How to start selling on merXu - step by step guide
To start selling on merXu:
1. Activate sales account
2. Choose a Subscription Plan tailored to your company's needs
3. Upload offers
4. Activate payment methods through onboarding with PayU
1. Sales activation
Each Seller on merXu is verified in one of two possible ways:
a) for sellers from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, it is possible to verify through a verification transfer in the amount of 1 EUR/1 PLN/1 Kč from a company bank account, the so-called "penny transfer"
b) for sellers from other EU countries (excluding CZ, PL and SK), manual verification by the merXu Customer Success Team on the basis of the following documents (attachment in pdf file) :
- official from the bank confirming that the given IBAN is the company bank account: bank statement from your corporate account - not older than 30 days , with company name and address
- or official bank certificate with company name and address - not older than 30 day
which ensures the security of the transaction.
How and where to add the attachment with the required document?
- Log in to your merXu account
- Go to: my merXu> settings >Company Profile & click on “Verify company”
- Select the relevant documents
- You can edit the uploaded file
- Add the required document and click "Finish"
- You will be inform, if the merxu customer success team will approve your account and change account status to “verified”.
You should log out & log in after status changing , to update the account status after changes.
2. Choose a Subscription Plan
Before you activate offers on merXu, choose one of the three Subscription Plans: Standard, Premium or Enterprise.
You can find the plans under My merXu > Settings > Subscription plans HERE.
If this is your first subscription purchase,
you will receive a 90% discount for the first 30 days
on Standard and Premium plans*.
You can read about the subscriptions, plans and pricing available on the merXu HERE.
3. Listing offers on merXu
Great! The account is now ready to start selling. It's time for the next step, which is loading offers on the merXu platform.
You can list on merXu in several ways:
- Manual listing
- Uploading files
- BaseLinker
- API
Manual listing
This model is quick and easy. It will work well if you want to enter just a few listings on merXu.
Just go to the form HERE or via My merXu > Product Catalogue > Create offer.
Then fill out a simple form (fields marked with an *asterisk are mandatory)
- Product ID (mandatory field) — a code assigned by you. It must be unique and used for 1 product only. It can consist of letters and/or numbers;
- Category (mandatory field) — category path which you can choose by expanding the list;
- Product name — the name visible to customers, should uniquely identify the product. You can use up to 255 characters;
- Product description - the better you describe your product, the more chance you have of selling it;
- Product parameters — define additional product parameters if you think they are needed to be; indicated in the offer. Also, enter the value of the parameter, e.g. units of measurement;
- Product photos — you can add up to 8 photos, each with a maximum weight of 10 MB. Photos may not infringe copyright or industrial property, contain watermarks or contain reflections. Additional photos may show the product in use, close-ups of its important functions, packaging, accessories out of the box and transformations — composite, unfolded, open, closed, etc.;
You can load photos one at a time or select an entire folder.
- YouTube video — if you have a video about the product or how to use it, etc., you can post it in the form;
- Status — the offer will be visible to Buyers after setting the status to “Active”;
- Stock- you can mark your products as "in stock"
- Sell in multiply of — if you sell a product in packs of e.g. 5 pieces, indicate that the quantity can be increased by the whole set (5 pieces) and not, e.g. by 1 piece;
- Pricing
- Unit — you can choose: m3, kg, l, m, pcs, m2
- Currency — you can choose currencies PLN, CZK, EUR, HUF, RO;
- Net price — enter the net price of your product;
- VAT rate — select the appropriate rate;
- Price levels — add price levels to show that the price is more attractive when buying multiple pieces;
- Shipping
You can prepare your individual shipping price lists, add carriers, also for foreign markets. You can read about creating shipping price lists HERE.
If you do not use the prepared shipping price lists, you can enter the price list manually by specifying:
- Shipment country — select from the list the country from which you plan to ship. By default, the country where your company is registered is selected;
- Shipping price per item — you can enter the shipping price right from the form or leave this issue until individual arrangements with the Buyer;
- Shipping time — you can also postpone this point into individual arrangements with the Buyer;
- Destination countries — countries to which you plan to send your products. The list includes all countries where merXu operates;
Uploading files
This method is recommended when adding more offers.
You can integrate your product catalog with merXu in several ways:
- merXu format — you can find it by clicking here. Complete it and upload the file to the platform. If you need help, please write on: contact@merxu.com;
- Ceneo XML/Google Merchant XML — if you have Ceneo or Google Merchant XML files, you can upload them by yourself via the form. However, if you want us to automatically update prices and contents of the catalog, please send a direct link to your XML file by email to contact@merxu.com;
- Heureka format — Heureka is the largest price comparison engine in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, comparing millions of products from tens of thousands of e-shops. If you are a Seller and you use the “heureka channel”, we can easily implement your products on merXu;
If you have catalogs prepared in one of these formats, you can easily import data from your catalog into merXu.
Go to My MerXu > Product catalogue > Upload offers or click HERE.
Select the appropriate option to upload the file.
!merXu formats: You can read about the instructions for creating merXu formats HERE.
API merXu
In order to use the REST API, it is necessary to generate access data for the application (client_id and client_secret). This data is generated once for each integration, regardless of the number of users or queries performed.
To generate your access data, please contact api@merxu.com.
In order to use most of the functionalities it is necessary to authenticate with user data. For this purpose, it is necessary to enter a login and a password. For maximum security, we suggest generating a dedicated password for each integration:
After logging in (https://api.merxu.com/docs#operation/authentication-authenticate) the user receives two tokens:
- accessToken — a token to be used at each subsequent request for authentication. The token is valid for 30 minutes.
- refreshToken — a token used to generate a new accessToken.
API is available in all languages supported by merXu. To receive data in the desired language, use the accept-language header (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers / Accept-Language) — eg. “Accept-language: pl-PL” or “Accept-language: pl”.
Bravo! You have made your first offers, just look how the first customers will respond ;)
Remember that you can also find them yourself, thus increasing the chance of a successful transaction.
A good place to find customers is the list of public inquiries. HERE you will find inquiries created by potential Buyers.
If you find an interesting query, make an offer to the Buyer.