Creating New Listings on the Sears Marketplace Using the Solid Commerce Excel Tool

This article will show you how to create new listings on Sears from Solid Commerce.

What we'll cover:

1. The Two Available Sears Templates
2. Downloading Templates From Sears
3. Creating New Listings Using Sears' Templates
4. Setting the Shipping Options on Your Listings
5. Creating Variation Listings
6. Uploading Your Spreadsheet
7. Editing Listings
8. Related Articles

The Two Available Sears Templates

To create new listings, first you need to download Excel templates from Sears. You have two template choices:

1. Item Class Template
• Item Class is the name Sears uses for its product categories.
• Item Class Templates are the better option if you want to use many of Sears's attributes to provide additional details about your products.
• Variation listings also use Sears' attributes, so using Item Class Templates makes creating variation listings easier.
• If you create listings using Item Class Templates, you will need a different template for each category you list to.
2. Generic Template
• The Generic Template is the better option if you don't need to populate Sears' attributes.
• It is possible to provide attribute data using the Generic Template, but providing attributes is much easier with the Item Class Templates.
• To learn more about providing attributes using the Generic Template, download Sears' attribute reference files.
• In the Sears Products menu -> Product Mgmt -> Bulk. The Step 1: Supporting Files section at the top contains the links to the two attribute files.
• The great thing about using the Generic Template is that you can create all your listings using just this one template.
• You can also add attributes to it if needed.

Downloading Templates From Sears

1) In your Sears account -> Go to the Products menu -> Product Mgmt -> Bulk.

2) Select the Show All Item Classes radio button.

• To download an Item Class Template:
• In the catalog tree, keep expanding subfolders until you find the Item Class you want to download. You need a "leaf" folder that has no subfolders.
• Check the Item Class you want to list to.
• Click the Download button and select Item Class Template (without items).
• To download the Generic Template:
• Check Item Class Root Node at the top of the catalog tree.
• Click the Download button and select  Generic Template (without items).

3) If you are using the Generic Template, you should check to see if there are any attributes that you are required to use, or would like to use. The Item Class/Attributes Mapping file contains all of the attributes available for each item class. To download the Item Class/Attributes Mapping file:

• On the same Products – Bulk Create & Edit page where you downloaded the Generic Template, in Section 1: Supporting Files (Optional), click on the Item Class/Attributes Mapping (for Generic Template) link.
• Open up the file and find the Item Class Display Path for your item. All required attributes will say required in the Attribute Type column.
• Copy the Attribute name of the attribute you want to use from the Attribute column. Paste it in the Attribute Name 1 column of your Generic Template.
• Pick a valid value from the Attribute Values list. Add it in the Attribute Value 1 column of your Generic Template. If the Attribute Values column is blank, your attribute is free text. You can enter any value in the Generic Template.

Creating New Listings Using Sears' Templates

Populating an Item Class Template is very similar to populating a Generic Template. Here's how you fill them in:

1) Open the template you downloaded in Excel.

2) The template's Data Definition tab will show you which fields are required. It also describes each field and tells you how to populate it.

3) Enter your information on the Data Format tab. All the information must meet Sears formatting requirements. Here's notes on a few of the columns:

4) Convert the columns to Solid Commerce's format: 

• In Excel's Solid Commerce menu, click Turn inline help ON.

• In the same menu, click the Convert Sears file to SC format button that appears.

• The word sears will be added to the front of all Sears' column headers.
• A few new Solid Commerce specific columns will be added on the left-hand side of the sheet.

5) Fill in the Solid Commerce columns that were added on the left.

6) If you're using an Item Class Template and have more products you want to list, repeat this process with the next Item Class Template.

7) We recommend saving your populated templates. Opening a saved template is the easiest way to update details on your live listings through Solid Commerce.

Setting the Shipping Options on Your Listings

Enabling Shipping Options

Convert your template to SC format using the Excel Add-In Tool. In the sears ground shipping enabled, sears expedited shipping enabled, and/or sears premium shipping enabled columns, enter:

• Yes (If you want to offer that particular shipping option)
• No (If you don't want to offer that shipping option)

Establishing the Shipping Fees on Your Listings

The sears ground shipping enabled, sears expedited shipping enabled, and sears premium shipping enabled columns work with the sears Shipping Cost: Ground, sears Shipping Cost: 2 day, and sears Shipping Cost: Next Day columns.

If you populated the enabled field with Yes:

• Enter a fixed number in the corresponding Cost field to set a flat rate (free shipping is discussed below).
• Leave the corresponding Cost field blank to have Sears calculate the shipping fee your buyer will pay. The calculation is based on the product's weight and the shipping settings you established in your Sears seller account.

If you populated the enabled field with No:

• This option won't be offered on the listing. Leave the corresponding Cost field blank.
• Sears uses N/A in the Cost field when you don't want to offer a particular shipping option. Our platform doesn't recognize N/A.

Offering Free Shipping as Your Ground Option

To offer free shipping to your buyers, enter Yes in the sears ground free shipping column.

Sears has their own field for specifying free shipping named Shipping Override. You don't need to populate this Sears column.

Creating Variation Listings

Sears doesn't require the use of a parent item to establish a variation-style listing. Here is how you create your variation:

1) If you are populating the Generic Template, enter the name of an attribute in the Attribute Name 1 column. You can tell if you can use an attribute as a variation by looking for VARIATION in the Attribute Type column of the Item Class/Attributes Mapping (for Generic Template) file. Populate a valid value in the Attribute Value 1 column for each of your child items.

2) If you are populating an Item Class Template, provide the values that will appear in the drop-down menus by populating one or more of the Sears attribute columns that have variation in the column header. For example, Size columns.

3) In the Variation Group ID column, enter the same number for each product within the variation family.

• This value specifies which items belong in the variation.
• Check out the Sears Data Definition tab for more info on populating in this field.

4) Sears pulls the listing title and description from one of the child items in your family. You will need to provide all product and listing information for each child item.

• Child items can have different prices. If they do, a range of prices will display on Sears. When a buyer selects a specific variation from the drop down menu, the price of that variation will display.

Uploading Your Spreadsheet

Click the Upload Data button in the Excel Add-In Tool. Check only the Update Marketplace box.

The Sears template is designed to list products that already exist in your Solid Commerce account. If you haven't created your items in Solid Commerce yet, you will need to add at least the following required fields to your template: product name, warehouse name, qty. You can additional fields if you like, for more info, see Creating and Customizing a Solid Commerce Excel Template. You can also use a different file to create the products and add them to inventory before uploading this one.

If you add Product and Inventory fields to your template, check Update Product and Update Inventory during upload.

Editing Listings

We automatically sends quantity and price updates to Sears. To revise quantities and prices you only need to revise the qty, sears qty exp, or sears price fields.

We can also push updated listing details to Sears, but we need to resubmit all of the fields, not just the fields you want to revise. That means the file you upload to Solid Commerce needs to have all relevant fields populated.

We recommend saving the files you use to create your listings to make editing live listings easier.

For full details about updating listings, please see Updating Listings on the Sears Marketplace.

Related Articles

• Connecting to the Sears Marketplace
• Creating a Market List
• Creating a Sears Pricing Rule
• Importing Active Listings From the Sears Marketplace Using the Solid Commerce Excel Tool
• Installing the Solid Commerce Excel Tool
• Updating Listings on the Sears Marketplace
• Creating and Customizing a Solid Commerce Excel Template

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