Below we'll quickly walk through how Retailer operations work with Canal!
Order & Inventory Management
Inventory is synced dynamically from your Supplier partners. Canal does not place limits on orders outside of the Suppliers inventory levels. You can manage all Supplier partners inventory under the Inventory page within Canal.
Shipping & Carrier Management
Canal’s dynamic shipping allows you to surface Supplier’s existing shipping rates to your customers in checkout. Suppliers ship via their preferred carrier(s) as they would with their first party orders. You can read more about Canal's Shipping options here.
Multiple Currencies
Canal supports multiple currencies for both Retailers & Suppliers. We provide the option for international Suppliers to enable dynamic currency conversion for their product prices based on current exchange rates, or manage manually based on a fixed pricelist.
Catalog Management
Once you've been approved to sell a Supplier partners products and added these items to your store, Canal will sync all catalog data including product, inventory, and price from the Supplier to your backend. Inventory & price will remain synced in real-time, but you can choose to receive other product data dynamically or on demand. This includes description, titles, images, and other metadata.
Product data you can update:
- Descriptions
- Titles
- Images
- Metadata
Product data you cannot update:
- Pricing
- Inventory