Onboarding stage 4: Final revision and Go live
The fourth and final stage of your onboarding process and Go live! Here you'll find helpful links and information about the final part of your onboarding journey.
Introduction to the Final revision and Go live stage
Congratulations, you’ve reached the last stage known as Final revision and Go live, where the main goal is to double-check to ensure everything is correct, complete and on track for your Go live!
Steps for you to take during the Final revision and Go live stage
Step 1: Confirm you're ready to go live
Please confirm the accuracy of all provided information and confirm this to your onboarding manager, so that you can go live. For example, price and stock information, legal requirements, countries/ sales channels you wish to activate.
Your onboarding manager will notify you promptly in case of any missing information.
Step 2: Fill in the Partner satisfaction survey
You will receive a survey regarding your onboarding experience. Please take a moment to share your feedback with us. Your input is invaluable and helps us improve our service quality. We greatly appreciate your participation.
Step 3: Go live
Once your onboarding to Zalando has been successfully completed, the below list of helpful links can be used to empower you to take full control of your business operations on Zalando:
Leverage zDirect tooling to boost your business:
The zDirect dashboard:
The Article Listing feature
The Customer experience model (CXM) monitoring tool:
Analytics module to manage your
New and repeat Customers on Zalando
Conversion insights for your Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS) Ad Manager campaigns
Business growth through Market expansions
Fulfillment module to manage your logistics (relevant for Partners expanding via Zalando Logistics Solutions)
Receive Partner Care support for daily operational topics such as
article onboarding
CXM, etc.
Participate in Zalando’s Sales Events to increase your sales and attract new customers.
Steps the integrator will need to take during Final revision and Go live stage (for third party integration only)
Support you
Your integrator will support you in doing the final checks before going live, like price and stock validation, legal requirements, channel/country readiness, etc.
Steps Zalando will need to take during Final revision and Go live stage
Step 1: Perform last checks before go live
In parallel to the integrator checks, Zalando will also make sure whether your articles are ready to go live, have sufficient stock and the correct price. Additionally, Zalando verifies if your legal requirements are complete (i.e. VAT, EPR, KYC)
Step 2: Go live
After final checks and your approval to go live, Zalando will activate your sales channel and you will become live on Partner Program.
Best practice
Ensure that your articles have the correct stock and price. In particular, please pay attention to incorrect currency submissions. You can validate and manage your prices in zDirect.
Points of contact
Once you are live on Zalando, your main point of contact will be our Partner Care team, who will support you with general information, daily operational topics, or changes made to your account. To create arequest, please select the most relevant topic and request type in the contact form and complete each of the fields. Please include as much information as possible related to your request, so that the right person reaches out to you with the most adequate solution or response.