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Set Up Your Inventory Feed

How do I set up my inventory feed?

With Locally, you can share your inventory for free on hundreds of major brand websites. You'll need to set up, schedule, and then transmit your inventory report. Most of the time, you'll set this up, and it will continue with no maintenance on your part.

To help make the process easy, we've found instructions for over 70 popular point-of-sale (POS) systems. Jump to this list to see if your POS has more specific instructions

Set Up

Locally's brand partners provide their entire product catalog to Locally, so we only need minimal information from your POS (point of sale system).

Export an inventory report from your system with the following columns of data:

Column A: UPC/EAN Column B: Quantity on hand Column C: In-Store Prices

We accept the following file types: .csv, .xls, .xlsx, .txt If your system cannot export as Column A, B, and C OR your POS doesn't have the last check digit, contact us and we'll help you out.

Locally's default settings display any UPC/EAN with a quantity of one or greater as In Stock. However, we provide the option to display a custom message at a certain quantity threshold. To do this, inform your Locally contact of your preferred custom message and the quantity threshold it should apply to.

Schedule

Shoppers want to see accurate info, so you'll need to schedule this report at least once a day in most cases. The name of your file should stay the same.

If you are a store with inventory that doesn't change often, please contact us at [email protected] to set your stale feed alerts to a different timeframe. Our standard time is 48 hours.

Transmit

We can ingest the file in several ways. Here are the ways in order of reliability:

  1. SFTP To push your file to us via SFTP, generate credentials from your locally.com account or contact [email protected] for assistance. Once you have the credentials, drop your file(s) in the folder and then notify [email protected]. Locally will link our system to poll this path several times per day and absorb any changes.
  2. Email Every store location in our system has a unique email address assigned that inventory files can be sent to. View it in your locally.com account under email method here. Please contact [email protected] once you have sent your first file via this method, because we need to create a connection on our end in order for your uploads to automatically sync.
  3. Dropbox Create a Dropbox folder and name it Locally_StoreName>(replace "StoreName" with the actual name of your store)Share the folder with [email protected] and then notify [email protected]. Drop your file(s) in the folder. Locally will link our system to scan this folder several times per day and absorb any changes.
  4. S3 If your S3 bucket is public, please share the link to your inventory file with us at [email protected]. If your S3 bucket is private, please send your S3 access key and the link to the S3 bucket with your inventory file in it to [email protected]. Please also tell us the name of the inventory file.

Specific POS Instructions

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