The Company information option of E-Commerce menu lets you enter data about you and the merchant company. You can record company name, address, city, zip/postal enter, state/province and country. You can also include a telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address that your Internet customers can use. Enter the state sales tax rate or the country sales tax rate.

Here you must specify a store ID number and password. These are important fields. As part of registration you are also asked to provide a password that allows you to access your database. You record each of thes fields here. They are not displayed to your customers. If you have not completed Merchant Registration, leave the default Store ID in place; however, you should record a new password.

The rules for setting up a password are:

• Any alphanumeric string from 4 to 8 characters long
• No spaces allowed

To complete Company Information dialog box:

1. Specify or select from a drop-down list) the following field values, as necessary: Company Name, Address, City, Zip/Postal Code, State/Province, Country, Phone Number, Fax Number, and Email address. To select a field, click on it. The existing data is highlighted. To overwrite this information, type the new information once the existing data highlighted

2. Enter the Store ID and Password for your store.

• If you completed merchant registration, enter the Store ID that you were  given during the registration  process and the password that you have assigned to your store.
• If you did not complete merchant registration, leave the default value (10002) for Store ID and enter a password for your store. You may use Store 10002 as a test WebStore

Be sure to write this password down. You will need it later when you complete registration.

3. In the Sales Tax Rate section, specify how you want Program to calculate sales taxes.

• If you want to calculate sales taxes for in-state customers only, click on the In State/ Province radio button.
• If you want to calculate sales taxes for all customers no matter where they live, click on the In Country radio button.

The general rule is that if you are selling products to a customer who is in the same state as you (the merchant), then your state's tax rate applies. For this type of sales tax calculation, select the "in state" option.

4. In the Sales Tax Rate section, specify the sales tax rate to apply in the Value field.

5. When done, click Next.