How to connect Altex with easySales: the complete integration guide
Connect the Altex marketplace to easySales, map your categories, publish offers from your existing catalogue, and read the two statuses Altex reports back.
What you can do with Altex and easySales
Altex is Romania's largest electronics and appliance retailer, and its marketplace lets other sellers list alongside its own catalogue. easySales connects to that marketplace so your offers are generated from the catalogue you already maintain, and stay current on their own: prices and stock follow your products, and offers switch off when something sells out.
That is the part worth automating. Publishing offers once is an afternoon's work; keeping them accurate as stock moves is permanent, and it is what the integration takes over.
Altex operates in Romania only. If you sell cross-border, this connection covers your Romanian channel and nothing else.
Before you connect
An Altex marketplace account
Altex approves sellers before issuing marketplace credentials. The Public and Private keys come from them, not from easySales.
Your category access confirmed
Altex grants each seller a specific set of categories. Knowing which ones you have tells you what you can actually list before you start mapping.
Products in your easySales catalogue
Offers are generated from products you already hold. Nothing publishes from an empty catalogue.
Clean, unique EANs
Altex refuses a product whose EAN is already in its catalogue. De-duplicate before a bulk publish rather than after.
The Altex courier, if you need AWBs
Added separately under Integrations → Couriers. Without it you cannot generate an AWB for an Altex order.
Connecting Altex to easySales
Go to Integrations → Marketplaces, find Altex and press Connect. The connection form opens with two tabs: Main settings and Additional settings.
Everything on this screen becomes the default for every offer you publish, so it is worth setting deliberately rather than accepting the blanks.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Connection Name | Your own label for the connection. It appears on every offer row, which matters once you run more than one channel. |
| New order custom status | The status an imported Altex order lands in. Leave blank to use the default. |
| Price Addition | A percentage added to the sale price on this channel only, applied to new offers. Your catalogue price is untouched. |
| Default shipping tax | The VAT rate applied to delivery on imported orders. |
| Invoice Series | The billing series used when easySales generates invoices for Altex orders. |
| Default Tax Rate | The VAT rate applied to the offers you publish. |
| Delivery Days | The handling time shown to buyers, in days. |
| Public key / Private key | The credentials Altex issues you. They do not expire, so there is no reconnection cycle to plan for. |
The second tab holds three synchronisation switches. They are the ones most often left alone, and they are what makes the integration maintain itself rather than just publish once.
Mapping your categories
Offers cannot be published until the category holding them is mapped to an Altex category. Open Products → Categories and use Map categories on each category you sell from.
Altex organises its catalogue in two layers, and you will meet both here. Categories place the product in the shop's tree. Attribute sets define which characteristics the product must supply. A set suggests the categories it belongs to, so picking the set first usually fills the category for you.
Map only the categories you actually sell from. A complete mapping of your whole tree is not needed to start, and a smaller mapping is faster to check when something is rejected.
Adding offers
Offers are generated from products you already hold. Open Products → Products and either use Add offer on a single row, or select several and use the Add offer(s) on button above the list.
If you already sell on Altex, your existing offers are imported into Marketplace → Offers on the Altex tab, unlinked. Link each one to the matching product so the two stay synchronised — an unlinked offer receives no price or stock updates.
When you publish in bulk afterwards, filter to products without offers on Altex first. That is what stops you creating a second offer for something already listed.
Reading the two statuses
Altex reviews an offer in two separate passes, and easySales shows both. This is the part sellers most often misread: an offer can be approved on one and pending on the other.
| Status | What it covers | Values |
|---|---|---|
| Listing status | The product documentation — title, description, images, characteristics | Pending · Approved · Rejected |
| Offer status | Your commercial terms — price, stock, delivery | Pending · Approved · Rejected |
Listing status covers the product documentation — the title, description, images and characteristics that describe what the product is. Offer status covers your commercial terms: price, stock and delivery. A rejection carries Altex's reason, shown on the status badge.