Advanced Tools & Integrations

APIs, integrations, and advanced platform tooling.

Option Mapping The Option Mapping feature gives admin users the ability to define relationships between product options so that selections in one option set dynamically affect available choice…
Capture Credit Card Funds for an Order For orders that have a credit card associated with them, it is possible to capture funds (aka charge the card) from our admin console. This document describes how that works.
SuperCat Credit Card Support Both eCat and eCat Online support accepting credit cards for payment, in addition to allowing customers to buy on account. We accomplish this two ways.
Securely Capture Credit Card Information eCat now supports capturing credit card information that can be used to pay for an order.
Using our staging environment We maintain a staging environment that tracks our production environment fairly closely, and it can be a great place to try out new changes without bothering your users.
Order Download API In addition to our pull-based export API, we provide a simpler way to fetch orders.This tends to perform better, since it responds to query parameters, instead of being intended…
Automating SFTP file upload This document is intended to complement the information found in eCat FTP site
Setting up eOL portal Shipment Tracking When appropriate data is provided, shipment tracking numbers display in the portal invoice view with clickable links to the carrier tracking sites. This enables portal users to…
JSON Order Fields Our JSON order export uses the JavaScript Object Notation format, summarized here. There are a few important issues to note:
JSON Real Time Order Export API (Push) In addition to exporting orders on a pull (HTTP GET to our server) using a JSON format, orders can be pushed (HTTP POST from our server) to your server immediately as they are s…
eCat FTP site SuperCat provides a secure FTP site where files can be put for automatic processing. This enables full automation of eCat data updates and efficient photo processing.
JSON Batch Order Export API (Pull) You can transfer recently submitted orders into your order entry system by downloading them regularly. The flow is: