With the bol.com Content Connection, it's possible to publish unique EANs to the bol.com platform. Before you can upload the content though, you'll need to fill in the product information. This is divided into two parts:
Mandatory fields (Product information which is mandatory to fill in before it can be published)
Optional fields (Product information which isn't mandatory to fill in before it can be published)
In this article, we'll explain exactly how to work with the Content Connection.
Category mapping
Before you can publish new EANs, you'll need to connect your WooCommerce categories to those of bol.com.
Go to the bol.com plugin settings
Click on the Content Connection tab
Immediately you are on the category mapping page
Select the Content language, either Dutch or French and click on Collect categories
Underneath the Bol.com categories header, click Select
The button Select will be replaced with a dropdown menu, click on it and select or search the bol.com category
Click on Connect
Configure categories
After connecting certain WooCommerce categories to bol.com, you can pre-fill each WooCommerce category with information. This contains the Mandatory fields & Optional fields so that you don't need to manually fill in each product with this information. Instead, the plugin gets the information from the pre-filled category.
Go to the bol.com plugin settings
Click on the Content Connection tab
Immediately you are on the category mapping page
At the right side of a category, click on Configure
A screen will pop up and from there you can configure the Mandatory & Optional fields
The mandatory must be filled in, or else bol.com refuses the product
The optional fields aren't required, but in some cases, it's better to fill them in to avoid not having enough product information on bol.com
Lastly, when everything is filled in, scroll down and click on Save Config
Publish Products
After configuring the categories, you can immediately start to publish new products to bol.com.
Go to the product page in WooCommerce
Select the products you would like to publish
Click on Bulk Action: bol publish to publish the desired products
After you published the product(s), it'll first have the status Processing and eventually No Content
Go to the bol.com plugin Settings -> Content Connection -> Upload Content and find your product(s) there
Click on Manage Content and fill in the product with all the Mandatory Fields if still needed, and also Optional Fields (Note: if you already configured the categories, then most likely most of the fields will already be pre-filled)
After you are done, scroll down and click o Upload Content
The products will first appear in the Processing tab and from there you'll either go to Rejected or Uploaded
Great, you successfully uploaded unique products to bol.com!
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