eBay Connector for Shopware6

eBay is an online shopping site that’s commonly identified for its sales and consumer-to-consumer sales. It’s also very popular for online merchants to use as a sales channel. eBay Connector for shopware6 integrates the eBay marketplace with the Shopware store.

The merchants can manage multiple eBay accounts by mapping categories, products, and orders. Shopware 6 eBay connector is the best solution to list eBay products on the Shopware Store.

• Now Compatible with Shopware 6.4.1.2 also.
• Add multiple eBay accounts then do synchronization.
• Import products, orders, and categories from eBay.
• Map complete information about products, orders, and categories.
• Also, Select sub-categories to map from eBay to Shopware.
• From the shopware backend, the merchant can add Best Offer Price in the products.
• View a complete list of eBay Categories, eBay Specifications, and eBay Conditions imported with an option to delete each respective imported Category, Specification, and Condition.
• View results after every synchronization process.
• Also, set the number of records to sync during mapping.
• From Shopware backend, merchants can add and sync more than one eBay seller accounts.
• After import orders, Shopware admin can check the eBay sales order details.
• Supports multiple language translations.
• Import a single order using the eBay Order Id.
• Import a single product using the eBay Item id.
• Export products from the Shopware store to the eBay store.
• Also, you can do mapping for products having variations/options.
• Also, import Product into bulk quantity.
• The products are imported with their images, price, quantity, etc.

Shopware provides two ways to upload the plugin to the server.

1. Using Command
2. Manual installation

Installation Using Commands

Customers will get a zip folder, then they have to extract the contents of this zip folder on their system. The customer has Copy the folder WebkulEBay to custom/plugins directory of Shopware6. As shown in the below image:

Now open the Shopware6 application in the Terminal.

Run this command to refresh the plugin –

./bin/console plugin:refresh

Go to your Shopware installation Root directory then run this command to install then activate the plugin –

./bin/console plugin:install --activate WebkulEBay

To clear the cache run this command –

./bin/console c:c

Now refresh the administration.

After that, visit administration Extensions->My Extensions, the eBay connector will be listed there.

Manual Installation

For the manual installation of the plugin follow the steps as mentioned below:

1) Extract the zip file of the plugin.

2) Goto your Shopware 6 installation backend panel and navigate to  Extensions-> My Extensions after that you can find all the installed plugins in it.

For installing the plugin, the user can click on the Upload Extension button. The user can upload the plugin zip(WebkulEBay) here.

3) After uploading the plugin zip, the user can see the Extensions in the list.

4) Now the user can click on the install icon to install the eBay Connector extension.

5) After the installation of the extension, the user can click to activate the extension.

While in the process the admin can see the success message ‘Extension has been activated‘.

After the installation process and plugin configuration if the eBay Connector  icon option is not visible then run this command to clear the cache:

php bin/console cache:clear

How to Get eBay Credentials

In order to get the eBay credentials to follow the steps mentioned below to get the App ID, Dev ID, Cert ID, and the Auth Token.

1: To create a new account go to developer.ebay.com then click on the sign-in/Join link.

2: Generate a username and password for your account then click the join button.

3: After that, you need to create an app. Enter the app name then choose the environment to generate your key set. Note that the app name is not saved until you generate the keys set.

4: After clicking on the Create a Keyset link(for the environment you choose), you need to confirm the primary contact for this account first then you can click Continue to Create Keys button.

5. In order to get the Client Id and Client Secret, navigate to your developer eBay account here. (https://developer.ebay.com/my/keys). Here, you will find your Client Id and Client Secret.

6. For generating the User Token go to your Application keys page. In the App ID row of the Sandbox keyset, click the User Tokens to access the Tokens page for your Sandbox keyset.

7. After you click on “User Tokens” in the snapshot above, you will see a “Sign in to Sandbox” button. Click it to access the sandbox account.

8: Now, enter your Sandbox Username and Password.

9. After clicking the “Sign in” button, you will see another page where you have to click the “Agree” button.

10. You will be redirected back then will get the App Token.

After the successful installation of the module, the admin will see the Setting option. After clicked by the Extensions you will see the many options that will appear as shown below:

After clicking config a new page will be open. On this page, you have to fill in all the credential eBay information.

General

eBay Marketplace – Choose your eBay marketplace country.

Environment – Select Sandbox mode for testing, else use Production mode to go live.

Authentication Token – the User Token created from the eBay developer website.

Then you need to get and fill in Client Id, Client Secret, Redirect Uri, Access Token, and Refresh Token as explained above. After adding the Client Id, Client Secret, Redirect Uri, you need to click on the save button then “Connect To Ebay“

Clicking on the “Connect To Ebay” will ask you to sign in to your eBay account

After completing the sign-in process by filling in your password, it will give you a success message and will be closed automatically in a few seconds.

After the successful authorization, it will automatically fill in the Access Token and Refresh Token fields.

Afterward, you just need to save these details by clicking again on the save button.

Now you can add the following details:

PayPal Account Email Id – Enter the PayPal email id which will be used for payment of sale.

Number of entity to sync – Enter the number of entities to sync.

Importing Categories

Number of category in a request – Enter the number of categories to fetch in one request while importing from the eBay site.

Product Configuration

Here the admin has to configure the Product Settings for Shopware exported products to eBay.

Default Stock For Exporting Product – Set the Default Stock For Exporting Product
to eBay if product quantity is zero at the Shopware Store.

Product Listing Duration – Enter the item listing duration on eBay Store, how long your product will be shown on eBay.

Item Listing Local Distance – Here you will enter if the seller is selling a motor vehicle through a Motors Local Listing. The string value supplied in this field actually sets the radius of the area (in miles) in which the vehicle will be available then exposed to interested local buyers. However, the seller’s supplied PostalCode or Location field value will be used as the center point for this radius.

Shipping Configuration

Services – Select the shipping services for the exported products.

Priority – Define the shipping services priority for exported products.

Cost – Enter the shipping services cost for the exported products.

Shipping Additional Cost – Enter the additional item shipping cost for the exported products. However, this applies when a customer purchases the same product in an additional quantity.

Shipping Minimum & Maximum  Time – Set the minimum and as well as maximum shipping time for the exported products.

Free Shipping Status – Select Enabled, if you want to use free shipping on exported products. Else select Disabled.

Maximum Dispatch Time – Enter the time in the number of days under which the ordered product will be dispatched.

Return Policy

Here the admin has to configure the return policy settings for Shopware exported products to eBay.

Define Return Policy – Select Returns Accepted or Not Accepted for exported products.

Define Return Days – Here you need to specify the return days for the exported products.

Pay By – Select who will pay for the returned product. Select – Seller or Buyer.

Under eBay connector, you will see eBay Account connect tab. Click on the eBay account connect tab. Afterward, Tapping on the eBay account connect button will bring you to the eBay account page as shown below.

This will show the list of created eBay Account. However, to add new, click on the Add Account button.

After that, you will see a new page will open.

Here you have to fill all the options for creating a new eBay account.

Store Name – Enter your store name.

Sales Channel – Select the default sales channel which will be assigned to the product imported from eBay for this account.

eBay Global Site – Select the eBay marketplace on which your shop is registered.

Shop Postal Code –  Enter the postal code of your store address.

Click Save, to apply for a new eBay account.

Now, a new eBay account will be added.

Go to Dashboard ->Settings-> Extensions and click on eBay Categories.

Here, you will see two options. At first, you will choose your store. Afterward, you will click on the Import button.

Now, categories are imported successfully.

Before importing products and as well as importing orders, the admin requires to do the categories mapping. Connect the correct eBay category with the Shopware category.

Go to Dashboard -> eBay connector. In the options of eBay connector, click on eBay Map categories.

Now, in order to map the category, click on Map A category button.

Then, you can create Shopware eBay category mapping.

Select eBay Site – Here you will select your eBay store country.

Select eBay Category – select the product category.

Shopware Category – Select the parent and as well as sub-categories of eBay and Shopware accordingly.

After filling in all the options, you will see that a map category is created.

Furthermore, you can also delete the map category.

Under this section, the admin will find all the imported specifications from eBay. Also, make use of the filters to filter the specifications as required.

On this page, the admin can see the column values for the – Specification Name, Specification Group Name, Mapped Shopware Category, and as well as Mapped eBay category. 

eBay Conditions

Under this section, the admin will find all the imported conditions from eBay. Also, make use of the filters to filter the specifications as required.

On this page, the admin can see the column values for the – Condition Value, Condition Group Name, Mapped eBay category and as well as Mapped Shopware Category.

The admin can synchronize its products on both the stores with the help of this Shopware eBay connector module. However,  to map the products from your eBay store to your Shopware store, go to Settings->Extensions->eBay Account Connect.

Click on view then you will see the import products option. Tap on Import products.

Here in order to import products, you will click on import/Update products.

The admin will choose the Tax. Afterward, click on the Save button.

Once clicking on the save button a new page will open. You have to fill in all the options.

• The admin will change the Tax rate.
• The admin will select import by Bulk import or as well as eBay item Ids.
• If will select Using eBay Item IDs then the next option will visible. Their admin will enter eBay item Ids.
• Here the admin will select the category.

After that click on the Import/Update products button.

Once the admin will click on “Import/Update Products”, the product data will be created then stored in the Shopware6 database.

The admin can import the orders from the eBay store.

Here, the admin will click on the “Import Order from eBay” tab.

Import orders to the eBay page will open. Here the admin will select the import by option after that tap the import orders button.

After clicked on “Import Order”, the product data will be created then stored in the Shopware 6 database.

Go to the front store of Shopware6.

Afterward, Click on a specific product. In the below image, when the customer will click on the product to get full product details.

Furthermore, If you have any issues related to eBay Connector for Shopware 6, please create a support ticket at- https://webkul.uvdesk.com/en/customer/create-ticket 

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