Modules
Built using the latest in AWS Cloud serverless architecture The CrescoData Commerce Connect Platform is designed to scale. The CrescoData Commerce Connect Platform is available via Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Its full stack of product features are available through its Commerce-in-the-Cloud Suite. This enables customers to develop, run and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure associated with developing and managing the service. All features are available as micro-services via API.
Connector Module
Existing range of commerce platform connector templates with no need to build or maintain API connections.
Key Features
- Integrations are split between connectivity + mappings
- No coding needed
- Move to a centralized data structure for product and orders
- Daily channel API updates (incl. taxonomy and category-specific attributes)
Categorization & Mapping Recommendation Engine
Our categorisation and mapping engine maintains the taxonomies of all connected channels. This includes categories, attributes and possible values for channels that support these.
The taxonomies are offered through the Cresco Data API for any custom integrations or UIs and also through the CrescoData Marketplacer Mapper which allows mapping of source categories and attributes to the channel taxonomies.
Mappings of similar attributes are automatically distributed to other categories as well further streamlining the mapping process.
In addition, APIs are offered to retrieve mapping suggestions. These can be viewed and accepted in the CrescoData Marketplacer Mapper. Suggestions are generated based on a trained model that matches source categories and attributes to suggested channel versions
Channel Attributes Enrichment Module
Provides a centralised API and data format to retrieve categories as well as category specific attributes for all supported channels. The list of attributes incl. the type of attribute as well as its possible values. The taxonomy and attribute list is kept up to date on a daily basis and can be used as a basis to build channel-specific product edit screens.
Key Features
- Work with channel taxonomies and category-specific attributes using a standardized format
- Only map to that channel’s categories
- Daily updates to allow categories and category-specific attributes
- Receive real-time alerts of failed products
Product Sync Module
Remove manual tasks to automate product content syndication across digital sales channels. The CrescoData Product Sync Service connects into your commerce platform or data sources and provides an automated content syndication service that enables a consistent product experience across commerce stores, marketplaces and ad feeds. Remove manual tasks to automate product content syndication across digital sales channels. The CrescoData Platform effortlessly reformats product information.
Key Features
- Connect product catalogues to an unlimited amount of channels for real-time updates of product content based on the source catalog
- Automated mapping of unlimited product attributes to the required category-specific attributes specific to each channel
- Automated resizing of images to fit any channel requirements
- Enrich product feeds using:
- multiple sources (such as Google Sheets or PIMs),
- automated classification by CrescoData or
- the mapping screen
- Use rules to make dynamic changes to product titles or descriptions
- Unlimited rules
- Ability to group or restrict by channel
- on-the fly grouping or splitting of variants based on source feed attributes
- Automated product sync
Image Sync Module
Transform product images instantly as we magically rescale, improve background quality, apply watermarks, crop, rename, convert and orientate your product images ready for commerce.
Key Features
- Ability to set up scripts and automatically pull images from a range of sources
- Ability to filter based on: quality, watermarks, text, sharpness
- Automatic resizing by channel requirements
- Duplicates are automatically filtered out
- Automatic integration of images into product feeds
- Centralised image hosting and per-channel version of each image
- Text detection and extraction
- Image quality rating based on BRISQUE method
Price Sync Module
Effortless synchronization of price in real-time across multiple channels. Apply automated channel and SKU level pricing rules. Tax and shipping calculations based on your specified locations. Automated currency conversion tool.
Key Features
- Ability to set up rules to support different pricing by channel
- Ability to round up / down or to the nearest $
- Supports all 180 currency conversions
- Tax and shipping calculations based of your specified locations
- Automated Price Sync updates
- Sales promotions scheduled in advance
Promotions Module
Never waste time manually logging into marketplace accounts. Automate the calculation of set promotions in advance ability to schedule promotions and specify to product level.
Key Features
- Schedule promotions based on source platforms
- Schedule promotions via Google Sheets on top of product feeds from other sources
- Advanced schedules will be updated at the specific time
- Can be scheduled down to the minute
- Rotating promotions with daily, weekly or even hourly changing promotions (i.e. promotions at night or on weekends)
Scheduler
The Scheduler provides the ability to schedule a range of syncs to suit your internal workflow and business rules including: Source data sync, Individual syncs for promotions, price, stock and order. Order pushes from the marketplaces.
Key Features
- Don’t rely on changes in the source system to apply changes in channels
- Specify rules that change over time or at certain intervals
- Automated updates at the next time changes will apply
- Automated updates to all channels based on the changed data
- Change product titles based on rotating promotions
- Change images based on time of day and/or weekday
Stock Sync
Save time managing inventory with seamless updates across all channels. Set minimum stock levels or maintain different stock ratios by channel based on your business rules.
Key Features
- Updating of product stock across all connected channels
- Maintain expected stock ratio based on your business rules
- Set minimum stock level rules
- Real time updating of unlimited order statuses for purchases
- Set channel priorities to determine where products remain active the longest during low-stock periods
- Consolidated order data to be sent to a third party BI tool
Order Sync
Stay on top of orders as data flows back into your central order management system. Automate status updates.
Key Features
- Consolidation of order information from all connected channels into your desired order management system
- Real time updating of unlimited order statuses for purchases
- Consolidate shipping invoices to your desired order management system
- Consolidated order data to be sent to a third party BI tool
Shipping Label Sync
Remove the need to log into marketplaces accounts. Shopping labels can be consolidated and sent to your desired order management system or formatted to be print-ready.
Key Features
- Aggregated shipping label gathering
- Agnostic delivery via API, email or FTP
- Reformatted to suit your required format
- Ability to schedule the push / pull of shipping labels to suit your internal workflow
- Consolidated download via The CrescoData Management Portal
Agency (Merchant) Module
Provides the ability to set up multiple merchants or separate brand channel accounts through one parent account.
Key Features
- Consolidated of all sub-accounts via centralised login
- Monitor status and issues across all sub-accounts
- Maintain channel login information and authentication details for all sub-accounts
- Authenticate oauth channels for all sub-accounts
Rules Engine
Take charge of your commerce data. Set unlimited rules with immediate implementation. Rules can be set for: Source integration connection; Product, Price, Stock, Promotions, Shipping
Key Features (Rules can be set around):
- Source integration connection: push, pull, frequency of connection
- Product : changes to title, description, adding of keywords, ability to group or restrict by channel
- Price : currency conversion, price changes
- Stock: ability to set minimum stock levels, different stock ratios by channel
- Promotions: ability to schedule promotions and specify to product level
- Shipping: ability to add or calculate shipping information
Updated rules and mappings can be applied at any point in the future and automatically be published to all connected channels.
Reports Module
Flexibility to suit the needs of the individual. Our reporting dashboard can be set up at a User, Merchant or Company level meaning that no-two dashboard boards need to be the same.
Finance Data: Get order and GMV specific reporting that drills down to a Merchant and Channel level.
Focused on cataloging products onto Marketplaces. Get reporting specific to products by merchant and channel, as well as stock reporting.
Zero time lag to reflect all your sales, channels, products and merchant data to clearly show the traffic through the CrescoData Platform and the value-added. Easy export or transformation to your preferred BI suite including Google Data Suite, Tableau and Qlikview or to your accounts team for reconciliation.
Key Features
- Flexibility to set up dashboards per Merchant or per User.
- Key reporting on orders, products and GMV split by merchant and by Channel.
- Setup reporting based on defined time periods - Days / weeks / months.
- Ability to pull marketplace API data and push to any format or system.
- API and file format supported.
Monitoring + Alerts Module
Real time smart alerts to spot data and channel errors from data upload and orders to platform connections.
Key Features
- Ability to customize alerts and monitoring data and processes with business specific rules
- Ability to pull into your own platform via API or receive via email
- A range of alerts including:
- CrescoData Platform uptime
- Connectivity issues at Source or Destination including expired tokens
- Channel Integration issues
- Attribute Mapping Errors
Marketplace Taxonomy Module
Are you constantly having to download the latest category tree from every Marketplace seller center account, so you are creating products under the right category?
Lack transparency of the required attributes and options available at an individual category level and therefore have issues with loading products across multiple marketplaces?
Key Features
- View or export the latest category tree for Marketplaces within one interface.
- Available via API, CSV or Google Sheets
- Transparency for attributes and options available at an individual category level.
- Full search menu available
- Updated daily
Technical Features
- Marketplace taxonomies are available via the CrescoData API in a standardised format, meaning this could be replicated in a customer’s own UI if required.
- Attribute value IDs are stored as well as the plain text names. IDs are normally passed to Marketplaces when creating or updating a product.
- Categories are consolidated into a tree structure with filters on if it is the last leaf.
- Full drill down capabilities with the ability to export at a category, attribute or option level.
- Ability to filter on key conditions such as if the attribute is mandatory or not.
- One login to access a full list of taxonomies CrescoData has integrated with, with the ability to explain as requested.