Email Gateway - Order Automation
1) To automate order processing with TrepStar.com cdDVDfulfillment, Your best choice in the long run is to use our
http gateway URL integration API.
It is worth your investment to hire someone to do this for you if you can't do it yourself. Consider using
vWorker.com which allows you to hire programmers for very little money: Offer a project for $200.00 and describe you need someone to "Write a program to login to your email account, and parse your sales emails for TrepStar.com". List the name of your shopping cart, give an example of one of your sales emails, and give them a link to our integration document http://www.trepstar.com/automate-integrate-ordering.asp.
2) If you prefer to hire us to parse forwarded sales emails, we can do this for you. As long as you receive an email from your shopping cart that includes your customer email, name, address, and product ordered, you can set up a message rule to forward those emails to our sales integration processing email address at sales@a1tech.com
Pricing:
We have to carefully look over your email, determine if it's something we can automate, and write the custom integration. Each shopping cart is different, and each shopping cart changes their outbound sales emails from time to time. In addition, you, the client, can customize that email. Thus, each integration we do is custom and requires a programmer and a minimum of 16 hours time (often several parts of different days).
A) If you have been a client with us for at least 8 weeks, and have submitted an average of 1 order per day or more through our system, we will only charge you 8 hours programming time to do this for you. $800.00 ($100.00 per hour).
B) If you have little order volume and/or little order history with us, we will charge you $1600.00 (which more accurately reflects our actual costs (16 hours * $100.00 per hour).
Keep this in mind: If your shopping cart changes, or you accidently modify your outgoing sales emails by changing your shopping cart settings, it will break the integration. This will lead to missed orders, and delays of up to 1 week, AND we will charge you $100.00 per hour to fix it with a 8 hour minimum ($800). This is the main reason you should invest in using the preferred URL integration method which uses a calling method that will always work, and will not change format or break.
Please keep in mind we barely break even on this service. We charge a very low unit cost and have very low profit per order. Our fully automatic site allows you to configure products and submit orders with no setup fees, but for custom work like this, we have to charge what it costs us.
If you would like us to proceed:
1)Send an email to help@trepstar.com indicating you wish to proceed. We do not negotiate these terms.
2) You MUST include the title and/or project# of one of your projects in your reply email so we can lookup your account.
3) Your project must already be approved, you must have already ordered one or more times, and you must have paid your bill at least once. We do not do integrations for inactive clients.
4) Start to forward us your sales emails to sales@a1tech.com (do not just copy and paste them into an email). You do this by setting up a message rule from within your email program OR you configure your shopping cart to CC us on sales emails.
5) We will tell you if we can parse your emails.
6) We will bill your account based on the fees above.
7) You will pay this bill in advance. This fee is non refundable.
8) We will program the integration within 2 weeks of receiving payment
9) When finished, we will notify you, and you can stop entering order information.
Until all steps above are complete, you will still need to enter orders manually by using the order button located from within your TrepStar.com account. Until you have more than a few orders per day, this will only take you a few minutes per day.
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