If you're a partner of Secret Sales Marketplace, then you can use Shipatron to synchronise your product list with Secret Sales Marketplace. These instructions help you to get your product synchronisation setup.
Added feature: You can also use shipatron to help route orders from Secret Sales marketplace, to your drop-shipping or warehousing partner. For further information see Adding a Fulfilment.
You'll need the following information to setup your integration, which should have been provided to you by your Mirakl portal or your onboarding account manager.
Important Additionally, you should check that your product catalogue has the following:
To begin integrating with the Secret Sales Marketplace, first make sure you have already connected your primary e-commerce site. In most cases this will be a Shopify, Squarespace, Big Cartel or Magento based website. Then, you can connected your Secret Sales Channel. Start by going to the Settings page.
Then, click Add a Channel.
Select the Secret Sales channel.
Enter your API Key, which can be obtained through your Secret Sales dashboard (My user settings > Api Key), and then click Authenticate.
Once this has successfully authenticated your account, you now need to enter some additional settings to help identify your account. You will need to select a Flat Lay Image Position, which tells Shipatron where in the order of your product images the flat lay image is, and a Brand Code, which should have been provided to you by your Secret Sales onboarding representative.
When you have entered these, click Next.
Your Secret Sales Channel is now all set up! Click Save & Activate to save the Channel.
Now you are ready to setup which products you would like synchronised. Click on Configure Sync.
Find and then tick all the products you would like to synchronize. You can narrow down what you are looking for by using the search, which will search across all product information, including tags.
If you want to ensure that any new products that you create are also added to the sync list, ensure that New Products is ticked. You can filter which products are added in the resulting filter that is shown.
When you have selected which products you would like to send, click Next.
The products you have selected will now be validated to ensure that there is sufficient information and imagery for the Secret Sales platform.
If any of your products have any issues (like the one above), Shipatron will give you advice about how to resolve it. This usually means adding tags to help with categorization. Any changes you make to products on your source eCommerce channel will update and revalidate after about 10 seconds.
The Secret Sales marketplace has some special data requirements that require some additional configuration.
Material
The Secret Sales marketplace requires that all products provide a 'material', such as Gold or Aluminium. Ensure that this information is placed in either your variant option, or in the tags of the product in your source channel.
Fabric Composition
The Secret Sales marketplace requires that all products provide a fabric composition for the product, for exmaple '75% cotton, 25% polyester'. Shipatron can help you build this information for your products through Product Translations.
To open the translations for a product, click on the fabric composition button in the validation message. A popup will open showing the existing value on the left (which should be blank). On the right hand side is a text area that will hold the new information.
The text area will have a template showing in light grey, which is a 'placeholder' showing you the format the data needs to be in.
When you have finished entering the value press OK to save.
Image Format
The Secret Sales marketplace requires that images be in a certain format, which is either JPG (not JPEG) or PNG. If your images are not in this format, you will see a validation issue like the one below, and will need to upload alternate images using Product Translations.
Open the translations for a product by clicking on the images button in the validation message. A popup will open showing the existing images on the left. To upload you new images, use the upload button shown on the right of this popup.
Make sure you upload the same number of images as you have currently, and that they are in the right format. Once done, click Ok to save.
Once you have resolved all the issues, you're all set! Click Next, and then Save & Activate.
Your products will now synchronize to Secret Sales every day at 2pm GMT, or hourly if you're on the Medium Business plan. Any changes that you make to your source products will be carried through on an ongoing basis. Easy!
If you have some specific requirements or have any additional questions, you might want to have a read through the Mirakl Integration documentation, which outlines some of our more advanced features.