Website and CMS (Setup and Configuration)
How Your Straightsell Website Works
Your Straightsell eCommerce website is linked to your accounting system via a software suite called CatalogueLINK containing two applications, CatalogueLINK Upload and CatalogueLINK Download. The flow of the integration data between your accounting system, CatalogueLINK and your website is as follows:
Upload
CatalogueLINK Upload imports Products, Customers, Pricing and invoices from the accounting system and gets it ready for the website
CatalogueLINK Upload uploads this information to your website.
Download
CatalogueLINK Download downloads Orders, Payments and new Customer registrations from your website and prepares it for the accounting system
CatalogueLINK Download exports this information into the accounting system.
NOTE: Of course at this stage of the project, your accounting system is very unlikely to have website-ready information against all products.The first step to correcting this is to identify the information you want to display. Refer to the articles below for an explanation of many of the common data types.
The Next Steps
Identify the data types you want to display
Research if your accounting system needs additional fields set up to house data for use on the website. For example if you don’t have fields for product categories, or the size data used in Product Options. Speak with your Project Manager or training contact about this if unsure
See CatalogueLINK Upload (User Guides) prior to the CatalogueLINK Upload configuration session for an overview of how the program works
Getting Website Ready Data
The articles below will assist you in understanding how data is displayed on the website: