How to set up a shop on BT Tradespace

Registering for your new Tradespace Storefront is easy.

It’s best to have your business information to hand before you start along with a few product details to get you started.

1. Log in with your username and password.

You’ll need to have an enhanced business profile to add a shop to your Tradespace. This is quick and free to set up, plus we’ve step-by-step instructions to guide you through.

2. Open the shop set-up wizard to begin selling online.

You’ll find this in My Tradespace.

• Click on ‘Manage my Tradespace’.
• Go to ‘Our shop’.
• Click on ‘Set up yout Tradespace Storefront’.

3.  Amazon registration.

The next screen you will see will look like this:

If you already sell on Amazon Marketplace (a subscription based service from Amazon that allows you to see on Amazon.co.uk), sign in with your existing username and password. If not, complete the registration section.

4. Complete your business details

Then all you have to do is complete a few business details as prompted on the screens

You’ll need a credit card to register for Tradespace Storefront

This is for two reasons:
1) It helps to verify your identity so we can ensure everything is secure
2) The credit card is used to bill any Final value fees you may have through sales via Tradespace.

You only pay when you make a sale. Storefront is free to set up, with no monthly fees and no listing charges, just a 10% final value fee is applied to all successful sales. But there is a special offer on between now and the end of the year and you will pay no fees at all until after December 31st 2010.

Once you’ve entered all you business details, the next step is to start loading your first products and categories. It can up to 7mins for the Set up wizard to load, so please be patient.

5. Complete the set up wizard

• Add information to your Shop homepage
• Load your first few products
• Create your first categories

You’ll be able to edit these details and add additional information later as well, but it’s a good way to get your shop started. Once you’ve completed the wizard your shop will be created! This can take 15 – 30minutes

6. Ready to launch?

You will receive an email from Amazon confirming your registration with a link to the Seller Central platform from where you can continue to customise your Tradespace Storefront, upload products and create additional categories.  One key thing to do before you launch your store is to set up your Shop homepage.

There are plenty of help documents and tutorials, in ‘Help’ section of Seller Central, you’ll find link to help in the top right of all the pages.

Once you’re happy with the information you’ve loaded you then just need to ‘Launch’ your Shop to ensure it appears on the Tradespace site as soon as we go live. You’ll find the buttons to launch your store on your Seller Central homepage, and also in the ‘Publish’ section.

For more information on categories, product loading and publishing, see the ‘Help’ section within your new Seller Central account.

7. You’re done!

We’re sure you’ll like your new Tradespace Storefront, but if you have any questions please just drop us a line in the BT Tradespace customer service community