Turn on the batch job and process your files – AB Commerce Online Help

When you have previewed all the files and the INBOX is filling up with files ready to process, contact us to put your batch job live.

When we turn on the batch job, within 15 minutes, all files in the INBOX folder will be processed.

You will then see under the VIEW FTP SITE page that all the files are being moved out of the INBOX folder and into either the PROCESSED folder or the SKIPPED folder.

And then, at regular intervals, you will see new files appearing in the INBOX and then being processed too.

Viewing the Status of your Batch jobs

You can now go into the YOUR BATCH JOBS page and view the status of each batch job. You will see that each of the batch jobs has a LAST RUN DATE showing when the batch job last ran and a NEXT RUN DATE showing when the batch job is due to run next.

You will see that there are 2 lines in the table that are showing information on recent activity – the IMPORT PRODUCTS line and the IMPORT PRODUCT CATEGORY RELATIONSHIPS line. And similarly for any other files you have included.

The following are the descriptions of each of the fields you see:

Field	Description
Last Run Date	The last time the batch job ran. You can hover over the LAST RUN DATE field and it will show you how long it took to run the batch job the last time it ran.
Next Run Date	When the batch job is due to run again.
Summary	A summary of the actions taken when the batch job ran last.
Error Message	If there was an error message, it will be displayed here. The error will also be emailed to your email address – and will be emailed to you again every night until it is fixed. You can hover over this field to see the full details of the errors.
Updates	If changes were made the last time the batch job ran, they are listed here – including the number of new records created, number of records updated and number of records deleted.
Today	A summary of all the updates that have been made so far today. You can hover over this field to see a summary of the updates over the last 7 days.
View Errors	Click this link to download any errors outstanding into an Excel spreadsheet
View Updates	Click this link to download all updates ever made into an Excel spreadsheet – with the most recent updates appearing at the top of the spreadsheet
View Files	Click this link to view the most recent files processed
View Steps	Click this link to view the list of detailed steps taken by the batch job
View Today	Click this link to view a summary of all the batch jobs run today
View Last 30 Days	Click this link to view a summary of all the batch jobs over the last 30 days

Test the batch jobs

You can now test the batch jobs by doing the following tests:

First, check that all the products now appear in the correct categories on the website.
Then, make a change to the products by enabling some more products, editing some already active products, and deactivating some products – all changes should automatically go through to the website within 1 hour.

NOTE: The website caches it’s product data for 30 minutes so while your changes may come through to the website, it may take another 30 minutes before you can see them on the website.

And similarly, make changes to the product category relationships and see if they come through to the website within 1 hour.

Your integration is now complete

Congratulations, you have completed an end-to-end integration between your ERP/ePos and your website.