Services
Connecting your online shop to suppliers with automatic product import. New products, prices with your margin, stock, images and translated descriptions reach your shop on their own, with no manual work.
We process XML, CSV, Excel and JSON, enrich the data with your own information and prepare feeds for price comparison sites and marketplaces such as Heureka, Zboží.cz and Allegro.
Manually retyping supplier price lists, photos and descriptions is slow and full of errors. We connect your supplier to your Phoca Cart online shop on Joomla 6+ so that new products, prices with your margin, stock levels, images and translated descriptions reach your shop automatically. We take care of the entire…
Why automate
With a few dozen products, manual entry is still manageable. With hundreds or thousands of products from several suppliers, it costs you time, money and sales of goods that are no longer in stock.
What the import can do
Seven data formats including XML, CSV, Excel and JSON. From the supplier's URL, from FTP, from a price list sent by email or from a ZIP archive.
Currency conversion, margins by brand, category or price band, correct VAT and rounding to a tidy amount.
Stock and prices, for example, every four hours, and the full catalogue with new products once a day overnight.
DeepL, Google, Claude or LibreTranslate. Each text is translated only once, and later imports take it from memory.
We map supplier categories to yours and map fields without any programming.
Each supplier has its own rules for margins, categories and codes, and its own update schedule. Products never get mixed up.
For existing products, only what you specify is updated, typically price and stock. Manually edited names and descriptions remain.
The import has no public URL, supplier data is cleaned of scripts and passwords are never written to logs.
The import runs directly in your online shop on your hosting, with no external platform that your data would have to pass through.
In practice
An online shop selling mobile phone accessories wanted to offer the entire range of a Polish wholesaler without creating a single product by hand. The feed was over 70 MB, with English texts, 312 Polish categories and prices in euros excluding VAT.
We mapped the Polish categories to Czech ones, prices are converted from euros with margin, VAT and rounding, and the texts are translated by DeepL. Subsequent updates no longer translate anything again.
Price comparison sites and marketplaces
From the same data we prepare feeds for price comparison sites and marketplaces in the markets where you sell.
Who it is for
Process
We go through the supplier's data, format, categories, prices and images.
We set up mapping, margins, translations, categories and the update schedule.
Before going live, there is always a trial import, which we check together with you.
Every run is recorded in the history. When a supplier changes its feed, we notice and adjust the mapping.
XML (Heureka, Zboží.cz, Google Merchant and suppliers' own XML), CSV and TSV, Excel XLSX, OpenDocument ODS, JSON and JSON Lines, including when packed in ZIP or GZ. We download data from the supplier's URL, read it from FTP or from a price list sent by email.
As often as needed, for example stock and prices every four hours and the full catalogue once a day overnight. Unchanged products are skipped, so even frequent updates do not strain the server.
The chosen translation service charges by the number of characters. However, each text is translated only once, so you pay mainly for the first import and for new products. Before launch, we calculate how many characters the feed contains.
Depending on the settings, they are hidden, their stock is set to zero, or they are deleted. If a supplier sends an incomplete file by mistake, a safety threshold stops the action.
It depends on the supplier. A clear feed with Czech texts is quick to set up, while foreign-language feeds with hundreds of categories take longer to prepare. We always state the timeline in our quote.
Usually not. Standard hosting for Joomla 6 with PHP 8.3 is enough.
A free consultation with a developer, not a salesperson. You can also invite us to your tender.