DBC: Legacy Dist Admin - Companies - Part 2

Company Information - Legacy Admin

In this section, we will cover some areas that have NOT been migrated over to New Dist Admin as of

this writing. Once you have toggled from New Dist Admin by clicking the BACK TO LEGACY ADMIN

button at the bottom of the left navigation panel. click on Work with Companies in the left navigation

and click Edit for the company you would like to modify.

This will bring you to the main Company Information section in the top navigation. There are multiple

sections located across the top where various settings can be modified.

As a reminder, we will only cover the fields and options in the Company Information tab that are NOT

available in New Dist Admin. We will work our way down the left side, move on the right side, and then

the remaining fields at the bottom.


Left Side

The first area contains the customer’s data that has been brought over from your backoffice system.

  • Site User Interface - this is set in New Dist Admin. [now called Standard]
  • Show Carousel Detail – For the Carousel catalog type, enabling this will trigger the following additional item information to show: item code, full description, uom, price, min/max qty, and revision date (if applicable).
  • New V5 Skin Baseline – Default is “Enable” All new sites should be set to “Enable” to allow for the newest look and feel

  • Splash Page (also known as Homepage) – Set this to Allow if you would like to use a customized homepage when users enter the site. Proceed to New Dist Admin > Site Design to create your Homepage.
  • Cost Center History Length – This is obsolete.

Right Side

This section 👆 is all handled in New Dist Admin. Please make all changes in New Dist Admin

  • Group-based Price Adjustments - Select from enable or disable for this feature. This option takes the pricing determined in DB Distributor and allows you to modify the value displayed on DB Commerce (mark up or mark down by dollar amount or percentage) or disable the pricing. Prices can be adjusted for a catalog or specific item(s) and the adjustments can vary by group. When enabled, the Price Adjustments link will appear on the customer site when logged in as a customer administrator. This option is setup for disabled as a default.
  • Send Manual Entry for Price Adjustments - Select from send or don’t send. This option is in association with group-based price adjustments. This option allows a price-adjusted order to go directly into DB Distributor or trigger the system to send a manual entry e-mail to the designated e-mail address(es). This option is setup for send as a default.
  • Allow Catalog Search – Select from allow or deny. This option lets you allow or deny the catalog search feature on the customer site. The search is found on the main catalog page. This option is setup for allow as a default.
  • Allow Asset Search – Select from allow or deny. This option lets you allow or deny the asset search feature on the customer site. The search is found on the main page under Asset Library. This option is setup for allow as a default.

Backend System Transmission

  • Order Transmission – Select from Multiple Orders or Single Order. This option relates to multi-company accounts, where items from one company are displayed on pages for another company. If set to multiple orders, the orders would load into each account as separate order numbers, containing just their items; one for the main customer in which the site was built under and another for the secondary (child) account. Set to single, the order would load as one order under the account the site is built on.
  • Order Location Code – Select from Ship-to or Cost Center. This will be location code that is transferred to DB/d. The default is cost center. The ship-to would be the location selected on the “shipping” page at checkout, while the cost center would be selected on the “billing” page.
  • Force Cost Center – Select from Force or Do Not Force. If you select the ship-to option in the previous question, you will lose any record of the cost center for the order. By setting this option to force, the system will force the receiving department field from the ship-to record (of the billing location) into the customer PO number field on the order. The default is do not force.
  • Send Item Description to WebEC – Item descriptions can be modified on the DB/c side. There are also options of adding variable data to the item description, like changing “Business Card” to “Business Card… John Doe”. Enabling this option will trigger the item description used on the DB/c side over to DB/d.
  • Send Price to WebEC – This option is used specifically with the price adjustments feature. If using price adjustments, this will control if the adjusted price sends to DB/d or not.
  • Send Freight to WebEC – DB/c has the option of sending the calculated freight amount in the order file to the back-office system. This will work for any freight calculation, regardless of which method you have selected to calculate freight. The decision of which option to use will be based upon if you want this value to flow into the invoicing process or not. If you are making shipments and are pulling back freight charges via the shipping system module, then you will not want to send this amount as third party freight, as it will result in overcharging freight. You can designate if the freight should be sent in the order file as “third party freight”, or if it should be sent as part of the “order notepad”.
    • If it is sent as third party freight, it will write into the order header, and will be treated as costed freight, which will flow into the invoicing process, and is subject to freight mark-ups.
    • If the freight is sent into the order notepad, it will simply be sent as a message on the order notepad. It will use the first available order notepad line. So, this will not interfere if you are passing in other information via the order notepad tags already.
  • Note: if the “always show freight” option is turned on, the calculated freight will be sent for all orders. If that option is turned off, it will only send for credit card orders.

Line Item Identifier

  • Enable Line Item Identifier – This will enable an additional field to show at the front of item lines at checkout. You can specify if this field should be disabled or enabled. If enabled, you can specify if it is optional, mandatory (text box), or mandatory (drop down list). This field will populate the RC Number field in DB/d.
  • Line Item Identifier Label – If the previous option is enabled, you will be allowed to name the column.

Add-On Services

  • Enable Add-On Services – Select from enable or disable. This feature allows the first step of setting up an AOS for an item(s). AOS is assigned at the item level and is presented during checkout as a selectable option for an extra charge. Some common AOS’s are production rush and gift wrap. This option is setup for disable as a default. Note: These are similar to special charges in DB Distributor.
  • Default AOS Name – Default name shown above the AOS option at check out, if one is not defined under Work With Items->Add-On Services tab.

Reorder Notification

  • Enable Reorder Notification – Select from enable or disable. This option is setup for disable as a default.


  • When any changes are made on this screen, click Save.
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