Magento Akeneo PIM Connector

You can map Akeneo attributes with those of Magento fields. Apart from the defined attributes, you can also create a custom attribute and map in Magento. In order to map attributes, you just need to create a type of attribute using tooltip available in Akeneo. Attributes which can be mapped are:

• Name
• Price
• Weight
• Quantity
• Description
• Short Description
• Meta Title
• Meta Description
• URL Key
• SKU
• Standard Magento Attributes like - special price, tax class, etc

It's not necessary every time you export all features as defined in Akeneo to Magento unless they are different. Once the attributes, categories and families are exported, next you can only export products which saves a lot of time. Various export options as available in the connector are :

• Category Export to Magento 1: Using this option, you can export only that particular category in which you have assigned the products and export that category only.
• Attributes Export to Magento 1: The attribute export option allows you to choose the list of attributes using drag and drop option and export the newly created attributes to your online store.
• Family Export to Magento 1: Using family export option, you can choose only a particular family of products which needs to be exported. Whatever products you have created under a particular family will get exported to your store.
• Products Export to Magento 1: Sometimes it also happen you want to export a particular product only condition being family, attributes and category remain same on the store. Using this, you can select only that particular product and export to your store.

You can filter the products based upon certain condition and export them to your online store. This not only saves time but also gives you to export choice of your product. The filtering condition available in the connector are:

• Filter by Family: The option allows to filter the products that need to export based on the family. You can select multiple families in the filter options.
• Filter by Category: Filter by category will show you the category that needs to be filtered before export. The category that you have defined in the channel settings will be shown to choose.
• Filter by Identifier: You can also filter the product based on the identifier which is SKU that you have provided while creating the product.
• Filter by Time Condition: The option provides you with the several time condition which you can use to filter products.

Time conditions as allowed are:

• No Date Condition
• Updated products over the last n days (e.g. 6)
• Updated products since this date
• Updated products since last export

Create variant products in Akeneo using Product Model and export the variant product from Akeneo to your Magento Store. With the variant product, all variant type of attributes is also exported to the store.

Different variant features like size, colour, dimensions etc can be created using simple select attributes in Akeneo. After that Product Model type of product can be allocated to a family consisting of variant attributes.

When the product is exported to the Magento store, the product variant attributes and information are also exported and mapped on the Magento store. The variant product inherits all the properties of the product information.

The product variants consist of the following structures:

• The variants level,
• The variant axis for each level
• Attributes distribution between common and variant attributes

Safe Harbor - An eCommerce shop that sells the product for video editing, motion graphics, 3D animation. They are selling Electronics Goods from 25 Years. For some years, Safe Harbor started the online selling of Goods and Services.

Safe Harbor is built on the Magento1 platform. They are managing thousand of the product with the website but it not easy to manage a large number of products manually. Safe Harbor is looking for a PIM solution and they got a solution by using Akeneo PIM. After it, they are looking for a solution where they can integrate Akeneo PIM with the Magento store.

Horecaworld - It is the fastest-growing Catering equipment and Home Appliances company in the Netherlands, Europe. They sell catering and kitchen related products for a long time. Now, Horecaworld has started the selling of goods online using Magento 1 platform.

It deals with a large number of products. Nowadays, it is difficult to manage a large number of SKUs manually, it takes a lot of time and cost. Horecaword was looking for a PIM solution for Magento. Finally, they founded the solution as Akeneo Magento connector. First, they tested the Webkul live demo module and found that it meets their requirements.

• There are 5 major changes Automation, Governance, Quality, Connectivity, and Productivity in this latest version Akeneo 5.x came with.
• Enhancements in the new Akeneo feature are like new import/export capabilities, an enhanced user experience on our product grid, and a more insightful process tracker that will increase productivity.
• Enrich product data collection like New associations types, Enrichment in the variant products, Enhanced measurement families
• Moreover, with the new Akeneo, it will be easier to manage the data quality with the new revamped data quality dashboard, spell-check modifications, and new “Missing image” rules
• We have made all our Akeneo modules compatible with Akeneo 5.0.x and for a better experience, Akeneo implemented a new API, known as the “Events API” to better integrate the third-party application.