WooCommerce and Epicor Integration

Product Data

We can pull most of the common entities from Epicor to WooCommerce. These include products and product data, meta information, images, categories, tags, detailed descriptions, et cetera.

It is also possible to pull in advanced inventory information. For example, location data, pricing per location, customer-specific product pricing, and rules. Or other product information such as dimension, weight, et cetera.

Essentially, anything associated with products within Epicor can be pulled back into WooCommerce. It will be displayed in a user-friendly format and organized according to the business's logic.

Customer Data

You can also pull in existing customers and all the data associated with them. It includes customer locations, contacts, credits as well as any information around orders and accounts.

The integration also collects advanced customer data such as their status. For example, whether or not they are able to place an order yet. They might be a new customer and they might require approval before they can make a purchase. Or they might be exempt from tax, have special discounts, etc.

Even information before you made the Epicor and WooCommerce integration can be pulled. It allows customers to pay for any unpaid orders through the WooCommerce checkout.

Category Data

Apart from product and customer data, the integration also pulls in detailed category data. It allows the site to get live updates from Epicor. This may include any new categories. However, all the categories and products may need to go through a marketing team before they show up publicly on the site. So, the automated integration between Epicor and WooCommerce can be set up so that the data gets pushed. However, the records do not get turned on if they are new until a marketing team member goes through and optimizes the content.

Persistent Cubase Task Model

The Clarity connect platform uses a Persistent Cubase task model. It allows the task to be split out by the business logic area. Each of the tasks goes through data transformation using advanced business logic on a field-by-field and entity-by-entity basis.

The business logic that is typically incorporated includes intelligence around data that has already been pushed or pulled. So, it is pulling a minimal set of data or pushing a minimal set of data to reduce the overhead on the WooCommerce and Epicor systems.

Security

We also provide a very robust security infrastructure. It includes IP whitelisting. The concept is to block any integration between systems that do not have IP whitelisted. Authentication is also a part of our security infrastructure. For example, there are roles that only allow access to specific data.

In addition, we also leverage the WooCommerce authentication. It is the same as the WordPress rest API's authentication model. However, you can also use the WooCommerce legacy APIs which are independent of the WordPress API.

Webhooks

The Clarity Connect platform also works with webhooks. They allow real-time data integration between the Epicor rest endpoints for WCF endpoints or web services and WooCommerce.

Since webhooks allow for real-time data integration, we can set up task-based activities according to what makes the most sense. So, you will have a continual process that is just running every minute or every 15 minutes or every hour, et cetera.