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Once
our web developers complete designing your gift site and administration
page you should print this page (two pages) and check all the boxes
after each task is completed.
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Click
on all links on your gift site for any dead links
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click on contact link to check your contact information and phone numbers |
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To test your shopping cart sign up on your gift site and make a test purchase, stop when asked to enter your credit card info. |
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Now
you can login to your administration page( Login button is located in
your home page of your gift site.) with the provided username and
password you have received from eGiftBaskets.com Support Team. |
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Login to your admin page. Click on Tutorial link under resources, here you will can find tutorials on:
- Your Admin page
- Your Order page
- Your Email Account
- Your FTP Account
- HTML Tutorial
- Adding Products to your site
- Paypal
- Drop ship
- Shipping Options
- Bazaar Gift Baskets
- Text changes/FTP
- Outlook Express
- Links
- Meta tags
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Click on the Configuration button located on your left. In this page your can edit your
- Email (this email address will forward your queries to you)
- Street (will be displayed in the contact page of your website)
- City (will be displayed in the contact page of your website)
- State (will be displayed in the contact page of your website)
- Zipcode(adding your zip code will activate the system to charge your clients tax for your State)
- Phone (will be displayed in the contact page of your website)
- Fax
(will be displayed in the contact page of your website) Paypal
ID/Verisign/(Once you sign up with paypal.com and get verified you can
add your paypal email address in this box so you can accept credit card
payments on your gift site)(If you have signed up with Verisign we will
email you with more info)
- Markup (decimal multiplier; ie 1.45 means 45% markup)
(this feature will allow you to increase or decrease your profit margin
for all your gift items.) Order By (this feature will allow your gifts
to be displayed by alphabetical, lowest price, or highest price on your
gift site)
- Tax (use decimal; ie 7.5% tax is .075) (this feature will allow you to set your tax percentage for your State)
- Shipping Tax Yes No (some states require sales tax on shipping)
- Intro (this feature will allow you to display different gift baskets on your home page)
- Web email access through admin page
- Froogle.com Feed info
- PayPal Payment Pro API
- Create new admin password
- *Make sure to click on update configuration after you make any changes in your configuration page.
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Site content will allow you to edit the text for the pages of your gift site |
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Products page will allow you to add your own gift items to your gift site, or other drop shippers gift items.
(follow the steps in the admin faq to add or delete a gift item) |
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Now with your username and password you should login to your web email account.
Please follow our web email tutorial page located in the faq page of eGiftBaskets.com on how to setup your web email account.
Send a test email to a friend to check to see if your web email account is working properly. |
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Click on the directory button located in your admin page and then click on the drop shippers tab.
- You can sign up with any drop shipper.
- Once
you have signed up with your desired drop shippers you can start adding
their gift products to your gift site from the product page of your
admin.
- Ask all your questions before signing up with a
drop shipper, find out their monthly fees if they have any, shipping
fees, and how long they have been in business.
- When you
are adding a drop shipper product to your gift site make sure you add a
code to the beginning or end of the sku number so you know which drop
shipper carries what item.
- For example you sign up with
drop shipper X. You want to add a gift basket of theirs to your website
with sku number 19843, so you would know this gift basket belongs to
Company X you should create a new sku number 19843X when you add their
gift baskets to your gift site from the products page.
- This
will eliminate any confusion from which drop shipper you need to place
your order once a client orders a gift item from your gift site.
- When
you receive your gift site you will have over 50 gift baskets added to
your gift site from Bazaar Gift Baskets(www.bazaargiftbaskets.com).
- You
can place an order with Bazaar Gift Baskets when a client orders a gift
basket from your gift site (make sure you have received payments for
each order from your client), then you can place an order with Bazaar
Gift Baskets for drop shipping to your client.
- Register
on bazaar gift baskets, create a username and password, then you can
start ordering gift baskets for drop shipping. They have no monthly
fees.
- If you don't wish to have any of Bazaar products
on your gift site email us and we will remove all their products from
your gift site. If you only want to delete certain items that belongs
to bazaar gift baskets, you can go to your product page in your admin
and click on the green check mark to remove a gift item from bazaar
gift baskets.
- In the Directory page there is a list of
over 500 gift distributors which you can contact to purchase gifts or
pantry items direct
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Now
you can review your marketing page located in your admin page under
marketing. Make sure to read our marketing tips page. When you market
your gift site you should always test a few marketing options and see
which marketing option has the highest ROI (return on Investment). |
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Start
telling people you know about your gift business, create discount codes
for your clients, friends and family members. Word of mouth is the best
advertising. To learn how to setup your discount code page please
review your admin tutorial page. |
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We are always here to answer any questions you might have regarding
your gift business. We also have a faq page which has over 300
questions and answers.
We appreciate your business
eGiftBaskets.com Support Team |
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