Do online stores face a problem with finding and formatting product properties?

Question

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Good afternoon. Have you encountered at least once the problem of finding and filling in the properties for your products? In what form do suppliers usually provide their price lists? Is there a detailed description of the goods? Thank you.

Answer 1

A very vague question, it depends on the assortment, if it is bolts, a cable there or something else, then you can pull the characteristics from the name, but the names wander from supplier to supplier.
Always the price list will be just the name - the price.
Then it all comes down to money and time.
Either an army of Chinese is hired for a bowl of rice, which finds and inserts you specifications for over 9000 goods overnight, or there are good freelancers / employees in the state who gradually fill in the goods, checking what they filled out.
Freelancers are beneficial in that they usually work according to the scheme 1 product = fixed rate. An employee can fill out not a product, but a contact, which is fraught with losses.
Another thing is that an employee can be kicked and rectal probing is very well accelerated, while a freelancer will simply disappear.
The option with the Chinese is economically viable in the short term, since in the future it turns out that the characteristics of the titanium bolts will be in the characteristics of the toothbrush.
Suppliers can provide the price as they like, in the form of an excel table or pdf, and in pdf there will be a picture, not text, ideally they give an xml file from their site, which is convenient to parse.

Answer 2

"the need for software that can find the properties of the product by vendor id and bring them to the required form"
It would be cool - yes, putting everyone on the right software - will not work.
The areas most ready for new software are technological, and there are no problems finding data anyway. If the store did not do this - a bad store, there is nothing to take from it, including the service.
Manufacturers provide detailed information.
Suppliers don’t care at all, as long as they take something from them, they don’t know what is in those boxes, there is a ramzer, weight and price for them.
About sellers - above.
In other areas, wooden people (manufacturers) often come across, whose official specifications are not available on the Internet. But if they still have not bothered, then things are going well for them and without unnecessary gestures, they will not start using the software.
It makes no sense to enter unofficial information there, the base will be very scarce, there is a high probability of errors, and so on. Comparable to all sorts of directories and a simple Google search.
In a situation like this (needed information about food products), contacting the manufacturer (kudos to someone if they have an email and a girl who checks it) is the most productive option.