At refurbed, we maintain product data in-house to keep data quality at a high standard and e.g. prevent duplicate listings on our platform. To create an offer you first need to know the identifier in our system to “reference” your offer to it.
As identifier we use a unique upcounting id called instance_id. This id is always existent and refurbed’s own reference. Furthermore we use (manufacturer) GTIN especially for more popular products. Both instance_id and GTIN can be used to create offers with BatchCreateOffers/CreateOffers.
Be aware though we do trust instance_id’s more than GTIN so if you create an offer directly with a GTIN the offer will be in an UNVERIFIED state and not be visible to customers unless you log into the Supplier Interface and verify every single offer manually (Button “Verify” will appear).
However to be able to automate offer creation efficiently we set up a workflow so that you can validate if we hold the expected data for your GTIN in our database on your end and if that is the case, create the offer with our instance_id (to save the effort of manual verification):
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