Need to integrate your shopping cart with CTP Distributors?

To connect CTP Distributors to your ecommerce store, you need a dealer account and access to the product information and ordering services you want to use. CTP’s online tools let you check stock and prices and place orders. An integration connects that work to your store so you do not have to repeat it by hand.

You can use an integration service or have a developer build and maintain a connection. Spark Shipping’s CTP Distributors integration uses API + CSV and connects product information, stock, pricing, orders and tracking to your store. Spark Shipping and CTP can confirm the connection details needed for your account.

Once connected, you can import products or link the ones you already sell. Your stock, pricing and fulfillment settings control how the automation works. CTP must approve your account for ordering before you enable automatic ordering.

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

You can use the product information supplied through your CTP Distributors connection to build listings in your ecommerce store, including descriptions and images where provided. The content available for your chosen products determines what you can import and what you may need to add yourself.

Spark Shipping downloads that information and offers one-click product importing on supported sales channels. You can add selected products without building every listing manually, or link the supplier’s products to items you already sell.

You can also prepare product files yourself using content you have permission to publish.

Keeping CTP Distributors stock updated in your ecommerce store needs a connection that regularly checks supplier stock. Each product needs to be matched to the right listing so stock changes update the item you actually sell.

Spark Shipping checks the connected supplier stock and updates your store quantities automatically, saving you from repeatedly checking the supplier portal and editing availability. A low-stock cutoff can stop offering an item when the supplier quantity drops below your chosen threshold.

Supplier update schedules and sales-channel limits affect timing. Stock can change between checks, so syncing reduces overselling risk without eliminating it. See inventory synchronization and minimum-quantity settings.

Automatic price updates start with a connection that brings CTP Distributors cost changes into your ecommerce store. You can then use markup rules to calculate selling prices, allowing for your margin, shipping and sales-channel fees.

With pricing automation enabled, Spark Shipping recalculates prices as updated supplier costs arrive and applies your percentage, fixed-amount or tiered markup rules. You do not have to look up every cost change and edit the corresponding listing yourself.

If your supplier feed includes minimum advertised prices (MAP), use them in your pricing rules alongside the brand's policy. See automated price updates.

To send orders to CTP Distributors automatically, connect your ecommerce store to a supplier account approved for ordering. Match your store products to the correct supplier codes so each order includes the right items, quantities and delivery details.

Once automatic ordering is enabled, Spark Shipping sends the items you route to CTP Distributors, saving you from entering the purchase again through the supplier's ordering tools. Your rules decide which items go to CTP when other suppliers or your own stock are also available.

You can instead place orders yourself or maintain a custom ordering connection. Make sure your account can place orders as well as receive product information. See order routing.

Tracking sync returns shipment details from CTP Distributors to the matching customer order in your ecommerce store. The supplier must first ship the goods and provide the tracking information; the connection then brings those details back to the sales channel.

Spark Shipping collects the available tracking and updates the matching order, removing the need to look up shipments and copy numbers yourself. Your store can then use those details in its shipping notifications, depending on your settings.

See automated tracking updates.

You can sell CTP Distributors products alongside other suppliers and stock in your own store or warehouse through the same ecommerce listings. Connect each source and link the listing to the same product, checking that the exact item and quantity match.

Spark Shipping uses your rules to decide who should ship each order item. For example, you can use your own stock first, then send orders to a supplier that has stock and can deliver to the customer. This saves you from splitting orders and forwarding them yourself.

See choosing an order-routing rule.

Yes. You can connect CTP Distributors to products already listed in your ecommerce store without rebuilding the catalog or importing duplicates.

Link each store product code to the corresponding CTP code, checking the exact item and quantity sold. Your store can keep its own codes even when they differ from CTP's.

Spark Shipping can link the codes individually or in bulk. Once the connection is ready and the products are matched, it can update stock and apply your enabled pricing rules. With automatic ordering enabled, it can also send the relevant order items to CTP Distributors. You keep your existing listings while reducing stock updates and supplier order entry.

See matching existing product codes.