Sync Akeneo Product Data to Your E-commerce Storefront
Your Akeneo PIM holds the most complete, enriched product data in your company. SyncPIM connects it directly to your storefront database — so your catalog, descriptions, and prices are always up to date.
The problem: PIM and storefront are disconnected
Most e-commerce teams manage product data in two places at once — Akeneo for enrichment, and their storefront database for display. When they're not in sync, customers see outdated descriptions, wrong prices, or missing images.
- • Manual export from Akeneo → import to storefront: error-prone and time-consuming
- • Product launches delayed because PIM and storefront updates aren't coordinated
- • SEO content written in Akeneo doesn't reach the storefront without a data pipeline
- • Variant attributes (color, size) from parent product models aren't included in standard exports
How e-commerce teams use SyncPIM
Headless commerce (Next.js, Nuxt, Remix)
Most commonAkeneo holds all product content. SyncPIM syncs it to a PostgreSQL or MongoDB database. Your storefront reads products directly from the database — no Akeneo API calls at render time, no latency.
WooCommerce + Akeneo
MySQLSyncPIM exports Akeneo products to a separate MySQL database. A WordPress plugin or custom code reads from that database to populate WooCommerce product attributes. PIM is the source of truth; WooCommerce gets the enriched data.
Custom storefront + search (Algolia/Elasticsearch)
AdvancedSyncPIM syncs Akeneo products to PostgreSQL. A separate indexing job reads from PostgreSQL and pushes to Algolia or Elasticsearch. Decoupled pipeline — Akeneo changes → SyncPIM → DB → Search index.
What gets synced from Akeneo to your database
Product content
- •Names, descriptions, short descriptions
- •Images (references and alt texts)
- •Technical specifications
- •Care instructions, materials
Variant data
- •Colors, sizes, configurations
- •Variant-specific prices
- •EAN/GTIN per variant
- •Variant images
Classification
- •Category tree with labels
- •Family and family variant
- •Tags and collections
- •Localized category names
Pricing & commerce
- •Multi-currency prices
- •Promotional prices
- •Channel-specific values (ecommerce vs print)
- •Enabled/disabled status
Typical sync schedule for e-commerce
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Real-time (on product publish in Akeneo)
Available via webhook integration — SyncPIM can be triggered by Akeneo publish events. Best for high-velocity product launches.
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Every 2 hours (incremental)
Most e-commerce teams use this. Only changed products are synced — typical run is under 1 minute.
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Daily at 2am (incremental) + weekly full
Safe default. Catches all daily edits; weekly full export reconciles any discrepancies.
Enrichers that matter for e-commerce
SyncPIM's enricher system transforms Akeneo data into what your storefront actually needs:
URL slug
'Blue Classic T-Shirt' → 'blue-classic-t-shirt'Canonical product URLs without a separate slugify step
Category path builder
'shirts' → '/men/shirts'Build full URL paths for category breadcrumbs
Price formatter
[{amount:'29.99',currency:'EUR'}] → 29.99Extract a specific currency as a plain number
Image URL builder
'img.jpg' → 'https://cdn.example.com/products/img.jpg'Prepend your CDN base URL to Akeneo image references
Canonical URL
'/{{category_path}}/{{slug}}'Full product URL in a single field, computed from category and slug
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