Testing Your NCR Retail Online Store


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Before your online store is advertised on the web, you should browse through the storefront and place multiple test orders.

By thoroughly testing your storefront, you'll ensure that shipping rates, taxes, etc. are being calculated as you intend, and you will become more familiar with the ordering process should your customers have any questions once your online store is live.

Store Live

When your store is initially created, its current status is live . While you are designing and testing your storefront, your store will be in a live mode. Until you start advertising your store and/or move it to its proper domain, your store will be very difficult for anyone to find. You may turn on a demo store flag in your store if you wish at System / Configuration / General section / Design / HTML Head / Display Demo Store Notice . This will not switch the status of your store but will warn Shoppers that their orders, if placed, will not be processed.

Previewing Your Storefront

From any web browser, you can type in your store's current web address to preview your storefront. You can navigate, shop, place orders, and fully test your store.

Test Plan

Modify the following sample test plan and thoroughly test your storefront before you advertise that your online store is open to the public.

Sample Test Plan

Test Area

Pass

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NRO Admin Panel

NRO Admin user logins provide expected access privileges

Store name, phone, and address displays as expected
Store Favicon displays as expected (if applicable)

Importing Data into NRO

Item data imports successfully from Counterpoint

Customer data imports successfully from Counterpoint

Images import successfully

Store Appearance

Colors, fonts, graphics display as expected

Template displays as expected

Store logo links to the home page

Home page displays as expected

Category navigation displays/functions as expected

Category descriptions display as expected

Category images display as expected

Items appear under proper categories

Item layout displays as expected

Item descriptions display as expected

Item images display as expected

Item prices display as expected

Item quantities display as expected

Specials page displays as expected

New Items page displays as expected

Featured items appear on home page, search page, shopping cart,
featured items page, etc. as expected

Related items appear as designed

Placing Orders

Place and ship orders to multiple states and verify that shipping rates
and taxes are calculated as expected
Place and ship international orders and verify that shipping rates and
taxes are calculated as expected

Create several new customer accounts

Place multiple orders for customers uploaded from Counterpoint

If using multiple customer categories, place an order logged in as a
customer in each customer category

Importing Orders into Counterpoint

Import multiple types of orders (e.g., standard, international,
different tax locations, orders for different customer categories, etc.)
into Counterpoint
Identify and solve import errors (e.g., ship-via errors, tax code
errors, etc.)

Publishing Orders Back to NRO

Process and publish orders that have shipped

Process and publish orders that have not shipped yet

Process and publish orders that contain backordered items

Process and publish orders that were edited after being imported

Process and publish orders that were split into multiple invoices

Publish tracking numbers

View and edit resulting order confirmation emails

Tax Rate Lookup by ZIP Code (if you aren't using the Avatax feature, you may skip this section)

Verify that tax rates are properly applied based on orders from
various ZIP codes

Domain Name and SSL Certificate

Verify that the address you chose during registration is showing up
for your store. If it is not, contact the Retail Hosted Apps team about the status
of your SSL Certificate.


Configure ADT

Publishing ecommerce data is the method of transferring items, orders and customers from Counterpoint to NRO. ADT affords you the ability to schedule ecommerce imports and publishes every 30 minutes, which means you can "set it and forget it." Your ADT tab is one that should be configured, just before you go live. Use these articles to help you configure ADT:


Advertising Your Store

When you are ready to advertise your online store, select System / Configuration / General section / Design tab / HTML Head panel / Display Demo Store Notice as NO and Save Configuration if you had previously turned this flag on. Notify support that you will be ready to move your store to it's regular domain, if applicable. Once this is done, you can start advertising the location of your store to the public.

Article ID: 264
Created On: Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Last Updated On: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:47 AM

Online URL: http://help.ncrretailonline.com/article/testing-your-ncr-retail-online-store.html