Showroomprivé: (drop shipment) marketplace guide

About this guide

This is a ChannelEngine guide on the drop shipment model for the marketplace Showroomprivé. Here you can find information on how to request a Showroomprivé account, how to configure this marketplace on ChannelEngine, and what the specific requirements are.

Table of contents

About this channel

Commercial information

How to request an account

Marketplace features

Settings and configuration

Channel-specific requirements and exceptions

• Setup
• Mappings
• Pricing
• Listed products

Additional information

FAQs

About this channel

Showroomprivé promotes dropshipping as one of its core business models. When an order is placed on Showroomprivé, Showroomprivé forwards the order directly to the seller for the seller to fulfill. The buyer sees that the product is sold by and shipped by Showroomprivé.

To manage dropship orders and shipments, ChannelEngine offers the dedicated Showroom Prive - Dropshipping plugin, which you can add to your dashboard on ChannelEngine.

Commercial information

How to request an account

To become a dropship partner with Showroomprivé, register your interest with your contact person at ChannelEngine.

The following requirements apply:

• A legal entity in the European Union.

• Established brand awareness and high sales potential.

Marketplace features

Settings and configuration

Setting up each channel on ChannelEngine follows the same flow, though not every channel includes the steps listed below.

1. Go through the Setup.
2. Create a Product selection.
3. Complete the Categorization.
4. Set up the Mappings: content, offers, and carriers.
5. Configure the Pricing: rules and currency conversion.
6. Fill in the Stock settings.
7. Finish the Activation.
8. Check the Listed products overview.

Channel-specific requirements and exceptions

The Showroomprivé dropshipping plugin helps you manage your dropship orders and shipments with Showroomprivé. Therefore, many of the standard steps that are needed to set up a standard channel plugin on ChannelEngine are not required on this channel. This section describes this plugin’s exceptions to the standard settings and configuration process for channel plugins.

Setup

On ChannelEngine

Connection

1. This channel is a Mirakl-based channel. Therefore, you connect to it with your Mirakl Connect SSO account. For more information on configuring Mirakl Connect SSO with ChannelEngine, check out the Mirakl-based channels: SSO authorization article.
2. If you would like to test the order flow with this plugin, contact the ChannelEngine Support team to configure the connection of your plugin to support testing. For more information on testing orders, check out the article ChannelEngine: how to create test orders.

Invoice uploads

To configure your invoice settings, go to Advanced settings. Then, select one option from the dropdown menu in the Enable invoice uploading field, which contains the following options:

• ChannelEngine invoices - when ChannelEngine receives a shipment, ChannelEngine automatically generates an invoice and attaches it to the shipment before exporting the shipment.
• Merchant invoices (optional) - when ChannelEngine receives a shipment, ChannelEngine exports the shipment – even if there is no invoice attached to it.
• Merchant invoices (required) - when ChannelEngine receives a shipment, ChannelEngine only exports the shipment if an invoice is attached to it. If not, you receive a notification.
• None - when ChannelEngine receives a shipment, ChannelEngine takes no action other than notifying you that no invoice is present.

If you select one of the Merchant invoices options, make sure to upload the invoice to ChannelEngine via the Merchant API or via the web interface. To learn more, check out the article ChannelEngine: upload merchant invoices.

Product selection

Neither product content nor offers are sent from ChannelEngine to Showroomprivé when you set up the Showroomprivé dropship plugin. However, a product selection is required to complete the activation of the plugin.

Categorization

Categorization is not used for Showroomprivé drop shipment.

Mappings

Because neither content nor offers on drop shipments are sent to Showroomprivé, no content or offer mappings are used for Showroomprivé dropshipping.

Carrier

Carrier mapping is not required on Mirakl-based marketplaces. However, with carrier mapping, you can map your carrier to a specific list of carriers maintained by this marketplace. Carrier mapping enables ChannelEngine to automatically send the tracking codes to this marketplace, allowing buyers to eventually track the shipment themselves. If your carrier is missing from the list, please directly contact the marketplace.

Pricing

No offers are sent to Showroomprivé from this plugin. Therefore, no pricing configurations are used, and this step is not used.

Additional information

Order extra data items

When an order is imported to ChannelEngine, ChannelEngine also retrieves extra data items related to the order itself – or to order lines. This extra data is specific to this marketplace. An explanation of each can be found below: 

Order extra data

* Conditional fields are only displayed if the marketplace provides a value.

Shipments

Drop shipments follow the same flow as with usual shipments on ChannelEngine. For more information on ChannelEngine’s shipment flow, check out ChannelEngine: shipments and Merchant API: shipments.

You can specify any carrier for your shipment method.

FAQs

How often does each task run on Mirakl-based marketplaces?
By default, Mirakl-based marketplaces follow the schedule below: