Bulk product import and update

Purpose

1.1. Automate bulk import and update of product listings, stock quantities, pricing, descriptions, and variants to ensure a current, accurate, and complete inventory in fishing bait retail systems.
1.2. Supports multi-channel inventory updates—across offline POS systems, e-commerce sites, and internal databases—minimizing manual data entry and preventing outdated product info.
1.3. Automates the mapping and validation of supplier CSV/Excel lists, directly synchronizing updates with back-office and front-end platforms.
1.4. Enables rapid onboarding of seasonal bait products and automates regular price/quantity adjustments in response to supplier or market data.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Receipt of a supplier catalog or stock file by email, SFTP, or cloud storage.
2.2. Scheduled automation (e.g., daily, weekly product sync) from master inventory system.
2.3. Manual upload by staff in an admin dashboard initiates the automator.
2.4. Automated webhook from supplier API indicating product catalog change.

Platform Variants

3.1. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Products API – configure “POST /admin/api/2023-01/products.json” for imports; “PUT /admin/api/2023-01/products/{product_id}.json” for bulk update automations.
3.2. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API – automate “POST /wp-json/wc/v3/products/batch” to bulk import/update inventory from supplier feeds.
3.3. Magento
• Feature/Setting: Catalog Import – use/import “POST /V1/products” API for automated uploads, “PUT /V1/products/{sku}” for updates.
3.4. BigCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Catalog API – automate “POST /catalog/products” for bulk imports, “PUT /catalog/products/{id}” for updates.
3.5. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Service Layer – automate “POST /Items” and “PATCH /Items({ItemCode})” for automated product ingest and update.
3.6. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: Item Import (REST/SuiteScript) – Scripted bulk automation of item creation/update using “/records/v1/inventoryItem”.
3.7. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Data Management – automate product entity import/update via “POST /data/Products”.
3.8. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: Product API – automate “POST /products.json”, “PUT /products/{productId}.json” for inventory automation.
3.9. Vend (now Lightspeed X-Series)
• Feature/Setting: Products API – automate “/api/2.0/products” import/update endpoint for bulk operations.
3.10. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Catalog API – trigger “BatchUpsertCatalogObjects” to automate product bulk import/update.
3.11. PrestaShop
• Feature/Setting: Webservice API – automate “/api/products” for automation scripts to import/update products.
3.12. Wix
• Feature/Setting: Stores API – use “POST /v1/products” for automated imports, “PATCH /v1/products/{id}” for updates.
3.13. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Item APIs- automate “POST /api/v1/items”, automate “PUT /api/v1/items/{item_id}” for updates.
3.14. Odoo
• Feature/Setting: XMLRPC/REST API – automate “/api/products”, “PUT /api/products/{id}” for batch imports/updates.
3.15. QuickBooks Commerce
• Feature/Setting: Products API – automate “/products/import”, “/products/{id}/update” for inventory synchronizing.
3.16. Freshdesk/Freshservice Inventory Module
• Feature/Setting: Inventory Automation APIs – integrate “POST /api/v2/assets” to automate asset/product imports.
3.17. Fishbowl Inventory
• Feature/Setting: REST API – automate “/products/import”, “/products/update” for automated catalog updates.
3.18. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API – automate ingest of product lists (from Excel or CSV), push via Apps Script or connected API webhook to target system.
3.19. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automation—automate “createRecord” or “updateRecord” for product listing syncing.
3.20. SFTP/FTP Servers
• Feature/Setting: Automated ingestion of CSV/Excel files—integrate parsing, validation, transformation, and trigger subsequent API product upload.

Benefits

4.1. Eliminates manual data entry for inventory, automating product onboarding and updating workflows.
4.2. Reduces inventory errors, automates validation, and ensures up-to-date stock and prices.
4.3. Accelerates new product rollouts and automatedly synchronizes inventory across online, POS, and back-office.
4.4. Allows for automatable multi-supplier ingestion pipelines, improving supply agility and stock accuracy.
4.5. Scalability—automation supports rapid expansion to hundreds/thousands of bait SKUs, even with frequent seasonal changes.
4.6. Centralizes and automates complex inventory operations, freeing staff for higher value work and automating compliance reporting.