We are using Magento as our eCommerce platform. We have Oracle apps in which we store our Customer,Price, Product etc. details.
Our requirement is that , we have so many customer groups & each customer is having different prices for products. So for that we have develop module for tier pricing. Now we want to automate this functionality as instead of manually uploading data/csv files , we want automatic data import in Magento?
So one option for us is to use CRON job…so that we can daily take data from Oracle…We have connection to Oracle db through PHP…SO can anybody guide me regarding how I start?
Or is there any other approach for the same? Or any readily available extension specifically for AUTOMATIC import for Magento with external system?
Or In simple term, we need whatever Magento’ existing manual IMPORT functionality in AUTOMATED way???
plz help…
**What We are thinking that We have conection to both Mysql & Oracle database throgh php…So we will fetch data from Oracle db & insert in into Magento’s Mysql db….If we create such .php file & insted of manually importing data in Magento, can we set CRON job & include this php file in that so that say for every 24 hrs data from Oracle will get fetch & inser into Mysql/Magento?
Is i possible to do the same??
apart from extension any other suggestion plz…**
We are using Magmi to perform daily imports of our data.
We currently have 30+ customer groups and this will be growing as time goes on, Magmi seems to be able to handle it without any issue.
The process for our import is:
If you could automate the first 3 steps, then you could always put the 4th on a cron job.