- What is PromoStandards?
- PromoStandards is the promotional products industry’s set of API specifications for product data, inventory, media, pricing and configuration, purchase orders, order status, shipment notification, invoice and product compliance. Suppliers publish the services; distributors and their software consume them, so stock and order status move without a phone call or a spreadsheet.
- Do you build supplier-side PromoStandards APIs?
- Yes. We implement the supplier-side services to the standard — Product Data, Inventory, Media Content, Pricing and Configuration, Purchase Order, Order Status, Shipment Notification, Invoice and Product Compliance — then host, monitor and version them. When the standard revs, for example Product Data 2.0.0, the upgrade is our work.
- Do you work on the distributor side too?
- Yes. We consume supplier PromoStandards services on a distributor’s behalf: product data and media ingested into the catalog, inventory and pricing read, purchase orders submitted, order status and shipment notifications tracked, and invoices matched back to the order. One client, many suppliers, one normalized item master.
- How do you integrate ASI and SAGE?
- ASI ESP supplies catalog product data; SAGE supplies product, inventory and order data. We map both into one item master, so a supplier SKU, its colors, sizes, decoration methods, charges and FOB points agree everywhere. Most engagements start with one source and add the other once the mapping is stable.
- How do SAGE and QuickBooks stay in sync?
- On-hand quantity, committed quantity and reorder points move between the two systems, along with items and customers. QuickBooks Desktop connects through the Web Connector and qbXML; QuickBooks Online uses the REST API with OAuth 2.0. Invoices reconcile to the orders that produced them, so the books match the floor.
- How does a supplier catalog get into our item master?
- We agree a field mapping before anything is built: every source field, its target, and the rule in between. Supplier SKUs, colors, sizes, decoration methods, charges and FOB points are mapped once, tested against a sandbox, and maintained as catalogs change. Mapping is where integrations usually die.
- How small can an engagement be?
- One service, one supplier’s catalog, or one sync. We scope to the job in front of us and leave the rest of your stack alone, which is how most of our work starts — a field mapping left half-finished, then the next two services, then the storefront.
- Where does AI fit?
- Where it beats deterministic code: classifying a supplier’s category tree, reading a spec sheet into fields, drafting a quote. Inventory counts, price breaks, order routing and invoices stay in plain, testable code, because arithmetic is not a language model problem.