You can expand your online business by selling your products on different marketplaces like Amazon, Ebay, Miinto, and more. By connecting a marketplace to your Lightspeed eCom store, all relevant information about your products automatically syncs with a marketplace platform. New orders from marketplaces appear in your eCom admin.

Discover available marketplaces for your country in your eCom admin by navigating from your POS to Online → Go to eCom → Sales channels → Overview page.

Available marketplaces in eCom

Lightspeed eCom supports selling on several marketplaces:

Setting up marketplace category for your store

Once you start preparing to sell on marketplace platforms, you need to set up a general category for your catalog. A marketplace category is a taxonomy that organizes items internally and makes it easier for shoppers to discover your items online.

To set up a marketplace category for a catalog:

1. From your POS admin, go to Online → Settings → General.

2. Scroll down to Marketplace product settings, then click Configure Settings (or Change Settings if you have already set up your marketplace category before).

   The Marketplace product settings block becomes available after you start preparing to sell on a marketplace in your store admin (e.g., generate a product feed for Google Shopping or enable Automated Google ads).

3. Choose your category and product condition from the dropdown menus.
4. Click Save.

That's it. Now, settings apply to your entire catalog.

Setting up marketplace category per product

In case you sell products from different categories, you can assign a different marketplace category to specific products. It can be done either from a particular product details page or using the eCom bulk editor.

To be able to set a marketplace category for specific products, you need to set up a general marketplace category for your whole catalog first.

To set up marketplace category per product:

1. From your POS admin, go to Online → Go to eCom → Catalog → Products.
2. Click on the product you want to update.
3. Open Attributes tab, then scroll down to Marketplace category.
4. Select the most specific category possible from the dropdown menu.
5. Click Save.

To set up marketplace category for products in bulk:

1. From your POS admin, go to Online → Go to eCom → Catalog → Products.
2. Tick all products you want to update (you can click Filter in the left upper corner to use filters and make the search faster).
3. Click Mass Update.

4. In the dropdown menu, choose Manage Categories → Change Marketplace Category → Assign Marketplace Category to Selected.

   If you choose Change Marketplace Category → Reset Marketplace Category for Selected, you can restore the default general marketplace category for your products.

5. Select the category you want to assign from the dropdown. You can select unique or the default marketplace category that is set in your store.
6. Click Assign.

Changes are saved automatically.

You can view the list of categories assigned to your products from Online → Settings → General → Marketplace product settings.