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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 Company Settings

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...

Password Complexity Requirements

Overview Passwords are needed for all users that access ChannelOnline, internal or external. Create a password that meets industry standard complexity requirements: Your password must be at least 8 characters (and no greater than 20).Your password m...

Pending Orders for Review & Approval

Sales Orders can be held for review and approval before they are processed to Submitted. The option to hold and review all sales orders before processing can be set in three ways. Globally, by setting the “Review All Orders Over to the following do...

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Master (Sales) Order

Introducing the ability to generate a master (sales) order, called Master Order in ChannelOnline, from which individual Sub-orders can be placed.  This feature allows for the ability create a Master Order for fulfilling product order based on a sing...

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Margin, Markup, and Discount Off List

When you are working on a document you often need to see all pricing profitability options: Margin, Markup and Percent Off List. To view all three options when building a quote, all three of the following options need to be enabled in Admin > Compa...

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Document Prefix & Suffixes

Having a hard time distinguishing one document number from the next? Add a suffix or prefix to help you out. For example, use the prefix/suffix “INV”, to make invoices stand out from quotes and sales orders. The invoice number would now be “INV1...

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Discount Off Listing Price

Users have the ability to set discount-off list pricing in two ways on a document. First is line by line by using the calculator function next to the price to add a discount percentage. The second way is to do it for multiple lines on a document. F...

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Auto-generated Order Series

Auto-generated Orders (or Recurring Orders) Auto-generated quotes and orders provides sales representatives and their end customers the ability to make changes to an autogenerated sales document (quote or order). Setting up documents for auto-genera...

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Working with Custom Fields

Overview Companies can activate global custom fields at both the account, contact, document level and the line item level for all customers. You can also activate these fields on your StoreSite and/or make them required fields. If they are required ...

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Abandoned Carts

An abandoned cart is when a user on the store adds items to the cart and then does not click checkout. The system has the ability to to capture abandoned carts and report on them.   Activation To capture Abandoned Carts the feature must be enabled i...

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