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Essential knowledge

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Fluent Commerce

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11 Mar 2025

Overview

This document is intended to introduce the Inventory Feeds feature to Customers and Partners. This page will describe the Inventory Feeds feature and how they fit within the Fluent Big Inventory Product and will direct the reader to resources describing how to use Inventory Feeds.

Key points

Inventory Feeds allows you to export views of Inventory Availability for your own use and consumption
It requires setting up your own AWS S3 storage location
Inventory Feeds are set and configured via the GraphQL API

Pre-requisites

You should have knowledge of Inventory Module
You should understand how our GraphQL API works and how to interact with GraphQL API.

Important

To enable inventory feeds in your account, please reach out to your Expert Services or Customer Success representative. They will guide you through the process and ensure the correct steps are taken for successful activation.

What are Inventory Feeds?

An Inventory Feed enables customers to export Inventory availability views on schedules and into their own storage location. The export is in a format that is easy to integrate into any other system that wants a view of Inventory Availability.

An Inventory Feed will run on a set schedule (configurable via API). Each time a feed runs, it will export the updated data since the last run. This data is replicated via AWS S3 Cross-Account Replication into the Customers' target AWS S3 storage bucket.

For more information on the technical aspect, see How do Inventory Feeds work.

What is the Inventory Feeds API?

The Inventory Feeds API is how a configuration user will interact with and manage the setup of an Inventory Feed. This API is within our GraphQL Schema and allows users to create, update, and manage Inventory Feeds.

Via the API, you can:

Create a new Inventory Feed
Update an Inventory Feed
Manage different Inventory Feed runs
Manage the schedules of Inventory Feeds

For further details on setting up and managing Inventory Feeds, including possible configuration, see Inventory Feeds User Guides.

Value Proposition

Inventory Feeds enables retailers to:

Export tailored views of Inventory Availability for each of your sales channels
Have a real-time view of Inventory Availability across every sales channel
Receive customized views of Inventory Availability for all of your internal channel management systems