Several suppliers in one store: SKUs, prices and availability
Separate product pages or one shared page, how to match products across suppliers, whose price to show and what to do with different category trees.
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Repeat imports: avoiding duplicates and keeping your edits
Where duplicates come from when a feed is loaded again, which fields to update and which to protect, and how to check it before going on a schedule.
XML, YML, CSV or Excel: which feed to ask your supplier for
How feed formats differ, why a link beats a file by e-mail, and what in a feed matters more than its format. With a ready message to send your supplier.
How to import supplier products into your online store
How to load products from a supplier feed, choose an import method and avoid duplicates on the next update. A worked example, a comparison table and a checklist.
When the supplier has no feed: collecting data from the site
No feed, only a supplier website. How collecting from pages differs from reading a feed, what the price of that work depends on, and what breaks most often.
Five ways to keep supplier prices and stock up to date
By hand, a hired person, a cloud service, a CMS module or a program on your own hosting — how they differ and how to choose one for your store.