DeutschMagento 2 is a supported shopping cart system at Shopgate.
By setting up Shopgate plugin in your Magento 2 shop, you will get these useful features straight into your app and mobile website:
| Support | Import to Magento 2 | ||
| Version | 2.1+ | Orders | ✔ |
| Customer Account | Export to Shopgate Mobile Shop | ||
| Login with Desktop Shop Account Login to Desktop Shop with Mobile Account Customer Groups/Tier Pricing Show Desktop Orders on Mobile |
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Products Categories Reviews |
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| Sync | Validate, upon Cart Changes | ||
| Delivery Status "Shipped" Order Status "Canceled" Stock Quantity on Product Detail Page |
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Coupon Shipping Method Payment Method Product Availability |
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| Supported Payments | Notes | ||
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Currently, payment methods are not mapped to the native Magento 2 implementations. This means that orders imported from Shopgate can NOT be captured or refunded from your Magento 2 backend. This will be implemented in the near future. |
Other supported features:
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In this article, you will find everything you need to set up the Shopgate plugin for your Magento 2 shop.
Install the Shopgate plugin
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✓ disable Magento cache if enabled ✓ disable all external caching (e.g. Varnish, APC, ZendCache) if used |
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| After you install or update the Shopgate plugin | |
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✓ enable Magento cache again ✓ flush the internal cache and all external cache immediately |
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Download the Shopgate plugin
- Download the Shopgate extension for Magento 2 from the Magento Marketplace.
- Follow these instructions to install the Shopgate extension in your Magento system.
Alternatively, you can use the command line and composer to install the extension. Our component name is "shopgate/m2". For more information on this method, review Magento's Composer Installation Guide.
Connect the plugin to Shopgate
After the Shopgate plugin has been installed, follow the steps here to connect your mobile shop to your Magento 2 backend.
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Get API credentials
In the pop-up, copy Customer number, Shop number, API key, and Alias and paste them individually into the plugin configurations in your Magento 2 admin panel: Stores > Settings > Configuration.
The rest of the plugin configurations can be entered later, with instructions listed later in this article.
Connect your shop to Shopgate
Under 2. Enter URL, enter the URL of your shop. Click Connect to establish the interface.
If a connection is made successfully, the popup shown below will open. Leave all assignments to ON to access all the features. Click Save.
That's it! Now the Shopgate backend will automatically start to import product data via the newly established interface.
Understand the plugin configurations
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To locate the Shopgate configuration, follow the steps here:
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| Basic Configuration | |
| Enabled | Select Yes to activate the Shopgate plugin in your Magento 2 backend. |
| Customer number | Your customer number at Shopgate. |
| Shop number | Your shop number at Shopgate. |
| API Key | Your API Key generated at Shopgate. This key is used to authenticate your account between Shopgate and Magento. |
| Mobile Settings | |
| Redirect Type | Select your redirect type: HTTP or JavaScript. HTTP is recommended because it is more SEO friendly. |
| Website alias | Your Shopgate alias. |
| Custom URL | A URL used for the mobile version of your shop. The default is [alias].shopgate.com, but an alternate could be m.[alias].com |
| CMS Map | This feature allows mapping a Magento 2 CMS page to a CMS page created in your Shopgate Admin. Provide the URL key used by the CMS page in Shopgate. |
| Categories | |
| Force export disabled categories | List a comma separated list of category IDs (e.g. 1,4,6,34) which should be exported even if they are disabled. |
| In navigation only | Export categories that only have "Include In Navigation" checked. |
| Products | |
| Description | Choose how you want to export your descriptions: Short description Description + short description Short description + description. |
| EAN attribute | Select the attribute used for the EAN from the list. |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Net Market Countries | Use the default value from Magento 2 or select the countries where your product prices are defined before tax (e.g. United States). |
| Order | |
| Send an email to customer on new order | On each order import, the customer will get an order confirmation mail after the import. This flag should be used in conjunction with the "send confirmation mail" flag in the Shopgate merchant area. |
| Shopgate Shipping Carrier Title | This text field allows the merchant to define a shipping title for any shipping handled by Shopgate. This shipping title is used in emails and order details. |
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| Shopgate server | Select the Shopgate Live server. Use the other options only for debugging purposes. |
| Shopgate Merchant API URL | This field is used only when Shopgate server is set to “custom” and is only useful for debugging purposes. |
| .htaccess user | .htaccess user and password are only used to bypass additional htaccess authentications. |
| .htaccess password |
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I flush or disable the Magento cache?
If you need to flush or disable the Magento cache in order to install or update a Shopgate plugin, follow the steps here. Remember to enable the Configuration cache again after the plugin is installed or updated.
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Now the Magento cache has been flushed and disabled.