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Use case — Onboard new sellers on your marketplace

Every seller has a different catalog format. WeTransform lets them upload what they have — and delivers exactly what your marketplace needs.

Written by Stéphane Jauffret
Updated over a week ago

😩 The problem

You're running a marketplace. Every new seller needs to upload their product catalog — but every seller has their own format. Different column names, different category structures, different EAN formats, different price conventions.

Your technical team builds custom importers. Your ops team manually reformats files. Your sellers wait days before their products are live. Some give up before they even start.

And every time you update your catalog format, the whole process breaks again.

✅ How WeTransform solves it

You configure your catalog format once — with all your column requirements, valid categories, mandatory fields, and constraints. Sellers upload whatever they have. WeTransform guides them through the transformation to your format, corrects errors interactively, and delivers a clean, validated catalog ready for ingestion.

No custom importer. No manual reformatting. No back-and-forth emails.

🛍️ What the seller experience looks like

Your new seller logs into your platform and clicks "Upload your catalog". They see an interface — embedded in your platform, with your branding — where they upload their file.

  1. They upload their product file — whatever format they export from their own system

  2. WeTransform's AI automatically maps their columns to yours ("Prix HT" → "price_excl_tax", "Réf article" → "sku", etc.)

  3. If their categories don't match yours, the AI maps them — and the seller can review and correct

  4. Missing fields are flagged clearly, with suggestions on how to fix them

  5. They submit — your system receives a fully validated catalog

🌟 Fill the Gaps for incomplete catalogs. If a seller's catalog has hundreds of missing attributes — product type, dimensions, weight — WeTransform's AI can infer and fill them automatically from the product description. Sellers submit complete catalogs even when their source data is sparse.

⚡ For sellers who want to automate

Once a seller's transformation is configured, they can connect their own feed (FTP, URL, API) and set a schedule. Their catalog updates automatically — daily, weekly, or on demand — without any manual upload.

Your marketplace receives fresh, validated data on autopilot.

📈 What this changes for your marketplace

  • ⏱️ Time to first product live drops from days to hours

  • 🎧 Support tickets about format errors drop dramatically

  • 🛠️ No custom importer to build or maintain — WeTransform handles format diversity

  • 📦 Catalog quality improves — validation catches errors before ingestion

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