X-Cart's SEMA Data integration can import from SEMA Data information about the brands that you have been authorized to work with (i.e. your approved brands). The list of your approved brands can be viewed and adjusted in your SEMA account backend. To get information about your approved brands from your SEMA account, the integration needs to be properly connected to SEMA Data. Until then, your store will have no information about your approved brands. In the screenshot below, you can see what the Data Import page for X-Cart SEMA Data integration looks like before any brands have been imported.
Once your X-Cart's SEMA integration has been successfully connected to SEMA Data, you can import your approved brands from your SEMA account. If, at a later time, the list of your approved brands in SEMA changes, you will be able to update the list of brands in your X-Cart store by doing a re-import of brands.
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Importing Brands
To import brands from SEMA Data:
Go to the Data Import page for SEMA Data integration in your X-Cart store's Admin area (Catalog > SEMA Data, Data Import tab).
Click the Import Brands button at the bottom of the screen.
The integration will import your approved brands from SEMA Data. You should be able to see the respective status message at the top right-hand side of the screen. The imported brands will be listed in the Available Brands section of the Data Import page.
For each of the brands, you will be able to see the brand name and the brand AAIA ID. The brand AAIA ID serves as a unique brand identifier.
The same brands will be added to your store's general list of brands on the Brands page (Catalog > Brands).
Re-importing Brands
To keep your brands information in sync with the information in SEMA Data, it is possible to do a re-import of brands.
To re-import brands from SEMA Data:
Go to the Data Import page for SEMA Data integration in your X-Cart store's Admin area (Catalog > SEMA Data, Data Import tab).
Click the Re-Import Brands button at the bottom of the screen.
The integration will do a re-import of brands. You should be able to see the respective status message at the top right-hand side of the screen. The list of brands in the Available Brands section will be updated.
During a re-import of brands, the integration determines whether a certain brand is a new or an existing one based on its AAIA ID.
Note that the import process will not remove any brands from your X-Cart store; it will only be able to add new brands and update existing brands. If a previously imported brand is found to be no longer approved in SEMA Data during an import, the respective brand will be marked in the Available Brands list to let you know that you will not be able to import catalog data for that brand.
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