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Setting Up Premier Performance Account
Setting Up Premier Performance Account

Learn how to add Premier Performance as a distributor to sell their products in your store.

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Written by Alex
Updated over a week ago

⚠️ Requires:
- X-Cart Auto 5.5.1 or later

- Premier Performance add-on

Table of Contents

Before you Start

Pick a Format Type

Select the Required Attributes

Choose the Brands You Want to Sell

Filter the Items You Plan to Import

Set Import Schedule

Delimiter and Zip File Settings

Enter the Import File Name

Set FTP Type

Complete the Connection

Before you can start selling Premier Performance products in your X-Cart store, you need to set up a few things on the Premier side. This guide will walk you through choosing brands, setting update frequency, and configuring import options. Once that’s done, we’ll show you how to connect Premier Performance to your store.

Before you Start

  1. Open a Dealer Account with Premier Performance.

  2. Install and enable the Premier Performance add-on in X-Cart.

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Pick a Format Type

  1. Log in to your Premier Dealer Account.

  2. Go to My Data › Custom Data Feed.

  3. In the Format section, choose Custom.

Setting Format Type to Custom

Select the Required Attributes

In the Columns section, choose the product details you need to import from Premier Performance. These details will be added to the Attributes section of each imported product. Only select the details from the list below:

Select These Details

  • Brand

  • Line Code

  • California Legal

  • Canada Jobber

  • Canada MAP

  • Canada MSRP

  • Core Charge

  • Customer Price

  • Freight Cost

  • Height

  • Jobber

  • Length

  • Long Description

  • Map

  • Mfg Part Number

  • Part Category

  • Part Subcategory

  • Part Terminology

  • Premier Part Number

  • Retail

  • Upc

  • USA Item Availability

  • Weight

  • Width

To select:

  1. In the list on the left, click on a detail.

  2. Click ">" to move it to the right.

To move multiple at once, hold Ctrl (or Cmd ⌘ on Mac), select the ones you need, then click ">".

Selecting Product Attributes to Import

Choose the Brands You Want to Sell

In the Vendors section, select the brands whose products you want to import from Premier Performance to your X-Cart store.

To select:

  1. In the list on the left, click on a vendor/brand.

  2. Click ">" to move it to the right.

To move multiple at once, hold Ctrl (or Cmd ⌘ on Mac), select the ones you need, then click ">". To move all of them simply click ">>".

Selecting the Brands You Plan to Sell

Filter the Items You Plan to Import

In the Filters section, choose which products to import. You can filter products by availability, stock type, shipping requirements, or additional charges, and exclude those that don’t meet your criteria.

Here’s What Each Filter Does

  1. Bargain Barn – Import (only) discounted or clearance items.

  2. CAN Quantity Available – Import products that have stock available in Canada.

  3. Discontinued – Import products that are no longer available.

  4. Exclude LTL Items – Skip products that require Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) shipping.

  5. Exclude Items with Cores – Remove products that have core charges.

  6. Exclude Items with No Freight Note – Remove products without shipping cost details.

  7. Non-Stocking – Import items that aren’t regularly kept in stock.

  8. Stock Available – Import (only) products currently in stock.

  9. Stocking – Focus on regularly stocked products.

  10. US Quantity Available – Import products have stock available in the U.S.

  11. Weight + Dimensions – Import (only) products with weight and size details.

To select:

  1. In the list on the left, click on a filter.

  2. Click ">" to move it to the right.

To move multiple at once, hold Ctrl (or Cmd ⌘ on Mac), select the ones you need, then click ">". To move all of them simply click ">>".

Filtering Products for Import

Set Import Schedule

In the Schedule section, choose how often you want product information such as stock, pricing, and discounts to be updated in your X-Cart store.

Setting Import Schedule

By default, Premier Performance updates it once a day in the morning, but you can change it to update three times a day, or as often as every hour.

⚠️ If Non-Stocking filter was added on the previous step, product information can only be updated once in the morning.

Delimiter and Zip File Settings

Below Schedule, you'll find two additional sections that control how information is imported to X-Cart:

  • Delimiter: Set it to Comma.

  • Zip File: Set it to Yes.

Selecting Comma as Delimiter and Setting Zip File to Yes

Enter the Import File Name

In the Filename field, enter premier_inventory.

Entering the Premier Perfomance Filename

Why is there a file name?

Each time Premier Performance imports products into your X-Cart store, it sends a CSV file to your store’s server. This file is similar to the one you can manually import yourself. It needs to be named premier_inventory so X-Cart can recognize it as a Premier import file.

Set FTP Type

  1. In the FTP section, select Premier FTP.

  2. Click Submit.

On the next page, you’ll find the username and password. Save the credentials 💾. You can leave Premier Performance website after this step.

Selecting Premier FTP

Complete the Connection

In your X-Cart Admin:

  1. Go to Catalog › Catalog import › Settings › Premier.

  2. Enter saved credentials from the previous step in the required field.

  3. Click Save Changes.

✅ And You are Done!

You can now start using Premier Performance to sell and deliver products.

Completing the connection in X-Cart Admin

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