Akeneo Connector for Magento 2

To make a connection between the Magento store and Akeneo PIM, you must create an API connection key in the Akeneo panel account and add it to your Akeneo connector configuration in your Magento Admin. For that you will require the below information:

• Akeneo Portal URL
• Client Id
• Secret
• Username
• Password

Once the configuration will be done, this module dynamically fetches all configured channels of Akene PIM. From the backend of Magento commerce, you can map the respective Magento store view with specific Akeneo channels.

• You can map multi-website from the Magento store.
• You can manage a multi-store catalog from the Magento itself to drive more business.
• This module follows the standard Magento code standards.

Importing and exporting of product information is the most efficient way to update your product catalog. This module provides easy & quick Import/export functionality from Magento to Akeneo PIM. Admin can Import/Export below product information from Magento2 to Akeneo PIM.

• Product type either Simple or Configurable.
• Product Images such as Image, a small image, and thumbnail.
• Quantity of the product
• Import/export Media files
• Import/export Image attribute
• The main picture code can be export.
• Attribute label can be export from Magento to Akeneo PIM

This module gives the facility to Import/Export product attributes & attribute sets from Magento to Akeneo PIM. Merchant will get a separate configuration setting for exporting or importing attributes.

• An attribute type must map before each other, even one can also add additional attribute type which is not available in Magento.
• If you want to export/import attribute only then you can do it, similar to attribute sets/family.
• The required attributes that should map to the Akeneo attribute code with the Magento input field - Name, SKU, Price, Description.

Media files are files containing the product data files and all the media assets associated with these products. Now, Akeneo Connector for Magento 2 module enables merchants to Import/Export the media files from Magento to Akeneo PIM.

• To export media files before you have to map media attributes first and assure that Akeneo media attribute codes should exist in Akeneo panel.
• The admin can set the label name which will use as a label in Akeneo after exporting.
• The admin can set the main picture code which will use as the main picture in Akeneo after exporting.

Akeneo Connector for Magento 2 module provides additional features to observe and review the complete record of Import/Export job, including:

• Merchant can view the respective log Id for Import/Export log.
• Job step: Number of jobs run for Import/Export log.
• Created at: The admin can review by when the respective job has been created.
• Log type as message, error, and warning
• Import/Export Jobs as product model, category and attribute set
• A descriptive log message based on the log type.

Cascade Rack - A retail store established in Colorado, United States. Cascade Rack provides the services for Bike Racks, Kayak Racks, Canoe Racks, Ski Racks, Snowboard Racks, Surfboard Racks, or Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) Racks. Cascade Racks provides apparatus to furnish the vehicle and homes for the adventures. 

Cascade Rack started his e-commerce business on Magento 2 platforms. For managing the ERP system, Cascade Racks started using Odoo open source ERP and CRM. Further, for product management, they are using Akeneo and needed some additional integrations and extensions.

• 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).