A catalogue fed from the system that actually owns the data.
A PIM and product data integration connecting your website catalogue to the product information management system or ERP that actually owns the data, so the catalogue reflects reality instead of a manually maintained copy.
Product catalogues maintained by hand on the website inevitably drift from the authoritative source in the PIM or ERP. The fix is architectural: the website should render product data, not duplicate it.
An assessment of what your PIM or ERP can expose, a data model on the website that mirrors the source, synchronisation with appropriate frequency and error handling, and monitoring to catch a stalled sync.
We build the connection and the website-side data model that consumes what your PIM or ERP already exposes, leaving the system of record exactly where your team already manages it rather than duplicating that ownership on the website side.
The scale our PIM and product data integration work has operated at.
Where the truth actually lives differs by company. PIM and product data work starts from that source.
What comes up when connecting a catalogue to its source data.
Yes, often through scheduled file exports rather than a direct API connection. That approach changes what update frequency is realistic: daily catalogue synchronisation is usually achievable this way, while near-real-time stock levels generally are not without an API. We assess your ERP’s export capabilities early so expectations on data freshness are set correctly before development starts.
The catalogue degrades rather than breaks outright. Cached product data continues to serve visitors, with a freshness indicator showing when it was last updated, rather than the site failing or showing blank pages. The failure itself is logged and an alert notifies your team, so a source-system outage gets fixed instead of persisting silently in the background.
This FAQ covers the underlying data connection – syncing product, pricing, and stock information from your source system into the website. A distributor portal is the ordering platform built on top of that data, handling accounts, order placement, and order history. See distributor portal for the full platform this data integration typically feeds into.
Yes, product data can feed a multilingual catalogue once shared fields – SKUs, pricing, and stock levels – are separated from translatable fields like descriptions and marketing copy. That structure keeps the underlying data in sync while allowing each language version to be translated independently. See multilingual websites for how we typically model that separation.
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A catalogue maintained twice, once on the site and once in the system that actually owns the data. Tell us your source system and we will tell you how we would approach PIM and product data integration.