CrescoData Services
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.
CrescoData’s Services are all available via API through the CrescoData Commerce-in-the-Cloud Suite
Connect your platform to 90+ commerce channels including Marketplaces, eCommerce Platform and Google + Facebook API’s with The CrescoData Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Syncs include: Product, Image, Stock, Price, Order, Order Status Update and Shipping Label Sync.
The monthly licensing fee provides an on-going automated sync from your connected platform (s) and removes the need for any in-house channel maintenance.
cPaaS | iPaas | Digital Ad Feeds | Product Importer | Reports Marketplace Mapper | Google Sheets Solution.
Key Features
- Setting up of desired channels as output destinations to automatically populate transformed data into channels’ systems
- Use The CrescoData Marketplace Mapper to map categories and attributes
- Supports up to 42,000 categories where products’ category can be remapped
- Resizing of source images to fit 90+ commerce integrations
- Enriching of product data feed via attribute backfilling and merging of multiple product information input
- Supports all 180 currency conversions
- Tax and shipping calculations based of your specified locations
- Unlimited rules by product, by channel
- Automated promotions
- Automated product, price, stock, order and shipping label sync
cPaaS: Channel Integration-as-a-Service
Connect your platform to 90+ commerce channels including Marketplaces, eCommerce Platform and Google + Facebook API’s with The CrescoData Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Syncs include: Product, Image, Stock, Price, Order, Order Status Update and Shipping Label Sync.
The monthly licensing fee provides an on-going automated sync from your connected platform (s) and removes the need for any in-house channel maintenance.
Key Features
- Setting up of desired channels as output destinations to automatically populate transformed data into channels’ systems
- Use The CrescoData Marketplace Mapper to map categories and attributes
- Supports up to 42,000 categories where products’ category can be remapped
- Resizing of source images to fit over 85 commerce integrations
- Enriching of product data feed via attribute backfilling and merging of multiple product information input
- Supports all 180 currency conversions
- Tax and shipping calculations based of your specified locations
- Unlimited rules by product, by channel
- Automated promotions
- Automated product, price, stock, order and shipping label sync
iPaaS: System-Integration-as-a-Service
Better systems integration is now here!
Connect disparate commerce platforms: Product Information Management Platforms (PIM), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Software), Order Management Systems (OMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Key Features
- Platform agnostic system integration
- Supported connection methods: API, Database, file format
- Nimble development connect in weeks not months
- Changes in rules
- Robust alerts + monitoring for any system downtime or update failure
Digital Ad Feeds
Connect, map, optimize and automate your entire product catalogue to the world’s leading digital ad channels. With only one feed, instantly turn on new digital ad channels. Improve performance by creating automated, optimized feeds by channel. Apply rules and optimised feeds by channel without needing to change the source data or asking IT. View feeds in an aggregated dashboard. Access alerts and monitoring to understand any platform or feed issues.
Key Features
- Data enhancements: Merging of multiple data sources, enrichment of feeds from additional sources (e.g. relational data, ERP systems, conversion rates, etc.), addition of dimensional data, adding of keywords, customer specific rule based overwrites, moving the order of text
- Images: Image hosting on our content delivery network (CDN), resizing of images to destination requirements, change image background e.g. to white, adding of watermarks
- Content Creation: SKU creation, unique product identifier creation, extraction of additional information from product data such as colour, size, brand
- Data Cleansing: Standardization of text to remove all capitals, repetitive text, sales promotion text
- Pricing: Currency conversions, band based rounding of prices to avoid ‘odd’ numbers, adding or subtracting percentage changes in price by destination, brand or category, tax calculations, sales promotions
Product Importer
Remove barriers to merchant on-boarding. Remove manual tasks from your QA team by adding an automated way for merchants to migrate their product catalogues into your platform. The CrescoData Product Importer provides frictionless import and integration of product data that automatically maps product attributes, backfills product information and transforms images to match your platform requirements. All that is needed from the merchant is their source API key.
The Product Importer Service provides either a one-off catalogue migration or continual sync’s if required.
Automated supported sources include:
- Marketplaces
- eCommerce Platforms
- CSV
- Bespoke on request
Reports
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.
Product Data: 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.
- Display data as a total, table, bar chart or line chart.
- Key reporting on orders, products, GMV, stock and price split by merchant, by Channel or both.
- Setup reporting based on defined time periods - Days / weeks / months.
- Ability to pull marketplace API data and push to any format or system.
- Ability to report on new records or updates.
- Create reports specific to a merchant or integration.
- To set up multiple dashboard tabs to display reports applicable to each.
- API and file format supported.
Marketplace Mapper
Are you spending time manually mapping products to individual marketplace requirements with no visibility on attributes at a category level or understanding why products have failed?
The CrescoData Marketplace Mapper enables you to use your Source Platform as The Source of Truth to sync products with marketplaces. The CrescoData Mapping Language provides a unified data structure to enable efficient mapping to each marketplace’s requirements, removing the need for manual product mapping by marketplace.
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Key Features
- Map products in hours not weeks: by only seeing Channel specific Categories and Attributes.
- Save Time: through automation, business rules and mapping logic.
- Maintain a Single Source of Truth: Update your product catalogue in your own system. This is automatically published to the marketplace requirements.
- Change Mappings: use the CrescoData mapping screens to change or override product mappings by channels.
- Automated Image resizing: to destination requirements.
- Flexible Rules: rules can be set surrounding titles and attributes.
- Listing Preview: See a preview of how your product will be listed before its published to the marketplace.
- Editing Titles + Descriptions: Change titles and descriptions by marketplace to help with optimisation.
- Automated category tree updates: marketplace category trees are updated on a daily basis and any rejected products are surfaced to remap.
- Understand why products fail: CrescoData logs everything to provide you full transparency of why products fail.
Branded Portal Solution
CrescoData’s Branded Portal solution is designed to help merchants on eCommerce platforms to self-board on to a specific Marketplace.
This includes the ability to sync products, stock, pricing, orders and order updates between the eCommerce platform and Marketplace.
Key Feature
- Expediting the onboarding of new merchants to Marketplaces in a self-service manner.
- Branding to the guidelines of the Marketplace - So it is perceived as the Marketplace’s own solution.
- Admin access so you can review a specific merchant's setup, data flows and mappings to support or troubleshoot an issue.
- Configuration making sure the Branded Portal is set up to the Marketplace’s requirements to ensure a smooth onboarding process for merchants while reducing support.
- Merchant setup can either be controlled by the Marketplace or via a self-service form.
- Stripe Payments meaning the merchant can pays for the service, while the Marketplace benefits through reduced manual resources towards merchant onboarding.
- Marketplace Mapper to allow merchants to map to the Marketplaces category and product taxonomies.
- Rules Builder to allow for overwriting of a merchants product data without affecting their source of data i.e. Price and stock rules or removal of keywords in descriptions.
- Custom Alerts that allow merchants to get proactive email notifications when actionables are required in the portal.
- Documentation setup by CrescoData to ensure merchants are fully aware of the solution and how to use the Branded Portal.
Rules Builder
Are you needing to modify product information from a source channel, before it is publishing into another channel? Are channels requesting attribute enrichment, so your products are found easier, however you do not want to update the value in your eCommerce platform?
The CrescoData Rules Builder allows you to set up rules against key product attributes, while allowing you to filter on a certain subset of products to allow for bulk updating for current and future products.
Functions include the ability to remove, replace, append, prepend or fix text to values, while also allowing you to exclude the publishing of products to channels.
KEY FEATURES:
- Ability to edit source product values without changing or affecting their current source listings.
- Flexibility to create product rules at a Marketplace level, meaning the potential for different titles, pricing and stock buffers to name a few.
- Conditionals rules - Meaning only a subset of products are enriched with certain rules with one or multiple conditions.
- Multiple rules - Ability to create multiple rules against the same attribute.
- Source Attribute - Ability to create conditions or build a rule based on any source attribute received.
- Transparency at a product level to understand when a rule has enriched an attribute for support and traceability.
- Overwrite mappings - Ability to build your own value for a particular attribute i.e. Multiple source attributes together, appending or prepending text.
- Ability to preview rules at a specific product level before applying.
- Ability to run the rule on existing products and any future products that meet this criteria.
- Ability to prioritise rules within the same attribute, to define which rule should take priority if conditions are met.
- Rules include the ability to “Append”, “prepend”, “add”, “subtract”, “default”, “hard-code”, “search and replace” to name a few.
Cross-Sync
Do you need to enrich your data from more than one source of truth?
CrescoData’s cross-sync feature allows for data to be retrieved from multiple source connectors, that can be combined to enrich into one Publishing Destination Connector.
KEY USE CASES:
- Products via a PIM and stock via an OMS - The need to enrich stock into the product feed to send to a Marketplace.
- Products synced from Shopify, however wanting to set up different specials per Marketplace - Ability to connect g-sheets for pricing to enrich into what is sent to each marketplace, overwriting the price from Shopify.
- Order product identifier is different to the identifier in an OMS - The ability to enrich the OMS identifier from Product data to create orders successfully.
Google Sheets Solution
Don’t have a PIM or content management system? Are you using spreadsheets to manage product catalogues? Do you have multiple spreadsheets per marketplaces?
Remove manual product uploads with a centralised Google sheets solution to help centralize and automate the sync of product catalogues, images, inventory, price and promotions to marketplace accounts. Take control by allocating product categories to the relevant marketplace categories.
Updates are automated via the marketplace API. Incorrect products or data issues are flagged in the sheet prior to sync
More detail and a demo video.
Key Features:
- Master data format removes the need to upload content per marketplace
- Reformatting is automated
- Ability to connect to different sources to pre-populate
- Only marketplace specific categories and attributes are surfaced.
- Categories and attributes are automatically maintained when the marketplace makes changes
- Automated and Published through the Marketplace API
- The Scheduler feature enables the automation of promotions and price changes
- Control access and edit rights through permission levels
- Invalid values are highlighted in the sheet
- Marketplace responses are shown in the sheet
- Use The CrescoData Rules Engine to set business rules
- View a full history log available via the CrescoData Management Portal
- Automate the deletion of SKUs from the Marketplace
