Connect your Shopware 6 shop

01Before you start

You need an administration user who can manage users, roles and integrations, a Pricebeeper account with a confirmed email address, and the owner or admin role in that account. Connections hold credentials, so other team roles can see them but not add them.

02Step 1: Create a role and an integration in Shopware

1. 1

   Create a read-only role

   Open Settings, System, Users & permissions and add a role under Roles. Name it Pricebeeper and give it Viewer on Products only. Save.

2. 2

   Add the integration

   Open Settings, System, Integrations and choose Add integration. Name it Pricebeeper, leave Administrator off, and choose the Pricebeeper role.

3. 3

   Copy both keys

   Shopware shows the Access key ID and the Secret access key. Copy both before you save: the secret is shown only this once.

If you lose the secret, open the integration again and create a new key pair; then paste both into Pricebeeper with Edit.

03Step 2: Connect it in Pricebeeper

1. 1

   Open Connections

   In Pricebeeper, go to Settings, Connections, choose Add connection and pick Shopware 6.

2. 2

   Fill in the access details

   Fill in your Shop address (where your administration runs, without /admin), the Access key ID and the Secret access key. Fill in Storefront address only if your storefront runs at another address than the administration.

3. 3

   Choose what each sync does

   Add new products brings in products that aren't in your catalog yet, each with its storefront link. Update unit costs uses the net purchase price. Use its prices as your own prices uses the gross price in your default currency.

4. 4

   Connect and test

   Choose Connect and test. Pricebeeper signs in, reads the first products and shows them with their codes, barcodes, costs and prices, so you can check them before the full sync runs in the background.

04What a sync changes

Each sync reads every product Shopware lists and finds the matching product in your catalog: first by product code (SKU), then by barcode (EAN or GTIN). A code or barcode that several of your products share matches none of them, so a duplicate never gets the wrong cost.

• Unit cost replaces the cost Pricebeeper had, when Update unit costs is on. Repricing keeps every suggestion above the margin floor it sets.
• Your own price becomes the price competitors are compared with, when Use its prices as your own prices is on.
• Codes and barcodes fill in where a product had none, which helps Pricebeeper find the exact product at other sellers.
• Products that match nothing are counted and listed on the connection, so you can see what is missing from your catalog.

Variants come in as their own lines with their own product numbers and EANs, and values they inherit, such as the name or the price, are read from their parent. A parent product with variants is never sold itself, so it isn't added with a page address. Inactive products are skipped. New products get Shopware's standard product link (/detail/ followed by the product's ID), which opens the product page in your storefront.

A sync never deletes, renames or moves anything, and it reads only: Pricebeeper writes nothing back to your system. Approved prices reach your store only through a store you connect for repricing.

05Step 3: Check the results

The connection shows when it last synced, how many products it read, added and updated, and how many it couldn't match. Sync now runs it straight away; the switch pauses it. New products wait under Products, filtered as not monitored: choose the ones to watch and attach them to a region, as the getting started guide explains.

06When a sync fails

After ten failed scheduled syncs in a row a connection pauses itself, so it stops trying with details that no longer work. Fix the setting with Edit, then switch it back on.

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