Data Feed for Magento

Fills your Magento website with your distributors' catalogs at your own prices, then keeps price, stock and availability current by itself.

The module is FflMonkey_DataFeed and its Composer package is fflmonkey/module-data-feed.

What it does

Imports your catalog. Products from the distributors you choose, with our categories, photographs from our CDN and specifications.
Keeps it current. Applies price and stock changes from Magento's cron every minute, without a full product save.
Catches what it missed. Checks in every hour, notices anything it missed and asks for it.
Adds screens to your admin. The FFL Monkey screens in the Magento admin, and a box on the admin Dashboard.

What you need

Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce 2.4.6 to 2.4.9
PHP 8.1 or newer
Command line access to the website, with Composer
Cron running, because the import, the changes and the hourly check-in all run from it
An FFL Monkey account with a subscription, which you start in the Magento admin

Install

Step 1: Add the package to Composer

Download the zip above and put it on the server. Then run this from your Magento root:

mkdir -p ~/fflmonkey-packages
cp fflmonkey-module-data-feed-*.zip ~/fflmonkey-packages/
composer config repositories.fflmonkey artifact ~/fflmonkey-packages

Step 2: Install the module and turn it on

composer require fflmonkey/module-data-feed
bin/magento module:enable FflMonkey_DataFeed
bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento cache:flush

Step 3: Compile, in production mode only

bin/magento setup:di:compile
bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Step 4: Start cron, if it is not running yet

bin/magento cron:install

Connect your website

In the Magento admin, open FFL Monkey > Data Feed and connect your website.

Updates

Magento does not offer updates for this copy. To update, put the new zip in the same folder and update the package, then run the commands in Step 2 from setup:upgrade on:

composer update fflmonkey/module-data-feed

What it does not do yet

The sourcing box on an order.
Making or removing your website's own categories from the Categories screen.

Help

When a message ends in a reference such as Reference: MG-..., the same reference is in var/log/fflmonkey_feed.log. Send it to us when you contact us. Read more on the Data Feed page.