Switch Between the Customer Access Portal and eCommerce

Describes how to access your customer access portal account while browsing a company’s eCommerce website.

Type

How to

Audience

GateWay Customer, Salesperson

Products

GateWay ecommerce, customer access portal

Context

Your GateWay customer access portal account enables you to access information about the orders you have placed, among other useful information. It is the equivalent of accessing your account profile at any other ecommerce website, such as Amazon.

See: “About GateWay’s Customer Access Portal” for more information.

You can access your customer access portal account at any time, while browsing by creating your account and logging into the portal.

See: “Log In and Out of GateWay’s Customer Access Portal” for more information on how to log into your customer access portal account.

If you are already logged in, you can access your account at any time while browsing a company’s ecommerce website.

Before You Begin

Required: Internet connection, existing customer access portal account, valid login credentials

Steps

Switch to the customer access portal

In the ecommerce header bar, navigate to the user menu, and click Dashboard

The customer access portal dashboard page opens and displays a list of equipment you have or are renting

Switch to the ecommerce website

In the customer access portal, do one of the following:
1. Click the home button to navigate to the ecommerce website’s home page
  Note: The appearance of the home button varies by company, but is typically the company logo
2. In the header menu, if applicable, do one of the following:
  1. If you need to browse the company’s rental products, click Rent
  2. If you need to browse the company’s products for sale, click Buy
  3. If you need to access any of the company’s other pages, click the appropriate page
  Note: Not all companies have additional pages
The ecommerce website opens on the selected page