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How can I customize the URL for my Storefront and Control Panels?
IMPORTANT
The Storefront is now DEPRECATED
and will be removed shortly. All Resellers are encouraged to stop using the
Storefront and begin using the new powerful SuperSite and PartnerSite. This
guide should ideally be used for branding your Control Panel URLs only.
Click here to review
the SuperSite and PartnerSite Guide >>
Planet Online allows
you to have Branded URLs for your Storefront and Control Panels. You may either
use Partially Branded or Fully Branded URLs to develop your Reseller business
with us. Fully Branded URLs allow you to have complete
anonymity from Planet Online.
IMPORTANT
The fully branded URL
of your Storefront and Control Panels can not be the same, as that of your SuperSite or PartnerSite.
You must create different branded URLs for these interfaces, in order to have
the SuperSite, PartnerSite as well as your Storefront and Control Panels functional at all times.
Partially Branded Storefront
and Control Panel URLs
Upon signing up as a Reseller of
Planet Online, our system automatically generates Partially Branded URLs for your
Storefront and Sub-Reseller and Customer Control Panels. Your Partially Branded URLs are of the form -
http://prefix.myorderbox.com. The prefix can be modified to your liking as long
as it is not being used by another Reseller in our system.
Ideally, this prefix should be your Company Name or your Brand Name.
Once you have decided on your
prefix, you would have
to submit the same within your Reseller account, by following the below
mentioned steps:
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Login to your Reseller Control Panel from
http://manage.planetonline.net/reseller
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Click on Settings ->
Storefront & Control Panel -> URL.
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Click on Set your Partially
Branded URL Prefix
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Here enter your chosen prefix. On
clicking on Update, the prefix would be assigned to you. In case this prefix is
not available, you would have to select another prefix.
IMPORTANT
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If upon changing your
prefix, you wish to revert to the same, you may do so by following the process outlined above.
However, this modification is only possible within 30 days of making the
change.
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Even after your Partially branded prefix is changed, the old
prefix cannot be used by anyone else except you for a period of 30
days. After 30 days, however, the prefix would become available for anyone
to utilize.
Fully Branded Storefront and
Control Panel URLs
Besides Partially Branded URLs, you can point your own
domain name to
our servers and use those as your Fully Branded Storefront and Control Panel URLs.
Planet Online allows
you to have as many Fully Branded URLs as you wish. However, you would have to create an
Address Record for each of the URL you select. However, please be aware that your
selected Fully Branded URL cannot be of the form http://mybrandname.com/index.html.
Thus, if you have the Partially Branded URL in the form
http://mybrandname.myorderbox.com and you want the Fully Branded URL as
http://www.mybrandname.com,
then you would have to create an Address Record for www.mybrandname.com
pointing to 67.15.47.4.
Besides creating individual
Address Records for each Fully Branded URL, you
would have to submit the same within your Reseller account as well. Follow the
steps mentioned below to accomplish this:
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Login to your Reseller Control Panel from
http://manage.planetonline.net/reseller.
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Click on
Settings ->
Storefront & Control Panel -> URL.
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Click on Storefront URL.
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Here mention your primary Fully Branded Storefront URL
besides Storefront Fully Branded URL and click on Update. This
URL would automatically be used by our system within emails
sent to your Customers and Sub-Resellers.
You may also submit Additional URLs in the text box underneath.
IMPORTANT
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Upon submission of your
Fully Branded Storefront URL, you will notice that under Control
Panel URLs section, your Fully Branded Control Panel URLs for your
Sub-Resellers and Customers, are automatically generated and displayed.
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Even though you have
created your Fully Branded Storefront and Control Panel URLs, your
Partially Branded URLs would continue to function. You may always rely
on these, in case your Fully Branded Storefront and Control Panel URLs
develop any issue.
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Without creating
appropriate Address Records for your Fully Branded Storefront URLs, your
branded URLs will not function, even though you may have submitted them
within your Reseller account.
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