Using standard custom field names
Purpose and scope
Digital Commerce Platform integrates seamlessly with your ERP, allowing you to use and extend your business data without compromising its quality and integrity. Experlogix Digital Commerce has developed and maintain a standard set of services to integrate its platform with your ERP.
Data is requested and sent through a standard data interface using a web service. Which web service you integrate with depends on the ERP you use.
Integrating your ERP with Digital Commerce Platform is a key task that occurs when your solution is being built. Often, it is necessary to use custom fields when integrating your ERP with Digital Commerce Platform so that business data can be used to carry out typical eCommerce tasks, such as placing sales orders or creating quotes. Consequently, there is a set of custom fields that are frequently used. In order to streamline integrating Digital Commerce Platform with your ERP, there is a standard convention when naming these custom fields.
The custom fields listed in this guide are all required fields for successfully integrating Digital Commerce Platform with your ERP.
This feature guide lists the names of the custom field that are typically used to support a seamless integration with your ERP.
Benefits
The key benefits for using this feature are:
Enables a more streamlined and standard integration between Digital Commerce Platform and your ERP
Extend your business data to create a WebShop, Mobile Apps or Multi-channel that suits your business processes
Introducing terms and concepts used in this article
Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Enterprise resource planning | (ERP), a collection of your critical business operating systems, such as product, stock levels, financial, customers, suppliers and so on that run on the same platform. |
Web service |
How it fits together
Digital Commerce Platform uses standard custom field names to extend the integration between it and your ERP.
Generally, custom field names that are used in Digital Commerce Platform are prefixed with "AX-".
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