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E-commerce ERP-to-shop automation — multi-million price updates weekly without dev work

iMi digital needed to automate complex ERP to Shopware product imports including weekly price updates across millions of SKUs. Previously required significant developer time and custom scripted solutions that broke with each ERP update.

How it works

Common implementation structure

How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.

Stage 1 · ERP price feed

Weekly scheduled trigger pulls updated pricing from ERP system.

Tools used

n8n · partnerShopware APIERP systemPrice feed

Outcome

Weekly multi-million price updates now fully automated. Developer time on routine sync work eliminated. Shopware storefront always current with ERP pricing. No more manual export-import cycles.

What failed first

First version ran as a single large batch — Shopware API rate limits caused failures mid-run, leaving prices partially updated. Rebuilt with intelligent batching and retry logic. Now processes in chunks with automatic backoff.

Results

Time savedMillions of updates

VolumeWeekly automated

Running sinceSep 2024

Source

iMi digital GmbH case study: ERP to Shopware automation with n8n (n8n.io)Referenced in n8n official case studies. Named company. E-commerce vertical case.

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