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SiteLINKGeneral InformationGet your business up and selling on the Internet with a complete electronic commerce store created and managed entirely from your Mail Order Manager software! Today, thousands of large and small companies in both consumer and business-to-business sales are marketing and selling their products with a commerce site on the Web. Up until now, however, Web commerce sites were not only expensive to create, but difficult to manage because they could not easily connect to a company's back-end order processing software! Welcome to SiteLINK, the next generation of Web technology, which uses Active Server Pages (ASP) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) to create your web store. Using ASP technology, SiteLINK not only connects your commerce site to M.O.M. for order processing, but actually generates the entire Web store for you directly from the M.O.M. database. That's the "link" in SiteLINK! No matter what size company, SiteLINK is the best way to get "up and selling" on the Web quickly, inexpensively and professionally! How Do I Set Up My Store?One simple "upload" command is all it takes! SiteLINK takes all of the information and business rules that you have set up in M.O.M. -- products, customer shipping charges, sales taxes, advertising source codes -- and uses them to build your on-line store! And, the entire store is under your control at all times -- you make it and change it whenever you want. You create your store's departments and sub-departments. You decide what products are going to be in your store. And, for each product, you define the advertising copy, image file, even special pricing or size/color options that can be made available to your on-line customers. Plus, a SiteLINK store gives your on-line customers a fully secure commerce site using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and all of the necessary "shopping" tools, including product search, store directories, shopping basket, and easy-to-use checkout options. Can I Customize the Look of My Store?Everybody wants their store to look a little different. SiteLINK automatically provides a store layout for you based on the designs of some of the largest and most successful retail sites on the Web today. You can select the fonts, background colors, even use your own custom-created set of shopping navigational buttons to create a unique look for your commerce site. You can even dress up your existing Web site by creating hyperlinks that connect to any part of your SiteLINK store. You can also customize the layout of your store beyond the templates with Microsoft Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver with Frontpage Extensions. The SiteLINK Custom Design team can also assist you to either customize the store template or create a unique design just for you. What About Order Processing and Customer Service?Quickly retrieve orders from the Web for processing in M.O.M. All you need is MOM and an internet connection. For each order imported, M.O.M. can automatically e-mail the customer with the order acknowledgment letter of your choice. And, if the customer calls with questions, you can look up the order quickly in M.O.M. using the unique order confirmation number automatically generated for each order by SiteLINK. They can even do their own customer service right in your store because M.O.M. automatically uploads all new account and order information when you use the Store Publisher to upload updates from M.O.M. to you store. Customer service just doesn't get any easier for Web commerce! Do I Need any Special Hardware or Software?We will host your store for you, so you don't need a Web server. All you need is an ordinary Web browser and a copy of the M.O.M. Import/Export Module. There's a one-time store setup fee charged to get you up and running, and a monthly service fee for the hosting service from Dydacomp. See Also SiteLINK Maintain Store Preferences SiteLINK Maintain Store Departments |