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Create your BusinessShop in just five steps

Follow our step-by-step guide to set up your business on Unite and create a BusinessShop.

In the Unite Portal you can upload your product catalogue, store individual prices for customers and manage your BusinessShop.

Your customers can then activate your BusinessShop in the Unite Store.

5 steps to setting up your BusinessShop

1

Register your company


2

Create a
BusinessShop


3

Prepare your
product catalogue


4

Add your
supplier data


5

Submit your BusinessShop


Do you have any questions or are you stuck on one of the steps?
Contact us for support

Screenshot of Step 1: How to register your company

Step 1

Register your company

  • Please register on Unite.
  • You will then receive an email asking you to confirm your email address.
  • Next, log in to Unite.
  • Set up your company in ‘Account Management’ and fill in all the required fields, such as a business address, VAT ID, a link to your imprint and the primary contact person.
Screenshot of Step 2: How to create a BusinessShop

Step 2

Create a BusinessShop

  • You can now create your BusinessShop in ‘App Management’.
  • Specify the:
    • Name of your BusinessShop
    • Catalogue language
  • Furthermore, decide whether customers can activate your BusinessShop automatically or if you prefer to manually approve their activation request.
  • After submitting these details, please continue by completing all the required fields you can find in the ‘App Management’ section, such as contact person and bank details. Also, remember to upload your logo.
Screenshot of Step 3: How to create a product catalogue

Step 3

Prepare your product catalogue

  • Your BusinessShop on Unite will need a product catalogue, product images, and possibly data sheets - see below for more details.

Too much effort? We can create the catalogue for you:
If you can’t deliver your catalogue in the Unite CSV or XML format, or if any catalogue information is missing, we have the ideal solution. You simply send us your files – in any format that suits you – and we’ll create your catalogue for you.
Find out more about Catalogue Transform

Send us your product catalogue by sFTP (secure File Transfer Protocol).

Top tip:
Prepare your catalogue now. We will send you the sFTP access data for uploading your catalogue after you’ve submitted your BusinessShop for review (step 5).

In the following guides, we explain the most important steps to uploading your catalogue:

Good to know:
Once you’ve created a catalogue, you can easily and quickly manage it in ‘Catalogue Management’. We’ll provide a preview of your catalogue and related test results, enabling you to fix any errors quickly and make technical and content-related adjustments to your data. You determine whether and when to publish your catalogue.

Step 4

Add your supplier data

  • Fill out the Unite supplier activation form online. You’ll need to log in to your Mercateo account for this. If you don’t have an account yet, please register first.

Step 5

Submit your BusinessShop & upload your catalogue

  • Once you’ve provided all your BusinessShop information and confirmed the contractual basis, you need to submit your BusinessShop for review.

  • After you have submitted your BusinessShop, we’ll send you access data to our sFTP server, so you can upload your product catalogue.

  • After your catalogue is uploaded and your BusinessShop is submitted, we’ll take care of the configuration and testing for you. We’ll check your data and contact you if we need anything further.

  • As soon as we have all required information and completed the configuration process, your BusinessShop will go live. When it does, we’ll email you a confirmation to let you know.

Contractual basis

Please note that you create a BusinessShop based on the Service description BusinessShop and on the General Terms and Conditions Unite. You confirm that the company complies with Unite's Code of Conduct for Business Partners and the catalogue's content with the Sales Prohibitions and Restrictions. Your contract will only come into effect when your BusinessShop goes live.

Still have questions?

If you need more information or assistance, please get in touch.