PepSpectrum Connect

PepSpectrum Connect links your WooCommerce store to PepSpectrum, a
price-comparison marketplace. Shoppers compare offers from several stores on one
page, then click through to buy on your store — you keep the customer, the
payment and the order.

You install this plugin, paste the two credentials from your PepSpectrum vendor
dashboard, and everything after that is automatic.

What it does

• Keeps your listings current. Every published product is sent when you save
  it, so prices, descriptions and images on the marketplace match your store.
• Keeps stock accurate in real time. When stock changes — whether you edited
  it or a customer bought something — the new level is pushed straight away.
• Brings buyers in ready to pay. A shopper arriving from PepSpectrum lands on
  your checkout with the right items already in the cart, their details filled
  in, and your marketplace discount code applied.
• Reports marketplace orders. Completed, cancelled and refunded orders that
  came from PepSpectrum are reported back so commission is tracked correctly.
  Orders from anywhere else are ignored entirely.
• Shares your lab reports automatically. Upload a Certificate of Analysis
  PDF to a product the normal way and its link travels with your listing — no
  field to fill in, and nothing added to your product screen.

Everything runs in the background through Action Scheduler, so a sale or an admin
save is never held up waiting on a network call.

Third-party service disclosure

This plugin depends on an external service and is not useful without one.

It is a client for the PepSpectrum marketplace at
www.pepspectrum.com, operated by PepSpectrum. Using
the plugin means store data is transmitted to, and processed by, that service. You
need a PepSpectrum vendor account to use it.

Nothing is sent until you connect the plugin. On a fresh install it makes no
outbound requests at all. It begins communicating only after you save an API Key
and Secret on WooCommerce → PepSpectrum — saving those credentials is the act of
consent.

Once connected, the plugin sends to www.pepspectrum.com:

• When you save a published product — SKU, name, short description, price,
  regular and sale price, currency, stock quantity and status, image URLs,
  category names, the product’s public URL, and the link to a Certificate of
  Analysis PDF if one is attached to that product. Draft, private and pending
  products are never sent. Unpublishing, trashing or deleting a product sends
  only its SKU and a “no longer listed” flag.
• When stock changes — SKU, quantity and stock status.
• Once a day — the same published-product data again, as a full refresh, so
  the marketplace cannot drift out of date.
• When a PepSpectrum-referred order completes, is cancelled or is refunded —
  order totals, discount, shipping and tax amounts, currency, status, your order
  number, and the marketplace reference for that order. A refund additionally
  sends the refunded amount and the reason you typed on it. No customer data
  is ever sent: no names, email addresses, postal addresses or phone numbers.
  Orders that did not come from PepSpectrum are never reported.
• With every request — your site URL and the plugin version, so the service
  knows which store is calling.

The plugin also receives two kinds of signed request from the service: checkout
links that carry a buyer to your store with their cart and details, and a request
to re-send your catalogue. Both are rejected unless they carry a valid signature
made with your API Secret and are within their expiry window.

All traffic is signed with HMAC-SHA256 and sent over HTTPS. No data is shared with
any other third party.

By connecting your store you agree to the PepSpectrum
Terms of Service and
Privacy Policy.

Every product needs a SKU

The SKU is how the marketplace identifies a product across different stores, so a
product saved without one is not synced and will not appear there.

On a variable product, every variation needs its own unique SKU. WooCommerce
reports the parent’s SKU for a variation left blank, which would make the
variations overwrite each other into a single listing and break checkout for
buyers sent over. The plugin flags both cases in wp-admin so you are never left
guessing why a product is missing.