Creating listings
In the Sales Channels » Accounts menu, you create product listings and offer listings out of your PlentyONE variations that you put up for sale on your sales channels. Besides that, you are able to create offer listings out of product listings.
Creating offer and product listings
You can create product and offer listings over the tabs add Create offers and add Create products or by clicking the plus in the list Offer listings and list Product listings menus. |
1. Creating product listings
Sales channel only retrieves offer data?
You want to offer a product on a sales channel that doesn’t differentiate between products and offers, only retrieving offer data? In this case, you don’t have to create a product listing. Create an offer listing instead. |
Product listings are created in three steps:
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First, you enter listing details, meaning you select the channel, template and catalogue for the listing.
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Next, you select the variations from which the product listings are created.
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Lastly, check and confirm your selection and create the listings.
Creating product listings
Create product listings via group function
You have the option to create product listings directly in the Item menu via the variation group function. Here^ you find more information on the variation group function. |
Step 1: Specify listing details:
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Open the Sales Channels » Accounts menu.
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Open the sales channel you want to create listings for.
→ The Offer listings menu opens. -
Switch into the Product listings menu via the side navigation to the left.
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Click on Create products (add).
→ The tab Create products opens. -
Select the platform.
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Select the template for the catalogue.
Tip: Only templates that are available for the selected sales channel are displayed.
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Select a catalogue with your mapping for item data.
Tip: If you have no fitting catalogue yet, click on add Create catalogue. You will be forwarded to the Data » Catalogues menu and can create a catalogue. -
Optional: Activate Automatically activate listings after creation, if listing data should be automatically transferred to the sales channel after the listing is created.
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Click arrow_forward NEXT.
→ The Select variations view opens. Next, select the variations you want to add to the listing.
Step 2: Select variations:
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Select the variations you want to create the product listing for.
Tip: Use the search to filter for variations.
Note: Only variations that are linked to the sales channel in the Item » Items » [Open item] » [Open variation] menu are displayed.
Tip: If you want to create product listings for all available variations, click on Click here to create listings for all [] variations above. You will be automatically redirected to the Preview and confirmation step. Product listings can be created for a maximum of 50,000 variations at a time. -
Click add ADD TO SELECTED VARIATIONS.
→ The selected variations are displayed in the Selected variations. -
Click arrow_forward NEXT.
→ The selected variations will be displayed in a new view. In the last step, you preview and confirm your selection.
Step 3: Preview and confirm selection:
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Preview your settings in the Listing details section.
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Preview your selected variations in the Listing preview section. The listings are grouped by items. Extend a listing group (chevron_right) to see which variations are contained in the respective listing group.
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If everything is set and done, click CREATE PRODUCT LISTINGS.
Note: If you activated Automatically activate listings after creation, a window with a summary of your settings opens. Click on check CONFIRM to create the product listings.
2. Creating offer listings
Offer listings are created in three steps:
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First, you enter listing details, meaning you select the channel, template and catalogue for the listing.
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Next, you select the variations from which the offer listings are created.
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Lastly, check and confirm your selection and create the listings.
Step 1: Specify listing details:
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Open the Sales Channels » Accounts menu.
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Open the sales channel you want to create listings for.
→ The Offer listings menu opens. -
Click add Create offers.
→ The Create offers tab opens. -
Select the platform.
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Select the template for the catalogue.
Tip: Only templates that are available for the selected sales channel are displayed. -
If the platform supports multiple sales channels, select the sales channel on which the listing should be offered.
Note: This option is only available for platforms with multiple sales channels. -
Select a catalogue with your mappings for offer data.
Tip: If you have no fitting catalogue yet, click on add Create catalogue. You will be forwarded to the Data » Catalogues menu and can create a catalogue. -
Optional: Activate Automatically activate listings after creation, if listing data should be automatically transferred to the sales channel after the listing is created.
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Click arrow_forward NEXT.
→ The Select variations view opens. Next, select the variations you want to add to the listing.
Step 2: Select variations:
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Select the variations you want to create the offer listing for.
Tip: Use the search to filter for variations.
Note: Only variations that are linked to the sales channel in the Item » Items » [Open item] » [Open variation] menu are displayed.
Tip: If you want to create offer listings for all available variations, click on Click here to create listings for all [] variations above. You will be automatically redirected to the Preview and confirmation step. Offer listings can be created for a maximum of 50,000 variations at a time. -
Click add ADD TO SELECTED VARIATIONS.
→ The selected variations are displayed in the Selected variations. -
Click arrow_forward NEXT.
→ The selected variations will be displayed in a new view. In the last step, you preview and confirm your selection.
Step 3: Preview and confirm selection:
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Preview your settings in the Listing details section.
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Preview your selected variations in the Listing preview section. The listings are grouped by items. Extend a listing group (chevron_right) to see which variations are contained in the respective listing group.
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If everything is set and done, click CREATE OFFER LISTINGS.
Note: If you activated Automatically activate listings after creation a window with a summary of your settings opens. Click check CONFIRM to create the offer listings.
2.1. Create offer listing out of product listing
If you want to create an offer listing out of a product listing, proceed the same way as when creating offer listings:
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First, you enter listing details, meaning you select the channel, template and catalogue for the listing.
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Next, you select the product listings from which the offer listings are created.
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Lastly, check and confirm your selection and create the listings.
Step 1: Specify listing details:
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Open the Sales Channels » Accounts menu.
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Open the sales channel you want to create listings for.
→ The Offer listings menu opens. -
Click on add » Create offers from products in side navigation on the left.
→ The Create offers from products tab opens. -
Select the platform.
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If the platform supports multiple sales channels, select the sales channel on which the listing should be offered.
Note: This option is only available for platforms with multiple sales channels. -
Select the template for the catalogue.
Tip: Only templates that are available for the selected sales channel are displayed. -
Select a catalogue with your mappings for offer data.
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Activate Automatically activate listings after creation, if listing data should be automatically transferred to the sales channel after the listing is created.
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Click on NEXT.
→ The Select product listings view opens. Next, you select the product listings from which the offer listings are created.
Step 2: select product listings:
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Select the product listings from which the offer listings are created.
Tip: Use the search to filter for product listings. -
Click add ADD TO SELECTED LISTINGS.
→ The selected product listings are displayed in the Selected listings section. -
Click arrow_forward NEXT.
→ The selected product listings will be displayed in a new view. In last step you preview and confirm your selection.
Step 3: Preview and confirm selection:
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Preview your settings in the Listing details section.
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Preview your selected product listings in the Listing preview section. The listings are grouped by items. Expand a listing group (chevron_right) to see which product listings are contained in the respective listing group.
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If everything is set and done, click CREATE OFFER LISTINGS.
Note: If you activated Automatically activate listings after creation a window with a summary of your settings opens. Click check CONFIRM to create the offer listings.