ELI5-Can anyone explain me how e-commerce websites handle bulk product listing, if there are different ways let me know too.
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By using software tools that automate and streamline the process of creating and updating product listings across multiple online platforms.
These tools allow sellers to enter product data, descriptions, images, prices, and inventory levels in one place and then push them to different marketplaces, such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, etc.
Some examples of these tools are **Sellbrite, ChannelAdvisor, GeekSeller, CedCommerce, InkFrog, SellerActive, Sellware, SolidCommerce, Zentail**, and **GoDataFeed**.
Usually, some kind of Product Information Management (PIM) system is used to enter and store all relevant information and media that represents each product that you sell. How complex this software is depends on how much information you’re dealing with, and how much you need to automate or streamline the processes involved in “enriching” each product with the information it needs.
Once the information is in the PIM system, it’s just a matter of getting it to other, external systems that need it. That could be systems that you own yourself (like your own webshop that you built and hosted yourself) or systems owned by others that allow you to import your own product data (Amazon, eBay, etc)
There are a lot of details in how the actual transfer of this information works that differ from case to case based on individual needs and the amount of data that needs to be transferred. If you’re only selling a handful of products and only need to update your listing once a week, you might just export a file from your PIM system and upload it manually to the external system. In the case where it is a webshop you own, the webshop software itself might even function as your PIM system.
If you have thousands or tens of thousands of products, and need them to be updated continually, you’d probably set up an automated job instead that runs every few minutes and makes the PIM system send information, but only about products that have been created or changed since the last time the job ran.
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