Need to integrate Automatic Distributors with BigCommerce?

For over 45 years Automatic Distributors has been distributing parts and accessories to the power sports wholesale trade! Automatic Distributors carry over 75,000 products featuring top brand names in apparel, parts, and accessories for the ATV, UTV, Motocross, PWC / Marine, Snowmobile, Street Bike, and Utility Trailer industries. Automatic Distributors is also home to Katahdin Extreme Gear, our very own cold-weather clothing line - developed and designed for the snowmobiler and outdoor enthusiasts. Automatic Distributors sell at wholesale pricing only to franchised dealers, repair shops, and parts & accessories shops; and our dealer network extends across the country.

Automatic Distributors are well known in the industry for our exceptional service and for meeting the demands of the power sports industry both with passion and professionalism.

Automatic Distributors have seven full-line catalogs: Outerwear; Winter; Street; ATV/UTV; Offroad; Marine and Trailer which are loaded with tons of parts and accessories. Automatic Distributors regularly adds new products so they encourage customers to check back often.

Our Dealers can take advantage of our convenient 24-7 Online Ordering and Checkout, Free Catalogs, and Toll-Free Ordering. Our knowledgeable and courteous staff is ready to provide superior customer service and technical support.

• URL: https://www.autodist.com/
• Headquarters: Bangor, ME
• Category: Marine

You can connect Automatic Distributors to your BigCommerce store using a ready-made integration or a connection built by your developer. Start with an approved Automatic Distributors dealer account and the access credentials needed for the supplier connection.

Manual product updates and supplier order entry take ongoing work. A custom connection can automate them, but needs maintenance. Spark Shipping's Automatic Distributors integration automates product information, stock, pricing, orders and tracking, reducing repeated data entry and order handling.

Connect your store and dealer account in Spark Shipping, choose products to add or match to existing listings, and set your stock, pricing and fulfillment preferences. Arrange the required supplier permissions and direct-shipping terms before enabling live orders.

For platform-specific details, see the Automatic Distributors integrations for Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Amazon Seller Central, eBay.

See Automatic Distributors' dealer information for account and shipping details.

You can import Automatic Distributors's product records, available images and dealer pricing for the powersports parts, accessories and apparel you choose to sell. Descriptions and other listing details depend on the information supplied for each product.

You could prepare and import product files yourself, or maintain a custom catalog connection. Spark Shipping downloads the available information and offers one-click product importing, so you can select products and add them to your BigCommerce store on supported sales channels without creating each listing manually. Publishing options follow your storefront or marketplace's listing requirements.

For products already in your store, match the supplier records to those listings instead of importing duplicates. See publishing products from the catalog.

Inventory syncing keeps the availability shown in your BigCommerce store aligned with stock supplied by Automatic Distributors. It needs an ongoing connection that receives updated quantities and applies them to the matching listings.

Spark Shipping updates those quantities automatically, reducing the need to check supplier stock and edit listings throughout the day. You can set a minimum-stock cutoff so fast-moving products show as unavailable when supplier stock falls below your chosen threshold.

Stock can change between updates, so syncing reduces overselling risk without eliminating it. See the minimum-quantity settings for controlling what you offer for sale.

Automatic price updates require a connection between Automatic Distributors and your BigCommerce store that receives supplier cost changes. Once that is in place, pricing rules can calculate your selling prices from those costs, allowing for your margin, shipping and sales-channel fees.

Once pricing automation is enabled, Spark Shipping applies the rules you choose and updates prices as new supplier costs arrive, saving you from recalculating and editing each listing yourself. You can use percentage, fixed-amount or tiered markup rules.

If Automatic Distributors supplies minimum advertised price (MAP) information, use it alongside your pricing rules and follow the brand's policy.

See automated price updates.

To send orders to Automatic Distributors automatically, connect your BigCommerce store to your supplier account for ordering. Your account needs live-order access, and each store listing must be matched to the correct supplier product so orders contain the right items, quantities and delivery details.

You can enter orders through the supplier's tools yourself, or maintain a custom ordering connection. Spark Shipping sends the order items assigned to Automatic Distributors, saving you from entering the same purchase again in the supplier's system.

If you use several suppliers or fulfill some items yourself, your routing preferences determine which source receives each item. See how order routing connects customer orders with their fulfillment source.

Tracking sync brings shipment information from Automatic Distributors back to the corresponding order in your BigCommerce store after the supplier ships and provides tracking.

Spark Shipping collects the supplied tracking details and returns them to the matching store order, removing the need to look up and copy each tracking number yourself. Your sales channel can then use that information in customer shipment updates according to its notification settings.

See how tracking automation completes the supplier-to-store order journey.

The same product may be available from Automatic Distributors, another supplier and stock in your own store or warehouse. To sell those sources through your BigCommerce store, connect their inventory and match the identical products to the same listing, including the correct variant and pack quantity.

You can then decide which source should fulfill each order item. Spark Shipping brings the connected sources together and routes items to the selected supplier or your own shipping team, reducing the work of splitting and forwarding orders yourself. Your fulfillment preferences can account for source priority, available stock, cost or delivery location.

See how order routing coordinates multiple fulfillment sources.

Yes. Automatic Distributors offers direct shipping for its approved dealer network, so eligible products can ship straight to your customers without you stocking those items yourself. Your dealer terms determine which products, delivery destinations and sales channels you can use, along with the shipping charges.

To automate that route, connect your BigCommerce store and dealer account, match the products and provide the customer's delivery details with the order. Spark Shipping sends the assigned order items to Automatic Distributors and brings the supplied tracking information back to your store, reducing repeated order entry and shipment checks.

See Automatic Distributors' dealer and shipping information.

Yes. You can build your BigCommerce store around the Automatic Distributors products that suit your customers, rather than importing the supplier's entire range.

Automatic Distributors has catalog ranges covering areas such as ATV/UTV, off-road, street riding, winter, marine and trailer products. Use those ranges to plan what to sell, then select the available products you want in the connected catalog. Choose the specific products and variants you want customers to buy, including the relevant sizes for apparel.

Spark Shipping's one-click product importing helps you add selected products on supported sales channels without building every listing manually. Marketplace publishing still follows the channel's listing requirements; products you already sell can be matched instead of imported again.