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Mobile Presence™: for Yahoo! Merchants
Yahoo! Merchants can now have their own mobile commerce website that integrates seamlessly with the current e-commerce business they operate at Yahoo! Small Business. Merchants who want to capture consumers when they are away from their home or office, using their mobile browsers, can now do so with Mobile Presence™ for Yahoo! Merchants. All products and services are wholly owned and provided by Unbound Commerce.
| Store Type | Implementation Fee | Monthly Fee |
| Yahoo! Legacy Store | $300.00 | $125.00 |
| Y! Merchant Professional Store | $300.00 | $125.00 |
| Y! Merchant Standard Store | $300.00 | $50.00 |
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What is Mobile Presence™ for Yahoo! Merchants? What is included in this service?
Mobile Presence™ for Yahoo! Merchants is a mobile web site for your Yahoo! store.
It's a full version of your current product catalog, formatted for every kind of mobile device.
Our platform retrieves all your products from your store
and generates mobile optimized web pages (product as well as checkout pages) for your store.
Any new orders placed on your mobile site are automatically placed in to the Yahoo! backend.
Hence you do not have to do anything different to process mobile orders.
Mobile Presence for Yahoo! Merchants is NOT an iPhone or Android Client application.
If you are interested in a client application, please send us an e-mail.
Can I take a look at the mobile sites you built for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores?
Absolutely. Here are just a few of the mobile sites we built for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions customers:
Yes, we have mobile enabled several Yahoo! Legacy stores. Here is a list of Yahoo! Legacy Stores that are mobile enabled: How much does the service cost?
| Store Type | Implementation Fee | Monthly Fee |
| Yahoo! Legacy Store | $300.00 | $125.00 |
| Y! Merchant Professional Store | $300.00 | $125.00 |
| Y! Merchant Standard Store | $300.00 | $50.00 |
Where can I sign up for the service?
I have signed up for the service. What do I need to do next?
Complete the following step and we will finish the setup for you:
If you wish to complete setup yourself, complete the following steps:
- Give Store Administrator access: This will allow us to change the necessary settings to set up your store.
- Go to Store Control Panel > Site Settings > Access > Add User
- Name: Unbound Commerce
- Email: unboundcommerce@yahoo.com
- Assign Role: Administrator
- Click on OK and Save
If you wish to complete setup yourself, complete the following steps:
- Set up Mobile URL - m.yourdomain.com:
- This should be completed at your domain host or by request to Yahoo! Small Business Technical Support.
- Request Yahoo! support to create a DNS CNAME for the subdomain m.yourdomain.com to ystores.unboundcommerce.com
- Enable Checkout API by following these instructions: To enable the cart functionality,
you need to provide the mobile commerce service with access to Yahoo! Checkout API.
- Add Unbound Commerce as a new partner on Store Manager > Real-Time Links > API Settings page
- Unbound Commerce Partner ID is ypa-005287587413.
- Please ensure that Order, Payment and Checkout API access is checked during configuration
- For detailed instructions to complete this step,
click here.
If you do not see "Checkout API" checkbox, please call Yahoo! customer support and request them to enable Checkout API for your store.
- Enable catalog.xml and objinfo.xml: In the Store Manager go to “Search Engines” and choose “Enable” or “Enable but do not syndicate.” (Legacy merchants can only enable objinfo.xml)
- Give Store Consultant access: We will upload an RTML script to generate a section feed based on the contents field.
- Go to Store Control Panel > Site Settings > Access > Add User
- Name: Unbound Commerce
- Email: unboundcommerce@yahoo.com
- Assign Role: Store Consultant
- Click on OK and Save
I completed the steps above. When will my mobile site be ready?
Your mobile site will be ready for your review in 72 hours once you completed all necessary steps.
What is a mobile redirect? When will it be turned on for my site?
Mobile redirect sends your web traffic coming from mobile devices to your mobile site.
Deploy the javascript code on your web site to enable the mobile redirect.
Here are the detailed instructions to setup the mobile redirect:
Here are the detailed instructions to setup the mobile redirect:
- In the Store Editor, click on "Contents" button. Once you are on the content page, click on "index" link. This will open the similar store editor template with yellow buttons on the top.
- Now click on the "Variables" button that opens a page with lot of fields. Scroll down to a field called "header tags" (in the second section).
- Add the following code in the top of the header tags text area:
<script type="text/javascript" >
var website = "YOURDOMAIN.com";
var mobilesite = "m.YOURDOMAIN.com";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/mobileredirect/mobileredirector.js"></script> - Note: Remember to replace "YOURDOMAIN" with your store's domain name.
- Make sure you save the changes by clicking the "Update" button.
- Now publish your store by clicking the yellow "Publish" button on the store editor main page.
- Open a browser and connect to your store. Open the page source (double click and use view source) and search for mobile - you should see the javascript tag you added in the header section of the HTML. Try connecting to your store from a mobile phone and it should automatically redirect to your mobile site.
How do you build my mobile site? How do you retrieve my products and category pages?
We build your mobile site by retrieving your product and category information from catalog.xml
(only available for Merchant Solutions Stores) and objinfo.xml (for Legacy and Merchant Solutions Stores)
files you publish. Setup instructions above explains how to setup category structures.
How do I process the orders placed on my mobile site?
Orders placed on your mobile site are automatically placed in Yahoo! backend infrastructure. You will be following
the same process you normally follow to ship orders placed via your web store.
How can I create category/section pages on my mobile site?
The section pages you create on your Yahoo! store are automatically retrieved and created on mobile site using the
RTML feed we upload. If your store has customizations that prevent the RTML feed from working, you will need to provide
a section feed.
-
Create a csv feed file with the following format:
"section-id","space-seperated-list-of-section-ids-or-product-ids"
How can I change the go/add-to-bag/click-to-call etc buttons to match my mobile site colors?
Please provide buttons in PNG format with the following specifications, we will update your site:
| filename | image | size in pixels |
| header.png | -- | 320x60 |
| splash.png | -- | 320x125 |
| touchicon.png | -- | 57x57 |
| go.png |  |
45x24 |
| addtocart.png |  |
97x24 |
| clicktocall.png |  |
97x24 |
| email.png |  |
132x24 |
| update.png |  |
67x24 |
| continue.png |  |
75x24 |
| checkout.png |  |
78x24 |
| confirm.png |  |
69x24 |
| continueshopping.png |  |
124x24 |
| securecheckout.png |  |
117x24 |
| placeorder.png |  |
90x24 |
| apply.png |  |
60x24 |
How can I access my mobile site traffic/revenue reports?
- Site traffic can be viewed in Yahoo Web Analytics and Google Analytics if enabled.
- Revenue and orders can be downloaded in a spreadsheet from the Admin Panel Dashboard.
Do you support Paypal payments on mobile sites?
If you have configured Paypal as a payment processor, we do support paypal on your mobile site. i.e. credit card transactions on your mobile site go through paypal. However, Currently WE DO NOT Support paypal express checkout or paypal web payments, where the user is redirected to paypal website to complete the purchase. We are currently working on this feature.
I have customized my website quite a bit, and like to do similar customizations on my mobile site
as well. How do I go about making these customizations?
as well. How do I go about making these customizations?
Any customizations that are out side of the standard mobile site setup process are handled by our professional services team.
Our hourly rate is $150. For more information, please contact our support/services team at support@unboundcommerce.com.
So now that my mobile site is launched, what is next?
Now that your mobile site has launched make sure that it stays up to date by using your mobile panel to adjust your billing/shipping methods, banner/splash images and site navigation links.
