Inventory Sync: FTP URL Format

Inventory Sync supports downloading files from the following types of servers:

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

# 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

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".