Send inventory & pricing information to Locally
Locally enables online shoppers to find, reserve, and purchase in-stock products from brand sites, Facebook, your website, and locally.com. Send your inventory and pricing information from Ascend to easily update your inventory on Locally.
For more information on Locally, or for support, see retailers.locally.com or contact retailers@locally.com.
System Setup
Locally
- Log into your Locally
retailer account.
Sherpa Tip: To set up your retailer account, navigate to retailers.locally.com, click Sign Up, select your company from the Company Name drop-down, and complete the quick account claim process. - On the sidebar, click Inventory
> Upload Inventory.
- In the Overview & Integration Methods section, click Email Method.
Sherpa Tip: Email is automatically configured for all locations. The email address(es) for your inventory feed displays in bold text.
Ascend
- Verify Ascend is on the latest version.
- Configure a workstation or system email account.
- Keep vendor products up-to-date using Ascend-formatted
updates.
- Keep your inventory values accurate by performing regular
cycle counts.
Save & Schedule Inventory Feed
Multi-store retailers: Reports must be saved & scheduled separately for each location.
- On
your Ascend server, save and run
the Inventory & Pricing Feed
query (available on www.ascendrms.com) to your computer
(e.g. the Windows® Desktop).
- On
the toolbar, click the Save button and
enter Locally Inventory & Pricing
Feed.
- Enter Locally Inventory & Pricing
Feed and click OK. The
report saves in the My Queries
folder of Reports.
- On the toolbar, click Delivery.
- If
you wish to sync your inventory information to Locally more than once a day (up
to every two hours), copy this query the number of times you wish to update.
For example: If your store is open from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm and you wish to sync inventory information every two hours, create six copies of the query. Schedule these for delivery at 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm, 8:00 pm, and 11:00 pm (to ensure any changes made after close are accounted for).
a. Run the saved Locally Inventory & Pricing Feed query.
b. On the toolbar, click the Save button.
c. On the Replace Current Query prompt, click the No button.
d. Enter Locally Inventory & Pricing Feed-2 (etc.) and click the OK button. - On
the toolbar, click Delivery and configure
delivery by email.