Adding a sales channel - OpenCart

Overview

In this guide, we will show you how to connect your OpenCart account to Expandly, which will allow you to manage your OpenCart products & variations, listings, sales orders and stock levels. 

Adding OpenCart to Expandly

1. Select Settings (left menu) and then Sales Channels:

2. Click  (top right) and then click on the OpenCart logo

3. Click  and confirm: 

Account Name - the name you'll use to identify this account in Expandly (if you have multiple OpenCart accounts to add to Expandly, we would recommend making the Account Names unique, so you can easily differentiate between the accounts within the platform) 

Store URL- the URL of the website you are adding to Expandly

Merge Setting - this will determine how you want to merge your products in Expandly, when importing from OpenCart

4. Select your preferred method for adding the bridge file to your web server, using your FTP details click

Bridge file - this is used to establish the connection and exchange data

FTP details - this is used to upload or download your data

Adding the bridge file to your web sever

There are two ways in which you can do this:

Automatically

1. Select

2. Enter your FTP details 

Manually

1. Click to download a zipped bridge file

2. Extract the zip file and upload to your web server using the application of your choice (we would recommend FileZilla)

3. The file then needs to be saved onto your server, where the index. php file is stored. This is usually found within the public_html folder (however this is dependant on how your website has been set up so if you are not sure, please check with your developer) 

4. Find and open the public_html folder

5.  Move the bridge2cart folder into the public_html folder

5. Check the success by visiting yoururl/bridge2cart/bridge.php

6. On Expandly, click

Authorising OpenCart in Expandly

1. Map your order statuses for OpenCart and click

For more information on Order Status Mapping, click here

2. Congratulations! Your OpenCart account is now connected to Expandly 

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Next steps

Now that you've added OpenCart to Expandly, you might want to:

Import Listings

Manage products

Manage listings

Add more sales channels

Manage your orders

Need more help?

If you need a little extra help, no problem. Contact us, and we'll talk you through the steps. 

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