X-Cart's AutoSync integration can import from AutoSync 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 AutoSync account backend. To get information about your approved brands from your AutoSync account, the integration needs to be properly connected to AutoSync. Until then, your store will have no information about your approved brands. In the screenshot below, you can see what an X-Cart store's AutoSync API Integration Data Import page looks like before any brands have been imported.
Once your X-Cart's AutoSync integration has been successfully connected to AutoSync, you can import your approved brands from your AutoSync account. If, at a later time, the list of your approved brands in AutoSync 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 AutoSync:
Go to the AutoSync API Integration Data Import page in your X-Cart store's Admin area (Catalog > AutoSync, Data Import tab).
Click the Import Brands button at the bottom of the screen.
The AutoSync integration will import your approved brands from AutoSync. You will be informed of the start of the import process via the respective status messages at the top right-hand side of the screen.
The import process may take some time to complete. To see the current status of import, refresh the page. As soon as you see the message at the top of the page saying "Brands data import completed," you can be sure the process is completed.
For each of the brands, the following information is imported:
Brand name;
Brand logo;
Brand description;
AutoSync Brand ID (this serves as a unique brand identifier).
The imported brands will be listed in the Available Brands section of the AutoSync API Integration Data Import page.
The same brands will be added to your store's general list of brands on the Brands page (Catalog > Brands).
Brands imported from AutoSync can be managed the same way as regular brands configured in your X-Cart store.
AutoSync Brand ID becomes an editable field in brand details. Important: The AutoSync Brand ID value must be unique per brand on the entire list of brands in your store.
Re-importing Brands
To keep your brands information in sync with the information in AutoSync, it is possible to do a re-import of brands.
To re-import brands from AutoSync:
Go to the AutoSync API Integration Data Import page in your X-Cart store's Admin area (Catalog > AutoSync, Data Import tab).
Click the Re-Import Brands button at the bottom of the screen.
The AutoSync integration will do a re-import of brands. You should be able to see the respective status messages at the top right-hand side of the screen.
The re-import process may take some time to complete. To see the current status, refresh the page. As soon as you see the message at the top of the page saying "Brands data import completed," you can be sure the process is completed.
As a result of the re-import process, the integration will update the list of brands shown in the Available Brands section.
During a brands re-import, the integration will determine whether a certain brand is a new or an existing one based on its AutoSync Brand 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 AutoSync 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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