Price list updates synced across website, marketplaces, and internal records

Purpose

1. Automate synchronizing price list updates across all sales channels, including websites, online marketplaces, and internal databases to ensure consistent, real-time pricing and eliminate manual errors in the art dealing process.

2. Automatedly update pricing across inventory management, online galleries, auction partner sites, and external listing platforms to streamline sales operations and improve buyer trust.

3. Automator ensures changes in one source are reflected instantly elsewhere, maintaining competitive pricing edge and regulatory adherence.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automated trigger: update to price field in central inventory database.

2. External API payload detected with updated pricing info.

3. Manual input/upload of new price lists via portal or spreadsheet triggers automation.

4. Scheduled automation at defined intervals (e.g., daily at midnight).

5. Marketplace webhook or update event triggers the synchronizing automator.

Platform Variants

1. Shopify

- Feature/Setting: Admin API (Product/Variant Update endpoint), webhook event on price change.
- Sample: Configure webhook "product/update" and API call PATCH `/admin/api/2021-07/products/{id}.json` with new price.

2. WooCommerce

- Feature/Setting: REST API v3 (PUT /products/{id}), webhooks.
- Sample: Enable webhook on product update; trigger PUT request to `/wp-json/wc/v3/products/{id}`.

3. Magento

- Feature/Setting: REST API (PUT /V1/products/{sku}), automated job triggers on prices.
- Sample: Scheduled automation for bulk price updates via API.

4. Salesforce Commerce Cloud

- Feature/Setting: OCAPI Shop API (PATCH /products), Data Sync Jobs.
- Sample: Automate PATCH payload for price updates to `/s/-/dw/shop/v20_4/products/{id}`.

5. Squarespace

- Feature/Setting: Inventory API, Product Variant endpoint.
- Sample: Automated API call to update pricing for an item variant.

6. Artlogic

- Feature/Setting: Inventory/Artworks API, webhook integration for price changes.
- Sample: Automate PATCH to `/api/v2/artworks/{id}`.

7. Artsy

- Feature/Setting: Partner API, sync endpoints.
- Sample: Scripted automation calls API post-price update.

8. eBay

- Feature/Setting: Trading API (ReviseFixedPriceItem), webhook notifications.
- Sample: Automated API call to update price for a listing.

9. Amazon

- Feature/Setting: MWS Products API (POST /products/pricing/v0/price).
- Sample: Automate function to POST new prices via API automator.

10. Etsy

- Feature/Setting: Etsy API v3 (updateListing endpoint), webhook triggers.
- Sample: PUT `/v3/application/shops/{shop_id}/listings/{listing_id}`.

11. BigCommerce

- Feature/Setting: Catalog API (PUT /products/{id}), Product Update webhook.
- Sample: Configure webhook on product update, trigger Catalog API automator.

12. Zoho Inventory

- Feature/Setting: Item Update API, scheduled automation.
- Sample: PUT `/api/v1/items/{item_id}` with price field payload.

13. Airtable

- Feature/Setting: REST API, update record function.
- Sample: Automate PATCH request to update price in corresponding table.

14. Google Sheets

- Feature/Setting: Google Sheets API (batchUpdate), trigger on cell edit.
- Sample: Automation on edit triggers POST to other APIs.

15. SAP Business One

- Feature/Setting: Service Layer API (ItemPrice endpoint), automator job scheduling.
- Sample: Automate PATCH to update item prices.

16. Oracle NetSuite

- Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk API (updatePrice), scheduled script.
- Sample: Automated SuiteScript triggered by internal updates.

17. Odoo

- Feature/Setting: XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API, automate price change signals.
- Sample: Scripted call to update 'product.template' price.

18. HubSpot

- Feature/Setting: Products API, webhook on product price updates.
- Sample: Automate PATCH via Products API.

19. QuickBooks Commerce

- Feature/Setting: API v3 (Update Product endpoint), automator triggers.
- Sample: PUT `/v3/products/{id}` with new price.

20. Microsoft Dynamics 365

- Feature/Setting: Data Entity APIs, automation via Power Automate triggers.
- Sample: Triggered Power Automate flow pushes price updates.

21. Xero

- Feature/Setting: Inventory Items API, automate update item endpoint.
- Sample: PUT `/api.xro/2.0/Items/{itemID}`.

22. Slack

- Feature/Setting: Notifications API (Incoming Webhooks), alerts on automation completion.
- Sample: Post a message to channel when automation finishes sync.

23. Mailchimp

- Feature/Setting: Transactional email API, notify stakeholders of automated syncs.
- Sample: Trigger automated mail for price list update events.

24. Zoho Creator

- Feature/Setting: REST API for record update, automate sync with external platforms.
- Sample: PATCH to app data for price update and auto-forward.

Benefits

1. Automates consistency of price lists, preventing manual errors across platforms.

2. Improves operational efficiency by automating repetitive update tasks.

3. Enhances buyer trust by ensuring price accuracy and up-to-date listings.

4. Reduces update lag with real-time, automatable sync across all sales channels.

5. Enables easy regulatory compliance and transparent pricing practices using automation.

6. Centralizes changes, making future automations (e.g., for sales/discounts) simpler.

7. Streamlines audit trails by automating update documentation and notifications.

8. Integrated automation supports scalable expansion across new marketplaces.

9. Automatedly communicates pricing changes with internal teams and external partners.

10. Simplifies multi-channel management for art dealers through synchronized, automated processes.