What is Vendor Integration and how to create it on your Magento 2 website?

With an ecommerce website comes the need for vendors who are basically your product manufacturers. They’re the ones whose products are on your website list based on the categories under which you sell. This means that if any vendor sells a product that is also listed with you, you will have a data integration point (API). This is where the inventory on hand is taken from the warehouse of the vendor, from their endpoint API. Thereafter, it is processed by a background process or observer, etc. This process will update your inventory in Magento whenever an item is sold.

How to create vendor integration on your Magento 2 website

Now that you are aware of what vendor integration is all about, let’s look at how to create it on your website. While B2B Magento development experts can do this for you, it’s crucial to understand this process.

1.      Create a skeletal module by creating a module file structure

Place the custom module under -<base_dir>/app/code/app/code/<vendor_name>/<module_name>

And then also create, etc, etc/integration, and Setup subdirectories under <base_dir>/app/code/<vendor_name>/<module_name>

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2.      Define the configuration file

Since the etc/module.xml file offers only primary information about the module, you will have to change directories to the etc directory and create module.xml file and apply specific values to certain attributes. Module Magento_Integration is added to "sequence" to avoid any kind of malfunction.

3.      Add your module’s composer

You must add your module’s composer.json composer so that the composer can install and update libraries. You can place this composer in the module directory module-<module_name>.

4.      Create a registration file

You must now create a registration file as registration.php that registers the module with the system and place it in the module’s root directory.

5.      Install the integration configuration data

You want to create an install class InstallData.php file to install the integration configuration data into the commerce integration table. There’s again another step where you must ensure that the integration file is the same as the integration name value.

Create integration files and install your module

After you’ve covered the above five steps, you’ll need to create integration files. This step is important as it helps to simplify the process of defining your integration. This process helps manage third-party accounts, connecting it to commerce, and maintains OAuth authorizations and user data. It also manages security tokens and requests. You can create multiple XML files to customize your integration module.

Once you’ve defined your required resources and pre-configured the integration, you can move on to the next step. Install your module by running the command bin/magento setup:upgrade to update the database schema and data.

Then you can run this command bin/magento setup:di:compile to generate a new code, and then this command to bin/magento cache:clean to clean the cache. After all of this is done, you can check your integration and then activate it into your application.

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