Integration of e-commerce platforms with in-store sales data

Purpose

1.1. Automate integration of e-commerce and in-store sales data for Chinese medicine retail, reconciling stock, order, and customer data.
1.2. Automates centralized sales management, inventory updates, and consolidated reporting, reducing manual errors and data silos.
1.3. Enables streamlined analytics for product performance and purchasing behavior across both online and physical store channels.
1.4. Automates customer loyalty, pricing adjustments, upselling, and personalized promotions based on live synchronized data.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated when a new order is placed online or in-store.
2.2. Automated inventory count change (sale, return, restock) triggers synchronization.
2.3. Automated product creation, update, or discount applied in either e-commerce or POS system.
2.4. Scheduled triggers for daily summary synchronization, reconciliation, and reporting.

Platform Variants

3.1. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Orders API webhooks; automates real-time order data push to partner apps. Sample: Enable “Order creation” webhook, configure endpoint with API key.
3.2. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API for Orders/Products; automates synchronization via endpoints. Sample: Connect with consumer key/secret, set GET/POST for events.
3.3. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Transactions API; automates export of in-store purchases. Sample: Register app, generate OAuth tokens, set webhook for "ORDER.CREATED".
3.4. Lightspeed Retail
• Feature/Setting: Retail API (Sales endpoint); automates sale record push to ERP. Sample: Create API key, post-sales to /sale endpoint on transaction event.
3.5. Magento
• Feature/Setting: Sales Order API; automates pulling order/stock events. Sample: Set cron for SaleOrderList, configure token in integrator.
3.6. Vend (by Lightspeed)
• Feature/Setting: Webhook manager; automates event triggers on new sales, returns. Sample: Register endpoint for "Sale Update" event.
3.7. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Feature/Setting: OCAPI Data API; automates synchronization with external ERP. Sample: Configure Data API settings, automate using PATCH on order records.
3.8. Amazon Seller Central
• Feature/Setting: MWS Reports API; automates order and inventory export. Sample: Automate GET_FBA_FULFILLMENT_ORDER_REPORT fetching with access keys.
3.9. JD.com (京东开放平台)
• Feature/Setting: Order API; automates order sync. Sample: AppKey with API endpoint for new订单创建, push to back office.
3.10. Weidian (微店)
• Feature/Setting: Webhook (订单通知); automates notification to integrator on purchase. Sample: Register endpoint for order webhook, automate parse and sync.
3.11. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Service Layer API; automates bidirectional sales order sync. Sample: Configure /Orders endpoint, authorize with session ID, automate post-sales.
3.12. Oracle NetSuite
• Feature/Setting: REST API for Transaction resource; automates syncing sales orders from multiple channels. Sample: Create integration record, enable token authentication, automate push.
3.13. QuickBooks Commerce
• Feature/Setting: API Webhooks; automates updates on order creations, fulfillments. Sample: Register webhook for "Order Created" event, automate POST on order sync endpoint.
3.14. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Feature/Setting: Sales Order entity via API; automates order data import/sync. Sample: Register application, acquire token, automate POST to /salesOrders.
3.15. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API; automates pushing integrated sales data for manual checks. Sample: Setup API credentials, automate append to sheet on sync events.
3.16. Zoho Inventory
• Feature/Setting: Sales Orders API; automates update/creation for unified inventory. Sample: Enable API, use POST /salesorders endpoint for automation.
3.17. Xendit
• Feature/Setting: Invoice API; automates generation/tracking of payment links for online/offline sales. Sample: Automate POST to /invoices on successful POS order.
3.18. Alibaba Cloud API Gateway
• Feature/Setting: API Gateway + Function Compute; automates middle-layer transformation between e-commerce and POS. Sample: Deploy function, automate event routing.
3.19. SF Express (顺丰速运)
• Feature/Setting: Order Sync API; automates fulfillment order push for delivery integration. Sample: Configure token, automate POST on order shipment.
3.20. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks; automates sales summary notifications to managers. Sample: Create webhook, automate JSON post on reconciliation event.
3.21. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Email API; automates real-time alerts for sales discrepancies or stock shortage. Sample: Create domain, automate email on threshold triggers.
3.22. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Multi-step zap; automates cross-platform event propagation. Sample: Set trigger for new sale/order, automate action to push/pull across systems.
3.23. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: Dataflow API; automates ingestion of unified data for automated analytics. Sample: Register dataset, automate push on sync complete.

Benefits

4.1. Centralizes and automates real-time sales reconciliation, reducing human error across e-commerce and in-store.
4.2. Automates inventory tracking, preventing overselling and out-of-stock via immediate updates.
4.3. Automates customer insights for targeted marketing, loyalty, and retention strategies.
4.4. Automates managerial reporting, enabling fast decisions based on unified, up-to-date data.
4.5. Enables automated scaling for peak sales periods, automating work normally handled by manual labor.
4.6. Supports future automatable expansion to more channels and data-driven automations.