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Setup Wizard

The wizard guides you through the first-time configuration in five steps. On a freshly installed app it works without any precondition — only the merchantCENTRAL Hub must have been set up before. If it has not, the wizard stops and offers the way to the hub setup.

Opening the Page

  • Search Assisted Setup → merchantCENTRAL: Set up the ITscope Supplier Connector in the group AD merchantCENTRAL Setup
  • Supplier card ITSCOPE → action ITscope Setup Wizard

The Five Steps

Step Content
1 – Welcome to the ITscope Connector Setup What the connector imports and what you should have at hand
2 – Source Configuration The export download links. Click Full Export URL, paste the link and confirm; do the same for the Update Export URL. The fields then show Download link stored. Only the full export link is required — a daily full import is a complete setup, and the update link can be added at any time
3 – API Functions - optional Only with an ITscope API contract: switch on Use API Functions (Preview) and enter Account ID and API Key — both are then required. Without a contract, leave the switch off and go on
4 – Connection Test Test Connection sends a request to the update export link without downloading the file and shows the Result in green or red. Without an update link, the test reports that none is stored. The test is optional — the first import checks the full export link anyway
5 – Setup Complete Leave Switch ITscope On selected and choose Finish. The wizard switches ITscope on in the hub — the hub checks the license and offers the demo if needed — and then activates both import definitions. If the hub declines to switch it on, the definitions stay off as well. If the license check stops with an error, for example with an expired demo, Finish is rolled back completely — then nothing is saved either

The links are stored encrypted in the hub's credential store and never displayed again.

After the Wizard

  1. Start Run Full Import on the dashboard. The first run downloads the entire ITscope range, stages the product master and fills the manufacturer catalog — it does not write offers yet. It adds every distributor of the export as an inactive line to the vendor mapping.
  2. Assign the distributors: ITscope Connection Setup → Assign Distributors (see Import Setup).
  3. Start Run Full Import again — now the offers arrive.
  4. Optional: restrict manufacturers — at any time on the supplier card, including removing the data of deselected manufacturers afterwards.
  5. Create the job queue entries for the regular imports on the supplier card (see Schedule).

If you deselected Switch ITscope On in the last step, switch ITscope on with Enabled on the supplier card before the first import and activate both import definitions (switch Active in the import sections).

Why is there no manufacturer step in the wizard?

Knowing the manufacturers of an ITscope range means loading the complete full export — depending on the range that takes 20 minutes and more, which does not belong in a dialog. The first import fills the manufacturer catalog along the way; the selection happens afterwards, centrally on the supplier card.