Goods Central - Initial Account Setup by Vendor

Setting up a Groupon Goods Account:

1. The Buyer will send an email requesting for a Groupon Goods Account to be set up.

Example:

Welcome to Groupon Goods

We would like to invite you to visit Goods Central and setup an account with us. Please visit the following to setup an account

https://scm.commerceinterface.com/accounts/login/

Thanks

Groupon Goods Team

2. Within the email, click the link that will direct you to the Groupon Goods Login page.

3. Click the button for ‘Register New Vendor’ to set up Account

4. Add Account info for the following fields:

**Note:  Field Name* = Required fields for vendor submission

1. Corporate Name* –  The legal name of the legal person (or persons) who actually own the company or operations and are responsible for it

2. Doing Business As –  The trade name, or fictitious company name, under which the business or operation is conducted and presented to the world

3. Corporate Address* – Full mailing address of Corporate Name

4. Vendor Type* – The type of vendor we doing business with which will allow Groupon to formulate the contract accordingly as well as provides buyer information on what to accept from the vendor.

• Manufacturer - The company who handles the production of goods for use or sale using labor and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

• Distributor - The company who handles the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption by a consumer or business user, using direct means, or using indirect means with intermediaries.

• Outside Sales Representative - Brand representative/manager

• Other - ie. Store front, independent business owner

5. Primary Default Product Category* – Most relevant category that represents your primary business commodity

6. Primary SubCategory* – Most relevant sub-category that represents your primary business commodity more specifically

7. Ability to Drop Ship* – Mark ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ if vendor is able to ship product directly to customer upon purchase.

8. ‘YES’ marked for Drop Ship – Select the way vendor would like to receive order files.

• Web Interface – Orders obtained through Groupon’s Commerce Interface web platform

• Both Web Interface & Email – Orders obtained through Groupon’s Commerce Interface web platform and email

• FTP Connection – (File Transfer Protocol Connection) Order obtained using this standard network protocol via file that is systematically transferred from one host to another host over the internet

9. Tax Identification Number* – An identification number issued by either the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Social Security Administration (SSA) for your company that is used by the IRS in the administration of tax laws.

10. Annual Revenue* – Yearly income that a company  receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers.

11. Website Address – The specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource (URL), company business

12. Name retailers you are supplying product to today – Full list of companies that currently carry the product to be sold to Groupon

13. Dun & Bradstreet Number -  A nine-digit DUNS (Data Universal Numbering System) number, issued by D&B, assigned to each business location in the D&B database, having a unique, separate, and distinct operation for the purpose of identifying them.

14. Tell us About your business - Explain the central theme to your core organization and it’s involvement in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers for profit

15. Primary Contact Information* – Main point of contact for the vendor account

• Full Name* – Enter both first and last name of vendor

• Email Address* – Enter best email address to reach vendor

• Phone Number* – Enter best phone number to reach vendor

16. Warehouse Information – The location the product inventory will be housed until it is shipped to customer or picked up by 3PL (3rd Party Logistics Provider)

• Warehouse – Name of building

• Country, Street, City, State, Zip – Address information for location of warehouse

• Warehouse contact (Name, Email, Phone):

1. Main point of contact for warehouse

2. Best email and phone number to reach this person

• Shipping Information:

1. The earliest and latest time a product can be shipped from warehouse

2. Time Zone – Select the applicable time zone region the warehouse shipping hours fall under

• Add Another – Click this link if another warehouse needs to be added to account and include the same information required as the first warehouse entered

• Delete – In order to delete a warehouse, it is required to have at least one listed on the account at all times.

1. Once all fields are completed with detail, click ‘Submit Vendor Registration’.

If the account was rejected by the Buyer, an email notification of rejection will go to the buyer.

Example:

We regret to inform you that your account has not been approved.

Here is why we think we cannot do business at this time

<Notes from Buyer go here >

This does not mean we will not consider doing business in future.

Please stay in touch.

Thanks

Groupon Goods Team

1. Note: The Buying team periodically reviews previous account setup requests and will send notification should anything change.

6. If the account is approved by the buyer,  an email notification will go to the buyer.

Example:

Congratulations!

We are very pleased to inform you that we are looking forward to doing business with you. You can access your account using the following link

https://scm.commerceinterface.com/accounts/login/

Thanks

Groupon Goods Team