Automated catalog updates from suppliers

Purpose

 1.1. Streamline menu and inventory updates directly from supplier data feeds to ensure real-time accuracy of item availability and pricing.
 1.2. Eliminate manual catalog updates, reduce errors, and enable rapid adaptation to supplier stock changes or new product introductions.
 1.3. Facilitate automated synchronization between restaurant POS, website menus, and third-party food delivery platforms.
 1.4. Support diverse data formats from suppliers (CSV, XML, JSON, EDI), ensuring parity across all digital catalogs and touchpoints.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Scheduled supplier data feed delivery (e.g., daily at 2 AM, hourly, or on supplier push).
 2.2. Manual trigger from inventory management dashboard.
 2.3. Detection of new or updated product in supplier catalog.
 2.4. Inventory threshold breaches require re-synchronization.

Platform Variants

 3.1. Shopify
  • Feature/Setting: Product API — configure webhooks to auto-update inventory and product details upon upload of supplier feed.

 3.2. WooCommerce
  • Feature/Setting: WooCommerce REST API — enable PUT/POST for bulk product and stock updates from external data sources.

 3.3. Square
  • Feature/Setting: Catalog API — automate product import, inventory levels, and item modifiers input.

 3.4. Microsoft Power Automate
  • Feature/Setting: Scheduled flow — ingest supplier files from email or FTP and map to inventory management fields.

 3.5. Zapier
  • Feature/Setting: Scheduled Zap — monitor supplier cloud folders, process new files, and update POS or e-commerce products.

 3.6. SAP Business One
  • Feature/Setting: Data Integration Framework — trigger import of supplier catalogs into master data tables.

 3.7. Oracle NetSuite
  • Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk SOAP/REST APIs — automate data push into item and purchase records.

 3.8. Lightspeed
  • Feature/Setting: Product Import API — configure batch updates and auto-synchronize inventory counts.

 3.9. Clover
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory API — enable endpoint for third-party catalog scripts.

 3.10. Square for Restaurants
  • Feature/Setting: Automatic Menu Sync — connect external data and enable auto-update for menu and inventory.

 3.11. QuickBooks Commerce
  • Feature/Setting: Product sync API — automate intake from supplier data streams.

 3.12. Toast POS
  • Feature/Setting: Partner API — configure product and modifier ingestion.

 3.13. Upserve
  • Feature/Setting: POS Webhooks — enable triggers for catalog ingestion scripts.

 3.14. DEAR Inventory
  • Feature/Setting: Product API — automate insertion and updating of catalog items.

 3.15. Vend (now Lightspeed Retail)
  • Feature/Setting: Product/Inventory API — connect scheduled ETL tool for batch catalog updates.

 3.16. Odoo
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory Import Automation — schedule regular supplier file ingestion.

 3.17. Revel Systems
  • Feature/Setting: Bulk Inventory Import — configure upload endpoint for automated scripts.

 3.18. NCR Aloha
  • Feature/Setting: Inventory Management API — setup periodic pulls and update triggers.

 3.19. Amazon Seller Central
  • Feature/Setting: Feed API — configure inventory and product data feeds.

 3.20. Google Sheets
  • Feature/Setting: App Script Automation — fetch supplier files and synchronize with connected platforms.

 3.21. FreshBooks
  • Feature/Setting: Item Import API — automate item synchronization.

 3.22. Sysco Connect
  • Feature/Setting: API Integration — enable direct supplier-restaurant catalog data bridge.

Benefits

 4.1. Real-time menu and stock accuracy across all digital and physical sales points.
 4.2. Significant reduction in staff labor for catalog management.
 4.3. Immediate adaptation to supplier product changes (discontinuations, shortages, new items).
 4.4. Prevention of customer dissatisfaction due to outdated menus or incomplete orders.
 4.5. Streamlined compliance with allergen, origin, or nutritional updates ordered by suppliers.
 4.6. Data-driven forecasting using up-to-date supplier information.