Good to know: To use the Sportdeal connection, you need a 'custom channel' in EffectConnect. You can not create this channel yourself, but we're glad to help you out. Please contact our customer success colleagues for further assistance.
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- About Sportdeal
- How to set up the connection to Sportdeal?
- How to create or enrich product data on Sportdeal?
- About the synchronization times
- Troubleshoot
About Sportdeal
Sportdeal is a fast-growing online marketplace for sports products, aimed at retailers and wholesalers who are selling to consumers. With its high-quality expertise in online marketing, Sportdeal wants to be the expert for its connected partners within the sports industry.
Sportdeal is experiencing rapid growth with its broad target audience in the sports industry. You can reach those consumers without making extra efforts, by using EffectConnect to integrate your webshop with Sportdeal today!
Please keep in mind that you must have a seller account with the marketplace, without an account you cannot sell. Each marketplace may have its own terms and conditions, always read them carefully before you start selling.
How to set up the connection to Sportdeal?
When would like to connect your EffectConnect account to Sportdeal, you need to contact your account manager at Sportdeal to establish the connection from their side. To set up the connection, Sportdeal needs API keys of EffectConnect to connect their platform to our software.
Follow the next steps to make sure Sportdeal receives all the information they need to establish the connection.
- Navigate in the left side menu in EffectConnect to 'API > API Keys management' .
- Click on 'Create API key' on the top right of the screen
- Create a new API key (key type needs to be set to 'single-channel key')
- Go to the tab with permissions, add the Sportdeal channel and select the following permissions
- Read order list
- Create order
- Update order
- Read order - Click on 'save'
- Re-open the key and send the public and private keys to your account manager at Sportdeal.
Please keep the synchronization in your channel in EffectConnect disabled until Sportdeal informed you to enable the synchronization. Also, Sportdeal will send you an API key in return, which our customer success department will fill in for you. So once you receive it, please contact our support department so we can assist you.
How to create or enrich product data on Sportdeal?
You can create products on Sportdeal by handing a product feed to your account manager. You can generate this feed yourself, with your own software, or use our feed manager to create a product feed. If you would like to know more about the possibilities, please contact our customer success colleagues.
About the synchronization times
A Sportdeal channel synchronizes according to the default synchronization times by EffectConnect. To read more about our synchronization intervals, read this article.
Troubleshoot
I don't have, or forgot, my API keys for configuring Sportdeal
You can generate new keys inside your Sportdeal seller central. If you don't know where to find them, please contact your account manager at Sportdeal.
Products are shown double in my Sportdeal account, what now?
This normally happens when you've changed the SKUs that are being used, or changed your data source data is used for your products. In this way, products are created again, and the old ones will remain in your dashboard which leads to double products.
The way to solve this is to remove the products with the old SKUs. If this happened with a lot of products, you can empty your inventory at Sportdeal and request our customer success department to refill your inventory by re-sending the offers.
My (new) products don't show up in my Sportdeal account
- Check if you created a mapping that includes all the mandatory data.
- 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 assistance. Please keep in mind that it can take a few days before products show up online in your Sportdeal dashboard. If you need any help regarding new products that need to be accepted by Sportdeal, contact your account manager at Sportdeal.