

 

  1. Click Close to exit the View Orders screen.

 

 

 

See Also

Importing from Multiple Shopping Carts into the Same Order Manager Store

  
Modified 3/4/11