Introduction
American Tire Distributors (ATD) is a wholesale supplier of tires and
related products. The Get Inventory (Primary) job imports
your ATD catalog into Flxpoint — product data, variations (Size and Side
Wall), pricing, quantity, weights and dimensions, images, and categories —
and keeps it up to date.
Using this feature with Flxpoint allows you to seamlessly integrate your
inventory data, ensuring that you have up-to-date product information. This
integration helps streamline operations, reduces manual errors, and ensures
that your inventory levels are always accurate. The sections below walk
through each step of the setup and configuration process.
Note: Get Inventory (Primary) is the
full product feed. After each run, products and variants live in
your Global Inventory Pool and can be mapped to downstream
channels.
Each run follows this workflow:
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1Select Connection — Choose your
ATD connection (uses your ATD API credentials).
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2Fetch Catalog
— Flxpoint retrieves the ATD product feed, including product data,
variations, pricing, quantity, weights and dimensions, images, and
categories.
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3Map Fields —
Incoming data is matched to your Mapping Template.
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4Save to Global Inventory Pool — The pool is
updated; changes flow to channels after your next push.
Step 1: Connect an Integration
Choose American Tire Distributors (ATD) and select your
existing ATD connection (or create one — see
How to Connect → Phase 3). Click
Save and Proceed.
Step 2: Configure Settings
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Quantity Type — ATD provides three quantity options:
Localplus, Nationwide, and
Onhand. Quantity will be saved as selected in your
mapping template.
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Archive / Un-Archive Inventory — When enabled, items
absent from the latest feed are archived and re-activated automatically
if they return. Enable in either Primary
or Secondary — not both.
Click Save and Proceed.
Step 3: Define a Mapping Template
Choose a mapping template (or build your own). Confirm your quantity type
and category mapping, then click Save and Complete.
Step 4: Save & Schedule
Run manually first to verify the import, then enable a schedule —
daily is a good default for Primary (jobs run in
UTC). The status page will show
Connected, Configured, and
Mapped with your template once complete.
Supported Features
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Custom Fields: Additional tire information is saved in
variant custom fields. Up to 100 custom fields, 10 summary fields.
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Variations / Options: We use Size and Side Wall to
create options.
- Generic Pricing (& Currency).
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Quantity: Three types of quantity option —
Localplus, Nationwide, Onhand. Quantity will be saved as selected in
the mapping template.
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Weights & Dimensions (& Units): Weight is
available in pounds and dimensions are available in inches.
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Images: Available.
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Categories: Single-level category is available in the
feed.
- Archive Support.
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Delta Feed vs Full Feed: This is the full product
feed.
Not Supported
- Client Pricing (& Currency).
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Multiple Warehouses: We support a
single warehouse per integration. To use more than one warehouse,
create a separate integration for each warehouse.
Catalog Type: Ship To Store vs Ship To Home
A Catalog Type setting lets you choose where product
data is retrieved from. By default, products are retrieved from the
Ship To Store (STS) catalog. You can switch this to
Ship To Home (STH) to retrieve products from the
Ship To Home catalog instead.
This is useful when some items (for example, oversized tires) are not
eligible for Ship To Home delivery, so you can select the catalog that
matches how you intend to fulfill those products.
How brand, style, and product data is sourced: Brand and
style data still comes from the standard (Ship To Store) catalog, while
product data can come from the Ship To Home catalog when
Catalog Type is set to Ship To Home. The product
ingestion pipeline works in three levels — brands,
styles, and products — and only the
product-level retrieval is affected by the Catalog Type you select.
Specification differences: Product specification details
can differ between the Ship To Store and Ship To Home catalogs. If you
switch Catalog Type, review your variant specifications and custom-field
mappings to confirm the values populate as expected.
Mapping Options
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Match It — Directly map a source field to a Flxpoint
field.
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Set It — Set a fixed/static value for a field.
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Transform It (Mapping Set) — Apply a transformation or
mapping set to the value.
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Smart Rules — Use conditional logic to determine the
mapped value.
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Skip It (Don't Map) — Ignore the field entirely.
Summary: Map your required identifiers, pricing, and
quantity (selecting the quantity type you want — Localplus, Nationwide, or
Onhand), choose your Catalog Type (Ship To Store or Ship To Home), and
verify your ATD connection passes Test Connection before running.
