Solum - Electronic Shelf Tag System
Overview
Solum pulls item data from Yellow Dog’s Fetch API Items endpoint to produce shelf tags in their system.
Sync Approach
Solum pulls item data from Yellow Dog’s Fetch API Items endpoint
Sync Frequency
Solum pulls data from Yellow Dog every 10 minutes.
Configuration
Solum has many options to configure the data from Yellow Dog in their system.
Requirements
Client
Store mappings - ensure that Solum and YD are aware of the stores that will be used for the integration, and that the Store Code in each system matches between corresponding stores
Work with Solum to ensure that the integration is pulling the data that they need for their shelf labels.
Yellow Dog:
Create an API User for Solum in the customer's db
Provide API Credentials to Solum
POS Partner
Complete their process to integrate with the specific database in order to pull item data from YD's Fetch API Items endpoint into their system
Provide documentation/work with the customer to ensure that the integration is pulling the data that they need for their shelf labels
Data Exchange and Mapping
Item Data from Yellow Dog
Solum pulls item data from Yellow Dog’s Fetch API Items endpoint every 10 minutes.
The items must be
available to one of the YD Stores configured for this integration
have an Item Description in YD
have a SKU in YD
NOTE:
There are no known requirements or limitations for the Description or SKU.
Interface Codes are not used in this integration.
Customers can configure Solum software to map any item properties available in YD's Fetch API to properties in Solum to be used on shelf label layouts. They can name the properties as they want to in Solum, so specific field mappings are not provided in this documentation
Additional Information
Limitations
When reading item data from a YD store into the AIMS database, any items removed from the YD store are not removed from the AIMS database.
It is possible to manually select a group of items in the AIMS database for deletion.
