Salla has made it easier for developers worldwide to reach its audience of over 60,000 active retailers. Achieve more and make money by offering your services to many Merchants or by engaging them in high-touch customer interactions. You can do more, as we explained in a previous article.
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Developers can access a rich list of Salla's Partners resources using the dedicated API documentation, which provides in-depth access methods to Salla customers, stores, and more.
The Salla Partner Portal gives more capabilities for developers to design, develop, build, ship, and connect their apps with the Salla E-commerce portal.
As we will be unraveling in this article, the portal will be much more effortless to workaround.
Building an App on Salla?
The Salla Apps Playbook walks through the full process, planning, building, publishing, and growing an app, end to end.
To start, make sure to have a verifiedSalla Partners account on https://salla.partners.Login to your account on https://salla.partners using your credentials. Once logged in you will be redirected to the main page.From the left menu, can click on "My Apps". This will land on the Apps page where you can create your first app.
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With Salla App Store, you can have two types of Apps:Public App: your App can go into public usage and display for those users who browse the Salla App Store. The Merchants can view your App's details and may download/purchase your App.Private App: privately built and developed apps for integration to either larger scaled or individual Merchants. The Apps won't be displayed or accessed from the Salla App Store homepage search results and more.
In this step, you will need to choose your App's type either Public or Private.
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Shipping App can be a Public or Private App, you will be able to choose the App category in the next section.
Afterward, start entering the basic information of your App:
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Description
Icon
The App icon image, should have Minimum width : 250 pixels, height : 250 pixels. And the Width to high ratio : 1 : 1 .
Name
The App name should be provided in English and Arabic
Category
Shipping Apps for Shipping services Apps., General App for other than Shipping App
Description
Describe your App in 50 characters
App Website
The App website URL link
Support Email
The App support email address
Following is a complete example for App Basic information:Now you can click on "Create App".🥳You have successfully created your first App on Salla Partners Portal.
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Getting here, means the App was created. In order to publish you will need to continue reading.
After creating the App, you will be redirected to the App details page. App Details page is where you will find the App deatils inlcuding App Keys, App Scope, Webhooks Notifications App Trusted IP's, App Settings, App Snippet, Custom Plans, DNS Management, App Testing, App Testing, App Publishing. Each section will be explained in the following parts.
After that, you will come to the "App Scope" section. This section specifies your app's scope to protect your app by identifying and restricting access to certain features and services.
Next, you will have the "Webhooks/Notifications". Webhooks are one way that Apps can send automated messages or information to other apps. You can use that to be notified whenever events occur in stores, such as "create an order", "register a new customer", and others. Scrolling down, you will outlook more options:
Adding your Webhook URL to where you will be receiving the events you choose to listen to
Get your Webhook Secret key with the option to generate a new one
Managing DNS (Domain Name System) records for a Salla Store involves configuring the settings that enable the store’s domain name to be associated with its corresponding IP address, which helps to ensure that visitors can access the store using the desired domain name.
In this section you can test your App using a demo store, the demo store will provide a real life experience of an actual store where you can test your App features.
App publishing allows your App to be displayed in Salla Apps Store for all Salla Merchants. To publish your App, scroll down on the App Details page and click on the "Start Publishing your App" button, to begin the process.The publishing process consists of six sections, Basic Information, App Configurations, App Features, Pricing, Contact Information and Service Trial.
With that said, we covered the Salla Partner Portal fully, with all its procedures to create your first App on the portal. Follow up with your email and portal notifications for further understanding of the portal.
With the steps mentioned above, you will create your first App on Salla with ease and a smooth process.Time for you to elevate your work, experience, and ability and have a solid reputation with passive income that could be higher than expected, as we have discussed.If you are facing any issues or have any further questions, be part of the Global Developer Community on Telegram
