What is a Web FastQuote store?
In resume, the store created by the FastSealCreator software, described here, will allow any company that uses the FastSealCreator software to:
- Easily create a online store for machined and stock seals
- Optional list all the products that a standard company sells
- Manage clients, stocks, prices and orders
This enables one of the two possibilities for a FastSealCreator user:
- Have a online store available to everybody (no client registration limitation)
- Have a online store available for a selected number of clients (with client registration limitation)
- Use the online store for its own profiles price calculation and keep it hidden from the general public. Since it is online, costs can be calculated from anywhere.
How does it works for the FastSealCreator user?
For the FastSealCreator user, that will be the owner of the store, several features will be available, being the objective the simplicity. The owner of the store will be able to:
- List machined seals based of the seals present on the FastSealCreator software
- List stock seals (any category)
- List other products that complement the seal world (for example gaskets, cylinder parts, tools, belts, ….)
What is needed to create a Web FastQuote store?
To create a Web FastQuote store all the following premisses are needed:
- Owning the FastSealCreator software
- Have a valid subscription active, with webfastquote option
- Use the software as root, or as a administrator user. More information in: settings-users
What steps are needed to start?
All is documented, and we tried to make a complex task into a simpler one. Here are the needed steps:
- Using the FastSealCreator – create a online store
- Using the FastSealCreator – send your list of material, operation costs and profiles
And this is all, you now have a online store with a list of machined seals available online.
After this you can manage your store and add stock products for example.
How are machined seals price calculated?
The administrator, while using the FastSealCreator software can interact with the store settings so that the online store can provide accurate prices based on the administrator settings. This include:
- Raw materials present on the FastSealCreator
- Operation costs, the same as used by the FastSealCreator (operation costs)
- Profiles names, including renamed names, equally as those used by the FastSealCreator
This ensures that the web store will present to the final client, profiles and prices that are actually the same as the store administrator sees on the FastSealCreator software.
How are stock items created?
All stock items can be imported to the store using the store import tool.
The stock items must be prepared by the administrator on a spreadsheet (excel, OpenOffice, …), using a determined format. When submitting this file, that contains the products to list, the web store will create the products on the store and will be immediately available to the store customers.
To replace or to adjust products, the user can edit the information sent and send it again (existing products will be updated to the new information sent) or editing manually on the administrator store interface. More information about listing stock products can be found here (TODO)