.. _ftpoverview-label: Flipkart Marketplace Seller FTP =============================== .. Warning:: FTP updates will not be supported for sellers selling from multiple locations. The Flipkart Marketplace Seller FTP provides large sellers, primarily of books, content management capabilities. Sellers can programmatically access and exchange data between their domestic system and the Flipkart Marketplace. This solution enables: * Automation of various processes involved in selling * Dynamic and real time information flow across systems * Seamless integrations of the existing applications with the Flipkart platform Getting Started with Seller FTP ------------------------------- To use FTP, the seller registration in the Marketplace is insufficient. Contact your account manager or the Developer Support team at seller-api-queries@flipkart.com to get the seller FTP URL and your FTP access tokens. For additional details on the authentication framework used by the Flipkart platform, refer to the :ref:`seller-reg-label` section. FTP Process Flow ---------------- .. sidebar:: Developer Support To receive the FTP URL or for clarifications on FTP authentication, write to our support team at seller-api-queries@flipkart.com. This section assumes that you have an FTP client, such as Filezilla, installed in your system. A typical process flow is as follows: 1. Login to your FTP account using your Flipkart FTP access tokens. 2. Use the FTP client to input the files that have the relevant stock/price data. The listings naming convention must follow the ``listing_sellerid_ddmmyyyy.hhmm.csv`` format. .. note:: Ensure that the input files are placed in the **input** folder of your FTP account and the feed format follows the guidelines provided in the :ref:`feed-label` section below. 3. The Flipkart scheduler picks up the input file every 1 hour from each account and releases two files in the **output** folder - one with the passed listing and another with the failed listing. .. _feed-label: Feed Format and Attributes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Format:** ``csv`` **Protocol:** FTP The ``csv`` should contain the following data columns: ================================== ======================= Attribute Description ================================== ======================= Flipkart Serial Number The FSN is the unique product identifier for Flipkart, similar to ISBN for Books Seller SKU ID The seller SKU ID for the corresponding Listing ID MRP The maximum retail price for a product Your Selling Price The price at which the seller wants to sell the product Your Stock Count The quantity of the product the seller wants to sell Local Shipping Charge (per qty) The cost the seller charges the buyer to ship an order locally Zonal Shipping Charge (per qty) The cost the seller charges the buyer to ship an order in the same zone National Shipping Charge (per qty) The cost the seller charges the buyer to ship an order within the country Procurement SLA The time required by the seller to keep the product ready for pick-up Listing Status Allows sellers to control their listing status Selling Region Restriction Allows sellers to configure their listing to enable sales locally (same city), within their zone (North, East, West, South or North East), or nationally (outside of their zone). Possible values: **(a)** ``none``: Selling nationally, **(b)** ``national``: Selling only locally and zonally Procurement Type Describes the type of inventory procurement done by the seller for a listing Manufacturer Details Name and address of the manufacturer Packer Details Name and address of the importer if the product is being imported Importer Details Where manufacturer is not the packer,name and address of packer Country of Origin ISO code ISO-2 code of the Country of Origin or manufacturing or country of assembly in case of imported products Shelf Life in Months Duration (in months) from the date of manufacturing beyond which the product shall not have the quality attributes normally expected by the consumers and the commodity should not be regarded as marketable Date of Manufacture in dd/MM/yyyy Date (dd/MM/yyyy) on which the product was manufactured or prepacked or imported. For products where day is not available, please put the manufacturing date as 1st of the month. Eg, 01/01/2018 for a product manufactured in Jan 2018. ================================== ======================= .. sidebar:: Tutorial Reference For more clarity on the feed format, refer to the :ref:`tutorial `. .. important:: 1. All the columns are mandatory. 2. Listing will not get updated if a column is not populated appropriately. For empty columns, a suitable processing error is displayed.