Octopus (Multi-Channel Connector) continues to evolve as a powerful solution for multichannel commerce with its latest dashboard and functional enhancements. These new features are tailored to provide deeper insights, improve usability, and enhance synchronization across channels. From dynamic sales reports to intelligent title formation and pricing campaigns, Octopus ensures data-driven decisions and operational efficiency.

1. Enhanced Dashboard Overview

Octopus dashboard offers users a comprehensive view of sales performance. Users can now view:

  • ● Sales reports categorized by product categories
  • ● Top-selling products for the last six months
  • ● Overall sales metrics, all in one centralized space

Moreover, the dashboard allows filtering by sales channel and specific time periods, giving users the flexibility to analyze data as per their business needs.

With custom filters by month and channel, users gain detailed and actionable insights that help fine-tune marketing and inventory strategies.

2. Product Notification Screen: Real-Time Inventory & Pricing Updates

The Product Notification screen ensures seamless integration with various ERPs to pull real-time inventory and pricing data, which is updated across multiple marketplaces every hour. The screen includes:

  • ● Date filters to monitor changes within a specified period
  • ● Filters by inventory levels and channels
  • ● A user-friendly layout displaying updated data instantly

Notably, it distinguishes between individual products and bundles. For bundle products, inventory is calculated as the average of component inventories, ensuring accurate availability of information across listings.

3. Parent and Child SKU Mapping for Marketplace Accuracy

Managing relationships between parent and child SKUs is now more efficient with the Parent-Child Relationship Mapping screen. This feature enables users to:

  • ● Upload and define individual or bulk parent-child SKU relationships
  • ● Download templates (e.g., PMT) for bulk uploads
  • ● Select channels such as eBay for marketplace-specific mappings
  • ● Add, edit, and export SKU relationship data for reuse and updates

This functionality ensures that product listings stay synchronized with accurate inventory and pricing, which is vital for platforms that support variation listings.

4. Title Formation Based on Application Data

A major leap forward is the automated title formation process, which leverages application data and rule-based logic. Users can:

  • ● Create rules to include elements like brand, MFR label, year, make, and model
  • ● Ensure titles are marketplace-compliant by adhering to character limits
  • ● Synchronize title rules with PMT for seamless integration across platforms

The system also performs automatic title validation. If the generated title exceeds marketplace limits (such as eBay’s or Amazon’s), the platform will automatically adjust the title without compromising the content's integrity.

5. Price Campaigns: Manage Discounts with Ease

The newly introduced Price Campaign feature gives customers the flexibility to run timed discounts on products:

  • ● Set campaigns based on MFR labels and date ranges
  • ● Automatically apply discounts to MSRP prices, with strike-through pricing shown during the campaign
  • ● After the end date, prices revert automatically to their original MSRP

This automation eliminates manual intervention and ensures discounts are applied only during the intended period—perfect for seasonal promotions or brand-specific offers.



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