entrée.NET Installation

Your “Admin” (System Administrator) has many options available to control the appearance and operation of your entrée.NET website and online catalog. This Administrator’s Guide will provide you with the step by step procedures and templates to make implementation and management of your entrée.NET system a simple task.

 

entrée.NET provides an “open Interface” option for those food distributors using a back office accounting system other than entrée.  Please refer to the Open Interface chapter for more information.

 

What’s Next?

 

The first time you login to entrée.NET the setup wizard will prompt you for basic account settings and to upload your company logo.

 

Set your system options for entrée.NET in the Settings tab. See the entrée.NET Settings chapter for detailed information.

 

Create your website email accounts. See the Email Account Settings chapter.

 

Export files from your accounting system to load entrée.NET with data. See the Open Interface chapter for more details. (This feature will be coming soon.)

 

Customize your website. You have purchased the website only option. Now you can add news, featured items, featured vendors, and upload your own images. See the Website Settings chapter for detailed information.

 

Add your specials to the entrée.NET website by uploading a PDF document. See the Specials Setup chapter for details.

 

Use your email account to send your customers and salespeople the link to your new website. See the Email Account Settings chapter for information.

 

entrée.NET Version

 

The About tab in your entrée.NET system provides you with the version number and information about the modules installed with your software. NECS will also provide you with detailed version update notes in the About tab. With each release you will know what modifications and enhancements have been made to entrée.NET.

 

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entrée.NET Guides

 

Included with your entrée.NET system is a customized instructional guide for the System Administrator. This guide will answer any questions you and your employees may have in addition to making it easy for you to manage your new online catalog and website.

 

If you upgrade to the full version of entrée.NET, at a later date, the user guides your customers who order online, salespeople and a full administrator’s guide will be available.

 

The guides are available as PDF files that you can download via the Help tab in entrée.NET or from the NECS website at http://www.necs.com/guides.php?productid=3  or on the internet in an interactive searchable version at http://www.necs.com/net_KB/.The guides can easily be read or printed using the free Adobe Reader download.