Mergado Marketplaces - NEWS

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Mergado Marketplaces - 43 - order overview

2024-10-29T23:00:00Z

In this release we bring users the long awaited functionality of order management in Mergado Marketplaces This is the first version of the order management functionality, where orders from online marketplaces can be downloaded to our app. In addition to this new feature, we have also added some other tweaks!

The most important and visible changes for users include:

• Order Overview.
• Simplifying the matching of product identifiers for Allegro
• Info icons for validation messages
• A number of other minor improvements

More on selected changes:

Order overview
Now, in addition to an overview of all orders from Kaufland and Allegro, the app will also offer you:

• Link to the marketplace order
• Email alerts for new orders from marketplaces at the hours and days you select
• Option to download selected orders in CSV format with your chosen dates and column names

A thorough description of this new functionality can be found here.

Simplify product ID matching for Allegro
It was often confusing for new users to see the product identifier pairing for Allegro. With Allegro, you are required to pair at least one product identifier (EAN, ISBN, UPC, MPN), ideally an EAN code, which can then be used to create new product cards if needed. With the new display of identifiers, we want to make it easier for new users in particular to set up a new campaign:

Info icons for validation messages
We have added info icons to the most common validation messages to explain the error in more detail and the steps needed to resolve it:

Should you encounter any bugs or have ideas on how to further enhance the order management functionality, please feel free to contact us at our email address mergado@mergado.cz.

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 44 - deployment of Hungarian localization

2024-11-12T23:00:00Z

One of the last releases of the year is here, and besides the Hungarian localization you will find a lot of other fixes and improvements

Among the most important and visible changes for users are:

• Uploading Hungarian localization
• Solution to deactivate the marketplace offer when a product is sold out
• Display additional data immediately after the history entry
• Display of Allegro Business orders
• Adjust price display on order detail
• New validation message handling system
• Ability to enlarge the table for adding parameters to the full desktop
• Improved pagination
• A number of other minor improvements

More about selected changes:

Solution to deactivate marketplace offer when a product is sold out
You may have encountered an issue in the app when a product sold out directly through Allegro and Allegro automatically deactivated the offer itself. If the out-of-stock product did not make it into the availability feed and the product was restocked, the app did not activate the offer.

This issue is now resolved and if the availability feed changes to a positive value and the offer is marked as closed, the app will automatically activate the offer.

So if you want to manually deactivate some offers on Allegro, you need to terminate the offers directly through the Mergado Marketplaces app using the offer pause function.

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Now you can find additional information for historical records in a shortened version right after the record text without having to click on the record detail.

Adjust price display on order detail and support displaying Allegro Business orders
Now you will see Allegro Business orders in the app with a special logo for better clarity and we have also changed the price display for items on the order detail. The prices will now be split into “price per item” and “total price”:

If you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.cz.

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 45 - GPSR application preparation

2024-12-08T23:00:00Z

In the last release of this year we focused mostly on preparing the app for the new EU regulation that will come into force on 13.12. See how you can prepare for GPSR with Mergado

Among the most important and visible changes for users are:

• Preparing app for GPSR (more here)
• Smart matching of feed values to Allegro enabled values for Hungarian
• Unable to delete campaign during re-generation
• A number of other minor improvements
• Improvements to the campaign creation wizard
  • Changing the display of the marketplace selection
  • New sales channel selection
  • Pre-population of connection and project when only one option is available

More about GPSR:

As of 13.12.2024 the EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) comes into force, which applies to most consumer products (more here). Online marketplaces including Kaufland and Allegro require additional information from sellers as a result, and reserve the right to hide the seller’s offers if they fail to provide it

For Allegro, the instructions and safety information and the manufacturer’s details / details of the person responsible for marketing the product in Europe must be filled in at the offer level in the campaign settings:

For Kaufland, these elements are the name of the manufacturer / responsible person in the EU, CE marking, safety instructions, where these are filled in at the product card level.

See our guide here to learn how to add these details to your products on online marketplaces.

If you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.com.

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 46 - retention of information about products deleted from the product feed for 30 days

2025-01-14T23:00:00Z

The first release of the year is here, and with it a lot of cool new features! We’ve listened to your requests and added frequently requested enhancements

Among the most important and visible changes for users are:

• Improvement of the help for each element in the app and rewriting of element names (e.g. from ‘STOCK’ to ‘Availability’) to make the app easier to work with.
• Addition of GPSR element ‘Products launched in EU before 13.12.2024’ for Allegro
• Store information about products deleted from the product feed for 30 days
• Adding warranty information for Allegro to sales documents
• Adding shipping group for Kaufland
• New ‘Marketplace Connection Status’ filter in campaign history event type
• New ‘Severity’ filter in campaign history

More on selected changes:

Adding GPSR element ‘Products launched in the EU before 13.12.2024’ for Allegro
Allegro has a new GPSR feature where you can now add information to your offers that the products were launched in the EU before 13.12.2024, when the GPSR regulation came into force.

If you have launched your products before this date, you do not need to fill in the GPSR information on your Allegro offers regarding safety information and details of the products and responsible persons.

In Mergado Marketplaces, you’ll find a new mandatory parameter for which you can either choose a single value for the entire campaign, or you can pair it to an element from the feed. When pairing to a feed, pay attention to the allowed values, which are “true”, “1”, “yes”, “yes”, “igen” and “false”, “0”, “no”, “no”, “nem”.

If products were placed on the EU market after 13.12.2024 and fall into a category covered by the GPSR, the relevant product safety and manufacturer/responsible person information still needs to be completed (more here).

Keep information about products deleted from the product feed for 30 days
Until now, the way our app worked was that once a product dropped out of your product feed, we closed the marketplace listing and once the product ever reappeared in your product feed, we created a new marketplace listing for that product.

We’ve now started keeping information about products deleted from the product feed for 30 days, which will allow us to link to the original offer on Allegro, which we will activate as available. This way you won’t lose the traffic your offer has received in the past.

If a product appears in the product feed later than 30 days, a new offer will be created on Allegro for the product.

Adding warranty information for Allegro to sales documents
When creating a campaign and in the campaign settings for Allegro, you can now also fill in warranty information. This is an optional sales document that you can prepare in the Allegro administration here and then pair it in our application.

Adding a shipping group for Kaufland
You can now specify a shipping group when listing your products on Kaufland.
If no shipping group is selected, the terms of your default shipping group will automatically be applied. You can create shipping groups directly in the Kaufland Seller Portal here.

If you wish to have different shipping groups for different offers, create product selections in the Mergado Editor for which you can then create separate campaigns in Mergado Marketplaces.

If you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.com.

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 47 - possibility to change the query in campaign settings

2025-01-28T23:00:00Z

In the second release of this year we focused mainly on various optimizations and fixing minor bugs. But we also added the long requested feature of changing the queries in the campaign settings, which we will describe in more detail below

The most important and visible changes for users include:

• The ability to change product query in campaign settings
• Implementation of filtering in the order history section
• Specifying changes in the additional dates of historical records
• Optimize processes for creating and adding product cards to reduce the risk of duplicate offers
• Delete historical records older than 90 days
• A number of other minor fixes and improvements

More on selected changes:

Ability to change product query in campaign settings
In the campaign settings you now have the option to change the query of products you want to send to a given marketplace. After changing the selection and clicking “Save”, a confirmation window will pop up informing you to run a complete re-generation of the product feed. If you do not confirm to run the sync, the product query will not be changed.

Changing the query is not possible if you are in the process of creating or adding product cards or re-generating the product feed.

Implementation of filtering in order history section
We have added filtering capability to the order History section, so you can now filter historical records by marketplace, event type, severity and date:

Specifying changes in additional historical record data
If you have made any changes to your campaign settings, until now only the general section headings (e.g. “Marketplace” or “Mergado”) were showing up in the additional historical records data. Now you can find the specific documents or elements where the change has been made under “Edited section” in the campaign history:

If you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.com

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 48 - Allegro foreign markets and the possibility to send the lowest price for Kaufland

2025-02-23T23:00:00Z

In the February release, we focused mainly on Allegro’s ability to sell in foreign markets, smart price adjustment for Kaufland and better handling of product selections

The most important and visible changes for users include:

• Allegro Foreign Markets.
• Adding an element for the lowest price on Kaufland
• Check the number of products in the query when partially reordering
• Close filter window after applying filter
• Unify data formats in the application
• Sort validation messages in descending order of frequency
• Validate an existing project in the Editor before creating a campaign
• A number of other minor fixes and improvements

More on selected changes:

Allegro foreign markets
If you want to list your offers in foreign markets in addition to your default sales channel, you need to add the shipping method to that country to the shipping price list you have associated with the offers in the app, in the Allegro Sales Center here. In this way, you will give Allegro the incentive to issue offers in those markets.

In Mergado Marketplaces, you can then see via flags which markets you have your bids exposed to and whether their exposure to foreign markets has been approved, is in the process of being approved, or has been rejected. You can also view the bids in each market by clicking on the flags in the bid overview. If the flag is greyed out, the bid is in the process of being approved.

The status of the foreign market exposure is updated in the status synchronization every 15 minutes

For product prices in foreign markets, Allegro pre-selects an automatic conversion based on the price for the default sales channel and the European Central Bank exchange rate. However, you can also use the app to send your own prices to these foreign markets by pairing them to an element from the feed. After the price is paired to an element from the feed and re-generated, the price will also be displayed in the offer overview. If you have selected the “Automatic price conversion by Allegro” option in the campaign settings, the price will not be displayed in the bid overview.

You can also use the two new filters on the Bid Overview “Foreign Sales Channels” and “Status on Foreign Sales Channels” to better determine the status of exposure in each market:

Adding an element for the lowest price on Kaufland
You can now pair the “Lowest price with VAT” element for Kaufland. Entering the lowest price will automatically activate Kaufland’s smart price adjustment feature. For retailers using the smart price adjustment feature for the first time, the Plus model is activated by default. More information can be found here.

Then at Kaufland, the lowest price can be found on the offer details:

Check the number of products in the query when partially regenerating
Until now, the Mergado Marketplaces app worked by checking the composition of products in the query only when a campaign was created or completely re-generated. So if a product just dropped out of the query but was still in the product feed, that product remained in the app. Problems then occurred especially with those campaigns that had product selections based on, for example, order check-in time, which dynamically changes every day.

However, we will now check for each re-generation whether the composition of the selection in the Editor has changed and adjust the products in Mergado Marketplaces and Allegro / Kaufland accordingly.

If you have any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.com.

[veronika_kusalikova]

Mergado Marketplaces - 49 - stop selling hidden products and automatically adjust the description format for Allegro

2025-03-11T23:00:00Z

The spring weather is here and with it the new version of Mergado Marketplaces In the new version we will change the way we work with hidden products and in addition we have a number of improvements that will save you a lot of work when uploading products to marketplaces See below for more information on each change

The most important and visible changes for users include:

• Removing hidden products from the app and ending given offers on marketplaces

• Automatically adjusting the description format for Allegro

• Offers statuses instead of the number of uploaded and unuploaded products on the campaign overview:
  

  

• Change “Incomplete” status to “Draft” for Allegro

• Display GTIN (EAN, ISBN, UPC, MPN) of products for orders and option to display this information in order export:
  

  

• Add validation message “The product card to which the offer is linked is incomplete and needs to have product data added to it in the ‘Product Cards’ section” to incomplete Kaufland offers for easier work in the application

• Search box next to category tree in product cards
  

• Adding new stock at Kaufland for remanufactured products (for selling remanufactured products, you need to contact Kaufland retailer support first)

  • Refurbished - Like new
  • Refurbished - Very Good
  • Refurbished - Good
  • Refurbished - Acceptable

• A number of other minor repairs and improvements

More on selected changes:

Removal of hidden products from the app
This change affects products that you have hidden in Mergado Editor using a rule. Until recently, Mergado Editor did not send us information via API about which products are hidden in the project. However, we now have this information available and so these products will no longer be displayed in Mergado Marketplaces, which means that their listings on the Allegro and Kaufland platforms will be discontinued.

Checking for changes in product hiding will be done as part of each feed re-generation.

Automatic modification of the description format for Allegro
One of the most common issues our users had was adjusting the format of the tooltips to match Allegro’s requirements. This is because product descriptions for Allegro must have HTML formatting, and Allegro only accepts a small number of selected HTML tags.

Now the Mergado Marketplaces application will automatically adjust the format of your descriptions to be accepted by Allegro So unauthorized tags or completely missing HTML formatting will no longer be a problem. Thanks to this new feature, it is also possible to include images in your Allegro descriptions.

For existing campaigns, the captions are only sent to Allegro if something changes in them. So if you want all your descriptions to take advantage of this functionality as soon as possible, we recommend running a complete product feed sync in the Mergado Marketplaces campaign settings.

Example image description:

Below you can see an example of a feed description and how the subsequent description looks on Allegro:

<h1>Test Caption</h1><p>Test Image 1:</p><p><img src="https://www.shopitak.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3_cup_forfoxsake_1.png" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></p><p>Test Image 2:</p><p><img src="https://www.shopitak.cz/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/sklo_vicko_1300x1300.png" width="500" height="500" alt="" /></p>

In case of any problems or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact our Mergado support at mergado@mergado.com.