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What is One of the Best Violet Alternatives

Explore the differences that make API2Cart stand out as one of the best Violet alternatives. Find out what is the best eCommerce integration solution.

What is One of the Best Violet Alternatives

API2Cart and Violet are solutions that allow eCommerce software and application providers to access and manage the data from different shopping platforms. But when you explore more details, there are differences that make API2Cart stand out as Violet's alternative

API2Cart Feature Violet
Unified eCommerce API to 40+ shopping platforms and marketplaces General info Unified API to 10 eCommerce platforms
API2Cart has operated for more than 11 years in the eCommerce integration market Experience Violet has operated for 5 years in the eCommerce integration market
  • Shipping management software
  • WMS
  • Order management systems
  • Inventory management solutions
  • Dropshipping automation software
  • Marketing automation software
  • ERP
  • Repricing solutions
  • Chatbots
  • POS
  • Mobile app development services
  • Marketplaces
  • Data feed management software
  • Financial services
  • And many other
Software providers that can use the service
    • Shipping software
    • Order and inventory management solutions
40+ supported platforms Number of supported eCommerce platforms 10 supported platforms
API2Cart supports the integration with six marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart, MercadoLibre, Zid) Number of supported marketplaces Currently, Violet doesn’t support the integration with marketplaces

API2Cart allows you to get, add, update, and delete such e-store data:

  • Orders
  • Products
  • Customers
  • Categories
  • Baskets
  • Attributes
  • Carts
  • Taxes
  • Live shipping rates
  • Subscribers
Data you can work with

Violet allows you to work with:

  • Orders
  • Products
  • Customers
  • Categories
  • Carts
  • Shippings

However, it doesn’t allow to create or update products. With Violet.io, you can only extract the orders. Updating order statuses and making returns aren't possible.

100+ API methods that allow getting, synchronizing, updating, and deleting store data Supported API Methods 35+ API methods (the responses contain quite a limited number of fields)
  • Retrieving of order, product, customer and the other valuable data
  • Inventory synchronization and monitoring
  • Updating of tracking info and order statuses
  • Shipment creation
  • Generating of shipping labels
  • Recovering of abandoned carts
  • Product uploading and updating
  • Product listings creation
  • Price updating
  • Customer data getting, adding, updating, etc.
  • And many more
Cases that can be resolved with the help of the service
  • Retrieving product, order data, customers’ details, etc.
  • Working with categories
  • Getting the info about available shipping methods
  • Covers 20 000 API requests/month
  • Includes 2 months free usage (if paid annually)
  • Access to all the data from 40+ supported platforms and marketplaces
  • 24*7 support
Pricing Upon request
  • Webhooks
  • WhiteLabel
  • Plugin builder

Webhooks are possible for orders, products, categories, customers, baskets, etc.

API2Cart plugin builder allows building the branded plugin. You can customize the plugin name, description, logo, and other fields.

Additional features
  • Webhooks

Webhooks are possible only for orders.

Violet does not have the ability to create branded plugins.

Online chat (24/7), Email, Phone,

Dedicated account manager,

Dedicated tech specialist

Customer support service

Chat, Email, Phone

1 month Free trial period -
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76/100
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59/100
4.8/5
Capterra rating
0/5

Why Сhoose API2Cart Over Violet?


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Integration with 40+ shopping platforms equals 1+ million e-stores as your potential customers.
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Once you’ve established a single integration with API2Cart, you can interact with 40+ shopping platforms and marketplaces at once.
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API2Cart provides a great number of pricing plans that are suitable for startups and great enterprises.
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We give 30 days to test our API. No functionality is hidden. Create an account and see how API2Cart will work for your business.
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Using API2Cart API methods, you can get, modify, update and delete the data related to the orders, products, customers, prices, taxes, etc.
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API2Cart has successfully operated for more than 11 years on the market. Among our customers are such companies as Veeqo, DataFeedWatch, WebInterpret, and many more.

How It Works


  1. Register API2Cart account
  2. Add your customers’ stores built on any supported eCommerce platform
  3. Work with store data such as orders, products, categories, shipments, customers, etc

How to Get Started with API2Cart