Description of services

The purpose of interconnecting your information system with Neteven is the automation of information synchronisation during the various stages of your product sales cycle on the different marketplaces managed through Neteven.

The main synchronization operations are the following:

Inventory creation and update
Order retrieval
Shipping confirmation

In this chapter, you will find a detailed presentation of the main methods available through webservices to fulfill the following requirements:

Echo & TestConnection : Communication and authentification test
TestConnection : Authentification test
PostItems : Product upload/update
GetItems : Product retrieval, retrieves the products visible in Neteven’s application
GetOrders : Order retrieval, allows to retrieve any order visible in Neteven’s application
PostOrders : Order update, order confirmation and supplying of additional information such as the shipping service used, tracking number…

Note: Dates are UTC+1.

The authentication is done through the header embedded in the AuthenticationHeader type header.

Content of the AuthenticationHeader tag, each element being mandatory:

Field	Type	Remarks
Method	String	A variable string
Login	String	Neteven login
Seed	String	Variable string used for generating the signature
Stamp	String	Date of the day
Signature	String	To generate, using the underneath method
Version	Integer	Fixed integer defined in the WSDL referencing the current version of the Neteven webservices used.

In order to generate the signature:

Create a string “login/stamp/seed/password”
Retrieve that string’s raw md5*

Encode that result in base64

In case of authentication issues, please check that:

Your login and password are corrects
The date used in stamp is correctly formed
In your header the values for seed and stamp are the same than the ones used to generate your signature
The result from md5 is actually in raw mode
The base64 encoding has been applied