But is a French online store specializing in furniture, home decor, and interior equipment. They offer a wide range of affordable products, including high-tech items and household appliances.
Table of contents
- Create a new connection
- Create the API
- Create your product listings
- Send your product listings to But
- Check your product listings for errors
Step 1: Create a new connection
To create a new But connection, follow the steps below:
- Begin by navigating to the API page within your project and click on the "+Add new API" button. This action will redirect you to your company's connections page.
- On the connections page, select "+Add a new connection".
- Search for the 'But' connection by clicking through the pages, after finding the 'But' connection, provide a label for this new connection.
- Click on "Connect with But" You will be redirected to But for the next step. Once redirected, log in using But credentials.
After successfully logging in, the connection with But is established and available for use! You will be brought back to the API setup.
Step 2: Create the API
Once back, you have to select your new connection with But and continue setting up your API.
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Configure API settings:
- Name your API
- Choose the unique ID per item. (we recommend the 'id' field)
- Select the language of your API
- Create API: Click on "Continue" to create the new But API.
Step 3: Create your product listings
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.
Mandatory and optional fields:
- Mandatory fields : Required to list your products on this marketplace
- Recommended : Recommended to avoid errors
- Optional : 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.
Additional requirements for But
The following information is specific to But, and includes details about the item tab and additional requirements.
Item tab
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Shipping class (logistic class): The logistic classes determine the respective shipping costs for your items. Enter the logistic class of your product.
- Lead time to ship: The shipping lead time indicates the time required until the package is handed over to the shipping, Indicate the shipping time in days.
- Eco-contributions: France introduced legislation for eco-participation. If your company is operating in France, you must add eco-contributions to your offers on the marketplace. In this article, you can find a list of available EPR categories.
- Price excl. VAT: Indicate the VAT, set the value to "20".
- Private Copy Tax: In France, the private copying levy is a legal requirement compensating 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 must specify the amount of the ''copie-privée'' levy in euros for each applicable item in this category.
- Warranty list: Indicate the legal guarantee of 2 years, the "2-years" has to have a dash in between.
Title Requirements
- Maximum number of characters: 100 Characters Maximum
- Title structure: Product type, function, style, colour, material, dimensions
- Brand name exclusion: Do not include the brand name in the title. Note: The trademark field is automatically placed before the title on the site.
- Dimensions: Specify units of measurement (e.g., H.10 cm). Do not use acronyms. Example: Ø
- No Commercial terms: Do not display terms like "Exclusive", "New", "Top seller", etc.
- Special characters: Do not include special characters (e.g., Greek letters, etc.).
- No leading dash: Do not start the title with a dash.
Image Requirements
- First visual: Must be on a white background, detoured (cut out)
- Positioning: Must be positioned either from the front or from a ¾ angle
- Number of visuals: Up to 6 visuals showcasing different angles (background photo, diagram, accessories, details, etc.)
- Recommended formats: 2000×2000 pixels, 3000×3000 pixels
Description Requirements
- Character limit: Ensure your product description does not exceed 8,000 characters to stay within the platform's guidelines.
- No External Links: Avoid including any links or references to external sites or shops within the product description.
- Use HTML for enhancement: HTML can be used to enrich your description, adding formatting and visual elements (Note: HTML is blocked on Mirakl by default; contact your account manager to enable it).
Following these guidelines will help you make sure your But listings are set up correctly and in line with their requirements.
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.Step 4: Send your product listings to But
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 But API] > Settings, where you activate the API by clicking "Activate API".
Once you have activated the API, navigate back to the API overview and click on the blue "Run now" button to send your product listings to But.
Step 5: Check your product listings for errors
To check for errors, navigate to the [Result page of the API] > Errors tab, where you see which product listings have errors. By clicking on the specific, it will display more information on what is causing the error. For more information about what the errors mean, read this article.