Learn how to properly secure Shoptet feed

Do you use Shoptet and it happened that you couldn’t add Shoptet feeds to Mergado? If so, we have a guide to prevent this problem forever. All you need to do is to check your feed security settings correctly. Let’s take a look at this setting, it will only take a minute.

How to insert your Shoptet feeds into Mergado without any problems

Some time ago Shoptet added the ability to secure your XML feeds in two ways to the administration of every Shoptet online store:

a) by enabling feed downloads only from IP addresses on the so-called global whitelist

b) using a hash

And what is usually the problem? If you leave both checkboxes checked, then you can’t add feeds to Mergado because Mergado is not on the global whitelist.

Just check the second checkbox in the Access Protection menu to make sure the feed is hashed, and everything will work as it should.

Procedure

1. In the Shoptet administration, click on the Connections bullet on the left menu.

2. Under Connections, select XML Feeds.

3. Open the Security section.

4. In the Access Protection section, uncheck the first checkbox “Deny access from IP addresses that are not on global whitelist”, this checkbox must not be checked for the feed to be uploaded to Mergado.

5. From the Access Protection menu, select the second checkbox “Deny access from IP addresses that do not use security hash”.

6. The URL with the hash you use for Mergado will be e.g.: https://www.name-of-store.cz/heureka/export/products.xml?hash=jrn7…

You can use this address to create a new export in Mergado, or if you want to update the input URL of an existing export in Mergado, you can do this in the Settings of each export -> General settings -> in the “Source file” field.

Feed hash security is sufficient and your data flowing into Mergado will be protected. And that’s not all. Mergado can also easily handle secure feeds. If you need to work with a hashed feed, set everything up according to the article in the link above.