VogaCloset: marketplace guide

About this guide

This is a ChannelEngine guide on the London and Middle East-based marketplace VogaCloset. Here you can find information on how to request a VogaCloset account, how to configure this marketplace on ChannelEngine, and what the specific requirements are.

Table of contents

Commercial information

How to request an account

Associated costs

Marketplace features

Settings and configuration

Marketplace-specific requirements and exceptions

• Setup
• Product selection
• Mappings
• Listed products

FAQs

Commercial information

How to request an account

To start selling on VogaCloset, reach out to its contact team to express your interest. The following seller requirements apply:

• Align with VogaCloset's customer base.
• Efficiently process and prepare orders for shipment to VogaCloset warehouses in the United Kingdom, Turkey, or Saudi Arabia.

Associated costs

VogaCloset does not charge setup or monthly fees. However, it does charge a commission on sales, which depends on the products' recommended retail prices and international commercial terms.

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.

Marketplace-specific requirements and exceptions

Setup

On ChannelEngine

This channel must connect to your channel plugin on ChannelEngine to consume your product content and offers and to push orders to you. Therefore, you need to provide your contact person at this channel with the following information:

• Your ChannelEngine base URL https://[yourtenant].channelengine.net
• The Channel API key
• Your channel-specific product feed URLs*

The Channel API is this channel's gateway to your products on ChannelEngine. To find your Channel API key:

1. In your channel plugin on the ChannelEngine Dashboard, and go to Setup, General.
2. Locate the API key field.

*To retrieve the channel-specific product feed URLs, check out the next section on creating your product selection.

Product selection

VogaCloset recommends that you add all of your product catalog to the product selection from the start. This allows the marketplace to verify all products and enrich them with any attributes. It usually takes 1-2 days for VogaCloset to review your product content.

This channel accesses your product data directly from source files that ChannelEngine generates. In the Product selection step, you see two URLs. These are placeholders for two versions of the product feed that this channel receives from ChannelEngine – one in CSV and one in XML format.

To generate the product feed files for this channel:

1. Create a product selection for this channel.
2. Check which attributes the channel requires you to map, and make sure these attributes are stored in either the standard ChannelEngine fields or your custom fields.
3. If your product data contains custom fields, mark them as public. For guidance on marking custom fields as public, see the Custom fields section below.
4. Complete the remaining steps in Settings and configuration.
5. Let ChannelEngine run its export task for the first time. This task runs every 60 minutes.

The feed content is visible after you finish the Activation step and ChannelEngine completes its export task.

Custom fields

To include your custom fields in the generated feed and, therefore, expose your custom fields to this marketplace, mark them as public on ChannelEngine.

To mark your custom fields as public:

1. Go to Products, Custom fields.
2. Locate the custom field that you want to expose to this channel.
3. Change the Include in channel product feed status by selecting the pencil icon and setting it to enabled.

For more guidance on custom fields, check out ChannelEngine: custom fields.

Mappings

Content

Because VogaCloset is a Channel API marketplace, the mappings contain all standard ChannelEngine attributes. Some can be left empty, even though they are marked as required. However, it is recommended to map all attributes. This leads to a greater visibility of the product on the marketplace and a higher conversion rate.

Although all attributes are written in English, VogaCloset requires content in the respective language of the country you sell in.

All products (required)

• Brand - the product's brand. E.g.: Bamboosiness.
• Catalog price - the product's regular selling price on VogaCloset.
• Category - the product's category tree. E.g.: Lighting > Table lamps.
• Color - the product's color. E.g.: green.
• Description - the product's description.
• Details - the product's highlights. E.g.: This table lamp combines style and sustainability in a unique way.
• Extra image URL 1-9 - the product's additional images.
• GTIN - the product's unique identifier, such as its EAN.
• Image URL - the product's main image.
• Merchant product number - the product's internal identifier, such as its SKU. This attribute must be mapped to the Merchant product number.
• Name - the product's title. E.g.: Table lamp Bamboosiness - green.
• Parent merchant product number - the Merchant product number of the product's parent, if applicable.
• Price - the product's discounted price on VogaCloset.
• Product URL - the link to the product detail page on your own website.
• Shipping cost - the cost to deliver the product. If you do not charge a shipping cost, map this attribute to zero (0).
• Shipping time - the average amount of time it takes to deliver the product. E.g.: 1-2 weeks.
• Size - the product's size.
• Stock - the quantity of products available for purchase.
• Vendor product number - the product's internal identifier.

All products (optional)

• Discount percentage - the discount that applies to the product's price, without the percentage symbol. E.g.: 20.
• Purchase price - the product's purchase price.

Offer

All products

• Price before (re)price rules - the selling price before discounts are applied. This attribute does not appear if you have pricing v2 enabled. 

In Mappings, Offer mappings, the following offer attribute may appear on this channel, if this channel uses pricing v2:

• Allow promotion below min price - set it to ‘true’ to allow the promotion price to drop below your product's minimum price. 

In Mappings, Fee group mappings, map the marketplace fee group ID of the product.

Carrier

Carrier mapping is not required on VogaCloset. 

Listed products

There is no feedback from the marketplace that can be found on the Listed products page. However, you can request a report from VogaCloset, which contains any validation errors and/or other product feedback.

FAQs

Why are my shipments stuck as 'Not exported yet'?
VogaCloset uses ChannelEngine's Channel API, so ChannelEngine does not initiate the import and export of data to and from the marketplace. If your shipments are not exported and not visible in VogaCloset's back-end, something is wrong with the import of the shipment information. Please contact VogaCloset's customer service to investigate.

How often does VogaCloset retrieve stock from ChannelEngine?
VogaCloset retrieves stock updates from ChannelEngine every 40 minutes. If you need a different update frequency, contact your VogaCloset representative to request a change.