Read this FIRST: Reseller Account Startup Guide

Upon activating your Reseller account with Suryanandan.Net, you need to make the following settings within your Reseller Control Panel to begin selling Products and Services to your Customers and Sub-Resellers:

Step 1. Select your Selling and Accounting Currency

At the time of sign-up, you must select your desired Selling and Accounting Currency. 1

Step 2. Add Funds in your Reseller Account

To let your Customers and Sub-Resellers buy Products and Services through you, you need to add sufficient Funds in your Reseller Account with Suryanandan.Net. 2

Step 3. Products and Services sign-up and their configuration

Suryanandan.Net offers a wide array of Products and Services that you can choose to sell. When you signup for a Reseller Account with us, you are automatically signed up for all Products and Services. As such, your Customers and Sub-Resellers can purchase all Products and Services from you. However, if do not wish to sell one or more of these Products/Services, you need to manually revoke signup for that Product/Service from your Control Panel. 3

You also need to configure various settings for these Products and Services before you get started.

Note

As a Reseller of Suryanandan.Net, you will be automatically signed up for Domain Forwarding, Mail Forwarding and DNS Services. These Services will be provided free upon purchasing any other Product/Service offered by Suryanandan.Net and cannot be purchased independently.

Step 4. Configure your website

Suryanandan.Net offers you various methods of setting up your own Website to sell various Products and Services integrating your Sales process with our system.

SuperSite

Use our ready-made private labeled SuperSite for all your retail business. 4

You must do the following if you are using the SuperSite:

Change the URL for your SuperSite. 5
Customize the Header/Footer of SuperSite. 6
Specify the Additional Payment Options for your Customers/Resellers in the SuperSite. 7
Customize the content of the Static bar on your SuperSite. 8
Customize the content of the Contact Us page on your SuperSite. 9

and/or

PartnerSite

Use our ready-made private labeled PartnerSite for all your wholesale business. 10

You must do the following if you are using the PartnerSite:

Change the URL for your PartnerSite. 11
Customize the Header/Footer of PartnerSite. 12

and/or

Create your own website using our API

Along with your Reseller account, you get a comprehensive API with free client kits in PHP, Java, Perl and .NET. All Resellers have API access to our system. Every functionality of our system is available as an API Call. 13

Note

The API Integration method is recommended only if you have a proficient software development team.

Step 5. Configure Control Panels for your Customers and Sub-Resellers

Suryanandan.Net provides you with comprehensive private-labeled Control Panel for your Customers and Sub-Resellers in order to manage the Products and Services they purchase from you. You can either:

Use our ready-made private labeled Control Panels

The Control Panels allow your Customers and Sub-Resellers to place, manage, upgrade, downgrade, use, renew, delete, suspend/unsuspend, lock their Orders for various Products and Services from a single management window.

You MUST do the following if you are using the Control Panels:

Set your company logo on top of your Customer/Sub-Reseller Control Panels. 14
Customize the Footer of your Customer/Sub-Reseller Control Panels. 15

Build your own Control Panels using our API

If you are already selling several other Products and Services to your existing clients through another interface/Control Panel and do not want to add the burden of introducing the new Control Panels to them, you could use our API to integrate provisioning and management of all Products and Services in your existing interfaces and Control Panels.

Suryanandan.Net provides you comprehensive API kits in Java, PHP, Perl and .Net. You can use any of these to integrate with our system.

Additional Information

API

Note

The API Integration method is recommended only if you have a large Customer base and employ the services of a proficient software development team.

Step 6. Integrate your Website and Shopping Cart with your Customer Control Panel

Once you have configured your Website and Control Panels for your Customers in steps 5 and 6 above, you should configure the integration between the Customer Control Panels and your Website, so that your Customers can jump from their Control Panels to your Website to make any purchases. 16

Step 7. Update your Contact Information

Personal Details: Personal Information such as your Brand Name, your Website URL, your personal Language Preferences can be easily reviewed and modified from your Reseller Control Panel. 17

Company Contact Information: Our system automatically sends emails to your Customers and Sub-Resellers from the e-mail addresses and From Names specified in your Contact Information section.

You should update the contact details of various departments in your company, to ensure that all communication with your Customers and Sub-Resellers is carried out using your branded email addresses and email signatures. 18

Step 8. Configure your Payment Collection options

Setup your Online Credit Card Payment Gateway: Our system allows you to integrate any Payment Gateway of your choice to collect money online from your Customers and Sub-Resellers. 19

Additional Information

Defining the Minimum Transaction Amount for a Payment Gateway Transaction

Specify offline Payment Collection Methods for the SuperSite: Apart from collecting funds via a Payment Gateway, you should also describe other offline means of receiving funds from your Customers, during their shopping process, within the SuperSite. 20

Specify offline Payment Collection Methods for the Control Panel: You may also present within the Control Panels other offline means of receiving funds to Customers/Sub-Resellers e.g. your Bank details for receiving Bank/Wire Transfers, your Company Details to receive Check/Draft payments. 21

Configuring Payment Collection Parameters: You can let our system assist you in collecting payments from your Customers by specifying appropriate Payment Collection Parameters for every Product and Service, that you are selling through it. 22

Step 9. Configure Other Miscellaneous Options

Set your Funds Threshold Level: You should ensure that you always have a healthy balance in your Advance Account with to allow execution of your Customers and Sub-Resellers Orders, by defining your Funds Threshold Level from within your Control Panel, so that our system can remind you via e-mail when your balance falls below this level. 23

Company Users: Create special logins for your (Sales, Support, etc.) employees to enable them manage your business efficiently. Control all access for these accounts; and restrict specific menus from being viewed through them. 24

Sub-Reseller Sign-up options: Our system lets you control Sub-Reseller sign-ups under you. 25

Once you have setup your Reseller account, you should promote your business on the Internet to attract Customers and Sub-Resellers. Suryanandan.Net offers you an amazing opportunity to advertise your business through Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM) and at the same time offer the same benefit to both your Sub-Resellers as well as your Customers:

Upon activating your account with Suryanandan.Net, we would provide you with USD 50 worth coupon that you can apply to your YSM account. This coupon would be visible to you immediately upon logging in to your Reseller Control Panel.
When your Sub-Reseller activates his Reseller Account with you, he gets a similar coupon to spend through his YSM account. This coupon would be also visible to your Sub-Reseller immediately upon logging in to their Reseller Control Panel.
When Customers (yours as well as your Sub-Resellers) purchase a Web Hosting Order through the system, they get a Yahoo! Search Marketing coupon of USD 50 to promote their website. 26

Note

The Yahoo! Search Marketing coupon is available to you/your Sub-Reseller if the following prerequisites are met:

The Reseller account has been activated.
Your advertising campaign should be targeted at US and Canadian audiences.
You complete the account signup process at Yahoo! while reviewing and agreeing to their Terms and Conditions.
You must activate your YSM account, by adding a minimum deposit of $30 towards creating your ad campaign. Upon your account activation, you will be able to avail of a $50 credit over and above the $30 signup deposit.

In case of any query related to your YSM account, you would need to consult the Yahoo! documentation or contact their Support staff.

Additional Information

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