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The web application Salescast optimizes your inventory levels by using data on your business activity, current stock levels, and open orders. It is therefore important to send a daily.TSV file with this data to the Lokad service platform.
Salescast Connector completely automates the uploading of the data to the Lokad service platform. It works in conjunction with both the Data Feed Manager and the Orders Export Tool components.
Salescast Connector also allows the Leadtime and Servicelevel variables to be defined and adjusted for an individual product or for the entire product catalog.
The web app Salescast delivers two key data for your inventory optimization:
The quantities suggested by Salescast rely on advanced statistics as delivered by the Lokad forecasting technology. Salescast saves you money with fewer stocks and fewer stock-outs; but also Salescast saves you time when reordering to your suppliers.
Salescast comes with an Express subscription free of any charge up to 10,000 products. The Salescast Connector lets you take advantage of this offer from your Magento back office.
If you're not registered already, sign-up in 60s at https://hub.lokad.com/register.
Following the purchase, you will receive a confirmation email with your log-in details and a password to access your Wyomind account and download Salescast Connector.
Once Sales Connector is installed, two new tabs will appear in the Magento admin menu under:
Salescast Connector allows two key variables, Leadtime and Servicelevel, to be defined and adjusted to maximize the efficiency of Salescast. These variables can be defined and adjusted for an individual product or for the entire product catalog.
For more information about the two variables, please have a look at the Lokad reference documents:
To configure all products using a default setting, from Magento go to:
System › Configuration › Wyomind › Salescast Connector › Settings
To configure an individual product with unique settings, from Magento go to:
Catalog › Manage products › Edit › Salescast connector
Before uploading any data files to Salescast, the FTP settings needs to be configured for product data. For this:
Do the same for Orders Export Tool:
The two export components, Data Feed Manager and Orders Export Tool, are both configured to export data once a day by default (Lokad_Orders.tsv at 11:30PM and Lokad_Items at 3:00 AM).
The times for export can be simply changed by selecting the appropriate export profile in the Scheduled Tasks tab of Data Feed Manager and Orders Export Tool extensions.
For more information about cron tasks, please have a look at the following reference articles:
The Lokad_Orders.tsv and Lokad_Items.tsv are already configured but they can be further modified.
The following reference articles show how to modify the export template:
A license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one single Magento installation.
If you use more than one Magento installation, you will have to buy a separate license for each one.
If you run several domains on the same Magento installation, you will need only one license for all of them.
Although your license doesn’t have a limited period of validity, your support period does. By purchasing an extension, you’ll be granted a 6-month support period for free. Passed this period, you will have to renew your Support plan (see FAQ: How to extend my support period?).You can pre-register your live domain to your license in advance.
Thanks to this option, you'll be able to get the extension ready to use on your domain before it goes live.
To pre-register your production domain:
next to the extension you want your domain to pre-register on.
One license is valid for an unlimited period of time on one Magento installation only.
It is possible, however, to extend or transfer your license in 2 cases:
To be able to use Salescast Connector on both your production and testing environments, follow the instructions below:
Now that you can use Salescast Connector on your production environment, repeat the same steps as above on your testing environments.
The only difference this time: a notification will appear in your Magento admin.
You will be given a choice between:
Click on Add this domain to my license.
A transfer request will then be sent to our team within an hour.
Once the request is taken care of, you will receive a confirmation email.
If your transfer request is accepted, you can use Salescast Connector on both environments at the same time.
The order in which you activate your license on your domains does not matter.In order to download Salescast Connector, log into your Wyomind account:
icon next to Salescast Connector.
A new window opens.
Your download can start.
When purchasing an extension from wyomind.com, you benefit from a lifetime upgrade. You can at any time download the latest version of the extension directly from your account.
To upgrade Salescast Connector, follow the steps below:
next to Salescast Connector.
To uninstall Salescast Connector, go on its zip folder and open it.
You will find a shell file (such as: yourextension-uninstall.sh) that you must execute on both your server and Magento root directory.
Once the uninstallation is over, refresh your cache and enable the compiler back again (if you use it).
Before installing Salescast Connector, you’ll have to:
Now you can install Salescast Connector:
Next step is to activate your license, to do so, click here: Extension activation
Once Salescast Connector is installed, you have to activate the license:
configuration › advanced › advancedIf the message doesn't appear then you must check that:
Wyomind's License Manager has not been removed from your installation.
Wyomind's License Manager is enabled in: app/etc/modules/Wyomind_Licensemanager.xml
The HTML output for Wyomind_Licensemanager and/or Adminhtml_Notification are not disabled in your system under: system
To activate the license of an extension that includes other modules, you’ll have to repeat the steps described above for each extension, using the corresponding activation keys (each module has its own activation key).
B Showell
We use both modules included in salescast connector everyday, whilst we no longer use Lokad we have repurposed both modules to help us with our daily tasks, never been an issue and allowed use to customise our feed in house even with complex business logic, data feed module is the most flexable feed module available and even allows inline php functions. Great module bundle!
brett
We have used this module on magento 1 and it proved useful, as we have upgraded to magneto 2 we have purchased again. Never really had a problem and hope the same this time.
Cermis
I use Datafeed manager with Salescast connector and Order Export tool to export data into Lokad salescast system over two years. This solution works for me other 2 years and really help to cast our sales for short term period and keep our stocks up to date. Thanks for great module
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