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Offline MattAUSA

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Option to call stock levels from external source/API
« on: June 29, 2013, 06:36:29 PM »
Just want to say, love AbanteCart. Only installed it a week ago and im blown away by it.

On to the suggestion. My suppliers site has the ability to pull stock levels from its own API. For example, if i were to call "hxxp://www.supplier.example/store_api.asp?productid=3453&option=1" it would give me the stock levels of that particular product as a simple integer.

It would be great if I could use this to monitor my stock level rather than having to manually change it, or use a csv.

It would make AbanteCart 100% perfect (for me at least!)

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Re: Option to call stock levels from external source/API
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2013, 10:31:06 AM »
Check storefront API: http://www.abantecart.com/document_wiki/index.php/Storefront_API_for_mobile_and_remote_access
You can use it to get stock

Also there is an admin API, but, currently, it does not support products. It can easily be updated to support stock.
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Re: Option to call stock levels from external source/API
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2013, 10:00:55 PM »
Forgot to mention.

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Re: Option to call stock levels from external source/API
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2013, 04:36:13 AM »
Thanks for answering my question.

I think there is some confusion about what inwas trying to do.

Currently stock is mantained by AbanteCart itself. What I was hoping to do is call the stock level for products from an external source.

Is this possible?

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Re: Option to call stock levels from external source/API
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2013, 03:30:22 PM »
I think this is exactly what I suggested.

You can use API or you can use Import to update the stock level
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