Conducting an online business is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. One of the major problems that e-retailers face after they open their web store is inventory management. Of course, at first, they can manage it on their own, but there comes the day when dealing with products and orders becomes too difficult to manage themselves, and some help from the outside seems to be a great idea. This is where your inventory management solutions lend a hand.
Inventory management software is a tool that helps online store owners to simplify their business process. It controls orders, updates inventory and stock levels for different channels automatically, and predicts potential product needs to avoid both overselling and extra expenditures.
As an inventory management provider, you might be looking for new opportunities to expand your functionality and increase the number of potential clients. If so, then implementation of Prestashop inventory integration is one of them.
Your First or Next Integration: What Shopping Cart to Choose?
As the number of shopping carts is pretty big, it might be a challenging issue to decide which to integrate with. Consider opting for a big industry player such as PrestaShop.
With almost 10 years of experience and 270 000 online shops running on PrestaShop, this solution can boast of one of the biggest market shares. Being connected to the cart means having thousands of online store owners as your potential customers. Yet you could have even more.
Business Point of View
The “less is more” does not always work in the eCommerce B2B. You can get more with having more, including integrations. The first and the most obvious ‘more’ that being integrated with multiple shopping carts implies is clients. All the people having their stores based on the platforms you are integrated with are your potential customers.
More #2. A wider functionality and having more to offer attract more retailers with more specific needs. It works even better if you have what your competitors don’t -- connections with more or other shopping platforms.
And lastly, good quality integrations make a ground for developing new features that even more retailers would appreciate. New trends appear, and you will have everything to run and offer services to meet the new needs.
Before you conquer new peaks, there is some work to do. Integrations are not easy to do, especially if there are many on the list. Each shopping cart is built differently, so establishing a connection with each of them means having to deal with different challenges every time a new integration module is developed. Moreover, well-done integration requires related technical expertise. Separate integrations may mean having to hire different programmers to be done. This process will take a lot of time and will most likely cost you a pretty penny. And this is only the beginning of the story. The most time-consuming part is the maintenance of integration module. New versions of shopping carts arrive, and this implies there will always be some development work to do.
Fortunately, there is a way to avoid the extra expenditures and get much more than integration with one shopping cart. API2Cart provides you with an opportunity to implement Prestashop inventory integration and connection with 40+ other well-known shopping platforms such as WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, X-Cart, OpenCart and others at once.
Go through this infographic to find out more about PrestaShop inventory integration and API2Cart as your assistant to perform it.
One-to-Many Integration or a Way to Solve the Problem
API2Cart helps inventory management and other B2B solutions to successfully overcome the challenges of establishing a connection with different shopping carts. The service provides a unified API to perform integration with not only PrestaShop but also 40+ other shopping carts such as Magento, WooCommerce, Prestashop, BigCommerce, X-Cart and others. It will save you time and money as the one-to-many approach expels the need to develop separate integrations or implement support for the new shopping cart versions when such occur. When you integrate your inventory management software with API2Cart, you will connect and use shop-based data from any of the platforms listed above.
A single data interface enables you to retrieve and manage such data as orders, products, categories, and customers from any of the supported platforms.
API2Cart API Methods for Inventory Management Systems
For working with orders:
- order.add, order.update - create and update orders on stores
- order.count, order.status.list - get the total number of orders from the store and get order statuses
- order.info - get the details about an order
- order.abandonment.list - create, update and delete orders on stores
- order.shipment.tracking.add - track shipments’ info status and provide delivery performance info
For working with products:
One more benefit inventory management system enables retailers to do within its system is managing products. The needed data such solutions can get with the following API2Cart’s methods:
- product.list - retrieve the list of products from the store
- product.count - get the total number of products
- product.info - retrieve the details about products
- product.add/update/delete - add, update and delete products on the store
For working with currencies and prices:
- product.currency.add - assign a currency to a certain product
- product.currency.list - retrieve the list of product’s currencies
- product.price.add - add some prices to the product
- product.price.update - update some prices of the product
For working with categories:
- category.list - retrieve the list of categories from the store
- category.info - retrieve categories info
API2Cart’s Webhooks for Inventory Management System
One more great benefit API2Cart provides for inventory management system is order.update webhook which notifies every time the order gets updated (including its status changes). Besides, it allows to inform customers about their orders’ statuses, instantly create orders, send invoices or pass orders to shipping services right away.
As inventory control is one of the aspects of inventory management software functionality, with API2Cart’s webhook it’s easy to keep the stock level up-to-date, change inventory levels whenever the order is placed or change partner merchant.
Find all supported methods here or in our documentation.
Once decided on setting up Prestashop inventory integration, consider integration with API2Cart. Do not hesitate to schedule a FREE сonsultation with our representative and leave all your questions answered and doubts removed.
