Online Wine Auction Help

1. Login to the Store Manager at http://www.winecommune.com/stores/admin/. Once you have set up a store, a link called Manage Stores will appear whenever you login to myWC that will allow you to login to the Store Manager.
   
   
2. Under the Site Settings section of the Store Manager select Store Name. That will allow you to set your store's name that will appear within your website.
   
   
3. Under the Site Settings section of the Store Manager select Logo to upload your own logo. That logo will appear on each page in your store.
   
   
4. Under the Site Settings section of the Store Manager select Privacy Policy to setup your own Privacy Policy and About Us to create a page describing your store. Remember, people like to know exactly what you will do with their personal information. Also, the more you tell people about your store, it's history and philosophy, the better they will feel about buying from you.
   
   
5. Under the Commerce Settings section of the Store Manager, select Payment Methods. Designate which payment methods you accept. Remember, only select those methods which you have the ability to accept. Therefore, if you have a Merchant Account that allows you to accept credit cards, select those credit cards methods you can accept. If you do not have a Merchant Account, you can still accept credit cards through Paypal.com.
   
   
6. In the Commerce Settings section of the Store Manager select Sales Tax Rates. Select a state and enter the sales tax rate for any states for which you are required to charge sales tax if your goods are being shipped to that state. You may set up more than one sales tax rate.
   
   
7. In the Commerce Settings section of the Store Manager select Shipping Calculations. Here you must select whether you will contact the buyer after they place their order with a shipping cost or whether you would like the system to automatically calculate the shipping costs for an order. If you choose to have the system automatically calculate the shipping costs, be sure to enter the zipcode from where orders will be shipped in order to ensure that the system will calculate the costs correctly.
   
   
8. In the Commerce Settings section of the Store Manager select Shipping Methods and Rates. Select the shipping methods that you offer your customers. If, in the Shipping Calculations section, you choose to have the system automatically calculate shipping costs, when a customer selects a shipping method, the system will use the shipping methods current rates to calculate the shipping costs.
   
   You can also create custom shipping rules.
   
   
9. In the Design section of the Store Manager select Home Page. You can use the interface provided to create a custom homepage for your website.
   
   
10. Your store is now setup. You can change any of these items at any time. Also, you should review the Store Manager Documentation to learn about all the powerful features available to you.
    
    
11. Select Add Product from the Manage Inventory section to begin posting your inventory.
    
    

Questions? Check the Store Manager Documentation or contact us.