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Inventory Feeds

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Fluent Commerce

Changed on:

11 Mar 2025

Overview

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

What are Inventory Feeds?

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

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An 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 Feeds API is how a configuration user will interact with and manage the setup of an Feed. This API is within our Schema and allows users to create, update, and manage 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 Feeds, including possible configuration, see Inventory Feeds User Guides.

Value Proposition

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