Simple Inventory Management (SIM)

A Tool for ML Power Sellers SIM is the user-facing and administration component of the Item / listing batch processor.

Among other things, SIM offers the following feature set:

Sellers will send product data formatted to the Marketplace specifications. Initially this will be CSV only, followed by tbd The following integration specifics should also agreed upon with the Marketplace.

This operation is effectively a 'synch' or a merge of all items coming from the batch, with all items that exist presently in the marketplace. It is assuming that the SIM middleware keeps a table mapping gp_id/item_id relationship.

Each batch (say, max. of 1000 items) will be stamped with a sellerId; Every item will be unique, identified by the gp_id , essentially ChannelAdvisor's SKU

Each item record must contain these attributes at minimum: title, description, category_id, price, currency_iso, available_quantity, listing_type_id, condition - full list of supported fields: gp_id,site,

For each batch of Items in file, Seller expects to receive an error report detailing the failure of any item sent in the Product Feed. Errors may include:

1. Missing required product data
2. Invalid product data / user data

Example Validation: "The attributes [gp_id] are invalid for category MLA3530" <-- attributes are stored per category "Item pictures are mandatory for listing type gold" <-- listing is gold but pictureURL is left blank "Property [initial_quantity] with value [0] is less than minimum value [1]" <-- general validation
such fields as price, quantity must be non-zero certain Item props are required for listing

format,currency,title,description,category,pictureURL,quantity_available,duration,price,shippingCosts,location,condition,shipsFrom

Details

More about our project is available on basecamp here

This version of SIM is using the jQuery file upload plug

Installation and Requirements

Configuration

TBD

Acknowledgements