Connecting your eBay Store

CONNECTING YOUR eBAY STORE

You can connect your eBay store to your Vroom Classics store to help streamline your catalogue and inventory management. When you connect your stores, you synchronise your product listings (catalogue) and your inventory levels across both stores.

This is an efficient way to get started on Vroom Classics as well: if you wanted to manage your stores separately but want a faster way to build your Vroom Classics catalogue, you can synchronise your product listings from eBay to Vroom Classics, then disconnect your stores. Now you can manage your stores totally separately, including tweaking your listings to suit your two stores' objectives.

 

Benefits of Connecting to your eBay store:

If you use eBay as your primary or major online sales channel

1. Real-time inventory Sync: Ensure your product inventory is always up to date across your eBay and Vroom Classics stores
2. Effortless product catalogue Sync: Keep your Vroom Classics product catalogue up to date with your eBay store by triggering synchronisations either manually or automatically
3. Custom pricing rules: Set different pricing rules for products imported from eBay to match your marketplace strategy.

Caveats:

1. The product listing synchronisation is one-way: from eBay to Vroom Classics. Changes you make on eBay will reflect on Vroom Classics, but not the other way.
2. The inventory synchronisation is two-way: if inventory levels are changed on your eBay store, the change will reflect in Vroom Classics. If an order on Vroom Classics consumes inventory, we will send a "decrement" command to eBay telling eBay to reduce the available inventory quantity by the decrement amount (i.e. we won't overwrite eBay with a new number, we will only tell eBay to reduce the onhand by the quantity consumed by the Vroom Classics order)
3. The connection setup is robust but not trivial, so read this guide first to determine if this one-time investment will pay you the dividends you seek.

 

MAKING THE CONNECTION

To start the connection process, navigate to Configuration > eBay Configuration in your Vroom Classics Workshop:

To set up the eBay Connector you will need to enter the following credentials:

• Your eBay User Name
• The eBay Connector's Client ID (sourced from eBay, instructions below)
• TheeBay Connector's Dev ID(sourced from eBay, instructions below)
• eBay Connector's Client Secret(sourced from eBay, instructions below)
• eBay Redirect URL Name(sourced from eBay, instructions below)
• Seller Marketplace 
• Select Credential Type
• Weight unit of your eBay store
• Currency of your eBay store (must be GBP to operate on Vroom Classics for now)

Auto-Sync Product Configuration

The Auto-Sync product configuration makes managing your products easier by automatically adding any new item listed on eBay to your Vroom Classics store. Remember that the synchronisation is one way, from eBay to Vroom Classics; this allows you to import from eBay to Vroom Classics, then tweak your listings on Vroom Classics if you so wish.

To enable Product Auto-Sync, navigate to Seller panel > Configuration > eBay Configuration, enable the Auto Sync new products option, then click ‘Save’.

On clicking 'Save', you will be redirected to your eBay store login page, where you need to sign in using your eBay login credentials.

Once signed in to your eBay account, a pop-up notification will appear stating, “App Details Updated Successfully”.

Retrieving Your eBay Store's credentials

To retrieve your eBay store credentials for the Connector, follow these steps:

• First, log in to your eBay developer account via this link: eBay Developer Sign-In
• Navigate to the 'Application Keys' page
• Enter a descriptive title e.g. "Vroom Classics" in the "Enter Application Title" box
• Upon entering the title,you will see two sections: “Sandbox” and “Production"
• Create a keyset: in the "Production" section, click on "Create a Keyset"
• A new section will open where you can see your App Client ID, Dev ID, and Secret ID

If you encounter the error shown below when clicking on “Create Keyset” in production mode:

Click the link named "marketplace deletion/account closure notification" and you will be directed to the page below:

From this page:

• Select the “Production” environment
• In the “Event Notification Delivery Method,” choose “Marketplace Account Deletion”
• Enable the “Exempted from Marketplace Account Deletion” option
• Now click on confirm

• Generate User Token: Under the Client ID, click on the “User Token” link:

• Scroll down and click on “Add eBay Redirect URL":

• Configure Redirect URL: A new section will appear
• Select the “OAuth” radio button
• Enter a “Display Title of your choice
• In the “Auth Accepted URL” field, enter the URL from the eBay configuration page from the seller side
• In the “Auth Declined URL” field, enter the URL from the eBay configuration page
• Click on “Save"

Final Step: Return to your Vroom Classics Workshop and access the eBay Connector. Copy the Client ID, Dev ID, and Secret ID from eBay and paste them on the eBay configuration page in the eBay Connector configuration interface.

Your eBay store is now connected to your Vroom Classics store.

 

Product Collection (Category) Mapping

We will be happy to do this step on your behalf, to save you having to navigate our category structure. Please contact your Vroom Classics POC when you have reached this point in the process, and we can take over.

However, should you really want to delve into the minutiae of our category structure, here goes: Back in your Workshop, you can map your products to collections (aka categories) by navigating to the Collection Mapping section.

To map your collections:

• Click on “Map Collection”
• Select the “Collection Name of Merchant Store"
• In the “Collection Name of Your Store” box, enter the name of the associated category on your eBay store
• Click on “Save.”

In the Collection Mapping section, you will see a list of all the mapped collections.

To manage these mappings, you can disable or delete any mapping by clicking on the three dots under the “Action” column next to the particular mapped collection.

Import Products

To import products from your eBay store to your Vroom Classics store:

• Go to the Seller Panel
• Navigate to Configuration > eBay Configuration
• Click on “Import Products"

There are two methods for importing products:

Method 1: Created Date Range

Use this option to import products created in eBay within a specific date range

• Enter the desired “From” date and “To” date
• Click on “Import Products"
• A pop-up notification will appear, confirming that the products have been imported successfully

Method 2: Using eBay Item Number

Use this option to import specific products by entering their eBay item number.

• Enter the eBay item number
• Click on “Import Product”

After the products are imported, you can view them by navigating to Products > Product Listing.

 

To edit product details:

To edit individual products:

• Navigate to Products > Products Listing
• Click on “…” under the Action column next to the product you want to edit
• Click on “Edit”
• Make the desired changes to the product details
• Click on “Save”

To edit products in bulk:

• Go to the Seller Panel
• Navigate to Products > Products Listing
• Click "More Action"
• On the new page, export the date range of the products you want to edit
• Edit in a spreadsheet and save the file
• Return to your Workshop and upload the updated file

 

Need Help?

Email us on contactus@vroomclassics.com and we'll be happy to help!