# plastics.com

> Documentation for plastics.com. Find and source materials, put your catalog on your own website, and work customer requests without leaving Outlook.

- [Welcome to plastics.com](https://docs.plastics.com/introduction.md): A materials marketplace for engineers and buyers, and a storefront for the suppliers who serve them.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.plastics.com/quickstart.md): Create your account, answer three short questions, and get your first material answer from Herman AI in a few minutes.
- [Account setup](https://docs.plastics.com/account-setup.md): Set up your profile, invite teammates, understand what each role can do, and configure your organization and its Herman assistant.
- [How the portal and your storefront fit together](https://docs.plastics.com/merchant-portal/overview.md): The admin side of plastics.com, where you manage the brands, products, and deals behind your storefront.
- [Get access](https://docs.plastics.com/merchant-portal/get-access.md): How your Merchant Portal account is provisioned, and how to bring the rest of your team in.
- [Preview your storefront](https://docs.plastics.com/merchant-portal/preview-storefront.md): Reach your demo storefront for the first time using a one-time code from Cloudflare Access.
- [Create a test account](https://docs.plastics.com/merchant-portal/create-test-account.md): Sign up on your own storefront so you can browse your catalog and see the buying experience your customers get.
- [Build an evaluation dataset](https://docs.plastics.com/evaluations/dataset-json.md): Walk through an evaluation JSON file, understand each field, and prepare questions, reference answers, facts, and source metadata.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.plastics.com/merchant-portal/troubleshooting.md): Codes that do not arrive, codes that expire, sessions that do not stick, and how to reach us.
- [What you can connect](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/overview.md): Connect plastics.com to the tools your team already uses, and put your catalog on your own website.
- [What the add-in does](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/outlook/overview.md): Herman reads the open email, extracts the request, matches your catalog, and helps you reply without leaving Outlook.
- [Setup](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/outlook/setup.md): Requirements, deployment through the Microsoft 365 admin center, and sideloading for a single device.
- [Security and data](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/outlook/security-and-data.md): The mailbox permission the add-in requests, what leaves the mailbox, and where that data is processed.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/outlook/troubleshooting.md): What to do when the pane cannot sign in, cannot attach a document, or does not appear in the ribbon.
- [What the embed does](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-embed/overview.md): Add your product catalog and AI material assistant to any website with a single snippet of code.
- [Setup](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-embed/setup.md): Paste two tags before your closing body tag, or demo the assistant on any page from the browser console.
- [WordPress Plugin](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-embed/wordpress-plugin.md): Install the widget through a small plugin when your site can't accept a pasted script tag.
- [Configuration](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-embed/configuration.md): Branding fields, panel behavior, style isolation, and the JavaScript API for controlling the widget from your own code.
- [Security and data](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-embed/security-and-data.md): What the embed can reach on your behalf, how the tenant ID works, and what telemetry it collects.
- [Website Search](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-search/overview.md): Bring semantic product search to your existing website without an iframe.
- [Configure Website Search](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-search/configuration.md): Create a connection, approve public products and manage its server credential.
- [Website Search API and UI walkthrough](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/website-search/api-and-ui.md): Connect a server-side adapter and accessible JavaScript search results to your website.
- [MCP for sellers](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/mcp/overview.md): Connect an AI application to the tools provisioned for your seller account.
- [Set up MCP](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/mcp/setup.md): Provision seller access, connect an AI application, and verify the connection.
- [MCP tools and account access](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/mcp/configuration.md): Read live, disabled, preview, and unavailable status for your seller account.
- [MCP security and data](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/mcp/security-and-data.md): How seller identity, account permissions, and AI application access are checked.
- [MCP troubleshooting](https://docs.plastics.com/integrations/mcp/troubleshooting.md): Resolve seller provisioning, unavailable status, and AI connection problems.
- [Troubleshooting](https://docs.plastics.com/troubleshooting.md): Specific failures, what causes them, and what to do next.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://docs.plastics.com/faq.md): How plastics.com works, what you can configure yourself, and what the platform does not do.


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