Located at the border of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, a showroom full of branded chandeliers, pendants and other lighting equipment decorates Brand Lighting. The company deals in selling lighting equipment, planning lighting for house interiors, and customisation.
The company sell equipment from both offline centres like showroom and design centre as well as from their online shop. However, from their online, they accept the request for orders either via call or email and then deliver. The website consists of over 1000 pages and has over 5000 products on their website.
Now managing product information for that collection of product from a mere website is a very tedious job. Also, uploading product spreadsheet on your system can hinder your system performance and sometimes even getting your system crash. David Blunn, recognised this issue which led him to use PIM platform like Akeneo to manage its product data.
On Akeneo, with the help of message queue technology, he can easily upload the spreadsheets and continue his normal work. Once the product is uploaded, he can refine product attributes, family, assign the category and add custom fields too. Once the product data has been harmonised, they need to upload back to the store.
This is where David faced the second roadblock as exporting data in CSV/XLS file and uploading them on online store will take time and also a risky way. It is then he found his way with BigCommerce Akeneo Connector. With the connector, he can easily connect his store, enrich the products and upload back to the store in no time.
The connector also allows him to filter products based on category and family as well as choosing the export profile based on product, product model and category. This saves the time and helps in getting the product readily available to the store.
Joshua Berkowitz, the developer of the website got stuck exporting images to the store and with some attributes. Webkul not only helped in issue resolution quick time but also updating the module as per his requirements. Joshua was very pleased with the work delivery of Webkul and shared his experience with us
Saved a ton of time developing a custom connector!
First off, the connector for Akeneo to Bigcommerce was a must for a current project and until I found that WebKul had a solution we had spec'd the job to develop our own. With the time and money I was able to save my client with the connector, they were not only happy but impressed.
There were some issues during installation, however, the team at Webkul were quick to respond and RESOLVE all issues I had. Over the last several years I have directed clients to use WebKul plugins and have always been delighted with the strong support team and quality code delivered. I look forward to working with you again!
Keep up the good work!
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