Enterpristore’s APIConnect architecture provides a powerful solution for integrating e-commerce with various business applications, enabling seamless data sharing and automation without the need for middleware. This platform facilitates direct connections between Enterpristore and systems such as ERP, CRM, CMS, and PIM, supporting both real-time and batch processing. Data integrity is maintained even if applications go offline, as the system retries connections automatically when back online.
The bi-directional data flow allows for real-time synchronization of critical information, including customer-specific pricing, order statuses, and invoice management. Customers can access their ship-to information and order history, while product catalogs reflect real-time inventory and pricing across multiple warehouses. The platform also supports order processing by submitting shopping cart data to ERP systems, enabling the creation of orders and quotes directly within those systems.
Integration capabilities extend to a wide range of ERP solutions, including SAP, Epicor, Sage, QuickBooks, and Microsoft Dynamics, among others. Each integration is designed to streamline business processes, enhance operational efficiency, and improve decision-making across finance, inventory, and operations.
Overall, Enterpristore APIConnect serves as a versatile and robust integration platform that enhances e-commerce functionality while optimizing back-end business processes, making it an essential tool for modern enterprises.
Enterpristore – APIConnect architecture provides a robust platform that allows our Enterpristore Ecommerce site to be connected to your business applications, which allows you to automate and improve both data sharing.
Enterpristore – APIConnect creates a direct connection between your Apps, ERP, CRM, CMS, PIM, EDI etc. and Ecommerce in Cloud based or On Premise Hosting using, Realtime of Batch processing. We improve and automate your business processes and workflows with no middleware. Data is protected if any application is offline and retried when the connection is online again.
Enterpristore APIConnect is flexible for all formats (API, Databases ) or protocols ( REST, SOAP, JSON, etc.)
General Principle: Data flows in both directions between Enterpristore and 3rd Party ERP’s with the direction depending on the data type.
Customers:
- Real-time contract/customer-specific pricing is available from either ERP or Enterpristore.
- Customer Ship-to information is handled in various ways:
- ERP ID
- Ship-tos as separate customer accounts
- Ship-tos as sub-accounts
- Customer Default Warehouse is synchronized.
- Customer Restricted Products information is shared.
- Corporate Groups affiliation is managed.
Order Information:
- Order Current Status is synchronized.
- Order Tracking Number is available.
- Carrier Codes are exchanged.
- Warehouses relevant to the order are identified.
Order History:
Retrieves current open orders, current pre-orders, and complete order history from either ERP or Enterpristore.
Invoices:
Retrieves current open and closed (paid) invoices directly from Infor ERP or Enterpristore.
Quotes:
Retrieves current open quotes directly from Infor ERP or Enterpristore.
Functionality to convert a quote into an order is provided.
Products Catalog:
- Real-time inventory and pricing information is provided, reflecting data from multiple warehouses.
- Specific product data includes:
- Catalog Products
- Catalog Products – Special Order
- Kits
- Purchased Together products
- Restricted Sales information
- Products with multi UOMs (Units of Measure)
- Products Categories
- Substitute Products
- Interchange Products
- Superseded Products
- Companion Related Products
- Customer Products
- Upgrade Products
- Optional Products
- Presell Products
- Products Price and Price Breaks
- Products List Breaks
- Products Inventory and Inventory per Warehouse
Order Processing:
- Submits orders from the Enterpristore shopping cart to Infor ERP.
- Can create orders, quotes, or pre-orders within Infor ERP.
Payment Processing:
Tokenizes customer payment data for secure and recurring billing.
