The examples here are culled from client pages with sensitive data stripped out or scrambled. These are otherwise part of the accounts section from real, everyday production systems. Clicking on these links will open new windows.

As a merchant, you will typically build a catalog from product data and categories and you will receive orders from your customers.

You might include links to partner sites, distributors or associates that offer products and services related to yours.

From time to time you may offer specials and you might want to put overstock and odd items into the classifieds.

Your customers will want to track their deliveries; maybe you send out daily advices to them when product ships. If you are shipping perishable items, you will want to know where your shipments are. If a package never left Portland, is still sitting on the dock in Memphis, or if a delivery attempt has failed, then the sooner you know, the more time you have to correct the situation.

For each of the listing pages shown here, there is generally one or more detail pages. For example, the product data links to the product editor and perhaps specifications data, swatches or product gallery. It all depends on how you are configured and what makes sense for your business.

The example pages you see here illustrate a web interface to your content. Maintaining content through the web might seem handy, but it's likely that as your site grows and the number of items you must maintain grows, you will begin to find it cumbersome. You will find it difficult to keep synchronized the data online with the data in your office. At that point you will want an integrated, automated, and non-interactive batch update process.

MaineStreet provides a similar interface for many other information types - a few of which are "accounts", "distributors", "recipes", and "reviews". Email inquiries are stored as are the email addresses of visitors wishing to be placed on mailing lists.

The FBI can take records of your visiting this site and we are prohibited by law from telling you if they do. We minimize record keeping accordingly.

http://WWW.MaineStreet.Com/services/accounts/index.html rev 2005-11-01