Vendors & Supply
Connect your suppliers and let their catalogs, availability, and pricing flow into ILLUMA — automatically over SFTP or by uploading a spreadsheet.
Vendors OverviewHow the vendor system fits together — vendors, connections, feeds, product aliases and the review queue — from a file landing to a product in your catalog.Adding a VendorCreate a vendor record, set its terms, capabilities and contacts, and understand what each field drives in purchase orders, drop ship and your storefront.Vendor ConnectionsHow ILLUMA reaches a vendor's SFTP server — creating a connection, how the password is stored, testing it by reading real column headers, and what to do when a connection fails.Product FeedsSet up a vendor's catalog feed — file location, column mapping, matching, filters, brand rules, and what happens to products it matches or creates.Spreadsheet UploadsLoad a vendor's catalog by uploading an Excel or CSV file — including a separate MAP/pricing sheet joined on the part number — instead of connecting an SFTP server.The Review QueueWork the staged decisions a catalog feed produces — approve, reject, filter and bulk-decide matches, then apply them or create the new products they propose.Inventory FeedsHow a vendor's availability file (EDI 846) updates vendor stock levels, how that stock is projected as sellable availability for drop-ship products only, and how the full-snapshot sweep and its safety floor keep a bad file from zeroing your assortment.Vendor CategoriesMap a vendor's own category hierarchy onto your categories so imported products get filed where they belong — including bulk name-matching suggestions and skipping branches you don't carry.Enrichment & Content FeedsTake in a vendor's second file — the one that carries descriptions and specs instead of cost — and control exactly which fields it may change on products you already carry.Sending Purchase OrdersConfigure how each vendor receives purchase orders, send a PO by hand or automatically, and confirm it actually reached them.Troubleshooting Vendor FeedsDiagnose a vendor catalog or inventory feed from its run tallies, error message, and failure report — with the cause and fix for every guard the importer trips.