Ecommerce PIM Integration by Alpha Expansion
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Ecommerce PIM Integration

One product record,on every channel

We connect a product information system to your online store, marketplaces and ERP, so descriptions, attributes and images are prepared once and appear correctly everywhere a customer might meet your products.

Product data onceChannels kept currentERP data separate

What we build

01Product data once

02Channels kept current

03ERP data separate

01Our Approach

A product described well in one place and badly in three others is a catalogue problem that more effort from the content team will never fix.

02Overview

One source for every product you publish

  • 01Product data once
  • 02Channels kept current
  • 03ERP data separate

Ecommerce PIM integration places a product information management system between your ERP and your sales channels. The ERP supplies codes, prices and stock. The PIM adds what customers read, such as names, descriptions, attributes, images and translations, and checks that each product is complete. The integration then publishes products to the store, marketplaces and shopping feeds in the shape each one expects, and keeps them current as things change.

It suits businesses with large or fast-changing catalogues, several languages or more than one sales channel, where product content is copied between spreadsheets and systems. A PIM is a product you license or run, and for a small catalogue on one store it may be more than you need. We help you judge that honestly, and where a PIM is right we connect it properly at both ends.

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03What We Do

Capabilities, End to End

01
ERP to PIM feed

New and changed items arrive from the ERP with their codes, units, prices and status, and create or update the matching product in the PIM.

02
Channel publishing

Completed products are published to the store and to each marketplace or feed, mapped to that channel's categories, attribute names and image rules.

03
Completeness gates

A product is held back from a channel until its required fields, images and translations for that channel are present, and the missing items are listed.

04
Attribute mapping

Your attributes and allowed values are translated to each channel's own, so one colour or size is not published under several spellings.

05
Media handling

Images and documents are sent in the sizes and formats each channel accepts, with alternative text and a stable link back to the original.

06
Change tracking

Only what changed is sent, each publication is logged, and a failed update is retried and reported instead of leaving a channel silently out of date.

04In Production

What It Looks Like When It Ships

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3 items below reorder point - suggested PO ready
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Product data once
Channels kept current
ERP data separate
Product recordCompleteness viewChannel mappingPublish log
05What You Receive

Handed Over, Ready to Run

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Product data ownership model
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Attribute and category mapping
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Integration services with source code
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ERP to PIM item feed
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Publishing to each channel
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Completeness rules per channel
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Error queue and monitoring
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Runbook and content team training
06How It Runs

From Kickoff to Launch

01
Assess the catalogue
02
Model the products
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Connect both ends
04
Migrate and switch
01
Assess the catalogue

We review your product data, channels and the way content is produced today, and decide with you whether a PIM is justified or the store's own tools would do.

02
Model the products

Product families, attributes, allowed values, languages and the fields each channel requires are defined, and ownership of every field is split between the ERP and the PIM.

03
Connect both ends

The feed from the ERP and the publishing to each channel are built and tested with a slice of real products, including variants, bundles and discontinued lines.

04
Migrate and switch

Existing content is cleaned and loaded into the PIM, channels are switched over one at a time, and editing in the store is closed once the PIM is the source.

07Technology

The Stack We Use

PIM sidePIM REST APIsProduct import and exportAsset storageCustom product servicesERP sideOdoo APIsNetSuite RESTSAP Service LayerScheduled item filesPIM sidePIM REST APIsProduct import and exportAsset storageCustom product servicesERP sideOdoo APIsNetSuite RESTSAP Service LayerScheduled item files
Channel sideShopify APIsWooCommerce REST APIMarketplace APIsShopping feed formatsOperationsPublish logsCompleteness reportsError queueAlertingChannel sideShopify APIsWooCommerce REST APIMarketplace APIsShopping feed formatsOperationsPublish logsCompleteness reportsError queueAlerting
08Who It Is For

Built for Teams Like Yours

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Product content is copied between too many places

Descriptions are written in a spreadsheet, pasted into the store and typed again for each marketplace. Attributes are spelled differently everywhere. Translations fall behind. When a product changes, nobody is sure which listings were updated and which still show last season's details.

Catalogues with thousands of items
Stores selling in several languages
Brands on marketplaces too
Distributors with supplier data
Retailers with frequent range changes
Teams enriching content daily
09Questions

What buyers ask before they start

If yours is not here, ask us directly. The first conversation is free and useful whether or not we work together.

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For a modest catalogue on a single store in one language, the store's own product tools are usually enough, and we will say so. A PIM pays for itself when you publish to several channels, work in several languages, manage thousands of items or have a team enriching content. The test is how often the same product information is entered in more than one place.

We integrate with whichever PIM you choose, through the interface its vendor documents, and we have no commercial tie to any of them. If you have not chosen, we help you compare candidates against your catalogue, languages, channels and budget, and we advise testing two with your own difficult products before committing, since demonstrations rarely show the awkward cases.

In the ERP, in nearly every case. Prices and stock change constantly and belong to finance and operations, so the ERP sends them straight to the store. The PIM holds the slower-moving information that marketing owns. Keeping those two flows separate avoids the common mistake of routing stock updates through a system built for editing descriptions.

Each marketplace has its own categories, required attributes and image standards, and rejects listings that do not conform. The integration maps your product model to each one and applies completeness rules per channel, so a product is published only where it is ready. Marketplace requirements change, and we treat keeping the mappings current as part of ongoing maintenance.

It is the starting material. We export what exists in the store, spreadsheets and supplier files, clean it against the new attribute model, remove duplicates and load it into the PIM. Gaps are reported per product so your team can fill them in priority order. Content is only switched off in the store once the PIM publishes it correctly.

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