How do I send Dutch and French product information to one bol account?

This article only applies if you want to sell the same product using both French and Dutch content through the same Bol.com vendor account. If you have separate Bol.com vendor accounts for each country, create a separate API exporter as described in How to set up a bol channel.

The article assumes you already have a Bol.com API for either Dutch or French Bol.com products. If not, set up an API first: How to set up a bol channel

Dutch and French product information in the same Bol.com account

As Bol.com sells in Belgium, they have two different versions of their website, one for Dutch-speaking customers and one for French-speaking customers. Bol.com allows you to create both French and Dutch content for the same product listing. The listing will share offer information (price, inventory, delivery promise) but the content will differ.

If you already have a Bol.com API for Dutch content and offers, create an extra API to forward the French content for the products. Or vice versa: if you already have a Bol.com API for French content and offers, create an extra API for the Dutch content.

1

Add a new bol channel

Go to Channels and follow the steps below:

• Create a new bol channel.

• Choose the language for the products you want to send via this API.

• Ensure you select the content only (only push content data to Bol.com) setting when configuring the API to specifically push content data to Bol.

Important: once the API settings are saved, the language and Content setting cannot be changed.

2

Create your product listings in Channable

Once you have created your channel, you can set up your product data by following the API steps:

• Categories For your product data to be created your products need a category. Add categories to your products by using:

  • AI Categorization

  • Generate categories

  • Create new categories from scratch

• Rules Create different rules to optimize your product data.

• Build Use the preset template for the product listings. Fill fields by clicking on them and selecting the content. For this API setup it's not necessary to fill all fields as in the normal Bol.com API setup — some fields are greyed out.

• Attributes Fill in the fields in the Attributes step. Select the category you want to optimize first and fill at least the required (red) fields in the attribute builder.

3

Send your products to Bol.com

• If you have not activated your project, go to Setup > Project settings on the left-hand side and click "Activate project".

• Go back to the APIs overview, open "Your Bol.com API Name" > Settings and activate the API by selecting "Activate API".

• After activation, navigate back to the APIs overview and click the blue "Run now" button to send your product listings to Bol.com.

4

Check your product listings for errors

• After sending your product listings to Bol.com, go to the Results tab of your Bol.com API.

• Click filter on "error" to see which product listings have errors and have not been listed.

• Errors in Dutch content will be shown on the exporter with Dutch content; errors in French content will be shown on the exporter with French content. Offer-related errors will be shown on the API that pushes offers.

• Click a specific error to see more information about the cause.

• If you fixed errors by changing settings or product information, re-run the Bol.com API to see updated results.