Magento Integration Information

Magento Integration Information

This article explains what data is exported from Retailer and what field it will appear as within Magento.

To configure the link please see Setting up a new Webstore

Products

Products that have Webstore Product ticked will be sent to Magento with the following information:

  1. Description as Name and Short Description in Magento
  2. Web Description (On the extra details tab) as Description in Magento
  3. Web Price as Price
  4. Barcode as SKU
  5. An Attribute, Retailer Product Flag, will be added and set to Yes
  6. Images will also be exported

Departments And Categories

Magento allows support for the existing Retailer Department and Category structure. In Magento, these are called Product categories and you do have some options as to how these are synchronised.  The Magento link can also delete any departments and categories that are no longer in the export file, so please be careful if this option is chosen.
  1. Option One: Synchronise Both Departments and Categories
    This is the default option in the Magento link.  It will add the existing department and category in the same hierarchy as existing in Retailer and products will be assigned.
  2. Option two: Do not synchronise Categories
    If this option to not synchronise categories is chosen, all products will be synchronised to their base departments and no categories will be added to the site.
  3. Option three: Self-Managed Collections
    This is the least popular but may be necessary if you have an existing store and do not want to change their current structure. If this option is selected then products will be added without a category.  There will then be a need to allocate them once they have been added to the site via the link. 
In Magento, mapping departments and categories is done purely by name only so there is no additional mapping fields needed if the names of the department or categories match. 

Variants

Variants information will be sent to Magento.

For more information see Variants (Colour, Size and Style)

In addition to the information in the above link, if any item in a variant group is ticked for Web Store, all its variants will be.

Any variant ticked as Webstore cannot have a blank variant value.

To change an existing item from a normal stock item to a variant it needs to be deleted off the website and then re-created by the link.

Due to the nature of the connection, variant types will be ordered by the length of the variant name.
E.g. Item with
Colour
Size
Style
will have variants rearranged as (shortest name first)
Size
Style
Colour

If you want to maintain the original order, you can change the variant names to be more descriptive (make some longer).
Colour
Shirt Size
Fashion Style

Classifications

In Magento, classifications are imported as product attributes.  The Classification templates are attribute sets and the classifications are attributes.  These are imported and assigned to products.  You also have options to not import these and self-manage if desired.


Customers

​Customer information isn't uploaded or synced from Retailer to Magento.
Most customer information recorded on the sale in Magento, will be added to Retailer when the sale imports into Retailer. This will generally be names, addresses and contact details.
The customer will be added as new, if the email address against the sale is not recorded in Retailer.
The loyalty program, discount voucher, gift voucher and discount profiles information, is not synced or tracked with Magento.




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