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Retailers Rush to Improve their Shops Using Free Content Connector for Magento, PrestaShop and WooCommerce (NEW).

Icecat notices a rush of retailers that register for free Open Icecat since lockdowns are in place in most Western countries. E-commerce makes the difference for many retailers in these difficult times. Icecat helps retailers to get their shop online fast, and with a free connector to free product content.

Free Product Data in More than 65 Languages

The free Open Icecat catalog contains millions of Product Data-Sheets over multiple categories, 65+ languages and a multilingual interface. Retailers can easily increase their online visibility by adding free product content to their online webshop. See the manual and a tutorial for how to integrate Icecat Product Data-Sheets.

Connectors now also support WooCommerce

Icecat Commerce, the e-commerce daughter of Icecat, helps retailers to get the shop online fast. We support a huge list of integration partners, that make it easy for clients and users, to use the free Icecat Open Catalog Interface. Further, there are connectors available in addition to the host of other commercial connectors for most webshop and PIM environments. We ourselves support the most popular ones:

Magento Commerce by Adobe
With Icecat Connect, retailers can easily insert automatically product content into their Magento shop. Magento extensions that are available:

  • Icecat Live (connector is FREE as well, check the Demo)
  • Icecat Connect
  • Icecat Order

Prestashop and WooCommerce (test phase)
The content connector for Prestashop and WooCommerce, which is now in Beta, automatically import Icecat product content such as product images, specifications and descriptions. All products will be automatically updated with content on a daily base, except for the products where a content lock is configured.

Icecat PIM 2.3.2
The flexible, powerful Icecat PIM online platform imports any kind of data of any volume into a master catalog. Retailers will be able to select, filter and create sub-catalogs with pricing, product relations (up-selling), select warehouses, and maintain product categories and brands.

If you want more information, please contact your local account manager or contact us directly.

Digital Marketing Manager at Icecat N.V.

Wouter Maatman

Digital Marketing Manager at Icecat N.V.

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