If you are using the Web Hosting portion of your account to create your online presence, you may want to print this page for reference as you build your site.

Web Hosting and the Catalog Manager can be used together to quickly and easily build a professional looking website.

How do I get started?

Set up Catalog Manager

The Catalog Manager allows you to create and manage your inventory of products, including pricing and detail information. Your first step is to view/edit the tables in Catalog Manager so that they include the mandatory shopping attributes.

We have a list of mandatory and optional attributes for Catalog Manager. Learn more.

You can access Catalog Manager in Store Manager.

Create your items

Now that you have prepared Catalog Manager, you can start adding items to it. Click here for instructions.

You can also upload your Catalog Manager with a downloadable spreadsheet (.csv) file. Learn more.

Create your site pages

Once you've created the items in your store, the next step is to create pages in your Web Hosting account. When creating these pages, you can reference your item information from Catalog Manager using store tags (described below).

Note: At this time, we do not provide assistance with coding or third-party software. If you would like assistance with this, please reach out to a web developer or research online resources.

Using store tags

When creating these pages, you will use store tags in your Hosting web pages to pull and display product data from Catalog Manager. Using store tags, you can create custom HTML pages and templates and then simply insert the tag where you wish for the information about your product to be shown.

You can use store tags to display any of the information related to any item you've added to Catalog Manager, including name, price, sale-price, ship-weight, etc. Store tags can also be used to add Order buttons to your web pages.

For full details on store tags, including a tutorial and examples on how to write each tag, access the Store Tag Hub from Store Manager.

How do I attach a shopping cart now that I've created my site?

A shopping cart is already included with your Merchant Solutions account. You do not have to take any additional steps to add one to your site. Once a visitor to your site clicks on an order button, they will be taken to the checkout pages associated with your account, and the item they have chosen will be placed into your shopping cart.

After you are done creating your pages, you will want to get familiar with the backend of your store. Store Manager is where you can configure the shipping costs for your store, review your site's statistics, customize your checkout pages, and more. This is also where you will open your store for business when you are ready.