Module 2: Setting Up your Account

In this article

• Part 1 of 6: Clearing Demo Data
• Part 2 of 6: Company Details
• Part 3 of 6: Configuration
• Part 4 of 6: Creating Custom Shipping Zones & Rates
• Part 5 of 6: Branding & Documents
• Part 6 of 6: Email Templates

Part 1 of 6: Clearing Demo Data

Here we'll cover:

• Deleting your demo data

The pre-populated demo data is meant to give you an idea of what your account will look like once you start using TradeGecko!

Feel free to explore TradeGecko to see how you might work with TradeGecko and once you're ready to start unlocking your own commerce superpowers, follow the steps below to clear the demo data.

To clear the Demo Data, click the “Clear Demo Data” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen.

Please wait a moment and then refresh the page in your browser.

If the demo data has not cleared immediately, please wait a few more minutes (and have a cup of tea) before refreshing the browser again - the cleanse will be queued and can sometimes take up to an hour to process.

 

Part 2 of 6: Company Details

Here we'll cover:

• Company Overview
• Adding Team Members
• Adding Locations

With TradeGecko’s Demo Data now cleared from the system, you’re ready to unlock your commerce superpowers!

Remember, no superhero’s journey is complete without first learning how to control their powers. So let’s get down to business and make sure your TradeGecko account is properly set up so that you can focus on growing your business.

Company Overview

First things first, let’s enter your company information - you’ll be able to do this within the Company Details section.

Fill out your company information in the fields provided.

 

Adding New Team Members

Now that we know more about who you are, it’s time to build and assemble your team of commerce superheroes (if it’s just you, then this step will be really easy). Click on the Team Members tab located within the Company Details section of Settings.

Next, click “Add a new Team Member.”

Enter their email, first name and last name, then click “Send Invitation.” A confirmation email will be sent to the email address provided (this is the email they’ll use to login to TradeGecko).

After you send the invitation click on their user icon, fill out their full contact information and set their account’s permissions accordingly.

Adding Locations

Every commerce superhero needs a base of operations. While we know this is supposed to be kept a secret, we need to know where you hold inventory to help you unlock your commerce superpowers.

First, let’s finalize the details of your primary location by clicking on the “Primary Location” label in the Locations list.

Edit and fill out the required information and click “Save.”

If you don’t have any additional locations, you’re done and you can advance to the next section of your training by scrolling down to Configuration!

If you have additional locations, add them now by clicking the “New Location” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen.

A window will pop up where you can fill in the required information about this new location, including whether or not it is a location that holds stock.

Click “Create” and the new location will be added to your Locations list.

With your Company Details complete, the next step to unlocking your commerce superpowers is to configure your account’s default settings.

Part 3 of 6: Configuration

Here we'll cover:

• App Settings
• Currencies
• Price Lists
• Tax Types
• Payment Terms
• Payment Methods
• Stock Adjustment Reasons

Not all commerce superheroes are as well funded as Bruce Wayne, so we’ll need to understand your payment & billing information.

When you click on Settings > Configuration, you’ll be taken to this section’s Set up Defaults tab where you can actively manage things like tax information, payment terms and billing information.

Working our way through the tabs from left to right, let’s start with App Settings.

App Settings

Here you can start customize some of the functionality from within TradeGecko.

Currently from this section you can enable an alert that will notify you if you’re trying to ship an order with insufficient stock.

You can also enable barcode functionality throughout the platform from here. This will let you easily scan purchase orders to make receiving shipments easier, pick lists associated with sales orders to streamline your picking & packing process and more.

Currencies

Next stop is the currencies section. You’ll notice that your default currency has been set based on the country that you selected when you first created your trial account.

Click the “New Currency” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen to add additional currencies.

Select a desired currency from the dropdown menu and choose whether you’d like to manually control the exchange rate or have it update automatically by TradeGecko.

Click “Create,” the new currency will appear within the Currencies tab where you can easily manage them at a later date.

 

Price Lists

The next tab in Configuration is Price Lists.

At this point we’ll explain price lists at a high level, then walk you through their setup in a future section after we import your inventory into TradeGecko.

By default, TradeGecko features 3 price lists - Buy, Wholesale and Retail - within two categories - Buy and Sell. You can add as many price lists as you need to optimize your sales strategy for different sales channels, wholesale buyers, discount tiers and more.

Once created, you can link unique price lists to particular Suppliers or Business Customers within the Relationship section. The same applies for various sales channels, whether you sell on Shopify, eBay, Amazon or others.

 

Tax Types

Keeping the tax collectors (and your bookkeepers) happy is the next step to building an amazing business.

TradeGecko lets you to create and manage multiple tax types that can be assigned to both purchase orders and sales orders. Tax types can either be created manually or imported through your sales channel or accounting integration, which we’ll walk you through later.

To create a tax type manually, click the “New Tax Type” button located at the top right of your screen.

Fill out the required fields and indicate whether the tax is compounded or not.

Once created, tax types can be assigned to individual buyers and sellers as well as sales orders and purchase orders.

If you’re integrating your sales channels with TradeGecko, please ensure that the same tax types exist in TradeGecko.

 

Payment Terms

If you sell direct to consumer, you can scroll down to skip this section.

If you sell wholesale, you’ll want to create various payment terms for your wholesale buyers - this process is incredibly simple.

Click the “New Payment Terms” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen and follow the steps in the pop-up window.

If you select “Default Payment Term,” this payment term will be the default payment term for all of your wholesale customers unless indicated otherwise in the Relationships section.

 

Payment Methods

To collect payments, you’ll need to ensure that the Payment Methods created in TradeGecko align with the way you collect payments either manually or via your sales channels. You can then link each payment method with the corresponding ledger in your accounting software.

To create a new payment method, click the “New Payment Method” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen and follow the steps in the pop up window.

Enter the payment method name, and you’re done!

 

Stock Adjustment Reasons

Creating Stock Adjustment Reasons will help you track and monitor your ongoing stock movements and reflect the changes appropriately in your accounting ledgers. After your stock adjustment reasons have been created, we’ll show you how to use them when we talk about Stock Control.

TradeGecko comes to set up with a number of stock adjustment reasons.

To create a new Stock Adjustment Reason, click the “New Stock Adjustment Reason” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen and follow the steps in the pop-up window.

If you have either a Xero or QuickBooks Online integration, you can track stock adjustments for reasons such as Shrinkage or Damaged Goods separately in your accounting platform by assigning a ledger account to that stock adjustment reason. 

 

Set up Defaults

Congratulations!

You’ve completed a huge chunk of the work required to unlocking your commerce superpowers. As a bonus, you’ll have saved yourself and your team a lot of time down the road.

Now that you have created options for each of your account’s settings you can select the defaults that you’d like to use throughout you TradeGecko account.

 

 

Part 4 of 6: Creating Custom Shipping Zones & Rates

Here we’ll cover:

• Creating various shipping zones
• Creating weight based shipping rates

If you sell wholesale or create manual sales orders, creating and managing shipping zones and rates will be important to optimize your operational costs.

To create a new shipping zone, click the “New Shipping Zone” button located at the top right-hand side of your screen and follow the steps in the pop up window.

Create your shipping zone’s name.

Select a country from the drop down list.

Specify regions/states/provinces by clicking on “Edit” and selecting the appropriate checkbox(es), then click “Apply.”

Once you have set up your shipping zone(s) you can set up price-based shipping rates.

Simply name the shipping rate, add a minimum order price and maximum order price if needed as well as the rate price.

Next you may want to create weight-based shipping rates.

Add the minimum order weight and maximum order weight as well as the rate price.

Once you are done, select “Save Changes”.

 

 

Part 5 of 6: Branding & Documents

Here we’ll cover:

• Setting up your brand details
• Setting up your document defaults (i.e. sales order, pick list, etc.)

Every commerce superhero needs a crest and colors - the Branding & Documents section allows you to customize yours, ensuring all of your external facing documents properly reflect your brand.

Click on a brand button to edit a Brand’s Details.

Fill out the required fields and upload your logos.

To customize the information that appears on various documents, click the Document Settings tab.

Edit each individual document types by clicking the “Select Document” dropdown menu and edit the fields that appear below.

Click the “Save Changes” button after you modify each document’s settings.

Sales Order Example:

Pick List Example

Default email templates can be selected and mapped from within this section, but first, you’ll need to create each template, which we’ll explore next.

To create and modify your email templates, click on the Email Templates section.

 

Part 6 of 6: Email Templates

Here we’ll cover:

• Creating email templates

Within the Email Templates section you can easily create and modify your email templates.

Click on a template from the list to modify the content and click the “Preview Email” button to see what the final email from your customer’s point of view.

By using “{{ }}” the email template will pull contact information from the Relationships section in TradeGecko to automatically populate text fields. This includes {{name}}, {{organisation_name}} and more.

 

 

Amazing - the first stage of your setup is complete!

Now it’s time to create and/or import your products into TradeGecko.