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Checklist For: Distributors & manufacturers

ERP & Integration Readiness Checklist

Integrations are where ecommerce projects quietly go over budget. The store and the ERP each think they own the truth, sync rules are vague, and edge cases surface in production.

This checklist lines up the decisions that make an integration ship on time and stay in sync, before anyone writes a mapping.

What this guide covers

Decide the source of truth

Most integration bugs are really disagreements about who owns a field.

  • Which system owns products, pricing, and inventory
  • How conflicts are resolved when both change
  • Which direction each field syncs
  • What happens when a system is down

Map orders, inventory, and pricing

The three flows that carry the most risk.

  • Order and fulfillment status sync
  • Real-time versus scheduled inventory updates
  • Customer-specific and tiered pricing
  • Tax, currency, and unit-of-measure handling

Vet the integration partner

The questions that separate a smooth integration from a stalled one.

  • How they handle retries and failures
  • How errors are logged and surfaced
  • Rate limits and data volume ceilings
  • Who owns the middleware long term

Plan for failure

Integrations break. Plan for it so a hiccup is not an outage.

  • Queues and retries for transient failures
  • Alerting when sync falls behind
  • Reconciliation to catch drift
  • A manual override path

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