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EPICweb Customer Portal User Guide
EPICweb Customer Portal User Guide
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Table of Contents
EPICweb Portal Access................................................................................................................................................1
The EPICweb URL .................................................................................................................................................1
WEB Domain ........................................................................................................................................................2
Log in to EPICweb from your Web Browser ...............................................................................................................4
Your First Attempt since before the EPICweb Upgrade.......................................................................................4
Pre- Account Migration Login with your old EPICweb Account .........................................................................4
Forgot your old EPICweb Account Name or Password? .....................................................................................4
Migrating your user account ................................................................................................................................6
Migration process: ..............................................................................................................................................6
Customers: Create an EPICweb Account Now ...........................................................................................................8
To Create an Account: ........................................................................................................................................9
To Reset Password:.......................................................................................................................................... 10
To Change Password: .........................................................................................................................................1
Why can't I log in to EPICweb? ...................................................................................................................................1
Credentials Manager............................................................................................................................................2
EPICweb Main Page: New Look and User Experience (UX) ........................................................................................4
The New Information Architecture of EPICweb .........................................................................................................5
Page Header Region ...................................................................................................................................................8
Primary Navigation Menus ..................................................................................................................................8
EPICweb Site Search.............................................................................................................................................9
Social Networking Icons .................................................................................................................................... 10
Left Navigation Region ............................................................................................................................................ 14
Common Green Bar Links ................................................................................................................................. 14
Contact Epicor ................................................................................................................................................... 14
Provide Feedback .............................................................................................................................................. 14
Submit a Support Call........................................................................................................................................ 15
Search Site......................................................................................................................................................... 15
User Resource Links per User Type ................................................................................................................... 15
Account Team Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 21
Call Summary Panel .......................................................................................................................................... 21
Maintenance Panel ........................................................................................................................................... 23
Page Main Body Region ........................................................................................................................................... 24
Primary Informational Banner .......................................................................................................................... 24
Tabbed Product Quick Access Bar..................................................................................................................... 24
Marketing Customer Focus Banner .................................................................................................................. 24
Rotating Announcements and News Blocks ..................................................................................................... 24
Page Footer - Legal Statements ........................................................................................................................ 25
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Depending upon the configuration settings in your browser, and the browser type and version you are
using, and the operating system running your computer, you could potentially experience problems
accessing EPICweb at this URL.
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If this occurs you can try using a different browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) or version if that is an option
available to you. Otherwise there are many possibilities as to why your browser cannot get to the
EPICweb website.
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Your currently open browser sessions are causing cached page data to be kept on
your computer. Closing all your browser sessions, related to EPICweb or not, then trying
to access the EPICweb link again, can often resolve the problem.
Browser History can be a cause too. Sometimes Deleting your Browser History can clear
this up.
Custom security settings in your browser can cause issues accessing the site. Resetting
you browser security to the default settings for the Internet can sometimes help resolve
this issue.
Check for Proxy and DNS settings that could be blocking the site. Setting this URL as an
exception to allow can sometimes resolve the issue.
If you have Add-ons installer in your browser, they can sometimes cause this type of
conflict, and disabling your browser add-ons can resolve this issue sometimes.
There are many more possibilities as well, and the best approach to resolution is to have your local IT
representative take a look at your particular issue, your client computer, youre your browser
configuration settings to see if they can quickly resolve your access issues for you. If you are still
experiencing issues contact Epicor Support at EPICweb@Epicor.com.
WEB Domain
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To clarify a little more about EPICweb and the process for logging in to access the website, lets discuss
the WEB domain in which EPICweb is hosted and resides. The EPICweb website resides behind our
firewall in a Domain called WEB. This is a secured Domain, accessible to the outside internet, via
domain account login. Your EPICweb account is a domain account into Epicors WEB domain, and is
necessary for accessing the EPICweb website.
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When you are logged onto your computer you are always within either a local workgroup (which be
default is your computers name) of on a Network Domain (like within your company network). When
you try to log into a website in a secured domain other than where your computer is currently running,
you will always be prompted to login (with the exception of saving the URL and domain login
information in a local Credentials Manager on your computer).
This is why, when you open your browser to the HTTPS://Epicweb.Epicor.com URL, you are prompted to
login. And very often that login prompt is pre populated with a login name your computer remembers
for you. Additionally, the Domain (shown below the Username and Password prompts in Internet
Explorer) will always default to your current network domain or local workgroup.
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As a result you will need to enter your EPICweb account name preceded by the WEB domain name and a
backslash (\), like this:
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If you havent yet logged into the main EPICweb site since the upgrade of EPICweb, and therefore have
not yet migrated you old EPICweb account to the new EPICweb account format, you may experience a
few unfamiliar things when trying to login to EPICweb that first time.
Forgot your old EPICweb Account Name or Password?
If you had your EPICweb credentials stored in your computers Credential Manager or a similar security
tool, or if you just havent used your EPICweb login for a while, you may find that you cannot remember
your account name or the associated password. If this has happened to you, go to the page shown
below at the link https://webaccounts.epicor.com where you can use these links to recover this
information and more:
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Once you are able to login to EPICweb (https://epicweb.epicor.com) with your pre-migration EPICweb
account, you will be immediately asked to migrate you account to the new EPICweb account format.
Follow the instructions given carefully, and you will receive a new EPICweb account name and password
in your email (at the email address you entered). Use this new account name and password to login
again. Be sure to remember to close all open browsers before trying to login to EPICweb with your new
EPICweb credentials. For more details on the EPICweb Account migration process see the next section
on Migrating your user account.
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username, like web\jsmith , if jsmith was your old EPICweb account name.
4. Then presented with the page below, click the Migrate me now link button.
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5. Check your email for a message containing your user information from our CRM system
(Clientele) for you to review and confirm. There is no need to Reply to this mail. After
reviewing this email, if everything looks correct, click on the link button for Continue
Migrating your account.
6. After a minute or two, check your email again for an email with your new user name and
password. If you do not see either of these emails in your inbox, you may want to check
your Junk Mail folder too.
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8. Close all your browser sessions completely, and log in to EPICweb from the EPICweb link in
your email notification. (Make sure youre using the WEB\ in front of your new username).
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9. Once logged in you will see the new EPICweb home page.
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Customers: Create
EPICweb Account Now
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If you are new to EPICweb Epicors Premier Customer and Partner Portal, you can go to the following
link to get EPICweb Portal Access:
https://webaccounts.epicor.com
then Click on the New User? link. Or you can go directly to this link to create a new EPICweb user
account:
https://webaccounts.epicor.com/CreateAccount.aspx
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To Create an Account:
1. Enter your e-mail address (which must be in our CRM system for this site ID).
2. You may optionally enter a company Site ID, if you have a parent company site and one
or more child company sites and you need a separate account for each of your child
site accounts.
3. Click the Verify Information button and an email will be sent to the email address
indicated above.
a. If you already have an account you will be instructed how to reset your password.
b. If your e-mail address is not in our system, you will get a message that your e-mail
address is not valid for the site ID - Please contact your Customer Account Manager
(CAM) or the Administrative contact for your company can add you.
c. If your information sent to your email was incorrect, please contact your CAM or Epicor
Support at EPICweb@Epicor.com.
4. Do Not Reply to the email you receive to Verify your information Just visually review and
if all the information is correct in the email you received, you should proceed by
clicking the button Create EPICweb Account.
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To Reset Password:
1. Select Forgot Your Password? link
2. Enter your e-mail address (which must be in our system for this site ID).
3. You may optionally enter a company Site ID, if you have a parent company site and one
or more child company sites and you need a separate account for each of your child
site accounts.
4. Press the Reset button.
a. If your account is not found then you will be instructed to contact EPICweb
support by filling out a form.
b. If your password is successfully reset, an e-mail will be sent to your e-mail address
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To Change Password:
1. Select Change Your Password? link
2. Enter your WEB account Username. Note you do not need to prefix the WEB\ to the
username.
3. Enter your Current Password.
4. Enter your New Password.
5. Re-enter to confirm your new Password.
a. You will see a message that your password has been changed and no e-mail will
be sent.
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Assuming you have not made typing errors when entering your new EPICweb username and password,
the most common reason for difficulty logging in to EPICweb is due to cached EPICweb login credentials
due to open browser sessions on your computer.
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Be sure you close all your web browser sessions before you attempt to login with your new EPICweb
user credentials, regardless what is running in those browser sessions.
Also please make sure you are using web\ in front of your new EPICweb username.
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If your login dialog come up with a different login name or with something other than web\ in front of
your EPICweb username, choose the option below that one, to Use another account and enter your
EPICweb username with the web\ domain name in front of it, along with your new password.
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Credentials Manager
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After you make sure you closed all you browser sessions and entered you credentials correctly, if you
still cannot log in to EPICweb and are getting a blank screen after multiple login attempts, you can try
these steps to clear any of your credentials that may be saved into the Credentials Manager on your
computer.
Steps to clear your EPICweb credentials form the Credentials Manager:
1. Go to My Computer or Open an Explorer window.
2. Type Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Credential Manager to the address bar.
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3. Find your stored EPICweb credentials under epicweb.epicor.com and remove it from the
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Examples:
4. Close down your all browser sessions and try to login to Epicweb.epicor.com again.
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Account Team panel, with your Epicor Account Team members contact
information,
Call Summary panel, with a summary of your companys Support Call status,
Maintenance panel, with the current license status for your owned products.
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Breaking down the areas of the EPICweb home page further we have
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The User Role Focus Area which contains various lists or link groups per
user type,
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This will result in the Avante Products Announcements page filtered with results just for the Avante
product line. Note, in this case, you could still use the Resources menu to go to Product Updates, but
you would then need to filter the results down to only the product you are interested in, or wade
through all the product results to find the update you desired.
The rest of the Top level EPICweb menu Resources, Partners, Education, Services, Community,
Administration are intended to be a minimal set of non-product specific functional business menus,
as you are familiar with from the old EPICweb.
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You should note, you will only see the menus and sub-menu items that your user role and security
allows you to have access to. For example:
The Downloads menu item under the Products sub-menus, are only available to
Customers where they have current maintenance licenses for the product in question.
The Partners menu is only available to Partner users and Epicor employees
The Administration menu is only available to Epicor employees
This Search box is for EPICweb site-wide searching, and is the same as the Site Search available in the
left side Green Bars:
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It will return results for content and collateral for all areas of EPICweb that you have permissions
to access.
This should not be confused with the other functional areas referred by the Search word, such as:
Search for Customers
Search for People
Search for Calls
Super Search
These are technically reports rather than web site search features, but they allow you to search for and
find much more specific categories of information than the site wide search does.
There is also the Resource Library Search (under Resources menu) and the Service Resources Library
search box which are both more specific content search capabilities.
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Positioned at the top of the page, to the right of the Site Search Box, are the Social Networking icons
allowing you to connect with Epicor via:
LinkedIn Takes you to the Epicor Software LinkedIn site where you can review
the company and career possibilities with Epicor.
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Google Plus Takes you to the Epicor Software Google site Posts page where you
can review and comment on posts and Follow Epicor Software.
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Facebook Takes you to the Epicor Software Facebook page where you can
review Epicor Software Wall posts and add your Likes and comments.
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Contact Epicor
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This link will take you to the Contact page presenting easy contact information for:
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Provide Feedback
This presents you with a form intended for you to give feedback on the new design and layout of the
site, including your comments on what you think of the site changes or how you would like to see it
changed going forward. You can include comments on functionality what you would like to see added,
what you find not too effective to use, etc.
This link should not be used to:
Ask for assistance logging in to the site or migrating your EPICweb account.
Report difficulties using the site here you need immediate support.
Report errors or performance concerns you experience when using the site.
Contact or request assistance from your Customer Account Team
Issues accessing or using the site, website errors, website performance issues, or anything requiring
immediate support from Epicor support staff should be sent to epicweb@epicor.com.
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Search Site
As previously discussed, this Search Site link allows you to conduct a full website wide search for
collateral or content you are interested in, matching your search criteria string entered into the
Search box.
Note you will not be able to access any content you do not have license or permissions to access.
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As you can see, there are several links to available resources for the Customer:
My Contacts this link will take you to a page listing you organizations contacts.
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If you are your companys Administrative Contact then you will be able conduct
several activities from here, including:
1. Edit your Administrative Contact information.
2. Edit other Contacts in your organization.
3. Add new Contacts for your organization.
4. Create EPICweb accounts for contacts in your organization, if they do not yet have
one.
5. Flag which Contacts for your company are No Longer with Organization so their
accounts and Clientele information can be disabled and removed.
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My Company Profile clicking the My Company Profile link displays your organizations
Profile information and allows the Administrative Contact an option to update.
My Education this link will take you to the Epicor University Class Schedule page
allowing you to search for Epicor training classes to sign-up for.
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If your Find A Course button is missing this usually indicates there is a problem with you
product maintenance status, or possibly some issue with your Education records. If this
occurs, contact EPICweb support at EPICweb@epicor.com for assistance in clearing the issue.
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Search Calls this link will take you to a page to generate filtered reports of the
Support Calls related to your organization.
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Search AnswerBooks this link will take you to a page allowing you to run a report
against
the Cleintele AnswerBooks, filtering by Product, Phrase, and Any or All Key Words. No
initial
report is run by default for this case, due to the potentially excessive length of time to
run a
non-filtered report.
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Search People this link will take you to a page to generate filtered reports of the
People registered with your organizations Site ID, listing their Name, their Title, their Role
within your organization, their contact Phone Number and Email Address.
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Search Tips this link will take you to a page allowing you to run a report against the
Tech Tips database, filtering by Product Platform and Module, Tech Tip number, Phrase,
and Any or All Key Words. No initial report is run by default for this case, due to the
potentially excessive length of time to run a non-filtered report.
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Search CRs this link will take you to a page allowing you to run a report against the
Change Requests database, filtering by Product Platform, Module and Version, as well
as Action, Change Request number, Status, Phrase, and Any or All Key Words. No initial
report is run by default for this case, due to the potentially excessive length of time to
run a non-filtered report.
My Project Site this link will take you to your organizations Project Control Center
(PCC) site if one has been created for your company. Here is an example of a PCC site
(note that depending upon when your organizations PCC site was created, your site
layout may look different, as it may have been created from a different PCC Site
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Call Summary Panel
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The Call Summary panel shows a summary count of all your organizations Support Calls according to
their Status. If you click on any Status (i.e. Closed) a new window will display with a panel containing a
list of all the support calls, with that Status, for your organization.
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From the list, clicking on any Call Number, will open a new window with the Call Details displayed.
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Maintenance Panel
The Maintenance Panel will display current Product License information for the Epicor products your
organization has purchased. It will list out the Type of product and the current Maintenance Expiration
date we have on record for this product purchase.
This gives you a convenient visual reminder to your product license status without having to reference
other resources.
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This banner is a place holder for a soon to be coming Marketing initiative to help you more easily find
collateral related to Protecting, Extending, and Converging you investment in Epicor products. This
banner will be enhanced in the near future to offer clickable areas for these initiatives.
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Page Footer - Legal Statements
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On the Footer area of the page you will find the standard links to the legal statements for Terms of Use
and Privacy Policy with regard to the website, as well as the Copyright Notice.
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Additional information is available at the Education and Documentation areas of the EPICweb Customer
Portal. To access this site, you need a Site ID and an EPICweb account. To create an account, go to
http://support.epicor.com.
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Austin, TX 78746
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Toll Free: +1.888.448.2636
Direct:
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Fax:
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