We’re one of the unique shops in America that doesn’t have a POS system in place. 99% of our business comes from online orders through a sales channel. As we grew, we began to establish a presence and added some internal customer service and sales people. Our CEO is very money conscious. As a result, we never spent money on a stand-alone POS. We’ve instead turned to the Magento 2 back-end ordering system. This is where we found a lack of separation of internal sales and consumer sales reporting.

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You’re always looking for ways to speed things up when you work with a catalog of 125,000 SKUs and growing. Management of the catalog is no different. Magento’s built-in import can’t handle the load and some of the other import modules might be out of budget. Fortunately there’s a way for you to tackle your inventory management issues at the database level.

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We had a small fiasco with our Magento build. Our developers did some things with the code that caused the Magento 2 compiler to break the site. The solution proposed was to rebuild Magento’s installation and then re-apply the new theme. This sounded like a good time to upgrade. Here are my Magento 2 v2.1 First Impressions.

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I’ve taken you through how the Magento 2 API works. This is where I send you off on your magical journey. There are lots of integration points that you can access with this API, and now you can write even more for yourself. The fundamentals are there, and you should get the gist of how things work.

Additional reading might help if you’re new to Magento, PHP, and APIs:

Magento’s Dev Docs
PHP.net
RESTful API Tutorial

Good luck on your adventure!

-Dan

The way we handle our inventory is to do a daily export of pricing and quantity from our inventory management system. This “export” has a legacy function of generating CSV files for uploading to various sales channels. Enter a plan to modernize, we kept the process and naming the same for our people, but created API calls that send out a batch of products. Magento by design takes one item at a time. Good or bad, this is just how it is. I found things a little slow, and wanted to be able to send over a batch of products, so I looked into extending the API.

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