Onboarding / Implementation / Training and Support
Depending on what you have bought we may take anywhere between 4 – 10 business days to get this fully implemented. Please note that if there are add-ons like integrations, modifications or enhancements then it may take longer. Please contact your sales representative to get the exact plan for implementation in such cases.
Yes. We do provide training for all our customers. Training is conducted via webinar from our office. These are one on one, tailored to your needs of training and not a general webinar. In case you need an onsite training then please contact your sales representative and they will provide your more information.
Yes. You will have access to VARStreet help documentation once you have logged in to your VARStreet BackOffice. This will have help documentation, training videos etc. We have an in-house team that continuously updates these so that you have access to the most recent help documentation. We also have help documentation available on the eCommerce store for your customers.
Please click here to go through our implementation process. This will provide you a step by step guide to our onboarding and implementation process.
VARStreet application has been built to ensure that there is minimal effort required at your end to get up and running. However, we do need you to provide certain information like which distributors you have account with and FTP credentials with those distributors. Please click here for a list of distributors that VARStreet has connections with. You will also have to provide us with your payment gateway account credentials for accepting credit card payments on the store. Please click here to for a list of payment gateways that VARStreet supports. We will also need the domain you want to use for the store. You will have to buy SSL for the domain that you want to use. Please click here to learn more about custom domain set up. We also need to set up your price list, catalog, etc., however, the rest of the set up can be done during the one on one training that we provide as part of our implementation and onboarding process.
Getting Started / Contract / Payments
Thank you for deciding to purchase VARStreet. We are soon planning to accept orders online but do not have it yet. Please fill out the contact us form on our website and one our sales consultants will get back to you with the information and the necessary paperwork.
VARStreet is sold as a one-year auto renewing subscription. However, we do understand that certain customers might not be comfortable to commit for 1 year initially. Hence you can speak with your sales representative at VARStreet when purchasing and they will be able to help you provide a lock in period that is comfortable to you.
VARStreet is a fully hosted subscription based solution and customers can pay monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly. Payment can be done by credit cards. VARStreet also accepts check payments in case of quarterly, half-yearly and yearly payments.
For questions about ordering VARStreet, please email sales@varstreet.com or Call VARStreet Inc at 781-262-0610 Ext 1. The well trained VARStreet sales representative will help answer all your questions and can also set up a one on one product demonstration at a time convenient to you.
YES. Please email sales@varstreet.com or Call VARStreet Inc at 781-262-0610 Ext 1 to learn more or schedule a demo.
No. VARStreet is currently available only to customers in the United States and Canada however, we are planning to launch VARStreet in few other countries / regions in the third quarter of 2021. Please Contact Us to learn more and register your information so that we can get in touch with you when we are ready.
VARStreet DOES NOT provide free trials. Please know that the VARStreet application integrates with multiple 3rd party companies to get you everything you need in one single application. For e.g. distributor price files, rich content, shipping information, tax data, payment gateways for credit card processing, etc., and hence it gets extremely difficult and resource intensive to get all of these for a free trial account. However, if you are not sure and want to try VARStreet on your own before taking a purchasing decision then please contact our sales representative who can provide you with a limited period login access to a demo account. This will be a full demo account on our production server and will provide you everything you need to see before purchasing.
Product Related Questions
VARStreet has been designed, tested and optimized to leverage the functionality available in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
VARStreet has very tight integrations with QuickBooks, Autotask, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics Navision, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, PeopleSoft, SAP Business One, BAAN, etc. VARStreet is also writing integration with other known ERP, CRM and accounting applications. Please call VARStreet sales at 781-262-0610 Ext 1 to learn more.
You can see product pricing and availability only from those distributors with whom you already have a formal business agreement. Your current distributor login credentials are required to access this information. In case you need to create an account with a new distributor then you can either contact the distributor directly or have one of our sales reps guide you to the right contact at the distributor company.
Yes! VARStreet allows you to add, modify and update your own products, services and product-service bundles at any time, and makes them available in your quotes, through your optional online store and throughout VARStreet. Please click here to learn more.
Please click here to see a full list of payment gateways integrated in VARStreet.
Yes. VARStreet can provide you rich content even for the custom catalog items as long as you use the right manufacturer part no. However, please know that availability or rich content will completely depend on what we get from Etilize.
The immediate and easiest way would be to add those products in the custom catalog. However if you want to add the distributor to VARStreet's aggregated catalog then please contact VARStreet sales who can provide you all the necessary information. Please click here to learn more.
Branding / SEO/ Marketing / Catalog Export
Yes. Please click here to learn more about our custom domain solution.
VARStreet provides a basic store design and implementation support as a part of the customer onboarding process. VARStreet stores have multiple precanned templates that you can take advantage of. Our design team is constantly working to create new templates so that no two stores look the same. However, if you are still not satisfied we will be happy to assist you to design your own look and feel. We have HTML professionals on staff who can help you do that. Please click here to learn more about our Market Smart Programme.
Yes. VARStreet provides custom pages on the store that can be enabled for search engine optimization. However that is sold as an add-on. Please click here to learn more about our SEO enablement add-on. Please know that we just enable you for SEO however we DO NOT optimize your store for higher rankings and ratings. You will have to either do it yourself if you have expertise or hire a SEO consultant.
VARStreet provides various functionalities as part of the application and add-ons for you to market your website.
SEO – VARStreet provides custom pages on the store that are SEO enabled and you will be able to optimize them for your targeted keywords.
Catalog export to shopping engines – VARStreet allows you to export a subset of your catalog to shopping engines and marketplaces like Google, Amazon, NewEgg, etc. so that your products are searchable on such sites. Please contact your sales rep to learn more about SEO or catalog export.
Infrastructure
VARStreet is essentially sold as a cloud based application only. We have been on cloud ever since we got started in 1999. Our cloud infrastructure is amongst the best in the industry and we have taken care of all the essentials like uptime, back up, data security, disaster plan, bandwidth, super fast speed, etc.
VARStreet back-office and eCommerce applications are completely secure. We have implemented 256-bit encryption certificate at the entry point which ensures that all the transactions within the portal are completely secure. VARStreet has also received the PCI compliance certification. It means the credit card transactions on VARStreet hosted eCommerce sites are completely secure.
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VARStreet is one of the early adapters of the SaaS model in 1999 and has been successfully supporting several hundred clients in the US over the past 13 years with consistent reliability in service and uptime. Please click here to learn more. Please feel free to contact VARStreet sales in case you have any questions regarding the same.
Yes.
VARStreet is a cloud based application. However, we completely understand that each reseller is different and have needs unique to them. Our platform is built on the collective wisdom of thousands of resellers that we have worked with in the past and there are all the probabilities that it will have everything you might need as a reseller. However, VARStreet can provide you enhancements, customizations or modifications to meet your specific business needs as well. VARStreet has a large team of engineers in-house who can help turn around such requests quickly so that you get the best of both worlds, ie, the quick uptime, scalability and low implementation cost of a hosted solution which can be highly customized to meet your specific business needs.
VARStreet has an extensive experience of working with Govt. VARS. We are now seeing more and more RFP’s have eCommerce as a mandatory requirement. Under this programme VARStreet works with you to understand the eCommerce part of the RFP and helps you draft a response along with screenshots and any other necessary documents like flowcharts, diagrams etc. We can also provide a demonstration of VARStreet capabilities to the Govt. on your behalf if needed. We also provide and host an eCommerce store for you at a fraction of the cost. Once the contract is awarded, you can do a full implementation of VARStreet at regular billing or cancel based on the award status. Please click here to learn more about the programme.