Magento 2 SoLebIch Integration

SoLebIch is more than a marketplace or a shopping engine. It’s a considerable portal that gathers enthusiasts and professionals. Together, they create a community that inspires other people to make their life better. As a Magento 2 merchant, you can provide your goods to the portal reaching a new audience of customers. The following post describes the Magento 2 SoLebIch integration. Besides, we shed light on various problems related to connectors.

SoLebIch is the name of a beautiful web portal founded by Nicole Maalouf more than 10 years ago. The idea behind the service was simple: anyone can upload photos of their beautiful homes inspiring other people to make their apartments better. The desire to share a part of the lifestyle was so powerful that the portal gathered a large community. As a member, you can save your favourite living ideas, comment on posts, share your design solutions, and purchase corresponding products.

There is no need to surf through multiple furniture stores trying to find something eye-catching and exciting. You need to visit the SoLebIch portal – the best products created to implement the craziest design ideas are gathered there. As an e-commerce merchant, you can provide your furniture and accessories to SoLebIch, and below we shed light on how to do that.

Selecting Magento 2 SoLebIch Connector

SoLebIch.de itself is neither an online shop nor a marketplace. It is a platform on which online shops introduce their products. There is the “To Shop” button on a product page that redirects to the corresponding e-commerce storefront.

It is not allowed to upload product photos if you are just a community member, but you are welcome to link your Etsy or Dawanda stores in your profile. If you are a merchant who wants to offer products on SoLebIch.de, send an e-mail to info@solebich.de. After contacting the support, you will have to provide a data feed to the platform, and several issues may occur.

As we’ve just mentioned, SoLebIch is not a marketplace: no orders are placed on the platform, so you will never get any data back. But it doesn’t mean that an ordinary export extension is enough for the Magento 2 SoLebIch integration.

In case of scaling, you will face problems trying to connect to a marketplace or another platform that provides data output bac. The only solution is to install an additional import module. Of course, you can import data manually, but what about different data schemes and rules?

If you’ve decided to do all the routine manually, get ready to edit every data file during each import/export process since Magento 2 has its unique requirements related to attributes and data placement within the import/export file. The same is about all third-party platforms. Therefore, even a simple import/export solution won’t be enough, if it doesn’t fix the issue of different standards. In addition to bidirectional capabilities, it should also provide the mapping functionality so that you can match default attributes to custom ones and eliminate manual data editing every time information on the platform should be updated.

Another vital aspect we’d like to draw your attention to is the ability to create multiple connections. The Magento community offers numerous tools that provide synchronisation between two platforms only. Usually, such connectors work well and fully satisfy even the most demanding business needs, but they are associated with several drawbacks especially in comparison with universal modules responsible for unlimited integrations.

One extension is less expensive than ten modules. Even if you are not going to implement ten integrations right now, you should think about possible future scaling. Thus, by choosing a single universal module that is more expensive than an ordinary Magento 2 SoLebIch connector, you will save your budget in the future when more connections are required.

One extension consumes fewer system resources than ten modules. Even if the connectors are lightweight and the universal solution is a complicated tool, you will save your backend from overloads especially when multiple connections are required.

One extension causes fewer conflicts than ten modules. It’s evident that you increase the probability of conflicts between the installed extensions with each new module. Thus, universal solution prevents you from lots of unknown headaches.

Let’s summarise core requirements for a Magento 2 SoLebIch connector:

• Support for both import and export processes;
• Support for multiple integrations;
• Mapping.

There is a module that fully satisfies them and offers tons of other useful features. Meet the Improved Import & Export Extension by Firebear.

The module is based on the use of import and export profiles. There is a grid for each profile type. And since import and export features of the extension are separated, you don’t need to do additional work configuring data import if the only necessary process is export. For instance, to use the Improved Import & Export extension as a Magento 2 SoLebIch connector set an export profile.

You can fully automate the process since the extension supports cron. Create a custom schedule of updates to export new product information to SoLebIch every time you want. Alternatively, you can select one of the predefined intervals. Also, note that the Improved Import & Export extension allows launching every profile manually. There is the asynchronous mode available in the backend section.

Besides, you can select one of the multiple file formats to provide SoLebIch with product information. Our extension supports CSV, XML, and TXT formats. Usually, they are enough to establish a connection, but we’ve decided not to stop and introduced support for Google Sheets and Excel files. Furthermore, there is even an opportunity to create an API connection.

Also, note that several file sources are supported. First of all, you can transfer data via FTP/SFTP. Specify all the necessary parameters, and the Improved Import & Export extension will import/export files from/to a local or remote server. Alternatively, you can streamline cloud technologies. Our module is fully integrated with Dropbox so that you can use this cloud storage to transfer files. Moreover, there is an opportunity to import product files via a direct URL link.

As for the aforementioned mapping functionality, it is represented in every profile as well. You can match default attributes to custom rules in the easiest way. The user-friendly grid provides the ability to create a mapping scheme that is used for all further updates. As a result, the necessity to edit data files during every update is eliminated.

And the Improved Import & Export provides mapping presets – predefined mapping schemes that can be applied in just a few clicks. If the desired integration has a preset, you don’t even need to create a mapping scheme manually – it is already established by our specialists.

Thus, the Magento 2 SoLebIch connector provided by our extension makes the integration of two platforms seamless. Note that it is available for free as a bonus in the Improved Import Export module. For any further information, contact our support team and follow the link below:

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