Information for suppliers and manufacturers

Are you interested in collaborating with Mercateo, and would you like to integrate your product range on the Mercateo platform?

On this page you can find out about the requirements that you have to satisfy.

We are also interested in cooperating with manufacturers and suppliers who can extend the breadth and breadth of our range of products. This not only involves a Supplier Relationship in which they take responsibility for the detailed logistics.

  • Start of the collaboration

The first step for collaborating with Mercateo is the registration and exchanging of all the necessary information.
See: Become a supplier

  • Catalogue via FTP

After successfully registering as a supplier or manufacturer, you receive access to a personal FTP account at Mercateo. Via this FTP account, you make your catalogue available to Mercateo and update it independently.

Further information on the technical and content-related requirements are provided under "technical information"

  • Catalogue check

Before a new supplier goes live online, Mercateo checks the quality of the catalogue.
The quality criteria are: item descriptions, EAN numbers, manufacturer numbers, the number of pictures and datasheets, order units and packaging units.

  • Go live

If the catalogue check is successfully completed and you have agreed to the catalogue, the catalogue will go live online.

  • Error report

As a supplier you regularly update your catalogue over the course of the collaboration. With every new catalogue version you receive a report should any errors occur.

The basic principles for the collaboration between Mercateo and the supplier are the general terms and conditions (GTC).
To specify the details of the collaboration Mercateo concludes a framework agreement with every supplier.

To set up your product range you have to provide us with at least one electronic catalogue. In this context it is necessary to satisfy the following conditions:

  • Shipping on the behalf of third parties (direct delivery) with a Mercateo delivery note
  • Provision of an electronic catalogue in BMEcat format (XML standard) – Help is available from Mercateo

 

To upload your electronic catalogue you will receive FTP access from Mercateo.

Catalogue Creation


Hints for creating your catalogue with the help of Mercateo templates.

Data transfer via ftp


Informations about data transfer via FTP.

 

Catalogue management for suppliers


Informations about the Mercateo catalogue management tool.

 

Electronic interfaces


Informations about Electronic interfaces.