How to Sync Inventory with FTP URLs

Ablestar Bulk Product Editor allows you to use Inventory Sync jobs to periodically synchronize data between different suppliers or product feeds and your store.

This feature is only available on paying plans.

Supported Servers

The following types of servers are supported to download files:

• Plain-text FTP
• FTP with implicit SSL/TLS
• FTP with explicit SSL/TLS
• SFTP

The type of connection is determined by the very start of the URL:

# Plain-text FTP
ftp://user:password@example.com/file.csv

# FTP with implicit SSL (FTPS)
ftps://user:password@example.com/file.csv

# FTP with explicit SSL (FTPS)
ftp+ssl://user:password@example.com/file.csv

# Secure FTP (SFTP)
sftp://user:password@example.com/file.csv

Ports

If you need to define a non-standard port for the FTP server you can add it after the hostname of the URL. For example, to connect over port 2121:

ftp://user:password@example.com:2121/file.csv

Here are the default ports for each type of the FTP protocol:

Wildcards

If you have a file name that changes every day you can use a wildcard in the filename. For example:

ftp://user:password@example.com/feed/Inventory*.csv

The above URL will download the most recent file in the "feed/" directory that matches the pattern "Inventory*.csv".

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