Fishbowl eCommerce Integration

The cost of purchasing and/or creating the tangible product to sell is often a company's largest expense. Clarity can help your team identify available inventory, and ensure you stay cash-flow positive. Product line constraints, needless tie ups, and slow processes are a thing of the past when combinging the power of Fishbowl Invetory and Connect.

The ability to track and report on inventory in multiple locations, single data entry point for multiple systems, insightful reports, and creating pricing rules are all features to help manage your ordering process. In addition to pulling information from the ERP platform, Clarity specializes in securely pushing customer transactions such as orders and payments, quote requests, and account contact information updates from the public facing storefront to a SSL secured internal ERP system. Custom Pricing, Costing Methods, Reconciling, and landed costs are all aspects provided by Fishbowl Inventory to help move your business forward. Below, we list steps and considerations for integrating Fishbowl and Clarity Connect.

What Does the Fishbowl Integration Provide?

When organizations assess the benefits of an ERP integration to their eCommerce website, there are several key factors to consider. Below, is an outline of recommended considerations and steps to complete:

Security

TThis is always a major concern for two-way integrations. eCommerce platforms and public facing storefronts typically have complex security constraints. Clarity has developed a middle ware layer called Clarity Connect that allows customers to securely push data to the Clarity Connect middleware that interfaces with Fishbowl APIs. This allows data to go past the company firewalls, and isolate the data that needs to be sent and received from the public facing storefront. Clarity connect dramatically reduces the surface area for a potential security issue and creates an intermediate clearinghouse confirming data is securely pushed and pulled between the internal ERP platform and the external eCommerce storefront.

Performance

Fishbowl instances are usually secure and housed in a different physical location than the public facing website. Without a middle ware layer, this would potentially cause major lags in data load times and other performance metrics. Clarity Connect enables a rapid load time and intelligent refreshing of the externally facing data to reflect internal updates in real time. By effectively pushing updates on a real-time basis, details that would otherwise take minutes to load on the site now load within milliseconds as they're cached on the external interface. In addition, specific customer data that needs to be pulled from the ERP system in real-time is pulled in dynamically using AJAX loading techniques to dramatically improve performance.

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