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In this
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tutorial we'll take a look
at how to connect our Infigo
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and Tharstern systems using the Connect
Tharstern integration plugin.
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The first thing we need to do
is to make sure that the.
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Integration
is activated on our storefront.
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So first.
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Of all, if I type in Connect into.
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The search bar
and I want to start by going to connect
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settings.
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Now connect settings and Connect plug ins
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are the two areas of Infigo
that we're going to be mainly utilizing.
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Here. If you can't see those as.
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Part of your setup, then.
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Please get in contact. With Infigo support.
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You can activate those on your system.
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So if I go to connect settings,
this is giving me
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a list of all of my available plugins.
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Your list will likely be much,
much shorter than this.
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Make sure that the relevant plugin in
this case Connect:Tharstern is selected.
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And click save.
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Scrolling a little bit further
down on this same page,
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you can control whether or not
the plugin is handling price
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and stock information,
so by default these will be set to non.
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However, you do have the ability
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to choose from your available plugins
that handle this capability.
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So I can say that I want.
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Tharstern to handle Price
and I want Tharstern to handle.
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Stock.
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So connect plugin to handle price.
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This setting allows the retrieval of price
from the.
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Tharstern. Estimates and that is.
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Set on a storefront by storefront. Basis.
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And then we have Connect plugin
to handle stock.
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This setting allows the retrieval
of stock levels from Tharstern
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rather than using the Infigo stock level.
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So whenever Infigo tries to place
an order in Tharstern,
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we first check whether the stock meets
the minimum order requirement.
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That is set within Infigo.
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And again, this is done on.
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A storefront by storefront basis.
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And I'm going to make sure
I save those settings again.
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And then I'm going to type in connect
in my.
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Search. Bar and go to.
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The connect plugins screen.
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From here, you need to identify
the relevant plugin you want to work on.
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In this case, connect Tharstern
and then go to the Configure tab.
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Now from here,
what we primarily need to do is enter
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our API and account information.
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Now there is a very important step
that you do need to be aware of here.
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So our outgoing IP
addresses need to be accessible to the.
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Server.
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That your Tharstern.
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Installation is located on.
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So if your team doesn't restrict access,
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then there should be no additional actions
that you need to take here.
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However,
if your security policy means. The.
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The IP addresses listed there can't.
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Currently be accessed.
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Then they will.
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Require whitelisting.
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And it's these two IP addresses here.
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Just to be absolutely clear.
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Okay.
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So now we'll
start filling in some of this information.
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The first thing we need is the API.
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URL. End point.
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So this is the Tharstern API endpoint
which our.
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API will communicate with.
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This is generally a task for your.
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Internal IT team.
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However, if they require clarification
on this point, please do.
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Contact Tharstern Support.
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If there is a specific port. Required for.
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This connection.
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You will need to ensure that our IP.
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Addresses which we listed a moment ago.
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Have access to this particular port.
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So I'm just going to enter the relevant
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information into that.
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Next, we have our email address.
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So this along with the password,
will be used to authenticate.
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Access to the API through the endpoint.
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So I'm just going to take those details
as well.
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Email address and our password.
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We also need to enter an application ID,
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so this will be a unique identifier
for this particular storefront.
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This can be a random value. Or.
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Something relevant.
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Such as
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something like INFACA001
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And we.
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Use this to generate the authentication.
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Token for Tharstern.
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So it. Is simply.
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Required to be unique for each storefront.
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Then also in here we want to input.
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A. Storefront customer code.
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So this may be different
for each one of your storefronts,
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and it will be used to retrieve product
information from your Tharstern system.
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So when we interact with products
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from your Tharstern system,
this customer code must have.
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Access to.
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All of the products
that you intend to use, as
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the system will only return products
which the customer will have.
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Access to.
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So whilst we're talking about this,
I do need to make a quick note
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on terminology.
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And Infigo department manages
a group set of users
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such as those representing one.
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Particular company.
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Whereas an Infigo customer
is an individual user.
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Of our storefront.
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Tharstern's terminology is very slightly
different with a Tharstern customer.
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Relating to a group of users
such as those representing
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one company.
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The store from customer code will serve
as the customer code of the default Tharstern
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customer to use for creating estimates
and sending orders.
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However, it is possible to assign
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customer codes at a department level,
allowing more granular control.
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Over which Infigo orders
turn into Tharstern orders.
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And I'll show that in a later tutorial.
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So I'm just going to enter a.
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Fallback customer code in that.
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And then the last setting we're going
to talk about on this particular tutorial
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is the cache refresh interval.
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So this is the interval
which the cache will be cleared
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and we will request updated price
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stock values products and so on and.
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So forth. From Tharstern.
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So this is measured in minutes
with the default value being 1440
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that we can see there.
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So meaning every 24 hours.
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We do recommend leaving this at.
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The default value of 1440.
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When we collect information
from the Tharstern system, we pull the.
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API and gather
all of the product information.
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And store. It within our cache
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This means we do not need to constantly
hold the.
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API to. Ensure that we have relevant
product.
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Information
within our system which can be mapped.
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So the refresh the refresh interval
is the time between.
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Refresh of this cache data.
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So we'll come back to some of these other
settings in a later tutorial.
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For now, I'm just going to click on Save
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and then go back to my plug in list.
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And from here, we just want to actually
test the connection to the Tharstern.
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System is. Successful.
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So back on our Connect plugins page,
find the relevant row and then click.
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On Check Connection.
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We can see there that my.
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Tharstern Connection was.
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Successful
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if this link fails for whatever reason.
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The first thing you should check
is to re-import.
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Your input credentials and.
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Your account. Credentials.
Just to make sure there's no mistakes.
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As most times,
that is actually the problem.
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Another potential issue
is the required IPs
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They may. Not have been. Whitelisted.
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So please see the.
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Instructions either.
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In step ten in the written tutorial.
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Or earlier on in here to find out
which IP addresses
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need to be whitelisted.
