WooCommerce is one of the biggest eCommerce platforms on which you can build your online store and increase your business's presence on the internet globally. WooCommerce provides multiple features which you can use and benefit your business. One such feature is the ability to connect WooCommerce to External APIs. External APIs allow being used within an organization or by any person outside the organization who wants the interface access. These External APIs are accessible to External, Third-Party Partners. If a person wants to access these APIs they will require API Keys and security Tokens.
When it comes to using External APIs in WordPress/ WooCommerce the most basic functionality is in which we need to fetch data from an external, third-party API provider and use this data to display it on our WordPress website to process it further. This can be easily done by using our Custom API for WordPress plugin in which webhooks are provided, using which calls to External APIs can be made whenever required. These hooks can be integrated easily with the third-party plugins in WordPress like – Woocommerce, Wpforms, Gravity forms, Fluent forms, Elementor, Payment gateways, etc. Our plugin allows you to import products,categories, tags, product images and display them on your e-store.
Benefits of WooCommerce Product Sync from External APIs
Suppose you have a WooCommerce store on WordPress. You want to sync products from a third-party inventory API on regular basis and update the items in on your website. You will require our plugin Custom API for WordPress’ enterprise plan to create a custom API through which you can sync products to your WooCommerce site using our WooCommerce Sync Add-on. This integration will help you sync data (WooCommerce Products) to WooCommerce site from external third-party inventory. This process can be automated so that syncing happen at regular intervals and also we provide a Sync Button in WooCommerce if you want to sync manually at some time.
If you wish to extend your WooCommerce with WordPress eCommerce site and connect two WordPress sites and fetch/update data from one website to another, that can be taken care of with Custom API for WordPress Plugin.
Custom API for WordPress plugin allows you to integrate external APIs to fetch and update data from third-party platforms such as Woocommerce, Google Merchant Center, Alidropship, or WordPress plugins. You can also create your own APIs in WordPress with an easy-to-use GUI to interact with WordPress database tables to perform add/update operations using custom SQL queries.
With Custom API for WordPress plugin, you can use filter operations to filter out the data you want to show in the API endpoint response. This will assist you in successfully organizing your inventory products while also keeping track of their status. To take the security of your custom API endpoints to the next level, we also provide you with extremely secure authentication methods such as API key authentication, Basic authentication, JWT authentication, and the most secure OAuth 2.0 authentication method.
If you wish to extend your WooCommerce with WordPress eCommerce site and connect two WordPress sites and fetch/update data from one website to another, that can be taken care of with Custom API for WordPress Plugin.
The attribute value would be the key value of the JSON data, which contains the information that you are looking for.
Consider the example JSON data coming from your external inventory.
Status: 200
{
"productName":"Test",
"sku":1010101010,
"quantity":10,
"price":500,
"categories":"test",
"images":{"small": "test.png"},
"brandName":"Brand",
}
Then you would need to map the key values product name, SKU, etc in the Attribute Value column.
The plugin also handles the mapping of custom Woocommerce columns such as Brands and other columns that are in the Woocommerce Product table, with the API data. The values of these custom WooCommerce are usually stored in the post meta column of WordPress. You just need to check the post meta column of that custom column and then map it with API data.
To sync the images we use the Standard REST API given by WooCommerce. For that, you would need to configure the Consumer ID and Consumer Secret provided by WooCommerce.
If you do not have the credentials, you can find them on
Woocommerce -> Settings -> Advanced -> REST API -> Add Key
After the mapping of all the above options, you can just click on the Sync button, which would further sync the external inventory products into your Woocommerce products data.
We also provide the solution to sync the data from your external inventory to your Woocomeerce periodically using a CRON job. This method would basically sync your data in the background continuously.
This plugin allows you to create custom endpoints/REST routes to fetch/modify/create/delete data with an easy-to-use graphical interface and with the custom SQL queries as well. Also, the plugin provides the feature to integrate external API into your WordPress site with third-party platforms.
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