Tidelist – Marketplace Sync for WooCommerce

Description

Tidelist lists your WooCommerce products on the OLX marketplace and keeps the adverts in step with your shop. When an item sells out, its advert comes down. When it is back in stock, you can list it again.

You stay in control. Dry-run is on from the start: Tidelist builds and logs every advert but sends nothing that changes OLX. You choose which products go online, check an exact preview of each advert, and publish in small batches that you confirm by typing PUBLISH.

What it does

• Connects to your own OLX developer app, so the adverts stay in your account and under your control.
• Works with OLX in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Bulgaria is tested with a real account; the other countries use the same OLX API and are marked beta.
• Maps your shop categories to OLX categories and your product data to OLX fields such as condition, size and colour. Suggestions are offered; you decide.
• Builds titles and descriptions from templates you can edit. Web addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are removed from the advert text because OLX does not allow them there.
• Shows a preview of the exact data that would be sent, with a list of what is still missing.
• Publishes in batches of up to 30, one advert at a time, with a pause between adverts. You can cancel a running batch.
• Takes adverts down when the product is out of stock, unpublished, trashed or deleted, and lists them again when you ask.
• Updates the advert on OLX when the product changes (on request).
• Finds adverts that already exist on your OLX account and links them, so nothing is published twice.
• Reads the status of your adverts from OLX (live, being checked, waiting for payment, expired) and shows problems in one place.
• Pause switch that stops every call to OLX at once.
• Site Health checks, a log of every call (secrets are never logged), and a first-run guide.

What it never does

• It never buys anything on OLX. If OLX asks for a payment, the plugin stops and tells you.
• It never deletes adverts. Takedown only deactivates them.
• It never sends customer data. Tidelist does not read or store orders or customers.

Languages

English, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, Portuguese (Portugal), Ukrainian and Russian.

More marketplaces

Tidelist is built around a channel interface. OLX is the first channel; more marketplaces are planned. A paid add-on with extra features is planned and will be sold separately; everything described above works in the free plugin.

External services

This plugin connects to the OLX marketplace of the country you choose in the settings. It does this only for the shop owner’s own OLX account, and only after the shop owner has connected the account.

What is sent, and when

• When you connect your account: your OLX application Client ID and Client Secret and a one-time authorisation code are sent to your country’s OLX server to obtain access tokens. The tokens are refreshed automatically once a day.
• When you publish, update, take down or re-list an advert (or when the background job does so after you started it): the product data (title, description, photos as public image addresses, price, category, attributes) and the contact name, phone number and city that you entered in the settings.
• When you check status or search for existing adverts, or when the six-hourly status job runs: the plugin reads your own adverts from OLX. No product data is sent.
• When you save a city name in the settings: the name is sent to OLX to look up its city code.
• When you open the category or attribute mapping screens: the plugin reads OLX’s public category list and the attribute definitions of a category.

Nothing is sent while dry-run is on, except read-only requests (such as reading the category list). Nothing is sent while the plugin is paused.

Who receives it

OLX, in the country you choose. The servers are www.olx.bg, www.olx.pl, www.olx.ro, www.olx.pt, www.olx.ua or www.olx.kz. OLX handles the data under its own terms and privacy policy.

• Bulgaria: https://developer.olx.bg and https://www.olx.bg
• Poland: https://developer.olx.pl and https://www.olx.pl
• Romania: https://developer.olx.ro and https://www.olx.ro
• Portugal: https://developer.olx.pt and https://www.olx.pt
• Ukraine: https://developer.olx.ua and https://www.olx.ua
• Kazakhstan: https://developer.olx.kz and https://www.olx.kz

The API terms and the privacy policy of each country are linked from that country’s site and developer portal. You are responsible for accepting OLX’s terms when you register your OLX developer application.

The plugin does not contact any other service. It has no tracking and no telemetry.

Disclaimer

Tidelist is made by Hawk Minds and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by OLX or OLX Group. OLX is a trademark of its owner. WooCommerce is a trademark of Automattic Inc. Other names are used only to say what the plugin works with.