(A) Fast integration with a standard gateway

The easiest way to dock your shop to your own mobile shopping app or to the Shopgate marketplace is offered by our standard gateways. Please follow this procedure:

(1) Register as Merchant on Shopgate.com.

(2) Add a new shop in the Shopgate administration area by entering basic company data, your logo, the required pictures and a description of your business.

(3) Intall the standard shop cart gateway. Please check our list of shop cart solutions and gateways here.

If the software provider for your shop does not offer Shopgate, please contact us here. We also recommend to contact the company offering your shop cart software directly and/or ask people in the forums for a gateway to Shopgate. Our objective is to get connected to every software used in e-commerce and retail businesses.

(4) Checks and activation by the Shopgate Team in cooperation with you.

Now, we are ready to go!

(A2) Integration via CSV or API

You may also connect your shop to your mobile shopping app or the Shopgate marketplace by using a CSV file or our API. In these cases please follow the above steps (1) and (2) first.

When using a CSV file please follow the format here.

The integration via our API is descriped here.

(B) Orders

• If a customer orders something over the Shopgate marketplace or your exclusive mobile shopping app, you will be notified via email, http or https.
• The status of each order can be checked in real-time in the administration area of Shopgate or through an automatic import of order data.

(C) Confirmation of dispatch

• At Shopgate the customers sends the money to an account of us first.
• As soon as the merchant confirms the dispatch to us, the open amount is credited on his account directly.
• For the dispatch confirmation the merchant can click on the email or in his administration area.
• We highly recommend an automated gateway to your ERP-system. Most of our partner shop cart solutions have already implemented this.

(D) Setteling open amounts

• An open amount is credited within 3 working days after settlement on our bank account. Please check our General Terms and Conditions for merchants.

(E) Recommended: automatisation

If you don't use a standard shop cart gateway we recommend to automate the above illustrated procedure as much as possible. The main parts to be automated are:

• the notification of the order processing when receiving an order
• the import or order data from Shopgate to the merchant ERP
• the dispatch confirmation from the merchant.

For an own implementation of these parts, Shopgate offers an API.

Of course we are happy to answer any question you might have.