An attribute tells the characteristics of a product. It is used to share more information with the customer for purchasing of goods. The product attributes can be the physical or technical characteristics of the products.

For example, a mobile phone keeps both types of features technical and physical. Physical attributes are like color, weight and technical attributes are like Camera quality and Mobile storage.

In eBay Akeneo connector, you can map the attribute for send the product information from Akeneo to eBay. You can also send the images as an attribute and some item-specific attributes like colors, weight.

• It synchronizes Akeneo attribute mapping fields to eBay product fields mapping.
• You can send item-specific attributes

If you are running multiple eBay account, you can connect them with Akeneo and do product synchronization simultaneously. For this, you have to set the credentials and named it.

In the credential setup fields, you can see all the credential saved by you. You can activate and deactivate those credentials.

In the credential, you can mention the details like common details, Listing details, Dispatch details, return policy, and shipping.

• You can send the product to different eBay account.
•  You can set the common details for each account.

Category mapping allows you to link your Akeneo product categories to appropriate categories on eBay. Mapping of Akeneo categories with the eBay categories will save your time while listing of the products.

Category mapping is the easiest way to check that the product is listed in the eBay category or not. For the mapping of product category, you have to first map the primary eBay category and then its child category.

• Category mapping helps you in the product listing.
• It reduces the product export time.

In Akeneo to eBay connector, you can add product variant and export it to eBay.

Variant products are the product that comes in the more than one option such as color and size. Each combination of these creates a new product.

For example, if you have two clothes option like color and size. You have three colors red, green, and blue.

You have also three sizes option small, medium and large. Then the combination of color and size makes a variant product like the blue color and medium size.

• You can export more than one product listing with a single product.
• You can save more time than create a single product.

Product filtering allows the merchant to refine product while exporting from the Akeneo to eBay. A merchant can export the selected product.

You can filter your product on the basis of Family, Time condition, and Category.

• Family – You can select the product family which is indicating similar products.
• Time Condition – You can filter the product on the time like - Updated product from since this date.
• Category – You can filter the product on the basis of product category and sub-categories.

Akeneo 3.0 (Akeneo 3.1) is Long Term Supported (LTS) version which includes three main terms:

• Managing reference entities,
• Support for Single Sign-On, and
• Performance improvements.

Akeneo has done some technical improvements like:

• Elasticsearch 6.5.4 Support,
• PHP 7.2 Support, and
• MySQL Encoding (Utf8mb4) Support.

Now it is easy to load 1,000,000 products and 20,000 categories in two seconds in Akeneo grid. Also, export 100 products in 10 min (with images + reindexing) for two store views.

We have made all our Akeneo modules compatible with Akeneo 3.0 & 3.1. And implemented RabbitMQ to make the export process faster.

We have added Automated Process to export products using automate CSV upload and made it work with Akeneo Community and Enterprise editions with latest features.