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Before you start
HobbyBox is a Finnish marketplace that runs on the Mirakl platform. Before you can connect you need an approved HobbyBox seller account, an API key created in the seller back office of HobbyBox, and your Store Id. Both values live at HobbyBox, not in e-tailize, and we never ask for your key in the chat.
HobbyBox runs on Mirakl, the software behind most retailer marketplaces we connect, so the wizard looks the same as for every other Mirakl marketplace. You need one API key from HobbyBox.
We connect HobbyBox for Finland.
Steps
Create the API key in the seller back office of HobbyBox and copy it in full. Your Store Id sits there too, in the settings or on the main page of your seller account. A key from another Mirakl marketplace never works here, even though the form looks the same.
Open "Settings" in the left sidebar and click "Connections".
Click "New connection", or open the marketplace wizard directly.
Pick "Marketplace" in the chooser and click the HobbyBox logo under "Connect marketplace provider".
The wizard for HobbyBox: "Fill in required connection tokens" with the fields of HobbyBox Fill in "Connection name", your own reference for this connection.
Paste the value into "API KEY". The field is masked, so you see dots instead of what you pasted.
Pick the country you sell in under "Where do you offer your products?". The list holds "Finland".
Fill in "Store Id".
Click "Save".
Click "Validation" in the left sidebar, pick the HobbyBox tile and click "Add missing PIM tabs" on every category you sell there.
Fill the mandatory HobbyBox fields on those tabs and click "Validate products". Get a product live walks through that screen step by step.
Click "Listing", pick the HobbyBox tile, select your validated products and click "List content". Click "List offers" once the content is through.
What happens next
Content and offers go to HobbyBox separately: first the content of your products, then your offers once the content is through. What HobbyBox reports back per product lands under "Listing", so that is where you see a product accepted or refused.
The connection appears on the "API connections" page and as a card under "Existing connections" on the dashboard, and it starts feeding your dashboard, your orders and your stock. Orders from HobbyBox come in under "Fulfillment" and then "Orders", with the same "Open", "Processing" and "Closed" filters as your other channels.
Common problems
A key that was copied halfway, or one that was regenerated in the back office afterwards, gives a connection that saves and then moves nothing. Create a fresh key and save again. A Store Id from another store, or a sales location that does not match your seller account, blocks the connection the same way.
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