How to Use the Order Fulfillment App

The Order Fulfillment App will be your central dashboard of modules that connect to various platforms where you might be selling your printed products. Its primary function is to allow you to transfer orders from your store to FinerWorks. Modules that are currently under active development will be grayed out and will be available soon.

Table of Contents

  1. Video
  2. Initial Setup
  3. My Company
  4. Ship Preferences
  5. Billing
  6. Virtual Inventory
  7. Modules
  8. FAQs

Video

The FinerWorks Order Fulfillment App is currently available for beta testing. This video provides a general orientation and walks you through of the different features.

Initial Setup

Click the Launch Wizard Setup button to begin setting up your account for Order Fulfillment. Note: You will be directed to log in to your FinerWorks account first.

My Company

Set up your business profile. The logo is optional. Note, non-U.S.-based businesses can still use their company name but will need to use FinerWorks’ or another U.S.-based address in the address fields.

Ship Preferences

Select your shipping preference. Note, these are preferences and are used by our system to determine which shipping method you want us to use. You can easily override these preferences when you import orders.

Billing

Add a Payment method as well as your billing address.

Virtual Inventory

 

For platforms that support exporting your virtual inventory as products, you will be able to select from your virtual inventory and publish it as products to those platforms.

Modules

These are various third-party platforms or storefronts that you can connect to the Order Fulfillment App.

Once setup has been completed, return to the home screen or go to My Stores and click the icon to connect your store. Each platform may have its own unique process. Once connected, you can import orders from those platforms. Note that the Excel option does not require any sort of connection. Platforms that are currently under development to be supported will be grayed out. Once any other 3rd party platform is connected, it will display a connected message.

Documentation for Various Modules

FAQs

Excel

When you set up your billing and payment methods, each time your orders are successfully received by FinerWorks, the payment method you set up within your FinerWorks account will be billed.

You can submit multiple items within the same order by simply including the same PO for that row.

For instance, if you had an 8×10 print and a 16×20 print going to the same customer, you would duplicate the row of the first item (let’s say it is for the 8×10 print), and then change the product code or SKU in the duplicated row to reflect the 16×20 print.

If you don’t have Excel, we recommend using Google Docs’ spreadsheet or even Apple’s Numbers. There are also other free spreadsheet programs out there. You would populate the spreadsheet the same way, but then export it as an .xlsx document.

We recommend .xlsx or .xls files, which are the two types of Excel file extensions. Also supported are .csv files; however, be careful with .csv files since formatting issues can easily occur.

Most columns are required. Our Excel module documentation shows which ones are required.

You will have the opportunity to map your Excel document to the appropriate fields prior to submitting your orders if they do not match. In some cases, you may need to modify your Excel document prior to uploading it if the column formatting is too different.

The current limit is up to 50 orders at a time. This number may change in the future. If you have more than 50 orders, you will need to split them up into more than one submission.

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