Integrating Third-Party Applications

With Simba, you can install and integrate third-party applications such as payment, shipping, loyalty, transaction fee, tax-related applications for your business. Applications are installed from the App Market Place at the business level.  The application is configured at the store level.

From Your Apps, you can view the list of all installed private, public, and pending apps. From the list of pending apps, the approver can approve or reject apps. The rejected apps cannot be used in the Simba Admin console. A user with the appropriate privileges can uninstall the application from the Simba Admin console.

For example, you can install and configure the following applications:

  • Payment applications
    • PayPal
    • AmazonPay
    • Klarna
    • Stripe Payment App
    • Cybersource Payment App
    • Braintree
  • Shipment Applications
    • General Delivery Option
    • USPS Shipping App
  • Tax Applications
    • TaxAlvalara

Navigate to Apps Manger

You can directly navigate to the Apps Manager in the Your Apps page.

To navigate to the Apps Manager page,

  1. Log in to the Simba application with valid credentials provided to you.
  2. In the All Store page, click on the required store.

    The Store Overview page appears.
  3. In the left navigation panel, click Your Apps. The Apps page is displayed.

    The Apps page is displayed.
  4. Click the GO TO APPS MANAGER button to navigate to the Apps Manager page to view the installed apps and pending apps. For detailed information, refer to Apps Manager section.

Search for Applications

You can search for applications using the search box or preset filters.

The preset filters include predefined and custom filters. You can,

  • Filer apps using the predefined filter “Filter by Apps”
  • Sort apps by name and date in the ascending or descending order.

Note: Predefined filters cannot be modified or updated.

For information on search based on predefined and custom filters, refer to Working with Presets.

Add an App

You can install the required applications from the marketplace.

To add an App,

  1. Log in to the Simba Application with valid credentials provided to you.
  2. In the All Store page, click on the required store.
  3. In the left navigation panel, click Your Apps.
  4. In the Apps page, click on ADD AN APP button.
  5. In the Marketplace page, click the application that you want to install.
  6. In the application page, click Install. For example, USPS Shipping App.
  7. Accept the terms and conditions and click Proceed to install the application.

    The app is installed successfully.

    Note:

    • Once the app is installed, an email is triggered to the merchant.
    • If the app is already installed and activated, you can view,
    • If the app is already installed, you can view,
    • If the application is already installed and yet to configure, you can view the SET UP option.
    • Once the app is installed successfully, you need to configure the application. For detailed information, refer to Configure an App.

Configure an App

Once the applications are installed successfully, you need to activate and configure those applications to use them effectively.

To configure an App,

  1. Log in to the Simba Application with valid credentials provided to you.
  2. In the All Store page, click on the required store.
  3. In the left navigation panel, click Your Apps. The Apps page is displayed.
  4. Click on the required application to configure.

    The application’s configuration page appears.
  5. In the Activation section, select any of the following:
    • Activate – The application is activated and available for use. Once the user activates a deactivated app, the General Delivery Option app is enabled in the StoreFront and the BackOffice.
    • Preview only – The application can be previewed. App functions will only be visible to merchant for preview, not visible to buyers on the storefront. By default, the preview only state is selected.
    • Deactivate – The application is deactivated, and it cannot be used unless it is activated again. If the user activates a deactivated app, the Client’s Admin team will trigger an email notification to the merchant who can activate the app from the Simba console. For example, “The “App Name” App has been reactivated by Client’s Admin. Please activate the App through App Configuration BO page”.

    Note: Merchant must save the App in the App configuration page to activate the App and the existing configuration and functionality.

  6. Click Save. The application is successfully configured.
    Note:

Uninstall an App

You can uninstall an application using the Uninstall icon.

To uninstall an app,

  1. Log in to the Simba Application with valid credentials provided to you.
  2. In the All Store page, click on the required store.
  3. In the left navigation panel click Your Apps.
    The Apps page is displayed with the list of apps.
  4. Click on the application that you want to uninstall. For example, General Delivery Option.
  5. In the application’s configuration page, click Uninstall.

    The following confirmation message is shown:
  6. Click UNINSTALL, which uninstalls the application from the Simba Admin console, and all the configurations, stores, and locales linked to the application will be removed.

Revision History

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2021-04-26 Initial draft SW JP SR
2022-06-28 Updated the content for 8.9 release changes SW JP SR