General questions about system integration
The following questions address fundamental aspects of shop integration: what exactly is being integrated? Why is professional connectivity important? And which systems can be connected? These questions form the foundation for every subsequent decision in the project.
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- What does shop integration mean exactly? Shop integration refers to the technical connection of an online shop with a company's other business systems, particularly ERP (inventory management), accounting (DATEV), PIM…
- Which systems can be connected to the online shop? We integrate a wide range of systems. On the ERP side, SAP Business One and S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage, SelectLine and orgaMAX. In accounting, DATEV…
- Which shop platforms are supported? Our integration architecture is deliberately platform-independent. We have experience with Shopware 5 and 6 (Community Edition / open source) as well as other common open-source…
- Can existing manual processes be automated step by step? Yes, and we explicitly recommend this phased approach. Rather than switching over all data flows in one big move, we start with the most business-critical interfaces, typically…
- How does a professional integration differ from a CSV-based solution? CSV imports and exports are fundamentally manual processes: someone has to export the file, check it, import it into the target system and verify the result. Errors in a single…
- Is integration worthwhile for smaller shops too? Yes. The deciding question is not company size but the manual effort spent maintaining data between systems. As soon as that becomes noticeable, or errors from double maintenance…