Batched offer updates for bol.com
bol.com accepts offer updates in batches rather than one at a time. Sending them grouped cut the time a large catalogue needs to come fully up to date from roughly forty minutes to under ten.
Every change with a date, a version and a reason. The list has been kept since the products went to clients.
bol.com accepts offer updates in batches rather than one at a time. Sending them grouped cut the time a large catalogue needs to come fully up to date from roughly forty minutes to under ten.
An invoice from a supplier in another member state is now posted with zero VAT and the reverse charge basis, instead of being flagged for a human to correct. Around one document in nine was hitting that queue.
The share of stock held back during peak hours can now be set separately for each shop and marketplace. Marketplaces with slower offer updates usually need a larger buffer than your own shop.
A supplier file that would zero the stock on more than five per cent of a catalogue is held and someone is asked about it, rather than applied. The threshold is configurable and the run can be released as it is.
Stock used to move in scheduled batches. It now moves as events, one movement at a time, which is what brought propagation to your own shop under two seconds instead of the previous few minutes. Existing installations were migrated one shop at a time, with the old path kept alongside until each was proven.
The first two reports: what has not moved and where it is sitting, and what the same item actually earns in each shop and marketplace once they have taken their fees.
Supplier spreadsheets rarely have one clean header row. Merged cells, headers spread over two or three rows and repeated blocks are now read without a template being prepared for each supplier.
Stock, prices and offer status for Allegro, including the category-specific attributes the marketplace requires before an offer can go live.
Offers, stock and order retrieval for bol.com, with the seller performance metrics the marketplace measures surfaced next to each account so a rising cancellation rate is visible before it becomes a restriction.
Delivery notes that arrive as a photograph or a scan are read at the same accuracy as the digital ones, provided the page is legible to a person.
Offers, stock and order retrieval for eMAG, with the order statuses mapped to the ones the warehouse already uses.
Older entries are kept but not shown here. The full list is available to clients.
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