Setting Up a ChannelAdvisor Shopping Cart

A secure link to your ChannelAdvisor store via the Channel Advisor XML API allows you to automatically retrieve orders from your ChannelAdvisor store. You can then download and import these orders into the Order Manager for processing.

 

Determining your ChannelAdvisor account information

If you are unable to determine your ChannelAdvisor account information after reading the information below, please contact your ChannelAdvisor account manager.

 

Account Profile ID:  This is a numeric value unique to each ChannelAdvisor Merchant Account.
The easiest way to determine your Account ID is to examine a URL for a ChannelAdvisor checkout generated within that account. You can find these URL's by visiting the Sales> All sales view in the ChannelAdvisor Merchant application, and clicking the "visit checkout" command for a particular order. If no sales exist, you can create a sample checkout via the Checkout> Checkout Preview menu option. The account ID (aka "Profile ID") is the value found after the "p=" query string parameter.

 
For example, in this checkout URL:

 

https://chnla.com/r.asp?p=10055350&t=2595456&i=5647151

 

10055350 is the account profile ID.

 

Note that the above link may expand out to something like this:

 

https://checkout.channeladvisor.com/checkout/1252/default.asp?z=0&t=2595456&p=10055350&i=5647151&amself=1

 

The same rule applies: look for the "p=" query string parameter to locate your account profile ID.

 

Member Name:  The Login Member Name is the login ID provided to you by ChannelAdvisor to access your reports and is typically an email address. If you do not have a login ID or wish to create a limited access ID just for these reports, please contact your ChannelAdvisor Account Manager.

 

Password: The login password corresponding to the Login ID.

 

API URL:  Your API URL will be either merchant.channeladvisor.com or enterprise.channeladvisor.com depending on the type of your ChannelAdvisor account.

 

Setting Up the Shopping Cart

  1. You can access the Shopping Carts dialog box one of three ways:

    1. Main Menu> Quick Clicks> Create/Edit Shopping Cart button

    2. Main Menu> Maintenance Menu> Cart Functions tab> Create/Edit Shopping Carts button

    3. Main Menu> Quick Clicks> Setup Wizard> Shopping Carts tab> Create and Edit Shopping Carts button

  2. The Shopping Carts dialog box opens.

  3. Click Add Cart.

  4. Enter a Store Name. Note: You can name the store anything you wish as long as it is easily distinguishable from any other shopping carts you have.

  5. Choose ChannelAdvisor from the Cart Type drop-down list. Note: If you are licensed to use only one type of shopping cart you do not see a drop down list; ChannelAdvisor is your default cart type. If you're licensed for multiple carts, the screen adjusts to display the fields necessary for a ChannelAdvisor cart set up.

  6. Enter the Member Name, Password and Account Profile ID assigned to your ChannelAdvisor account. See Determining your ChannelAdvisor Account Information.

  7. Enter the API URL, i.e. the secure URL to the ChannelAdvisor XML API.
    ChannelAdvisor Merchant Sellers: merchant.channeladvisor.com
    ChannelAdvisor Enterprise Sellers: enterprise.channeladvisor.com

  8. Click Save. The shopping cart  will appear in the Current Carts List.

  9. If you're finished setting up the shopping cart, click Save and then Close to exit the Shopping Carts dialog box.

If you want to set up the Synchronize Inventory function, proceed to Real-Time Inventory Tracking with Channel Advisor.

 

For more general information, see the article Inventory Synchronization.

 

Updated 3/11/08