Supplier price update synchronization

Purpose

 1.1. Ensure real-time, error-free synchronization of supplier price changes with store inventory systems.
 1.2. Prevent stock discrepancies, overpricing, or underpricing by automating the flow of new prices.
 1.3. Eliminate manual entry delays for American grocery SKUs from diverse suppliers.
 1.4. Automatically alert operations when anomalies or gaps in price data are detected.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Supplier uploads a new price file (CSV, XLS, XML) to an FTP, SFTP, or cloud storage.
 2.2. Scheduled or event-based webhook call from supplier's ERP/API.
 2.3. Receipt of email with price attachment in monitored inbox.
 2.4. Polling detected updates on supplier’s online price portal.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Shopify
  • Function: Admin API – Price Update
  • Setting: Monitor product variants, use PUT /admin/api/2022-10/products/{product_id}/variants/{id}.json

 3.2. WooCommerce
  • Function: REST API – Update Product
  • Setting: POST/PUT /wp-json/wc/v3/products/{id} with new "regular_price"

 3.3. SAP S/4HANA
  • Function: Material Price API
  • Setting: PATCH /A_MaterialPrice

 3.4. Oracle NetSuite
  • Function: REST Record API – Item Pricing
  • Setting: PATCH /record/v1/inventoryItem/{id}

 3.5. QuickBooks Commerce
  • Function: Product Update API
  • Setting: PUT /products/{id} set "price"

 3.6. Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Function: OData Entities – ProductPriceLevel
  • Setting: PATCH /ProductPriceLevels({PriceLevelId})

 3.7. Square
  • Function: Catalog API – Batch Upsert
  • Setting: POST /v2/catalog/object-batch-upsert

 3.8. Vend (Lightspeed Retail)
  • Function: Product API
  • Setting: PUT /api/2.0/products/{id} "price" field

 3.9. Clover
  • Function: Inventory API
  • Setting: PUT /v3/merchants/{mId}/items/{itemId}

 3.10. FreshBooks
  • Function: Items Resource
  • Setting: PUT /accounting/account/{account_id}/items/items/{item_id} update "unit_cost"

 3.11. Zoho Inventory
  • Function: Update Item API
  • Setting: PUT /api/v1/items/{item_id} update "rate"

 3.12. Acumatica
  • Function: Endpoint for StockItems
  • Setting: PUT /entity/Default/17.200.001/StockItem/{id}

 3.13. Sage Intacct
  • Function: API – update_item
  • Setting: XML function

 3.14. BigCommerce
  • Function: Catalog API
  • Setting: PUT /stores/{store_hash}/v3/catalog/products/{id}

 3.15. Amazon Seller Central
  • Function: Feeds API – Price Feed
  • Setting: POST _POST_PRODUCT_PRICING_DATA_ XML feed

 3.16. Google Sheets
  • Function: Sheets API – Update Cell
  • Setting: spreadsheets.values.update with range for price columns

 3.17. Airtable
  • Function: Data API
  • Setting: PATCH /v0/{baseId}/{tableName}/{recordId} "Price" field

 3.18. Trello
  • Function: Card Custom Fields
  • Setting: PUT /cards/{id}/customField/{fieldId}/item set "Price"

 3.19. Asana
  • Function: Custom Fields on Tasks
  • Setting: PUT /tasks/{task_gid} "custom_fields"

 3.20. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
  • Function: OCAPI – Product Price
  • Setting: PATCH /s/-/dw/data/v22_3/products/{product_id}/prices/{price_id}

Benefits

 4.1. Dramatically reduces inventory valuation errors stemming from outdated prices.
 4.2. Preserves price integrity and competitiveness across all SKUs.
 4.3. Accelerates response to supplier fluctuations for better profit margins.
 4.4. Provides compliance/audit trail for automated updates, minimizing manual oversight.
 4.5. Consistent, enterprise-grade data accuracy across operations and front-end sales.