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RE: Importing Product Catalogs

alysson moreira, modified 6 Years ago.
Importing Product Catalogs
New Member Post: 1 Join Date: 2/8/13 Recent Posts

Hello;

 

I'm using the Bresccia Accelerator and I'm trying to understand the process on importing Product Catalogs on Liferay Commerce.

 

I've seeing the training for Beryl that shows a process to import a .LAR file with some content - I'm assuming the products are also part of this file.

 

However, I'm trying to import a Product list, with SKU, Variants and Specs from another small ERP because I'm considering an use case where the SMB can replace their inventory management modules to the one that exists on Liferay without the need to create their products one by one.

 

Having said that, is there any documentation showing how to proceed in a case like this? CSV/XML/JSON formats that should be used? any template available you guys are using?

 

Thanks in advance;

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Corbin Murakami, modified 6 Years ago.
RE: Importing Product Catalogs
Junior Member Posts: 31 Join Date: 12/5/14 Recent Posts

Hi Alysson, thank you for trying Liferay Commerce.

Currently, the best way to import products to Commerce is through our APIs. There is a presentation by Dylan Rebelak I reccomend listening to called Liferay Commerce Integrations*. You can find the audio recording on the N. America Symposium website. Here's a direct link to the slides. Using an enterprise service bus like Talend is what we reccomend for the data integration you're describing.

Creating a new application often requires integrating with existing services or applications in order to incorporate useful data.

Using Talend’s Open Studio for ESB tool and the Liferay Talend component connector, your Liferay application can communicate with custom applications, services and systems, connect to SaaS solutions such as Marketo and Salesforce, integrate with cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, or even store / read data from Dropbox, SMTP, FTP/SFTP, and LDAP. 

This session will look at some of the basics of integrating Liferay with existing systems, and walk through an integration between Liferay and Salesforce using Talend Open Studio.

Flat file import support on the mid-term Commerce roadmap.