Overview

The Yahoo! Stores setup guide will lead you through the settings necessary to establish the link between ChannelAdvisor Complete and your Yahoo! Store. You may jump to any step in the guide by clicking on the appropriate link on the left hand side of the screen, or you may use the Next and Back buttons to navigate between them. Your current step will appear with a blue arrow, steps you have not yet completed will have a gray box, steps you have successfully completed will have a green check, and steps that have errors will have a red X.

You can manage and customize the following:

• Store Name
• Orders
• Payment Settings
• Shipping
• Configure Yahoo!
  • Relevant Yahoo! Stores URLs
  • Completing The Guide

To create and/or configure your Yahoo! Store settings, go to Stores > Premium Stores > Overview and click the Yahoo! Store button. If you have already created your Yahoo! Store, just click on the name of the store to launch the Setup Guide.

Store Name

In this section you define the name of your Yahoo! Store.

• Store Name: When you first enter the Setup Guide a default name will appear for your store. Change it to whatever name you would like the store to appear as within the ChannelAdvisor application. This setting has no effect on your store at Yahoo!
• Provider: Identifies this as a Yahoo! Store

Orders

In this section you configure how Yahoo! Stores orders are imported into ChannelAdvisor Complete.

• Default Promotion Code: When a coupon code has been applied to a Yahoo! Store order, it is matched up and counted against the promotion code by the same name in ChannelAdvisor Complete. If the coupon code from the store does not match any of the promotion codes, the order will not appear in ChannelAdvisor Complete. Therefore it is a good idea to specify a default promotion code that can be used when no match is found. If you do not have any promotion codes defined, you can easily create one.

Payment Settings

Similar to other channels, you must map the payment options defined in your Yahoo! Store to those defined in ChannelAdvisor Complete so that your orders will appear correctly. In each row, type the payment method as it appears in the Yahoo! Store in the left hand box, and choose the matching payment method defined in ChannelAdvisor from the drop down box on the right hand side. If you need to map more payment methods than there are rows, simply click the Add Payment Options link to add additional rows.

Shipping

As with the payment options, you must map the shipping methods defined in your Yahoo! Store to those defined in ChannelAdvisor Complete to ensure that you have accurate shipping information on your orders. In each row, type the shipping method as it appears in the Yahoo! Store in the left hand box, and choose the matching shipping method defined in ChannelAdvisor from the drop down box on the right hand side. If you need to map more shipping methods than there are rows, simply click the Add Shipping Options link to add additional rows.

Additionally, there are a couple of other shipping-related settings to fill out:

• My default shipping method is: Choose the shipping method you would like orders to default to when a match can not be found in the above mapping. If a default shipping method is not chosen, then Yahoo! Stores orders with an unknown shipping method will fail to appear in ChannelAdvisor Complete.
• Allow ChannelAdvisor Complete to update shipping status and tracking numbers on orders in your Yahoo! Store: Select Yes when you are ready to send shipping information and status to your Yahoo! Store for your customers to see. Once selected, a box will appear for you to enter your Email Tracking Password, provided to you by Yahoo! Stores. After this is configured, when you update shipping status or tracking numbers within ChannelAdvisor Complete, this information will be sent to Yahoo!.

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Configure Yahoo!

In this step you log into Yahoo! and configure your store to communicate with ChannelAdvisor Complete. Before completing the final "Configure Yahoo!" step of the set up guide you'll need to configure your Yahoo Store Settings in CA Complete. Go to the Webstores > Basic Webstores > Yahoo Store Settings page.

In the Real Time Order Link Settings and Shipping Status Update Settings sections check the appropriate boxes to customize your integration.

• Enable real-time inventory checks from Yahoo!
• Enable real-time delivery of orders from Yahoo!
  • You may further customize how CA Complete should handle items that are not found in your CA Complete account or do not have sufficient quantity.
• Enable shipping status update to Yahoo!
  • You will need to enter your Yahoo! Email tracking password to enable shipping status updates.

Relevant Yahoo! Stores URLs

Once you have configured your Yahoo Store Settings, Yahoo! needs two web address to communicate with ChannelAdvisor. The following two settings are found on the Relevant Yahoo! Stores URLs page of the Yahoo Stores set up guide::

• Order Delivery URL: Select all of the text in this box and copy it. Log into your Yahoo! Store account, click on Real Time Link and paste this URL in the Orders field under Real Time Delivery. This defines where Yahoo! will send the details of orders placed on your store. For more details on real time order delivery, please refer to this Yahoo! help page: Real-Time Delivery of Orders to Your Web Server.
• Real Time Inventory Check URL: Select all of the text in this box and copy it. In your Yahoo! Store account, click on Real Time Link and paste this URL in the Call Script field under Real Time Inventory Checking. Yahoo! will query this location to verify availability of your inventory as buyers are attempting to check out on your storefront. For more details on real time inventory checking, please refer to this Yahoo! help page: Using the Real-time Inventory Feature.

Completing the Guide

Once you have successfully configured your Yahoo! Store with the two URLs above and are ready to enable communication, check this box. Yahoo! will not be able to communicate with ChannelAdvisor unless you authorize it here.

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After completing this step, communication has been established between Yahoo! Stores and ChannelAdvisor. You will start seeing new Yahoo! orders appearing alongside your sales from other channels.