{"section":"announcements","requestedLocale":"en","requestedSlug":"2022-06-17-vtex-expands-its-partnership-with-mercado-libre-in-latin-america","locale":"en","slug":"2022-06-17-vtex-expands-its-partnership-with-mercado-libre-in-latin-america","path":"docs/en/announcements/2022/june/2022-06-17-vtex-expands-its-partnership-with-mercado-libre-in-latin-america.md","branch":"main","content":"Mercado Libre is one of the leaders in ecommerce in Latin America. It offers ecommerce solutions for buying, selling, paying for, advertising, and shipping products online for end-users and businesses.\n\nThe integration with Mercado Libre is an opportunity to leverage product reach and benefit from the customer base of the marketplace. Using [VTEX’s Mercado Libre native connector](/en/docs/tutorials/marketplace-strategies-at-vtex#integrating-with-a-native-connector-vtex), you can manage the entire business through a single dashboard while having guaranteed usability and integrity. As a certified partner, the integration will always be up-to-date with the newest features released by Mercado Libre.\n\nCurrently, besides Brazil, VTEX is a certified Mercado Libre integration partner in the following Latin American countries:\n\n- Argentina\n- Chile\n- Colombia \n- Peru\n\nThe certification ensures that the VTEX integration has reached the standards of excellence required by Mercado Libre. In practice, the certification guarantees that the solution is ready for [omnichannel](/en/tracks/estrategias-de-comercio-unificado--3WGDRRhc3vf1MJb9zGncnv) and new releases by Mercado Libre.\n\nSome certification benefits include:\n\n- **Specialized support from the Mercado Libre team:** with the certification, VTEX has access to more agile and specialized support from the Mercado Libre team.\n- **Certified partner seal:** Mercado Libre performs a series of validations to ensure that the integration supports its main functionalities. Therefore, the certified partner seal proves to our customers that we have a solution that will meet their needs.\n- **Certified VTEX team:** the VTEX team that developed the solution was also certified through a validation that proves our extensive knowledge of Mercado Libre’s open platform, improving the integration maintenance.\n\n## What has changed?\n\nAs a certified partner, in addition to the previous features available in the Mercado Libre-VTEX integration, we launched several improvements to qualify for certification, including the following:\n\n- Mercado Envios Full support.\n- Dynamic shipping support.\n- New interface for managing promotional campaigns in Mercado Libre.\n- New interface for mapping categories and attributes.\n- Improvements to the status update flow for ME1 and ME2 orders.\n\n## Why did we make this change?\n\nAll new features introduced by the certification aim to increase sales and improve the operation of VTEX sellers integrated with Mercado Libre. \n\n## What needs to be done?\n\nUsers already using the VTEX-Mercado Libre integration can contact [VTEX Support](/en/docs/tutorials/how-does-vtex-support-work) or their CSM team for details on the new features.\n\nIf your store is not integrated with Mercado Libre yet, check out our [Integration guide](/en/tracks/configurar-integracao-do-mercado-livre--2YfvI3Jxe0CGIKoWIGQEIq)."}