Integration

As explained in the introduction of the Technology Overview shopServer was designed using a Web Service paradigm. Web Services is not only used in the external interfaces, but also in the internal architecture. This means that a number of Web Services is available that you can utilize if you want to integrate with shopServer. You can import or export products, users, prices, pictures, orders and other types of data.

One of the most important standard features of the back-end is it's ability to exchange data with external systems, e.g. ERP systems like those from Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision VIP. The back-end has many features that enables your web shop to be configured to e.g. automatically transmit orders to your ERP system, or to allow your ERP system to send product updates to shopServer.

Although Web Services are today the most important mechanism for integrating with external systems, shopServer also supports other protocols like HTTP, FTP or SMTP (mail) and formats like XML, ebXML, tab-separated and others.