If you do not have FTP information to your website, contact your local Indie Commerce rep ([email protected]) and ask to email you FTP information to send your LSI file to your website.
- Store books and custom products will need to be manually imported into your ABA system, as they do not allow these types of files to be automatically imported.
Store Books & Custom Products
Using the Indie Commerce Properties you can create files for importing into your Indie Commerce website for adding / updating Custom Products and Used Book products.
Additional Details:
- On Hand / Available For Sale Values for these items will be included in your main LSI files, not these files.
- Product ID# will either be a Product Number or the SKU number depending on if the product number meets a certain criteria. Used Book export will always use the SKU to always a unique ID vs the new book.
- The list of products is sorted by Product Number, if we find an identical product number as the next row in the file we will skip the next line as to not create duplicate product rows in your file.
- Column heading names and data for each column is wrapped in quotes for formatting.
- Generally you can create 1 file for each custom product category, then 1 file for your used books.
- Both types of files need to be uploaded manually to your Indie Commerce Web Admin Panel.
Store Book Inventory Export Setup
First enter a TITLE / DESCRIPTION for your export file (TOP TEXT BOX).
Use the button circled below to create a new Store Book export file to upload to your website.
Then switch to the Settings tab to setup a query, ftp settings, base folder, file prefix, outlet ID and other ABA settings to customize your export file for each type of product. The file name for store book products doesn't matter currently, since you will upload manually.
Use the FIELDMAPPING button to pick the columns you want to export for your FIELD FILE or ATTRIBUTE FILE from Indie Commerce. You should download a TEMPLATE FILE from your Indie Commerce site then click IMPORT MAPPING and pick the template file.
Then pick the following columns:
Setup Custom Product Export File
Use the Custom Product type in our Indie Commerce export lets you generate files in IMRCHNT to upload into your website administration panel. Click NEW, Enter a Title / Description to Begin.
Use the CREATE FILE button to build the file each time.
Then switch to the Settings tab to setup a query, ftp settings, base folder, file prefix, outlet ID and other ABA settings to customize your export file for each type of product. The file name for custom products doesn't matter currently, since you will upload manually.
Use the FIELDMAPPING button to pick the columns you want to export for your FIELD FILE or ATTRIBUTE FILE from Indie Commerce. You should download a TEMPLATE FILE from your Indie Commerce site then click IMPORT MAPPING and pick the template file. Then pick the following columns.
WordPress Website - WooCommerce
Export to a WordPress site in txt file, then Import into your site via a plugin like WP All Import.
Website Product Sale File - On Sale Items
Use the Products On Sale Type to create a file for exporting to a website with Product ID, Retail Price, Sale Price, Available For Sale. Use the sale promotions to setup discounts and other pricing updates for website.
Website Administration Panel Button Setup
To activate the button "Website Admin Panel", to directly open your website administration panel use the following steps. Paste a link to your Indie Commerce / ABA Web Administration panel in System Options.
To open the web admin panel, make sure you have set your Website Admin Panel URL
in TOOLS / SYSTEM OPTIONS / ACCOUNT INFORMATION TAB
One you create your custom product or store book files using the CREATE FILE button, filling in the information above will allow you easy access to upload the file to your Indie Commerce Site.
Use the following steps to upload your files to Indie Commerce:
- Open the Indie Commerce Property you want to upload.
- Click OPEN FILE LOCATION to find the file.
- After locating the file click the OPEN WEB ADMIN PANEL to open your ABA website admin panel.
- Click browse and pick the file you located above, then click UPLOAD. (BUTTON NAME MAYB DIFFER).
