SP Richards is a leading wholesale distributor of office supplies, furniture, and business products. As a source in Flxpoint, it provides reliable inventory data, automated updates, and integration options to streamline product management and order fulfillment for ecommerce businesses.
How To Connect
Product Operations
The primary operation handles the bulk of your inventory management needs, while the secondary operation allows for more detailed control, such as focusing on specific products or updates
Get Inventory and Pricing & Quantity
Yes, Get Inventory and Pricing & Quantity are supported!
The Get Inventory integration for SP Richards automates inventory updates by retrieving product details, pricing, and warehouse-specific quantities from FTP feeds.
Connect Your Integration
Establish FTP Connection
- For Primary Inventory, connect to Etilize FTP to download rich product data.
- For Secondary Inventory, connect to SP Richards FTP to track warehouse-specific quantities.
- Connection Name
- Group Code
- User ID
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Password
Test Connection:
- Use the Test Connection button to validate FTP access.
Save and Configure Settings:
- Proceed to map templates and define rules for pricing and quantity updates.
Configure Your Settings
Primary Inventory:
- Supports custom fields, images, weights, and categories for rich product descriptions.
- Retrieves full product feeds for complete updates.
Secondary Inventory:
- Focuses on pricing and quantities by warehouse.
- Uses delta feeds to update only changed data, improving efficiency.
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Includes dealer pricing and MSRP mapped to specific columns.
Warehouse Support
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Supports multiple warehouses with configurable codes, including:
- Atlanta, GA
- Dallas, TX
- Chicago, IL
- and more!
Order Operations
It submits orders to vendors for fulfillment and subsequently imports the shipment details, ensuring an integration between order processing and shipment tracking.
Send Orders
Yes, Send Orders is supported!
This integration automates order submissions via FTP in XML format.
Configuration Recommendations:
- Use the Internal Flx Order ID as the Fulfillment Request (FR) Strategy (Adam’s recommendation).
- Update mapping to send the Order ID instead of the Reference Number for shorter, cleaner order IDs (especially for Amazon).
Get Shipments
Yes, Get Shipments is supported!
This integration fetches shipment updates in XML format via FTP.
Key Features:
- Tracks carrier methods, SKUs, and partial shipments.
- Allows custom configuration to store shipment details like tracking numbers.
Limitations:
- Invoice information is not supported in this process.