Welcome to ProteanPAPER© MRP/ERP Accounting Solutions

Welcome to the ProteanPaper© system. You can begin evaluating one or all of the ProteanPaper© modules for your company right now. First, you need to establish your company within the ProteanPaper© database and select the modules you want to work with.

Company and User Information to Start the DataBase

Company Code:

(arbitrary - no spaces) This becomes the code to reference your company and the basis of your consumer web address.
For example: flyfishing.proteanpaper.com

Name of Company:

Contact Email:

Super User ID:

(arbitrary - no spaces) This becomes the ID for the person with authority to maintain and modify your company's settings. Keep this ID secure.

Name of Super User:

When you click the 'Create' button below, a skeleton company database will be created with the code, name, and email contact you specified. Additionally, one user will be created for that company with the ID and name specified. The temporary password for that user will be sent to the contact email address. Read your email to get the temporary password. Then, follow the emailed instructions to login to the company. Use the 'manage services' function to add the functional modules you need for your company. Additional instructions will appear as suggestions in a checklist at the main system menu.

INSTRUCTIONS
      
Your company's data will be stored in a special area of the ProteanPaper Database. To differentiate your company from all the others in this database, you need to supply a unique "Company Code" and enter it below. The choice of code is completely up to you, but you must choose something that you can remember (but it cannot be any code previously used by another evaluator or user). We will tell you if the code your selection is not unique. The code can be anything from one to eight characters or numbers and capitalization does matter. Keep in mind your Company Code also will form the basis of your ProteanPaper assigned web address.  Therefore your company code should be indicative of your company or products.

You must also give us your company's name and a valid email as a contact. This email address must be functional to get started because your temporary password and further instructions will be emailed to this address. Once you receive the email with the temporary password, you can login and begin configuring your company. Of course, you will probably want to change the password to something you can remember.

You need to choose the initial "Super User ID" which is used to identify you as a user. Since you are establishing the company, the first user ID created will be the Super User with all privileges. You may wish to write this ID down and store it in a safe place. Later, you can create additional users or even other super users, but you will need this first user code, and it's user password to do it. We also require that you supply your name with the ID. We require that you supply your real name here and later and real mailing information.

This system is used for commerce and therefore can potentially be abused. Protean Logic will not hesitate to block any company that is not complying with our rules in this regard, or that we suspect of fraudulent activity. Simply put, you can run your company however you want, but if you are trying to do something illegal or grossly unethical, Protean Logic will protect it's interests and the interests of other users of the system by blocking  your company. If we receive substantiated complaints about your company, we will act first and ask questions later.

After you complete and successfully submit this form, you will be able to log into the ProteanPaper "BACK OFFICE". All the instructions for accessing the BACK OFFICE will arrive, with your temporary password, in an email to the address you provided. The BACK OFFICE is the part of the ProteanPaper© system that only employees of your company will see and use. It is in the BACK OFFICE that you will start setting up the specifics of your company and build up to retail web site. You will then have many options available to you with regard to the presentation of the consumer/client/retail/member web sites which are the public portion of the ProteanPaper© system.

As part of the initial company formation, you will select which of the available ProteanPaper© modules you want to use. You will do that from the BACK OFFICE using the "Manage Services" menu item for your company. When you finish that selection process, you will be presented with your order and asked to pay for your selections. You can add or take away from this selection at any time. Remember, you get an initial evaluation period, so we encourage you to look at all the modules you anticipate a need for. We require that you purchase at least a one quarter (three month) subscription to the services you want to evaluate. You will then have 30 days in which to evaluate ProteanPaper©. We think you will like what you discover, but, if for any reason you wish to discontinue your subscription within the 30 days, you may cancel the subscription and your money will be promptly refunded. It is essential that we maintain a financial trail of all individuals who use the servers as a security measure. By requiring a nominal payment we can, with reasonable certainty determine the identity of all users of the system.

Security: You may be concerned about the security of your data. Protean has implemented accepted security measures to keep your data secure. First of all, Protean will not use your data for any purpose other than billing and necessary correspondence. We won't even look at your working data except as directed by you for support purposes. Few of our employees have access to server data. Second, you and your customers access your data via the web using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption standard which makes it virtually impossible for anyone to intercept and decode your data. Third, ProteanPAPER© servers are physically located at the ProteanPAPER© providers site. This means your data has physical access controls. This is much safer than data which is hosted in an unknown worldwide location where it is much more subject to theft and security breach. Fourth the Web Server is password protected and Protean's database is password protected. Fifth, sensitive fields within the database are encrypted for additional safety. Sixth, multiple level firewalls and port forwarding schemes ensure that only local physical access can manipulate ProteanPAPER servers. This precludes any remote control of our servers. Therefore, only employees of the ProteanPAPER© provider, who are at the server site, on an allowed workstation, who possess a valid set of passwords have high level data access.

Should you decide to to purchase the ProteanPaper© software outright, you will then have physical possession of the servers. At that point, no one, other than the individuals you give physical access and login access to, will be able to access your data. You will then have exclusive access and control and potentially greater speed and performance.