Admittedly, things have been quiet around our JTL-Connector in recent months. But for good reason: behind the scenes we have been busy planning and developing, so that we can now provide you with some news from the cosmos of our third-party store integrations. This much can already be revealed: It will remain exciting in the near future!
JTL-Connector briefly explained
For those of you who have not yet come into contact with our JTL-Connector, we would like to briefly explain the product. Whereby “product” is only partially correct in this case, as the JTL-Connector hides a whole host of third-party store integrations.
This basically reveals the function of the JTL-Connector: It acts as an interface that connects our ERP system JTL-Wawi with online stores from third-party providers such as Shopware, Shopify or WooCommerce.
The advantages? You no longer control item maintenance and order management via the respective online store, but centrally from JTL-Wawi. You can then also use the data records created there for trading on online marketplaces, for example, and thus operate promising multi-channeling. Even if you use several shops to offer products in multiple languages, central control via JTL-Wawi saves you a lot of time.
The following third-party store systems can currently be integrated into JTL-Wawi via their own JTL-Connector:
As the basis of all JTL-Connectors – the connector core – is open source, you can also integrate other online stores into JTL-Wawi using a customized solution. Selected JTL service partners offer corresponding services. You can find the right partner for such a project via our service partner search.
This brings us to the first big news about the JTL-Connector:
Move from JTL-Connector to GitHub
This news should make the developers among you prick up their ears: At the end of July this year, JTL-Connector moved to GitHub. This was a logical step for us, as JTL-Connector is free for the development of external connectors thanks to the open source code mentioned above. The move to GitHub therefore pays tribute to this special product feature and allows you to follow our development very closely. But you should not just passively observe, but above all actively participate in it:
We therefore invite you to contribute to the connectors. Be it via pull requests on GitHub or via your feature requests or bug reports. If you are not on GitHub, you can also do this within the JTL-Connector area in the JTL forum. This allows us to align the development of the JTL-Connectors as closely as possible to your needs. Your ideas and feedback are also welcome for the planned integration tests.
JTL-Connector for Shopware 6: Stable release in April 2023
The new version of Shopware – Shopware 6 – has been eagerly awaited by many online store operators and has been available as a stable release since April 2023.
DHL parcel integration via JTL-Connectors
The third new feature of the JTL-Connector relates to the DHL “Wish Parcel”. This is a service offered by DHL for an individualized parcel delivery, where the customer decides when and where he wants to receive his order.
Until now, the ability to query individual delivery requests via a new plugin was only available to JTL-Shop users. We want to change this with the help of the JTL-Connector: both the integration of the DHL Wish Parcel plugin for Shopware 5 and for Shopify are at the top of our developers’ to-do list – closely followed by the integration of the Wish Parcel plugin in WooCommerce.
This is how the DHL-Wunschpaket plugin for JTL-Connector works:
JTL-Connector Shopify in open beta phase - test now!
We have already informed you about the launch of the open beta of the JTL-Connector for Shopify in an earlier blog post. In it, we also mentioned the special feature of this third-party store integration: The JTL-Connector for Shopify runs – in contrast to the other JTL-Connectors – on its own server, which is maintained and supported by us. The source code is not open. We therefore publish all new features and bug fixes in the JTL forum to keep you up to date as best as possible.
Our recommendation is to mark the thread in the JTL forum with “Watch”. Then you will be automatically notified when something changes in the JTL-Connector for Shopify and will be able to see the integration of new features directly. As the connector is already very stable and enjoys great popularity, we are planning to end the open beta phase soon. Would you like to test JTL-Connector for Shopify as an open beta now? It’s quick and easy with these three steps:
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