Scheduled Inventory Imports
VendingBox has now made it even easier to keep your store’s products and stock levels up to date. All that’s needed is a specified URL location of a maintained product feed file. Then, simply specify the frequency at which the re-imports are to be made.
Feed file option 1:
VendingBox’s plugin feed files can be used to keep inventories up to date. If you have already imported your webstore’s products using our unique plugin feed file, you have already specified the URL you need to use for scheduling.
Simply go to ‘Cart Integration’ section under ‘Configuration’. Copy this URL and paste it into the applicable field under ‘Scheduled imports’.
Simply go to ‘Cart Integration’ section under ‘Configuration’. Copy this URL and paste it into the applicable field under ‘Scheduled imports’.
Feed file option 2:
The specification for a maintained .csv or .xml feed file, whose URL you will need to specify, are defined under ‘Manage Products’ > ‘Upload spreadsheet’.
How do I activate scheduled Imports?
In order to activate this feature go to Configuration > Scheduled Imports (tab).
Enable the feature by clicking the tickbox.
You can set these automatic imports to occur as frequently as every hour, or even weekly.
Simply use the options in the drop-down menu to set the frequency.
At the bottom of this menu you will also see the options for “every hour”, “every two hours”, and so on…
At the bottom of this menu you will also see the options for “every hour”, “every two hours”, and so on…
‘Delete products which are not imported’
vendors can set the import to delete all products that are present in the VendingBox store directly prior to the scheduled import. This may be of interest to vendors who wish to update their VendingBox store in order to maintain stock control and prevent over-purchase of inventory.
If a given one-off product is sold on a platform other than VendingBox prior to a scheduled import, and the feed file is updated to reflect this, then ticking this checkbox will ensure that this product is removed from the VendingBox store at the time of the next scheduled import.
Although, some vendors may simply wish to schedule imports in order to continually ‘add’ products at each import, and do not wish to remove anything previously imported. In this case vendors should leave this tickbox unchecked.
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