Good to know: this document explains the must-knows about the marketplace. It doesn't explain how to add this channel to your EffectConnect account. If you would like to know how to add a channel in EffectConnect, read this article.
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- About Conrad
- Good to know about product information requirements
- How to create or enrich product data on Conrad?
- About the synchronization times
- Troubleshoot
About Conrad
Conrad, YOUR SOURCING PLATFORM for engineering and electronics, that is Conrad, for more than 90 years the most accessible total supplier for electronics, and technology. With the most diverse and complete technical assortment in Europe, they certainly have what consumers are looking for. They combine high-quality items with new technologies and services to provide professional service to all customers. Transparency, accessibility, reliability, and quality are top priorities at Conrad.
Good to know: Conrad is a business-2-business marketplace, which means you cannot sell your products to consumers on this marketplace.
Good to know about product information requirements
When you want to sell products on Conrad that aren't online yet, or you want to enrich product information, you can manually add this information to your Conrad seller account, or you can use our mapping tool to synchronize product data with Conrad. To read more about creating mapping groups, you can read this article.
It is important that you can provide the product information of your products in the German language, as Conrad is at this moment only available for as a German marketplace. So it is useful to have this data in your webshop, or else use so-called "additional data sources". That is a feature within EffectConnect that allows you to add different product information to your products in EffectConnect, without the intervention of your existing connection. So that way you can, for example, load a CSV file into EffectConnect with Polish product information.
To read more about the additional data sources, read this article.
The Conrad NL subtype uses the German labels in the mapping.
How to create or enrich product data on Conrad?
You can create products on Conrad by creating a mapping group in EffectConnect. To read more about creating mapping groups, and how this works, read this article and read the part about 'creating a mapping for a channel in the channel manager'.
Please keep in mind that mapping groups are mandatory to get your products online. Please pay attention to a correct and good-filled mapping group, before you send your product URL to your account manager (next step).
Good to know: For Conrad, it is necessary to have Dutch data imported into EffectConnect, by using this in your webshop of making use of 'additional data sources'.
About the synchronization times
A Conrad channel synchronizes according to the default synchronization times EffectConnect maintains. To read more about our synchronization intervals, read this article.
Troubleshoot
I don't have, or forgot, my API keys for configuring Conrad
You can generate new keys inside your Conrad seller central. If you don't know where to find them, please contact your account manager at Conrad.
My (new) products don't show up in my Conrad account
- Check if you correctly configured your channel.
- Check if the products are enabled in EffectConnect
- Check if the synchronization times are respected. If the products still don't show up online, contact us for further assistance. Please keep in mind that it can take a few days before products show up online on your Conrad dashboard. If you need any help regarding new products that need to be accepted by Conrad, contact your account manager at Conrad.