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After you've received your welcome letter there a few things you need to do before you start stocking your store. Below is a list of the things you'll need to do.

1. Choose an email address that will be associated with your store. In order to receive email from your site or contact page form you'll have to have this email address set up in your Site Settings. It can be any addresss you choose - one you already have, an address from a free service like Gmail or Yahoo, or your domain name email address. If you choose to use the latter you'll need to create one in your hosting account cPanel. You can use this tutorial to help you do that.
2. Sign up for a Mal's Ecommerce account. There are 2 versions - Free and Premium. Which one you need will depend on the type of shipping you use and whether you have a merchant account or not. Here's a chart that will help you determine which account to sign up for mals-e.com/matrix.php Here's a quick tutorial for signing up.
3. Set up the basics so Mal's and Merchantmoms work properly together. Use this tutorial
4. Sign up a Business Paypal account.
   NOTE: Please note that if you want to use PayPal as a payment type, you must use a business account if you want to automate inventory control or log orders and sales. Personal accounts can be used with the cart, but the inventory control and order tracking will not work!
5. If you plan to use Paypal to accept payments you'll need to get that set up in Mal's, and you also need to make certain adjustments in your Paypal account.
   • Use this tutorial to set it up in Mal's
   • Use this tutorial to make the necessary adjustments in your Paypal account
6. Update your storeadmin password from the default password given to you  related article
7. Set up your storeadmin with the necessary information - especially your Admin Email - this is the email address you need to have set up in case you forget your password or plan to use the built in Contact page.  related article
8. Set up how your catalog will behave.  related article
9. Inventory control, wish list or order tracking setup  related article