1.Introduction
This is the manual for the integration between Bol.com and Silvasoft.
This integration ensures that orders from the Bol.com webshop are automatically processed to invoices or orders in Silvasoft. Because the orders enter the webshop owner's accounting system directly, it saves time on financial administration.
Please pay special attention to the following
- This integration is a financial integration. It is not a logistics integration. It is not suitable for updating customers in Silvasoft, printing packing slips, or synchronizing products/inventory.
- This integration does not replace the work of an accountant. It saves time because you no longer have to retype documents. The accountant is still needed for advice, expertise, and control.
- The integration attempts to determine the VAT percentage of the product in Silvasoft. If successful, the integration uses the VAT percentage belonging to this product. Otherwise, the integration uses the default VAT percentage as configured in the Configuration tab of the dashboard.
Tip: Other customers using this integration found the tips in the FAQ for Bol.com and in the FAQ for Silvasoft.
Install integration
Installing the integration starts with signing up for a trial period, via our integrations page. After registration, you will receive an email containing an installation URL and login details. With this installation URL, you start the installation of the integration.
The installation is complete when both connection dots are green, and the settings in the Configuration tab have been entered and saved.
There is a trial period of 30 days.
If you want to install another integration, you can do so in the same way. Make sure you are logged out of the integration dashboard and preferably start the new installation in an incognito browser.
Installing the integration starts with signing up for a trial period, via our integrations page. After registration, you will receive an email containing an installation URL and login details. With this installation URL, you start the installation of the integration.
The installation is complete when both connection dots are green, and the settings in the Configuration tab have been entered and saved.
There is a trial period of 30 days.
If you want to install another integration, you can do so in the same way. Make sure you are logged out of the integration dashboard and preferably start the new installation in an incognito browser.
Cancel integration
At the end of the trial or subscription period, the integration will not be automatically renewed. You will receive an offer for a one-year subscription or renewal by email at the end of this period. You can confirm the renewal by using the payment link in that email. Do you want to terminate the integration in the meantime? This is possible via the dashboard https://uwkoppeling.webwinkelfacturen.nl, Configuration tab > Cancel integration. The integration will then be cancelled immediately. Please note: After cancellation, the dashboard is no longer accessible.
Are you switching to another web shop/accounting system and do you want to re-establish a connection? In this faq we explain how to do this.
We advise you to revoke the consumer ID and secret within your Bol.com environment upon uninstallation of the integration.
At the end of the trial or subscription period, the integration will not be automatically renewed. You will receive an offer for a one-year subscription or renewal by email at the end of this period. You can confirm the renewal by using the payment link in that email. Do you want to terminate the integration in the meantime? This is possible via the dashboard https://uwkoppeling.webwinkelfacturen.nl, Configuration tab > Cancel integration. The integration will then be cancelled immediately. Please note: After cancellation, the dashboard is no longer accessible.
Are you switching to another web shop/accounting system and do you want to re-establish a connection? In this faq we explain how to do this.
We advise you to revoke the consumer ID and secret within your Bol.com environment upon uninstallation of the integration.
2.How the integration works
A order from the Bol.com webshop is processed to Silvasoft as invoice or order. The desired option can be set via the Configuration tab of the dashboard.
New orders from your webshop are retrieved at least once per hour. Orders are retrieved from the shipping list at Bol.com, not from the Open orders list. An order is only processed once all products in that order have been shipped. Outstanding orders are updated during the night.
Returns are not processed automatically. If you want to process returns, send us an email .
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New orders from your webshop are retrieved at least once per hour. Orders are retrieved from the shipping list at Bol.com, not from the Open orders list. An order is only processed once all products in that order have been shipped. Outstanding orders are updated during the night.
Returns are not processed automatically. If you want to process returns, send us an email .
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Pre-check orders
At the start of processing an order, we perform a number of checks on the Bol.com order:
At the start of processing an order, we perform a number of checks on the Bol.com order:
- It is checked whether the total of the Bol.com order is equal to the sum of the amounts in the order lines plus the shipping cost amount.
- It is checked whether the order has not already been processed.
Processing orders
Processing a Bol.com order to Silvasoft takes place in three steps:
Processing a Bol.com order to Silvasoft takes place in three steps:
- It is checked if the customer already exists in Silvasoft. If not, the customer is created. Matching is based on the email address.
- It is checked whether the products from the Bol.com order are already present in Silvasoft. Missing products are created.
- The Silvasoft invoice or order is created and processed.
Post-check
After the order has been forwarded and a success message from Silvasoft has been received, the order is marked as handled. The Bol.com order appears at the Reporting tab on the dashboard.
If Silvasoft returns an error while processing the order, the order appears in the Errors tab on the dashboard. Via the yellow button More info more information about the problem can be found. Via the red button Report problem can the order with all necessary information easily be submitted to us after you have tried to resolve the problem yourself. If the problem is solved, in some cases the orders can be processed again with the blue Process button.
Data
Information about the data that is processed can be found in the section Day-to-day: To Silvasoft later in the manual.
After the order has been forwarded and a success message from Silvasoft has been received, the order is marked as handled. The Bol.com order appears at the Reporting tab on the dashboard.
If Silvasoft returns an error while processing the order, the order appears in the Errors tab on the dashboard. Via the yellow button More info more information about the problem can be found. Via the red button Report problem can the order with all necessary information easily be submitted to us after you have tried to resolve the problem yourself. If the problem is solved, in some cases the orders can be processed again with the blue Process button.
Data
Information about the data that is processed can be found in the section Day-to-day: To Silvasoft later in the manual.
3.Required: Bol.com keys
You create the integration with your Bol.com platform using two keys: a client ID and a secret. You can create these keys within your Bol.com account.
Bol.com itself has a description with pictures on how to create the keys: https://api.bol.com/retailer/public/Retailer-API/credentials_for_retailer_api.html
4.Required: Silvasoft key
To establish the connection with your Silvasoft account, you need to create an API key. An API key is a secret key that authorizes the connection to read from your Silvasoft account and, for example, add debtors and orders to your account. Essentially, an API key is a special password for the connection.
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Silvasoft has a good explanation of how to generate the API key, including the associated costs. You can find it here: https://www.silvasoft.nl/artikel/hoe-api-activeren-silvasoft-gebruiker/. The contract you need depends on the number of orders in your store or webshop. You can start with a low contract and upgrade if you encounter problems. Sales that are not processed due to limits appear in the integration dashboard, in the error queue. You can simply process them afterwards, so you won't lose anything should the API limits be too low.
5.Installation
After installation, check using this FAQ, whether the integration works.
Installing the integration starts with signing up for a trial period, via our integrations page. After registration, you will receive an email containing an installation URL and login details. With this installation URL, you start the installation of the integration.
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Before the integration can be used, the terms and conditions must first be accepted. The terms and conditions are based on the general ICT Terms and Conditions (industry organization) and the general GDPR guidelines. 
Bol.com authentication:
Authentication with your Bol.com account is done via the Client id and Client secret that you determined in a previous section. Click the red Connect button next to Bol.com and enter the Client id and Client secret in the popup window.
Authentication with your Bol.com account is done via the Client id and Client secret that you determined in a previous section. Click the red Connect button next to Bol.com and enter the Client id and Client secret in the popup window.
Silvasoft connection
You establish the connection with Silvasoft via the username and API key you determined in the previous step. Click the red Connect button next to Silvasoft. You can now enter the username and the API key in the popup window.
Configure VAT rates and general ledger accounts
When configuring the VAT rates and general ledger accounts, a link is created between the VAT rates in webshop and the VAT codes and revenue accounts in Silvasoft. You can always make changes by clicking the blue 'Edit' button and selecting an option from the drop-down menus.
Bol.com does not provide VAT percentages on your orders. Therefore, you can enter a default VAT percentage for NL, BE, and Other for the integration.
Intra-Community (ICP) and international deliveries
The Intra-Community supplies / ICP option is intended for business-to-business deliveries within the EU. These sales are invoiced with 0% VAT. A VAT number from the customer is required. The International option applies to deliveries outside the EU. For these sales, the integration expects 0% VAT; otherwise, the sales cannot be processed. Separate VAT codes and general ledger accounts can be configured for both ICP and international deliveries.
Once the VAT settings have been configured and saved, you will always see the selected VAT rates. If you want to start over, you can use the grey 'Remove VAT settings' button. Your current settings will then be deleted and you can begin again.
When configuring the VAT rates and general ledger accounts, a link is created between the VAT rates in webshop and the VAT codes and revenue accounts in Silvasoft. You can always make changes by clicking the blue 'Edit' button and selecting an option from the drop-down menus.
Bol.com does not provide VAT percentages on your orders. Therefore, you can enter a default VAT percentage for NL, BE, and Other for the integration.
Intra-Community (ICP) and international deliveries
The Intra-Community supplies / ICP option is intended for business-to-business deliveries within the EU. These sales are invoiced with 0% VAT. A VAT number from the customer is required. The International option applies to deliveries outside the EU. For these sales, the integration expects 0% VAT; otherwise, the sales cannot be processed. Separate VAT codes and general ledger accounts can be configured for both ICP and international deliveries.
Once the VAT settings have been configured and saved, you will always see the selected VAT rates. If you want to start over, you can use the grey 'Remove VAT settings' button. Your current settings will then be deleted and you can begin again.
Configure payment methods
You can create a link here between the payment methods in the webshop and a fixed debtor in your Silvasoft administration. Orders with a payment method from the list will then always be posted to this debtor. In that case, no new debtors will be created.
You can create a link here between the payment methods in the webshop and a fixed debtor in your Silvasoft administration. Orders with a payment method from the list will then always be posted to this debtor. In that case, no new debtors will be created.
6.Day-to-day: From Bol.com
This section explains how the integration retrieves orders from the Bol.com account.
Processing schedule: The integration retrieves orders every hour from the Bol.com shipping list. This means that if orders are still in the open order list of Bol.com (or partially), the orders are not yet processed. The integration can go back up to 3 months in time to retrieve orders. After three months, the orders disappear from the shipping list and the integration can no longer retrieve them.
Once an order has been processed, it cannot be processed again. An order that is modified in Bol after it has been processed will not be adjusted in Silvasoft.
Once an order has been processed, it cannot be processed again. An order that is modified in Bol after it has been processed will not be adjusted in Silvasoft.
Returns
If you want the integration to process returns in addition to orders, please contact us. We will then enable the returns option. To process returns, the integration retrieves the order for which the return was created. This order is used to determine the return.
Please note: The integration only processes a return if the integration has previously processed the order to which the return relates. For more information see the FAQ.
If you want the integration to process returns in addition to orders, please contact us. We will then enable the returns option. To process returns, the integration retrieves the order for which the return was created. This order is used to determine the return.
Please note: The integration only processes a return if the integration has previously processed the order to which the return relates. For more information see the FAQ.
Field-level specification orders
Specification Bol.com order. +-
| Name field | Values from Bol.com order |
| Order-identifier | [orderId] |
| Order number | [orderId] on request we can set a prefix here |
| Order and booking date | The date from [orderPlacedDateTime] |
| Total incl | Sum of amounts incl. VAT in the order lines |
| Total excl | Sum of amounts excl. VAT in the order lines |
Specification Bol.com order lines. +-
| Name field | Values from Bol.com order |
| VAT percentage | dummy value that is determined later based on the default VAT percentage in the settings or - if applicable - the product in Silvasoft |
| Name product | [product][title] |
| SKU | This is not filled in. Some merchants would like to have the field [offerReference] filled in here. This is not possible because not all Bol.com merchants use the field [offerReference] for the product SKU. |
| Barcode | [product][ean] |
| Amount | [quantity] |
| Unit price excl. VAT | Is not filled in because this amount is not yet known |
| Unit price incl. VAT | [unitPrice] |
| Line price incl. VAT | [unitPrice] * [quantity] |
| Accounts and VAT codes from Silvasoft | Dummy values, these are only determined when creating the invoice or order in Silvasoft. |
Specification Bol.com customer. +-
| Name field | Values from Bol.com order |
| If only the shipping address is in the order, the billing address becomes the same as the shipping address | |
| First name | [billingDetails][firstName] |
| Last name | [billingDetails][lastName] |
| Company | [billingDetails][company] |
| Chamber of Commerce number | [billingDetails][kvkNumber] |
| Address line 1 | [billingDetails][streetName] |
| Address line 2 | [billingDetails][extraAddressInformation] |
| House number | [billingDetails][houseNumber] [billingDetails][houseNumberExtension] |
| Zip code | [billingDetails][zipCode] |
| City | [billingDetails][city] |
| Country | [billingdetails][countryCode] |
| Shipping address | Same as for the billing address, but now with [shipmentDetails] instead of [billingDetails] |
| VAT number | [billingDetails][vatNumber] |
| Emailaddress | [billingDetails][email] |
Specification Bol.com return. +-
| Name field | Values from Bol.com return |
| The return lines are not stored separately in Bol.com. Therefore, both the return and the associated order are used to read the return. | |
| Order ID | Identifier from the order |
| Order number | Number from the order |
| Return ID | [returnId] |
| Return date | [registrationDateTime] if present, otherwise the order date |
| Customer data | The customer data from the order |
| Return lines |
The return line is determined based on the line itself and the associated order line
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7.Day-to-day: To Silvasoft
Create transactions
The orders from Bol.com are imported into Silvasoft as invoices or orders.
This data is processed to Silvasoft:
The orders from Bol.com are imported into Silvasoft as invoices or orders.
This data is processed to Silvasoft:
Create debtors
When processing customer information, it is first checked whether the customer has been processed before. If so, this Silvasoft debtor is used as the debtor for the Silvasoft transaction. If the customer is not yet known, they are added to Silvasoft. Matching is based on email address. Please note: The integration only creates debtors. The integration does not modify debtors.
When processing customer information, it is first checked whether the customer has been processed before. If so, this Silvasoft debtor is used as the debtor for the Silvasoft transaction. If the customer is not yet known, they are added to Silvasoft. Matching is based on email address. Please note: The integration only creates debtors. The integration does not modify debtors.
Create products
Products not yet in Silvasoft are added to Silvasoft. They are added with a price excl. VAT and the VAT percentage as indicated in the order. New products are placed in the category Webshop in Silvasoft.
Please note: The products are only created in Silvasoft. Products in Silvasoft are never modified.
The rules for matching products between Bol.com and Silvasoft can be found in this FAQ be read.
Products not yet in Silvasoft are added to Silvasoft. They are added with a price excl. VAT and the VAT percentage as indicated in the order. New products are placed in the category Webshop in Silvasoft.
Please note: The products are only created in Silvasoft. Products in Silvasoft are never modified.
The rules for matching products between Bol.com and Silvasoft can be found in this FAQ be read.
Automatically processing payments
The integration is not suitable for forwarding payments to Silvasoft
Automatically sending invoices
The integration cannot have the invoices created in Silvasoft automatically sent by Silvasoft.
The integration cannot have the invoices created in Silvasoft automatically sent by Silvasoft.
Field-level specification Silvasoft
Field-level specification of the Silvasoft invoice +-
| Name | Example | Note |
| CustomerNumber | 4765 | Default debtor id. |
| AddAsDraft | false | This cannot be adjusted |
| InvoiceReference | 3894029204 |
For orders: order number, on request invoice number |
| InvoiceDate | 09-03-2023 |
For orders: order date |
| InvoiceNotes | ||
| Invoice_InvoiceLine | ||
| ProductNumber | 0293498320939 | SKU product, Shipping costs, Payment costs, Discount or Surcharge. |
| Quantity | 1 | Amount |
| TaxPc | 21 | VAT percentage |
| UnitPriceExclTax | 24.75 | Unit price excl. VAT |
| SubTotalInclTax | 29.95 | Line price incl. VAT |
| Description | Fireplace Bio-ethanol gel | Description |
| TaxCode | 21.0% - VAT high Netherlands | VAT code |
| LedgerAccountNumber | 8159 | Revenue account |
| Invoice_Address | ||
| Address_Street | Stationstraat | street |
| Address_City | Amsterdam | city |
| Address_PostalCode | 1000AA | zipcode |
| Address_Unit | 12 | house number |
| Address_Type | InvoiceAddress | Can have InvoiceAddress or ShippingAddress as value. |
Field-level specification of the Silvasoft order +-
| Name | Example | Note |
| CustomerNumber | 4765 | Default debtor id. |
| OrderReference | 3894029204 | order number, on request invoice number. |
| OrderDate | 09-03-2023 | Order date |
| OrderNotes | ||
| order_orderline | ||
| ProductNumber | 0293498320939 | SKU product, Shipping costs, Payment costs, Discount or Surcharge. |
| Quantity | 1 | Amount |
| TaxPc | 21 | VAT percentage |
| UnitPriceExclTax | 24.75 | Unit price excl. VAT |
| SubTotalInclTax | 29.95 | Line price incl. VAT |
| Description | Fireplace Bio-ethanol gel | Description |
| TaxCode | 21.0% - VAT high Netherlands | VAT code |
| LedgerAccountNumber | 8159 | Revenue account |
| Invoice_Address | ||
| Address_Street | Stationstraat | street |
| Address_City | Amsterdam | city |
| Address_PostalCode | 1000AA | zipcode |
| Address_Unit | 12 | house number |
| Address_Type | InvoiceAddress | Can have InvoiceAddress or ShippingAddress as value. |
Field-level specification of the Silvasoft product +-
| Name | Example | Note |
| Item number | [articleNumber] | If a productId is provided. Itemnumber -> productId |
| Category name | [CategoryName] | |
| CategoryCreateIfMissing | true | |
| EAN | [eannumber] | |
| New name | [Name] | max length 50 |
| New selling price | [priceExcl] | |
| StockUpdateMode | Absolute | |
| NewStockQuantity | [stock] | |
| NewVATPercentage | [VATpercentage] | |
8.Support
Explanation tabs dashboard
On the Dashboard >> Report you can see which orders from your Bol.com webshop, and when, have been transferred to Silvasoft.At Dashboard >> Errors you can see which orders have not been processed. Via the blue Process button you can (re)submit the order. Via the red Report problem button you can create a ticket with us.
At Dashboard >> Open the orders are listed that have not yet been processed because they do not yet have the correct status in the webshop. Every night jobs run to review the status again and still process the order.
At Dashboard >> Configuration you will find the settings of your integration. You can adjust settings there.
At Dashboard >> Profile invoices are available for download. You can also specify an additional email address here for sending emails and stop the integration.
What if orders are missing in Silvasoft
If orders are missing in Silvasoft we recommend following the steps below:- Log in to the dashboard: https://uwkoppeling.webwinkelfacturen.nl. The username and password are included in the registration email.
- Go to the Errors tab and check if order is there. You may need to adjust the search period if the
order is from a previous month. If you find order in this overview:
- Check the error code and verify whether you can resolve it yourself.
- If yes resolve the issue and click the blue Process button to resubmit the order.
- If not use the red Report problem button to create a ticket with us.
- Note if there are multiple errors, please create only 1 or 2 tickets. We will automatically see the other issues.
- Go to the Report tab and see if order is listed there. If so, you'll often see an identifier for Silvasoft (in the purple section of the overview) that you can use to search for order.
- Go to the Open tab and check if order is there.
- If you cannot resolve the issue, you can always create a ticket via the green Ask us button.
We have an extensive FAQ-section on the website. Pay particular attention to these sections: https://faq.webwinkelfacturen.nl/category/4/bolcom.html and https://faq.webwinkelfacturen.nl/category/39/silvasoft.html.
Would you prefer that we perform the installation of the integration for you? That is possible. Send an email to webcare@webwinkelfacturen.nl with the request. For an installation, we charge € 39.50 excl. VAT. For installations, we require access to the webshop and the accounting system.
We can perform migrations for orders that took place in the past. The request procedure and method are described in this general faq. For BOL.com migrations, there are a number of restrictions, described in this faq. For migrations we charge €67.50 excl. VAT per 1000 orders.