Product Management & Supplier RelationsPurpose
1.2. Centralize automated supplier price feed monitoring, inventory re-pricing, and instant publishing to digital and physical storefronts.
1.3. Reduce manual errors, accelerate price rollout, and facilitate compliance with dynamic supplier agreements through intelligent automation.
1.4. Automate periodic verification of price changes and notify stakeholders to maximize operational transparency and efficiency.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Pre-defined calendar schedule initiates routine price synchronization (e.g., nightly, weekly).
2.3. Inventory system detects threshold-based supplier cost fluctuations or product discontinuation.
2.4. Manual trigger by authorized product management personnel from control dashboard.
Platform Variants
• Function: Update Product Variant Prices API
• Setting: Automate PATCH request to /admin/api/2023-01/variants/{id}.json with new prices.
3.2. WooCommerce
• Function: REST API Price Update
• Setting: Automate PUT /wp-json/wc/v3/products/{id} for price changes.
3.3. Magento
• Function: Catalog Price Update
• Setting: Automate POST to /rest/V1/products/{sku} with data: { "price": new_price }.
3.4. BigCommerce
• Function: Products API
• Setting: Automate PUT /stores/{store_hash}/v3/catalog/products/{id}.
3.5. Square
• Function: Catalog API
• Setting: Automate BatchUpsertCatalogObjects for price updates.
3.6. Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Function: OCAPI Product Update
• Setting: Automate PATCH /dw/shop/v21_3/products/{product_id}.
3.7. SAP Commerce Cloud
• Function: Price Update API
• Setting: Automate POST to /rest/v2/{baseSiteId}/products/{code}/prices.
3.8. Netsuite
• Function: SuiteTalk Price Update
• Setting: Automate updateList with new price records.
3.9. Lightspeed Retail
• Function: Item Update API
• Setting: Automate PUT /API/Account/{accountID}/Item/{itemID}.
3.10. Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Function: Product Price List Update
• Setting: Automate PATCH /api/data/v9.1/productpricelists({productpricelistid}).
3.11. Oracle NetSuite
• Function: Item Record Update
• Setting: Automate item update in REST API with new pricing fields.
3.12. PrestaShop
• Function: Webservice Product Update
• Setting: Automate PUT /api/products/{id}.
3.13. Odoo
• Function: Product Price Update
• Setting: Automate write call to product.product model with vals[‘lst_price’].
3.14. ChannelAdvisor
• Function: Inventory Price Update API
• Setting: Automate PUT /v1/Products/{sku}/Price.
3.15. Linnworks
• Function: Inventory Item Update
• Setting: Automate UpdateProductPrice API endpoint.
3.16. Airtable
• Function: Table Record Update
• Setting: Automate PATCH to /v0/{baseId}/{tableName}/{recordId} for price field.
3.17. Google Sheets
• Function: Sheets API
• Setting: Automate batchUpdate for relevant rows/cells with new prices.
3.18. SFTP/FTP Servers
• Function: Automated CSV/XML Price Feed
• Setting: Automate polling/parse/upload to destination ERP or eCommerce.
3.19. Slack
• Function: Notifications
• Setting: Automate posting mass price update reports to channel.
3.20. Email (SMTP/IMAP)
• Function: Automated Incoming Feed Parsing
• Setting: Automate reading and attaching CSV to price update workflow.
Benefits
4.2. Automate scheduled synchronization, ensuring all platforms reflect up-to-date supplier pricing.
4.3. Automator enables compliance with supplier mandates and dynamic pricing strategies.
4.4. Automatedly distributes pricing data across digital/physical POS for unified commerce.
4.5. Automatable notifications keep all stakeholders updated without additional manual tasks.
4.6. Automating price change audit trails ensure robust compliance and revision history.
4.7. Automation increases speed of market adaptation, preventing losses from delayed price updates.