Volusion: Overview
Volusion is a popular, and powerful, web store. It is a complete solution for ecommerce and online marketing. It is a trend setter with social network and mobile commerce offerings.
It also has a nifty API, which Big Business can leverage to automate order processing and eventually product updates, and more.
This Solution describes Volusion integration. (6219)
Volusion: Registering
This Solution describes Registering the Volusion Add-On. (6214)
To Register the Volusion Add-On:
1. Go to the Maintenance toolbar, to the Company Card, and click the Upgrade button.
2. Click the Volusion button and the Registration dialog, pictured, will open.
3. Enter your Registration code.
6. Click Continue.
7. Click OK on the Confirmation dialog
8. Click OK to Save the Company Card.
9. Quit and restart Big Business Client.
Volusion: Settings
This Solution describes entries for Volusion Settings. (6188)
After Registering the Volusion Add-On, re-open the Company Card and on the Preferences tab click the button for Volusion.
Volusion Settings include:
• a Description (optional) to identify the account (e.g. "My Volusion Store")
• a URL that is used for connecting.
• a Login that is stored securely.
• an Encrypted Password that is stored securely.
Volusion: Getting Account Information
This Solution describes getting your Volusion Account Information. (6213)
Here are the steps to get your Account Information for the Volusion API:
1. From my.volusion.com choose Manage My Store
2. Log In
3. From Dashboard, go Inventory, Import/Export
4. Click Volusion API
5. Click Run for Generic\Orders
6. Click Run to generate the URL pictured
7. Copy the URL contents to put them into Big Business
In the Volusion Settings in Big Business:
URL is everything up to and including the question mark:
http://mystore.com/net/WebService.aspx?
Login is after Login= and before the next ampersand (&):
sales@example.com
Encrypted Password is after EncryptedPassword= and before the next ampersand (&):
A8D2C1DF1323AA7119AB0488587601222
Volusion: Testing Sales Order Import
This Solution describes testing the Volusion Sales Order Import. (6215)
Here are the steps to test the Sales Order Import with the Volusion API:
1. Click the Volusion tool on the Maintenance toolbar
2. Choose Sales Order Line Items and click OK
3. Map OrderID to Customer PO #
4. Map Product Code to Item Code
5. Map Quantity to Quantity
6. Click OK to run the import
Volusion: Resetting Data
This Solution describes resetting your Volusion data. (6217)
Here are the steps to reset Volusion Order data:
1. From my.volusion.com choose Manage My Store
2. Log In
3. From Dashboard, go Inventory, Import/Export
4. Click Volusion API
5. Click Run for Generic\Orders
6. From the Select Date pull-down for Reset choose a Date
Wait while the ID pull-down is loaded
7. From the ID pull-down choose All or specific ID's to reset
8. Click the link, Reset Export
Wait while the reset is processed.