Processing Online Shop Orders
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There are few feelings like being acknowledged for your time and effort you apply to something. This is especially true of running your own web shop.
Having bought your very own web shop, stocked it with the products you want to sell and spent countless hours marketing your web shop to friends, family and elsewhere, to receive your first order is a wonderful reward for the effort you have applied to your shop.
But what to do with that order!? With Internet Retailer, every time a customer places an order through your web shop, you will receive an automated email alerting you to the order.
The process is simple;
- Login to your web shops admin pages
- View your orders page
- Click on your new order to reveal the order details
- Print off an invoice and a packing slip
- Using your packing slip, fetch your stock from your spare bedroom / garage / converted loft, or place an order with your supplier.
- Update the status of your customers order to processing - this sends your customer an automated email to keep them informed.
- Pack the order and post it
- Update your customers again to shipped!
Retail is a simple process and once you've gone through processing a couple of orders it becomes second nature. At any time you can contact us to discuss what to do, how to communicate with your suppliers or any other aspects of running your own web shop.