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ERP & merchandise management

In most companies the ERP or merchandise management system is the source of truth — and therefore the most demanding connection point. This category covers linking such systems to the online shop: available interfaces and export formats, mapping customer master data and individual terms, handing over orders and reporting back status and shipping information, dealing with number ranges, tax codes and payment terms. We look at the specifics of large standard systems as well as smaller solutions common in mid-sized businesses, and describe how to build test environments. The goal is integrations that run stably in daily business and stay traceable when something does not arrive. We additionally look at test operations: which records belong in an acceptance test and how a synchronisation run can be repeated safely.

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Black Week order peak: preparing your ERP interface

Black Week 2026: prepare the order flow between shop and ERP – measure the backlog, move night jobs, add a queue with alerts, freeze changes, define a fallback.

18 min read

Net terms and early payment discounts in B2B checkout

Read the payment terms code from the ERP, show it as a date at checkout, settle the early payment discount only on receipt and check the statutory limit on payment periods.

13 min read

Stocktaking and Year-End: Prepare ERP Shop Interfaces

Counting method, freeze window and number ranges at year-end: how to prepare the interface between shop and ERP for the balance sheet date without downtime.

15 min read

Connecting Lexware Office to the shop: vouchers and items

How shop orders become vouchers and shop products become master data in Lexware Office: field mapping, the limits of the interface and the pace it demands.

15 min read

Batches and Serial Numbers Between ERP and Shop

Batches belong to the movement, serial numbers to the single unit: data model, EU traceability rules, GS1 application identifiers and the recall as the test.

13 min read

Mapping ERP product variants cleanly in the shop

Feature axes, the variant matrix and article number logic: how colour, size and version in the ERP become a solid variant structure in the shop, with GS1 rules.

13 min read

Units of Measure and Pack Sizes from ERP to Your Shop

Separate base, stock, selling and purchase units, pull conversion factors from the ERP, and map stock, minimum quantities and unit prices correctly.

13 min read

Multi-Entity ERP: Running One Shop Across Company Codes

Corporate groups running several ERP entities and one shop: item routing, number ranges, tax codes, stock aggregation and order splitting done properly.

13 min read

Connecting Dynamics 365 Finance to Your Shop: OData, DMF

Connect Dynamics 365 Finance to your online shop via OData entities and the Data Management Framework: sync items, prices and orders cleanly.

12 min read

SAP ECC Maintenance Ends 2027: Migrate Shop Links

SAP ECC maintenance ends on 31 Dec 2027. Every ECC-coupled shop connector must move to S/4HANA. How to plan the migration path without shop downtime.

11 min read

Dynamics 365 BC: API v2.0 - Save the Shop Connector 2026

With Business Central 2026 Wave 1 (BC28), API v1.0 is removed. Migrate your shop connector to API v2.0 in time, before order and stock sync breaks.

13 min read

SAP Integration Suite: Clean-Core Shop Link 2026

Connect a shop to SAP clean-core: with the Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh) the link survives the S/4HANA cut in 2027.

13 min read

Connecting Dynamics 365 Business Central to a Shop

Connect Dynamics 365 Business Central to your online shop: OData and AL APIs, OAuth2, item, price, inventory and order sync plus performance tips and pitfalls.

13 min read