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ChannelOnline
Welcome to the ChannelOnline Community Space
The ChannelOnline Community space is where you can find all of the helpful content you need, while giving you access to peer-to-peer and direct support collaboration. We are working to further develop more content and training, and look forward to working with you in the Community.

Getting Started - Welcome
Steps to get you up and running quickly within ChannelOnline

Channel Online Training Opportunities
If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our training courses to make sure that you take full advantage of ChannelOnline’s many features.

Accounts
Manage Accounts (customers, leads, prospects, and vendors) and all your contacts.

Catalog Admin
Learn how to create rules for including and excluding structured catalogs, including the use of item rules.

Company Settings
Establish how your company operates with the main features of the platform, including documents, custom fields, messaging, links, and more internal settings.

Delivery Methods
Activate common carriers like UPS, FedEx, USPS, and custom delivery methods, plus control how they are presented on the e-commerce store.

Documents
Learn how to manage the documents that you use. From quote to order, from purchase order, fulfillment to Invoice. Establish how to use reminders, sales funnel tracking, auto-generated documents, address validation, and much more.

Import & Export
Use the ChannelOnline Import/Export Wizard to handle bulk accounts/contacts, items, suppliers, and documents.

Integrations
ChannelOnline has some primary built in integrations with applications like: Autotask (a leading hosted MSP business software), ConnectWise (a major provider of Professional Service Automation (PSA) software for the IT services industry), QuickBooks Desktop, Hosted (cloud), and Online accounting packages, and Salesforce (a world leading CRM Industries platform). Please also see how to connect via our XML API.

Items Admin
Set up your own custom, service, and labor items. Additionally, create bundles, configurations, drop-in paragraphs, custom manufacturers, and custom categories. If needed, set UNSPSC codes by category, global search ranking, and make your exportable ledger codes for accounting.

Marketing
Generate coupons and promotion codes to be used on quotes, orders, and carts on the store.

My Preferences
Determine how you want to see your dashboards, search results, and primary language.

Organizer
The Organizer provides users a simple way of creating a Note or Task for recording documents (Quotes, Proposals, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Invoices & RMAs), account events, and business-related information. Tasks help manage complex document transactions for an individual or through assigned delegated users.

Payment Options
Activate payment options and leasing that you want to make available to your customers. After they are created, they can be enabled/disabled at the account level.

Personnel
Manage your employees, groups, and access rights for what they can do within ChannelOnline.

Price Profile
Understand how to manipulate pricing rules, the difference between a Profile and a Tier, quantity breaks, and assign suppliers for determining cost and price calculations. Plus, how to apply global price rules.

Products
Like in Items Admin, you will find more information on how to work with service/labor items and additional item attributes.

Release Notes
Read our upcoming or past release notes, detailing new features, bug fixes, and helpful tips.

Reporting / Dashboards
Various reports can be run across all types of transactional information from document, item, category, and manufacturer sales, to leads and prospects, to store site activity. Use reporting to understand what’s happening in your business.

Storesite Admin
Leverage the built-in e-commerce store site, plus a preview store for testing settings before migrating them to your store. Admin users may select layout, colors, fonts, components, and messaging for stores. Some ChannelOnline accounts will have more than one store enabled for use (contact your sales representative for additional stores).

Suppliers
Adding supported and custom product suppliers increases the breadth of products that you can provide to prospects and customers. Find out how to enable suppliers, their items, and manage contracts.

Suppliers / Import and Export
Assign or export for manipulation of your supplier-related items (when available).

System E-mails
ChannelOnline has a significant number of prebuilt email templates for document delivery, store sites, and users that can be enabled and edited to reflect your business and processes.

System Status / Downtime
Check system status and maintenance notifications.

Tax Profile
Maintain tax and e-waste selections where you conduct business across the states and provinces that matter to you.

XML
Integrate with ChannelOnline via XML for importing, updating, and exporting a variety of information. This service is often used for EPR and accounting implementations.

Unfamiliar with ChannelOnline? Click here to learn more about the platform.


Activity in ChannelOnline

What countries are supported by ChannelOnline?

ChannelOnline supports the following countries and can be logged in from: AustraliaBrazilCanadaGermanyIndiaMexicoNetherlandsPhilippinesPortugalPuerto RicoUnited KingdomUnited States If a customer or personnel within a company receives a 403 error a...

ChannelOnline Training

Customers of ChannelOnline are entitled to free online training sessions. If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our trai...

Integration

Hello, I am interested in integrating with and out of the network distributor. Has anyone done an integration with outside distributors? If so, what is the best procedure to follow for this. 

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ChannelOnline 8.8 Release Notes

Release 8.8 focuses on the introduction of Optional Items on Quotes, QuickBooks Online POs and sync jobs, Export document to Excel, XML updates, minor tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions and operational improvements. Find out more abo...

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ChannelOnline Imports/Exports Training

If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our training courses to make sure that you take full advantage of ChannelOnline’s ...

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ChannelOnlineâ„¢ Price Profiles Training

ChannelOnline™ Price Profiles Training If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our training courses to make sure that you ...

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ChannelOnlineâ„¢ Administration Training

If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our training courses to make sure that you take full advantage of ChannelOnline’s ...

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ChannelOnlineâ„¢ Quotes/Orders/POs Training

If you haven’t had a chance to follow this introductory training or have but would like to take a refresher course, we strongly encourage you to participate in one of our training courses to make sure that you take full advantage of ChannelOnline’s m...

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Getting Started ABCs with ChannelOnline

Things that need to be in place to start conducting business through ChannelOnline. Prerequisites You will need to gather the following information to complete the setup: Supplier account login & password (see Supplier Setup Instructions).Names of t...

ChannelOnline System Status

Current System Status This page is updated as needed and provides maintenance windows. We recommend users bookmark this page so that they can quickly check ChannelOnline’s status. Active Status: Fully Functional  Time to Resolution: N/A   Planned Ma...

Catalog Access Levels for all items.

You have the ability to make any product (Supported or Custom) Public and part of the Full Catalog, or Private by only assigning the product to select custom catalog(s). The available options and their descriptions are below: Public (Add to Full Cat...

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Site Links and Their Usage

Site Links can be used to link to external information or send data from ChannelOnline to an external system. To create site links go to Admin > Company Settings > Site Links located on the left navigation menu. For sending to external locations, yo...

Document Template Design and Delivery

Overview ChannelOnline has upgraded its ability for resellers to control the look and design of the Quotes, Proposals, Sales Orders, Invoices, and Packing Slips that they deliver to their customers.  By utilizing the creation of Document Template...

Supplier Contract Uploads

Supplier Contract Uploads (a.k.a Contract Suppliers) are not suppliers but simply price and availability files for specific end customer contracts. The Contract Supplier import adds supplier cost to the existing product and flags it as a special con...

ChannelOnline 8.7.0 Release Notes

This release, version 8.7.0, focuses on the introduction of QuickBooks Online, Floor margin/markup, XML schema updates, minor supplier and integration tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions and operational improvements. DocumentsPricing...

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ChannelOnline 8.6.5 Release Notes

This release, version 8.6.5, focuses on the introduction of QuickBooks Online (Beta), shipped order detail notification API, minor supplier and integration tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions and operational improvements. Integration...

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ChannelOnline 8.6.0 Release Notes

This release, version 8.6, focuses on minor Document improvements, updates to Electronic Signatures, Price Profiles, StoreSite 508/ADA compliance, minor supplier and integration tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions and operational imp...

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ChannelOnline 8.5.0 Release Notes

This release, version 8.5, focuses on minor Document improvements, updates to Electronic Signatures, Quantity break pricing, StoreSite guest checkout improvements, minor supplier and integration tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions an...

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ChannelOnline 8.4.0 Release Notes

This release, version 8.4, focuses on CRM assistance, sharing of Dashboards, some StoreSite cart improvements, minor supplier and integration tweaks, plus fine-tuning core application functions and operational improvements. CRMReports & DashboardsIt...

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ChannelOnline 8.3.0 Release Notes

This release, version 8.3, focuses on fine-tuning core application functions, overall performance, database, and Java updates for operational improvement. Notable functionality includes some StoreSite layout and page improvements, updates to system ...

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ChannelOnline 8.2.0 Release Notes

Release 8.2 focuses on backend improvements that will affect overall performance, supplier updates, and file processing. Find out more about the latest features, changes, and fixes in ChannelOnline. DocumentsAdministrationSupplier UpdatesIntegration...

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ChannelOnline 8.1.0 Release Notes

Release 8.1 focuses on fine-tuning core application functions, overall performance, database, and java updates for operational improvement. Includes some supplier updates/ enhancements, XML API improvements, SSO support, and other minor fixes. Find ...

ChannelOnline 8.0.0 Release Notes

ChannelOnline 8.0 focuses on some minor improvements that will affect document edit usability, imported file management (documents and images), three-level categorization, and supplier updates. On the backend, we have updated the following Admin sec...

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ChannelOnline 7.9.0 Release Notes

ChannelOnline 7.9, released Friday, May 22, focuses on continued CRM improvements for organizer notes and tasks, store site pages and banners, managing system tags, documents, and reporting, plus new suppliers and user preference aids. For release t...

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ChannelOnline 7.8.0 Release Notes

Release 7.8 focused on backend improvements that will affect storesite administration and frontend cleanup, user permissions, item rule creation, account editing, supplier purchase order updates, and other minor enhancements. Find out more about the...

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