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Introduction

Introduction
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Launching Your Store

Payment Options

Payment Options

Decide which payment options your DEALO website will accept. PayPal is considered a third-party payment processor. PayPal lets merchants accept online payments under their own terms of service. PayPal Express Checkout is PayPal’s premier solution, which streamlines the checkout process for buyers and keeps them on the merchant’s site after making a purchase. If you do not currently have a PayPal account we offer the ability to set up and integrate your PayPal account from within our system.

Shipping

Shipping

There is no limit to the number or type of shipping methods you can offer, or what you charge for each. Whether your items are small and travel nicely in a USPS envelope or large and need a pallet, we’ve got you covered.

Taxes

Taxes

You can choose to incorporate sales tax in your product price, collect a flat sales tax rate on all orders, or choose a sales tax rate state by state. If you want to charge sales tax it’s as simple as entering the tax rate for the applicable region in your Admin.

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Customizing Your Store

Custom Look and Feel

Custom Look and Feel

It’s your domain and your Dealo so we’ve made it so that you can design and brand the website at your choosing. Be creative in using the most up to date and popular pre-selected settings in eCommerce. From various fonts to artistic colors, make it your own.

Manage Page Content

Manage Page Content

You have the ability to create and edit informational and functional pages. Informational pages are used to tell your customer about your online store, policies and more. Creating and editing informational pages is simple and you can add as many as you like. Functional pages are an essential part of your online store as they allow customers to make purchases, review their purchase history and review their account information. Page creation and editing can be done directly through your web browser in your stores admin. We have a built-in “WYSIWYG” editor to quickly allow you to format your information and functional pages. You can also set title pages, provide meta tags, anchor text, upload images and choose whether or not your page is linked to from the header, footer or both in your Dealo’s store.

Emails

Emails

Keep your customers informed with emails and notifications that are already incorporated with your store. Automatically update your customers with new deals and their account information, order confirmations, order shipments and more.

Your Own Domain Name

Your Own Domain Name

Already have a domain? Great! You can use your current domain as your primary store domain. If you don’t already own a domain, that’s not a problem, you can create your store’s URL when you set up your store on Dealo.com, for instance http://shirts.dealo.com, and http://computers.dealo.com. You’ll just have to reserve your store name now before it’s taken.

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Running Your Store

Deals

Deals

Setting up a deal can be done in almost no time at all, in fact it’s been done in less than five minutes. Our smooth and simple interface lets you add detailed product information, images, variations and videos. On the fly, you can easily start a deal, stop a deal, or change the order your deals will show. Once you’ve filled the queue you can also simply let the deals run. Our system will manage the time each deal runs, the inventory of each item, and the order that deals are shown. You have all the flexibility you want in one easy console.

  • Deal Choices:
  • Merchants using Dealo have the choice to use various buying models like Groupon’s famous Group Buying structure and the original One Deal at a Time (ODAT) configuration.
  • Group Buying: Dealo offers merchants the ability to post deals Group Buying model. All you need is a deal in order to post a deal, of course! A set minimum known as a ‘tipping point’ that customers need to reach in order to activate your deal. Remember using this buying model helps you reach larger customer base through Social Networking and word of mouth; therefore your interaction with customers is what promotes the success of what your business offers.
  • Daily Deal & One Deal at a Time: You can also set your site to run off of the original deal buying structure known as a Daily Deal or One Deal at a Time. All you need is a deal to offer your customers. The deal can be configured to last from one minute to as long as one month. Feel free to cycle deals however and whenever you want. Dealo even allows you to repost a Deal, simply rename that deal.
Orders

Orders

When an order is placed, you can view the entire order directly in your store's admin area through your web browser. Your customer will receive an email receipt when an order is placed, containing the details of the order. You can choose which status a customer's order is currently in such as: Pending, Shipped, Returned and more. Your administrative console will allow you to easily view your orders complete with customer details, update the status of each order and add a tracking number to each order you ship. For more sophisticated shipping integrations, you will also be able to export the details of your orders to a common file format.

Returns

Returns

Effortlessly accept and process returns through your admin interface. Manage the return, track the status and the reasons behind any returns in your admin console or export your returns in reports. Use all of these functions to maximize your customer experience and minimize future returns.

Integration

Integration

You can easily export order information in a common file format for import into your order management system. Exporting your returns data is just as easy and can be integrated into your current systems through imports and exports of files.

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Social Tools

Facebook & Twitter

Facebook & Twitter

Use Dealo to increase sales with Facebook and Twitter integrations. You can post your products directly on your Facebook and Twitter profiles and Facebook pages. All of this is automatic and available to all Dealo store owners that have Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, so if you don’t have them be sure to create yours today.

Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect (Customer Login)

Your customers can log in to your Dealo with their Facebook Accounts, by clicking the Facebook Connect button that is integrated with your site. This can be used every time they log in to your Dealo store, making it easy for them to find you and remember their log in information. Customers love this feature because it allows them to associate their Dealo accounts with their Facebook accounts using their Facebook credentials making it easier for them to manage the number of accounts they utilize. Of course, Dealo will not access your customers Facebook accounts without their prior authorization.

RSS

RSS

Your customers can subscribe to your RSS feed, often described as "Really Simple Syndication". This will let your customers receive your deals in their personal readers without having to visit the actual Dealo site, giving them access to all of your deals so they never miss out.

SMS

SMS

When your customer requests to be notified of the deals you are offering we will begin sending them a text each time a new deal becomes live on your site. With a couple simple text message responses your customer will be able to select exactly what they want and place an order for the item. To you, the order looks just like every other order.

Email Marketing

Email Marketing

You can send emails to your customers to let them know about any specials or marketing efforts, directly from your store's admin area using your web browser. During checkout your customers are asked if they want to sign-up for your email notifications and can select between receiving emails nightly at midnight about the following day’s deals, receiving emails in real time with your deal updates or both. If your customer does sign-up they will be added to your email list. Your customer can also choose to unsubscribe automatically from any email sent.

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Promoting Your Store

Best Practices

Online Marketing Best Practices

Your Dealo store is designed to help you sell. This means that we’ve given you the ability to optimize your store for SEO and is fully compatible with both free and paid marketing services and tracking tools. Market your store using Google AdWords, Yahoo, Bing and more. Track your sales and traffic using tools like Google Analytics and ChartBeat. You can market your Dealo store through any online marketing channel you choose.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization

SEO – Search Engine Optimization

Top search engine rankings are essential to the success of your business on the Internet. Optimizing your site for search engines is vital to gaining these top rankings and we’ve built your Dealo stores so that you can maximize these opportunities.

Online Marketing

Online Marketing

Your Dealo store is fully compatible with online marketing tools like Google AdWords, Yahoo, Bing and more. You can choose to market your Dealo store through any online marketing channel you choose.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Using online marketing tools can be even more powerful when tracked with an analytics service. Your Dealo store comes ready to integrate with Google Analytics. Utilizing this feature will help you keep track of your store’s performance and the performance of your marketing efforts.

Chartbeat

ChartBeat

Chartbeat is a revolutionary real-time analytics service that enables people to understand emergent behaviour in real-time and exploit or mitigate it.

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Hosting, Security & Updates

Hosting

Hosting

Your store is already set up for you with the latest industry standard security encryption and backup technologies. Your Dealo store will run on our fast and reliable servers so your customers don’t experience lag time when trying to check out. We do the heavy lifting for you so if your Dealo store gets a lot of traffic you don’t have to worry about the bandwidth, we’ve got you covered.

Security

Security

Every Dealo store is equipped with latest industry standard security encryption and backup technologies so that your customers can check out on your Dealo site and their information will be protected both during and after the transaction. Your Dealo admin is also protected so that your information and your customer data are continually guarded.

Updates

Updates

Dealo is continually improving. We are consistently improving upon our features list and updating the functions associated with Dealo and Dealo’s merchant websites. All of these features, functions and updates are all provided to our Dealo merchants in real time and at no charge.

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