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STL Distribution Help Center

If you are having trouble with any of our services, please see some of the resources below.


Frequently Asked Questions about STL Distribution? Problems or questions regarding the web site? Problems or questions regarding Servant, or Bookstore Manager? Problems or questions regarding other EDI Ordering systems? Unable to find your answer here?



Frequently Asked Questions



What services do you offer?

STL-Disitrbution.com Website
Quickly search for and order titles over the Internet for FREE. Access quantity-on-hand in both East and West Coast warehouses, plus learn more about STL Distribution staff and services.

SERVANT Software
Electronic searching, stock-checking, and ordering made easy. Access the items on your customers need 24 hours a day. Looking to cascade your order to another distributor/publisher? The possibilities are endless with SERVANT Software.

Touchtone Stock Check
Access quantity-on-hand in both East and West Coast warehouses using a touch-tone phone. Call: 888-785-2432

Bible Imprinting
Personalize your customer's Bible without delaying the shipment of your order. Imprint up to 3 lines (including spaces) on most Bibles.
(1 line $4.95 net, 2 lines $6.95 net, 3 lines $8.95 net)
Faxed orders at 800-759-2779 are guaranteed to be correct.
Phone orders are not guaranteed to be correct.

Bible Indexing
Do you know a new Christian who wants to learn the books of the Bible? Or maybe a prayer warrior who needs quicker access to key scripture? Solve your customer's need without delaying the shipment of your order. Out-of-stock Bibles can be indexed for a fee of $6.00 net. Mailed in Bibles can be indexed for a fee of $9.95 net.

Business Builder
Our monthly publication will keep you up-to-date on What's New, What's Hot, and What's On Sale. Sent to all active accounts.

Drop Shipments
Conveniently send special orders directly to your customers without additional shipping and handling by your staff. STL Distribution will drop ship orders within the United States. Each package will be assessed a $1.95 fee plus shipping charges.

Consumer Bags
Once your customers have purchased multiple products in your store, how do the carry their treasures home? STL Distribution is your source for simple, inexpensive, Christian consumer bags in various sizes and designs.

ICC Tags
Need help identifying, tracking, and pricing your product? ICC Tags are removable labels we can include with each order. You will receive one ICC Tag (with printed product information) per item shipped. The fee for this service is $0.03 per label.

JIT Tags
If you wish to save time applying labels to your product, you can have JIT Tags affixed to your product prior to shipment from our warehouse. To subscribe to this service you must be enrolled on our FirstPass plan. The fee for this service is $199 per year (billed monthly).

Backorders
Backorders that total more than $25 net are shipped on Fridays. Backorders totaling less than $25 net will be shipped with your next regular order. Backorders not shipped within 90 days are cancelled.


What is your return policy?

  1. Product must be in salable condition.
  2. Product must be currently for sale by STL.
  3. Product must be free of non-STL stickers.
  4. Product must be purchased from STL within the last year. (seasonal items must be returned 90 days from the holiday)
  5. Return shipments exceeding $1000.00 at retail value must be accompanied by an STL Return Authorization.
  6. Shipments requiring an STL Return Authorization must have the RA number clearly shown on the outside of every carton.
  7. All cartons in a return shipment must be labeled: #1 of ___, #2 of___, etc.
  8. No return shipment carton may exceed 50# in weight.
  9. All return shipments must be addressed to: STL Distribution……Attn. Returns.
  10. Any shipment not meeting all of the above requirements becomes the property of STL Distribution, and may be disposed of or returned to the shipper freight collect, without credit being issued.
What is STL distribution's policy on shipping?

Any electronic order of 15 units or $150 or more net will qualify for free freight. Web orders resulting in shipments less than 15 units or $150 from the cascading warehouse are charged the published rates. Web-site orders resulting in shipments exceeding 15 units or $150 net from either warehouse qualify for free freight.

Are there any other fees or costs?

Yes, due to dramatic fluctuations in oil prices over the past months, all shipments will have a non-deductible $1.00 fuel surcharge on the invoice. Although STL Distribution has made every effort to absorb these fluctuations in fuel prices, we are now required to reflect these unavoidable price fluctuations in our pricing to maintain our high service levels to our customers.


Troubleshooting STL-Distribution.com



Searching

Some tips on using the search function on STL-Distribution.com.
  • If you are having trouble finding a title you are looking for, try searching for keywords in the title.
  • Authors may not be listed with first name. If you cannot find an author, try searching only for the authors last name.
  • You can search for partial ISBNs or UPCs if you do not know the entire ISBN or UPC
My Lists

The My Lists feature on the website allow you to store products in a location outside of your shopping cart. With each list, you can easily add/remove products and then add those products from your lists to your cart. To access your lists, just click on the My Lists tab at the top of each page.

Lists can be useful if you find yourself ordering the same products or if you just want to save a product or group of products to come back and order later without adding it to your cart.
Saving Your Shopping Cart

From within your shopping cart you have the ability to save your shopping cart to a list (see above). Below are a few examples of why you might want to do this:
  • If you often have customer who come in and want their order drop-shipped - this will allow you to save the order you've been building for your stop in order to quickly place the drop-ship order for the customer.
  • If you wanted to save the items in your cart to order again in the future - you will be able to quickly create a list where you can come back to anytime and add to your shopping cart again.
Problems with the ordering system

If you have any problems with STL-Distribution.com, you can contact tech support here (appatech@stl.org). Please include a description of the problem, as well as the page you were on when the error occured.


Troubleshooting SERVANT/Bookstore Manager



Setting up FTP

Go to IVVM. Pull up Appalachian. Go to Electronic Variables.
  1. Check the box "Use FTP"
  2. For "Ordering Address", type: cross.appalink.com
  3. For "Mode", type: APP
  4. You must get your "login-string" and "password-string" from STL Distribution. These fields are CASE SENSITIVE!!
  5. For "Get Delay" type: 60
  6. For "Protocol", select: Xmodem-CRC



Sending a PO via FTP

You will create the PO through IVO and prepare the PO as you would using IVOP.
  1. To send, go to COMM -> FTP Transactions
  2. All of the BISAC/X12 PO's that are not acknowledged will be in the left column. They are listed as: PO# VENDOR# ORDERSTATUS
  3. The Order Status will be one of the following: "N" = Not yet ordered, "O" = Ordered, but not acknowledged, or "A" = Ordered and acknowledged
  4. Highlight each PO that you want to add and click "Add". You can add as many PO's as you would like (only 1 per vendor, because only 1 PO per vendor can be prepared at any time). All PO's will be added to the bottom right box labeled "Send to Other"
  5. Once you are ready to send the PO(s), Click
  6. You will see it Processing Order(s)
  7. You will see it requesting Ack(s).
  8. BSMGR will bring up a window showing the PO#, Order Status, and Ack Status. It is possible that an acknowledgement will be ready by the time you place the order. However, because of a short delay in file transfers, you may have to check back after several minutes for the acknowledgement.
  9. Once you click "Close", you will be prompted to "Process Ack(s) Now". If you had a PO that had an "Ack Status" of "Succeeded", click "Yes", otherwise click "No"

Requesting Acknowledgements

Requesting a Specific PO Acknowledgement
  1. Highlight the PO that was successfully ordered (O) and make sure the radio button is on "Get Selected Acknowledgement" and click
  2. You will see a "Requesting Ack(s)" window.
  3. It will bring the same window you saw earlier showing PO#, Order Status, and Ack Status. The Ack Status should be "Succeeded". Click "Close" and choose "Yes" to "Would you like to process acknowledgements"
Requesting All Acknowledgements
  1. Make sure the radio button is on "Get All Acknowledgements" and click . This will attempt to get acknowledgements for all PO's in the left column with an order status of "O"
  2. It will bring the same window you saw earlier showing PO#, Order Status, and Ack Status. The Ack Status should be "Succeeded". Click "Close" and choose "Yes" to "Would you like to process acknowledgements". This will take you to IVIC where you can process the acknowledgements. Enter vendor number and choose "Confirmation" and click "OK"
Additional Features

In IVVM on the first screen, you can see the last PO that was sent via FTP


Troubleshooting EDI Ordering Systems



EDI via Modem

Ordering Telephone: 1-800-765-7925
Stockcheck Telephone: 1-877-836-2046

EDI via FTP

You will have to contact STL Distribution to receive your User Name and Password. Please contact David Stallard for FTP account setup (1-800-289-2772 x 202).



Unable to find your answer here?



If you still have questions, you can email them to appatech@stl.org


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