CS-Cart Akeneo Connector

A product attribute is the characteristics of the product that gives information about the product and change the consumer purchase decision. A product attribute is associated with the product to provide more information to the customer during purchase. Product attribute is like size and description, color, weight, and price.

You can create many attributes and attribute sets that describe the product in your product catalog. You can also use a product family for a similar type of product. For it, you need to map the attribute from Akeneo to CS-Cart fields.

You have to map these attributes for synchronizing product data with CS-Cart. You can create a new attribute if you want to export some additional data with the product.

• It synchronizes Akeneo attribute mapping fields to CS-Cart product field mapping
• You can create a new attribute as for your need.
• You can also fix the size for the product data like Quantity.

Categories help you to filter the product that is similar in nature. You can choose a single category or multiple categories when you are going to export the product from Akeneo to CS-Cart.

A product can be classified in none, one or more categories. A product category classifies the product catalog. If you made changes in one category then you can export only that category.

• Export category as such as in Akeneo
• You can create multiple root categories and export them to CS-Cart

Data filtering is used in Akeneo PIM for taking out information that is much necessary for the user. A merchant can choose the locale, currency, and attribute as per the need. You can filter your product data according to your requirement. You can choose the attributes that you want to export to CS-Cart. You can filter with the help of Channels, Locales, Currency, and Attributes.

• Channel – You can select the channel where you want to export the product like E-commerce, Mobile, and ERP.
• Locales – You can select the locales in which you want to show the product content to the end users.
• Currency – You can select the currency in which you want to sell the products.
• Attribute – You can select the attribute that you want to export.

Product filtering allows the merchant to refine the product while exporting from the Akeneo to CS-Cart. A merchant can export the selected product. You can filter the product that you want to export to the CS-Cart product catalog. You can filter your product on the basis of:

• Family – You can select the product family which is indicating similar products.
• Status – You can Filter the product on the basis of status like - Enable, Disable.
• Completeness - You can filter products with product completeness.
• Time Condition – You can filter the product on the time like - Updated product from since this date.
• Category – You can filter the product on the basis of product category and sub-categories.

Product Images makes your product more understandable for the customer. You can use the images to draw the attention of customers, highlight key features, and provide a closer look to the product.

You can export various type of Images like JPG, JPEG, and PNG with the products. You can export the images in the same format and folder to the CS-Cart Store.

• You can send multiple images
• You can limit the size of an image
• Send high-resolution images

With exporting product model, you can export the product with multiple variations. You can show multiple products having the same tags on the channel.

For example, if you are going to export a T-Shirt with multiple colors then you don’t have to export it separately. You can choose a product model for this.

With exporting product option, you can save the time to export the same product with multiple color and size.

• Export Variant product inventory
• Auto-sync option names and option values

• In Akeneo Version 7, SKU is no longer mandatory to create a product and now UUID is the new product identifier. (CE, EE).
• Smoother mapping and faster importing. (CE, EE).
• Tailored export can help to improve the readability of your product information export by defining rounding operations for measurement values. (EE)
• In Akeneo Version 7, you can now map columns in your source data to additional attribute types. (EE)
• Tailored imports help you to clean up your HTML Characters (EE).
• Using Tailored imports, we can find and replace specific words in Text and Text Area Attributes. (EE).
• Now we are creating a table attribute you can take advantage of measurement. (EE).
• Now we can use reference entities as a column type in the table attribute(EE).