John Lewis

Complete guide on our John Lewis module

Preliminary Checklist

Before setting up tasks on John Lewis, make sure you have everything below prepared:

• Profiles

Create and save your checkout profiles under the Profiles tab in Stellar. These contain your billing, shipping and payment info.

• Proxies

• High-quality ISP or Residential proxies are required.

• Low-quality or flagged proxies will cause Akamai-related errors.

• For reliable performance, consider using Stella Proxies ISPs or Residentials.

  • If you're looking for proxies, check out Stella Proxies for high quality ISP and Residential proxies.

• Cook Group Access

Optional but recommended. Your cook group can help you find product URLs, SKUs and early restock alerts.

Task Overview

Monitor mode

Guest mode

• Which Mode do I use?

  • Monitor mode will check for product availability and ping your guest mode tasks when the product comes into stock

  • Guest mode will add to cart and checkout the product you input

• What does Profile mean?

  • Select a Profile you want to use and that profile information will be used when checking out items

• What type of Proxies should I use?

  • Both ISPs and Resis should work, try ISPs first on an in stock item with false payment information. If you receive any errors, switch to residentials

    • If you're looking for proxies, check out Stella Proxies for high quality ISP and Residential proxies

• What is the SKU and how do I get them?

  • Look for the item you want to run for. An example link would be https://www.johnlewis.com/american-tourister-take2cabin-casual-backpack-24l-raspberry-sorbet/p112529276 the SKU is p112529276

• What Delays should I use?

  • Monitoring Delay: We recommend to use delays around 5000 depending on the quality of your proxies

    • It's required to have at least one monitor task per product if you're choosing your checkout task to be a watch task

  • Reset Delay: 10000 or less

  • Delay for checkout tasks: 5000 or less

• What is a good QTY to use?

  • It's best to check with your cookgroup for quantity recommendations as different products have different quantity restrictions

• What is Watch Task? box?

  • Using watch task will help your proxies encounter less proxy bans and less proxy errors overall. Using a watch task essentially means you want your task to rely on other sources to monitor, in this case your monitor mode task will ping the watch task when a restock has happened

    • If you check this box, your task will wait for a monitor mode task to ping it then it'll proceed to add item to cart and checkout

    • If this box is unchecked, your task will monitor the sku, add to cart and checkout

• What is Use TopCashback? box?

  • Follow the Topcashback guide to set it up and check this box to earn cashback on eligible purchases