Galeries LaFayette welcomes more than one million visitors per day in its 280 stores and its online shopping websites. The Galeries Lafayette group is actively engaged in promoting and spreading the French “Art of Living”.
Table of contents
- Add a new Galeries LaFayette connection
- Add a new Galeries LaFayette API in Channable
- Create your product listings in Channable
- Send your product data to Galeries LaFayette
- Check your product listings for errors
- Best practices
Step 1: Add a new Galeries LaFayette connection
The Galeries LaFayette API uses the Mirakl platform, which means you will need a Mirakl- account to start sending your product listings to Galeries LaFayette.
When you have a Mirakl Galeries LaFayette account, go to “Connections > Add connection”. Click on “+ Add a new connection” and you will see a screen, where you can select Galeries LaFayette. Fill in the label for your connection, for example, Galeries LaFayette. And then click on ''Connect with Galeries LaFayette''. You will be redirected to the environment where you can log in with your Mirakl-credentials. After logging in, you will be redirected back to Channable where the connection will be available.
Step 2: Add a new Galeries LaFayette API in Channable
Now go to the API's overview, in your project. Click on ''+ Add new API'', Select the Galeries LaFayette connection you just made, and give your new API a name.
Select the field you want to use for Unique ID per item (we recommend the 'id' field), and the Language for categories, currently only French is available. You can also add a master rule group here if you want. Click on “Continue” to finish creating the new Galeries LaFayette API.
Step 3: Create your product listings in Channable
Follow these steps to set up your channel:
1. Categorize your products
To set up your product data, assign categories to your products.
- Smart Categorization: Automatically assigns product categories through our algorithm.
- Manual Categorization: Manually assign product categories with custom rules. You can create detailed filters to map each product to the correct category.
- Uncategorized Items: Products that still need to be reviewed and categorized
2. Set up rules
Rules help you quickly optimize your product data for the marketplace you want to sell on.
- Rule templates: Commonly used rules you can adjust for your use case.
- Rules setup: Set up rules to refine your product data. This can include filtering, modifying, or enhancing data fields to meet marketplace requirements.
3. Build your listings
The Build step is where you configure your product listings to match marketplace requirements. It’s an essential step for getting your products live and avoiding errors.
Good to know
Mandatory and optional fields:
- Mandatory fields [blue circle]: Required to list your products on this marketplace
- Recommended [orange circle]: Recommended to avoid errors
- Optional [white outline]: Not required to list
Shared attributes
Shared attributes are the common fields that apply across your products, such as EAN, prices, and titles. This step ensures uniformity in basic product information across your listings.
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Use static or dynamic Values:
- Static values: Fixed values that don’t change (e.g. brand name, manufacturer)
- Dynamic values: Fields that automatically change based on the linked data (e.g. stock, prices)
Category-specific attributes
Category-specific attributes fields that specifically apply to the category for your products .This step helps in fine-tune your listings to meet category requirements for your marketplace.
Fill in attributes that are specific to the selected category (e.g. such size for clothing or dimensions for furniture.)
Learn more about the Build step for marketplaces
4. Check the quality of your set up
The Quality step provides feedback on your channel before you activate it. It highlights mandatory and optional errors to ensure your product data meets requirements to list on the marketplace.
- Solve errors, prioritizing mandatory errors first.
Actions
- View items: See products with specific issues.
- View in build: Redirects to the Build step to map missing information.
- Set categories: Directs to the Categories step to categorize items.
- Show source: Available for ID fields. Directs to the Settings step.
5. Preview before activating
The Preview step displays the attributes you mapped in the Build step, helping you check if everything is configured correctly by providing an overview of your products and potential errors.
Filtering:
- Filter by error: Click the All dropdown and select if you would like to filter to display only products with errors, or products with a specific error.
- Filter by category: Click the All categories dropdown and select the category you want to filter by.
Before you continue:
- Review Shared attributes: Ensure all mandatory shared attributes are filled.
- Review Category-specific attributes: Ensure all mandatory category-specific attributes are filled.
- Check for errors: Correct any red-marked fields.
Learn more about the Preview step for marketplaces
Additional information for Galeries LaFayette
Shipping class
The logistic classes, for Galeries LaFayette, can be found as static values under the “Shipping class” field. The Shipping classes are configured for each seller with your Onboarding Manager of for Galeries LaFayette.
Event code
This attribute is a unique code used to identify offers for specific commercial promotions. Before each national or targeted promotional event, your Account Manager at Galeries LaFayette will provide you with this specific code via email. This code can then be entered in the Event code attribute.
Private copy levy
In France, the private copying levy is a legal requirement that compensates authors and rights holders for private copies made using blank media such as CDs, DVDs, external hard drives, and USB drives. This levy is included in the sale price of these blank media items and is then distributed to the creators and rights holders through collective management organizations. Sellers are required to specify the amount of the ''copie-privée'' levy in euros for each applicable item in this category.
Eco-contributions
France introduced legislation for eco-participation. If your company is operating in France, your company must add eco-contributions to your offers on the marketplace. In this article, you can find a list of available EPR categories.
Private Sales Channel
To utilize different pricing for the loyalty customers for the 'vp' channel, channel-specific pricing has been enabled. (Private Sales Channel). To enable this, please follow the steps in this article.
Step 4: Send your product data to Galeries LaFayette
Almost there, your product listings are ready to be sent. If you have not activated your project, go to your project settings on the left-hand side of the screen and click 'activate project'. After, go back to the APIs overview and go to “Your Galeries LaFayette API Name” > Settings, where you activate the API by selecting “Activate API”. After you have completed this step, navigate back to the APIs overview and select the blue “Run now” button to send your product listings to Galeries LaFayette.
Step 5: Check your product listings for errors
If you have sent your product listings to Galeries LaFayette go to the Preview tab of your Galeries LaFayette API. Click filter on 'error'. Now you can see which product listings have errors and are not placed. Click on a specific error to see more information on what is causing the error.
Best practices
Adding multiple attribute values: When adding multiple values in an attribute field for Mirakl Marketplaces, separate each value with a pipe symbol "|" to ensure proper detection and processing.
Seller's Product ID for Single/simple products: Please note that there are two attributes named 'SellerArticleId' and 'SellerProductId,' respectively. 'SellerProductId' refers to the Parent ID, while 'SellerArticleId' refers to the variant items. For single products, both attributes must be filled with the same value.
For more information on Mirakl Marketplace errors, how-to's, and best practices, check out our dedicated guide.