E-Trade PriceList Importer instead of 1s. Who has experience with them?

Question

1C

Hello!
There is IM. There is a 1s where goods from several price lists are entered (8 pieces of ~ 20,000 goods each).
In the price lists there is an intersection by goods. Those goods one from several suppliers can be brought.
Now we put down this intersection manually for each product. And this makes content managers very sad.
We decided to automate this business. Sawed 1s up and down. They twisted all sorts of crutches.
There were few results....
And then we found the E-Trade PriceList Importer (hereinafter referred to as ETPI). Link: elbuz.com/e-trade-pricelist-importer
A cursory inspection revealed the main goodies we needed in the form of searching for price intersections and cleaning names.
The automatic mode, of course, did not start (or rather, it started, but with effort and even then on some price lists), but the manual mode is very good (in my opinion).
Everything is cool, but I have doubts.
1. 1s = standard. There are many ready-made solutions and personnel on the market for it. For ETPI, the situation is reversed. Maybe someone communicated with them about adding|updating the functionality? How willing are they to make such changes? How fast? How expensive?
2. How good is the support / training (for 3000 rubles / hour then)?
3. Is there any experience of transition from 1s to ETPI. It seems like you can import everything in a couple of clicks, but it's hard to believe.
4. The stories of the transition from ETPI to 1s are also interesting. (as an escape route)
5. What are those obscure Custom Exchange Modules for CMS? Why not CML?
To be honest, I'm interested in everything. What glitches happen, problems. What did the Padawan encounter and what should he know about when embarking on this path.
Or maybe there is a better offer on the market?

Answer 1

What glitches happen, problems.

hmm, who can guess what glitches you get out.
I came across another price analysis service (I don’t remember the name)
to analyze prices in 1s itself, a solution is enough, depending on the configuration used.
He himself set up a couple of these, for example, a chain of bookstores, they are purchased from 3-5 suppliers. For analysis, their price lists are loaded into the system, then, on the basis of this, an order is formed according to the specified conditions (price analysis, order volume, etc.). They work in UT 10.
The whole problem is in the initial stuffing of the base, putting down the correspondence of the nomenclature of different suppliers to their nomenclature. But the analysis is already easier.

Answer 2

There was a client on ETPI. I wrote a module for loading prices in 1C.
What exactly did not suit I do not know.
I think you can do everything in 1C, the main thing is to make an analysis and develop the right rules.