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Net Price Destination and Place of Origin

Adding New offers in the Seller Office User Interface - Switching to Net price , Destination and Origin:

The internationalization of the METRO Marketplace will introduce important adjustments to help both our sellers and customers benefit from cross-border trading. As part of our expansion, we are switching from Gross price to Net price. In addition, both the origin and the destination of your goods must be indicated. The introduction of this measure serves the purpose of being able to calculate the VAT taxes according to the respective market in the future.

Metro Marketplace will perform a smooth transition, providing a step by step change management processes to facilitate international development.

The starting point will be the introduction of Net Price in the User Interface of the Seller Office. When creating a new offer, we will as of now request you to provide the Origins and the Destinations of the goods.

By developing a new process, the calculation of VAT has been automated, so that no manual calculation is necessary. VAT is calculated automatically by the METRO Marketplace based on the origin and destination of the products

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Add or Update Offers via File in the Seller Office - New Template supports Net price, Destination and Origin

The next steps will be to provide options for the Offer File upload, that way you can benefit from the internationalization. Please read the information below for changes that will take place.

In the Seller Office “Manage Offers“ space you will spot a new Offer Template. This Template will be used for the German and other international markets. The New template will support columns that include the Net Price, Origin, and Destination of the goods. Within the new template, the Gross price and VAT are now removed.

We encourage existing and new Sellers to start using the new templates which support international markets, as well as the German market.

Note: In case you are using the previous offer template, it still works for the data upload, but only for Germany.

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What is classified as Origin?

Origin - This is the place from which the goods will be shipped (also known as a warehouse or storage place). We currently support two Origins which are Germany (mainland and Islands) and Spain , (not including islands and remote territories)

We are using the following list values in the Templates and API V2 file:

for Germany - "DE_MAIN"

for Spain - "ES_MAIN

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What is classified as Destination?

Destination - This is where the goods will be sold, a market, and also a place to buy. We are currently supporting Germany (Mainland and Islands) and Spain (Mainland, not including islands and remote territories)

We are using the following list values in the Templates and API V2 file:

for Germany - "DE_MAIN"

for Spain - "ES_MAIN

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How do I access Destination and Origins in Seller Office?

To access the Destination and Origins go to My Inventory. Once you click on it you can see on the right hand the two tabs that state Destination and Origins.

Origins:

Destination:

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New API V2 to support International Sales

We are introducing a new Offer API V2 which supports German and International markets. The main changes are:

New field: netPrice
New field: netVolumePrices
New field: Origin (eg. DE_MAIN, ES_MAIN)
New field: Destination( eg. DE_MAIN, ES_MAIN)

Existing Offer API V1 will get status “deprecated” on Jan 01, 2021. We will continue to support API V1 for legacy Sellers during approximately the next 6 months. We predict that our Clients will start using V2 then accordingly.

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What will happen with existing offers?

They will remain unmodified, we will allocate for all the offers that pertain to Origin and Destination as Germany (DE_MAIN).

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Separate shipping costs in your Seller Office

You can use the "Shipping groups" function to transfer shipping costs separately in your offers. In addition, you can define a threshold value for the individual shipping groups so that no shipping costs are incurred for the customer above this amount.

Please note that your previous offer prices already include the shipping costs. If you use the shipping group function, please check the prices for your existing offers and adjust them if necessary.

Your benefits:- Competitive prices- One-off shipping costs per delivery- More attractive offer price for low-priced items- More hits in search engines and price comparison portals- Incentivize your customers to buy more by setting thresholds for free shipping

Here's how it works:- Log in to your Seller Office and click on the arrow next to your shop name in the top right-hand corner.- Now click on the new "Shipping groups" tab, which will be displayed from next week.- You can define your shipping groups via "Set new shipping groups" by giving each shipping group its own name and setting the amount of the shipping costs. You can create as many shipping groups as you like, so that you can, for example, also distinguish between parcel and forwarding shipping.- Optionally, you can define an additional price, which will be added for each additional item in the shopping cart.- In addition, you can activate the option "Threshold value for free shipping" to define the threshold value for free shipping.- Now click on "save". Of course you can edit or delete the shipping groups at any time. You can also find all important information summarized in our tutorial.

Net prices

All prices configured in Seller Office are net prices. The final gross amount will be calculated in the checkout process, so we also keep the VAT rates for the shipping costs. Please note that for multiple items or multiple orders, the shipping costs may be rounded down in favor of the customer (a few cents for orders around 150 EUR).

You submit your offers via CSV or XLSX file?

Link your offers directly to the shipping groups by copying the name of the shipping group and pasting it into your offer in the column "Shipping Group". For this purpose, a new CSV template will be made available to you in Seller-Office in due time.

You create your offers manually?

If you create your offers manually, go to "My offers" under "Inventory" and click on "Add new offer" in the relevant offer. In the offer details you can now select your desired shipping group under "Shipping group" and then click on "Add/change offer".

You create offers via a connected software partner?

If you create offers via a connected software partner, please ask your provider directly whether they already support shipping groups. Please note that if you manually link shipping groups to your offers in your Seller Office, these will be overwritten as soon as a changed offer is sent to us by your supplier.

You create offers via an API interface developed by you? We have already provided you with all the information for this and stored it in the API documentation.

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Can I still add New offer with Gross Price via User Interface ?

After the changes take place the only Net prices are allowed via Creating an Offer in the User Interface. However, the file upload template can be used to submit gross prices.

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What does the Net Price consist of ?

The net price is the price of the item excluding the VAT and including the shipping costs (except if these should be shown to the client separately, by adding them in a specific shipping group). For more information, please refer to the question about separate shipping costs.

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How about VAT? Who will calculate it?

METRO Marketplace will allocate the correct VAT to the goods purchased based on the Country of Origin and Destination, depending on the type of Customer.

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What are the requirements for cross country delivery for Germany and Spain?

For adding products and selling products to the Spanish market we will need additional documents and information regarding tax.

You must specify if you want to sell to B2C and B2B (or only B2C/only B2B)
You must register in Spain for VAT purposes.
Please identify if you have a Spanish tax number/NIF and if the number is also registered for EU sales only.

If you want to sell to B2B: You must have a permanent establishment for VAT purposes in Spain.

You must also declare if you as a seller will deliver from Germany or Spain to Spanish customers.
If you as the Seller are not used to intracommunity sales (i.e. sales to another EU country) then you must be aware that you should inform your tax advisor for tax purposes regarding intracommunity sales.

If you want to sell to B2C you must have a waived application of the relevant thresholds to apply for a Spanish VAT. This is something that must be declared by the German tax authorities.

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