NopCommerce and Icecat

Hi Guys,

We are thinking of integrating icecat.biz product database with our nop commerce store.

Just wondering if you guys have done any of integration or any plugin where i can have a reference?

I did a quick google search, couldn't find any useful information.

Thanks.

Jey.

Hello Jey,

We were thinking of doing the same thing.  Did you ever implement this or find any other resources to help with this?

Thanks.

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Hi,

At end, we implemented this in-house as per our requirement. Its a custom solution. So couldn't contribute back to nop commerce.

Implemented as a batch job runs on our local servers to call IceCat and Process then update the product detail back to Nop Commerce DB via ADO. NET call.

Major challenges to integrate with Nop Commerce are,
01. IceCat Catalogs are very huge. 400K+ products.
02. We need to find excat product categories in IceCat as per our store categories. then we can reduce the products. Our list reduced to 40K.
03. Quality of data is 90% good. but we need to tolerate some supplier specific data in addition to brand.

Best place for you to start from here

Above link has more than 90% of needed data to start development. If you have any further questions, please post here. I will try to help as i can.

They have 2 flavors of data. One is free and other is paid. Paid data has more coverage for products. We just used free ones.

Sounds like your goals and challenges are similar to ours.  Glad to hear you got a custom solution working.  I'll start reading through the material you linked.

Thanks for the help!  I'll definitely update the thread if I have more questions.