Shopify Marketplace Connect

This app does work but required some learning phase. I have spent some time to learn the app, and the 5 stars are given to the supports who were very helpful especially Mariz. He helped me taken care the ebay templates back and forth and eventually solved all issues. Most other app support who told you "I would get back to you in email with your issue," but they never did. Mariz not only did get back to me in timely matter, also a working solution to my issue. He well deserved this 5 stars honor.

Works ok for ebay. Absolute garbage for amazon. Screwed up all of our amazon listings, messed up our product names on amazon, etc. Support harassed me to remove my initial negative review, saying they would help sort out the issues. They never sorted out the issues so negative review is back up now. Not recommended for amazon.

easy to use once you get used to the "excel style" layout. for the most part the app syncs and lists things superbly and would recommend.

for the price, the pros outweigh the couple annoying cons that we've experienced thus far.

Works a lot better now the app follows Shopify design guidelines. The new pricing structure is a lot clearer.

There are a few things which could use some improvement.

---Amazon---
1. Variants are too dependent on their parent for key information.

Amazon treats each variant as a stand-alone product. When sending listing information for variants there is not enough flexibility to alter specific attributes for each child.

Example: Item Package Quantity is set on a parent level. However, our variations include 'pack sizes' offering a discount when ordering multiple items. It would be preferred to set this attribute on a variant level.

Another example: Bullet points are set on a parent level. For variants like 'StyleName' we may want to enter unique bullet points at a variant level to highlight key features of that specific variant.

2. Variations can only be mapped to the exact value & layout from Shopify.

For some of our products, we need to map variation values to specific amazon friendly values. For example: 'ItemPackageQuantity-Color' variation. In our store, we call the value 'Blue / Pack of 1'. However, Amazon requires '1 / Blue'. The only way to achieve this is to reorder the variations in Shopify and change all the values to Amazon-friendly ones.

This was done very well in Amazon by Codisto. You simply entered the variation values on each child before creating the variation. I don't know why the app is trying to map from Shopify. It's more complicated than it needs to be and causes issues. Just let us enter the values manually on a child level.

-- eBay --
1. Variation problems

eBay does not allow a variation layout to be changed once the listing is created. This causes problems when you need to rearrange values to meet Amazon's guidelines. This would be solved if we could manually map the Amazon values as mentioned above.

Or even better, if eBay variations could be joined together under one variation heading.

For example:
Variation Name: 'Choose Options:'
Values: 'Pack of 1 / Blue', 'Pack of 2 / Red'.

Many other integrations offer this to prevent eBay errors when adding or removing variations.

-- Bulk Edit --
1. There is no way to bulk edit to 'blank'. Sometimes I'd like to simply unset a value. Not all values are required by Amazon.

2. Sometimes I would like to override mapping on a specific value on a specific product without having to unmap every product. Instead of a strict 'map to value', could there be a 'default to value'.

3. Coloured Columns: The colours on Codisto were helpful to find the right column, especially when you are working with so many of them. Setting column colours is something that should be available across Shopify.

4. Bulk editing variant. There is currently no way to bulk edit variants. This means you have to painstakingly click through each one to check values and alter them. Which is made worse by my next point.

-- General --

1. The loading times are quite slow between pages. This means when you are working on your entire catalogue you spend more time loading pages than making edits. Especially on variants. This would be much improved if variants could be bulk edited.

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Overall, I'm looking forward to seeing how the app improves now it's part of Shopify. I just hope that the customer service live chat remains funded as it's really fast and helpful. Additionally, I'm really hoping this doesn't become another third-party marketplace app which Shopify discontinues.

Support is wonderful. Very explanatory. I totally love the experience and opportunity to work with them!

Pretty good app.

Pros: When your FBM order fulfills in Shopify, it notifies Amazon and fulfills on Amazon on autopilot.

Cons: You have to manually "send" the order from Codisto to Shopify for your FBM orders. (you can choose to auto send everything, but then all your FBA orders would flood your store).

The transition was rocky at first but customer support has been very helpful and very patient in any issues being faced. I'm really happy so far with Marketplace Connect.

Nach anfängliche Schwierigkeiten bei den Einstellungen, musste ich mich an den Support wenden.
Auf die Chatanfrage wurde innerhalb von weniger als 1 Minute regiert und die Auskunft war TOP.
Ich erhielt genaue Angaben, auch mit Bildern und konnte die Einstellungen schnell abschließen.

GERNE WIEDER !!!

thx @Mark

I have made 2 sales on it in just a few days. Definitely works! Thank you!

Very quick to setup, updates to eBay were near instant. Still quite a new user but very impressed with this app all round. Support so far seems very good too, very quick to respond and nice clear explanations.