E-commerce pack

Products CSV import API

Import a product catalog CSV. SKU-keyed, GTIN-checksum-validated, multilingual category and weight hints.

low riskproducts_v1
30-second curl
curl -X POST https://api.adaptivmapr.com/v1/uploads \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADAPTIVMAPR_API_KEY" \
  -F "template=products_v1" \
  -F "file=@your_data.csv"
→ 9 canonical fields · 1 validated · low risk

Canonical columns

The whole schema, printed as it ships.

Every canonical column, the type each row carries, whether it is required, the field-level validators that fire on commit, and the multilingual header hints the cascade resolves against. This is the shipped definition, not a summary of it.

products_v1
fields
9
required
3
validated
1
hints
31
Canonical columnTypeRequiredValidatorsHeader hints the cascade matches
skustringyesskuartikelnummerréférencecodice articolocódigo
namestringyesnamenomnomenombre
descriptionstringmatched on the column name
pricenumberyespreisprixprezzoprecio
currencystringwährungdevisevalutamoneda
gtinstringgtingtineanbarcode
categorystringkategoriecatégoriecategoriacategoría
weight_gnumbergewichtpoidspeso
in_stockbooleanvorrätigen stockdisponibiledisponible

Read the same definition as JSON at GET /v1/templates/products_v1. A hint match resolves on layer 2 — no LLM call, no token spend, just the flat per-map fee. Hover a validator id to see what it checks.

  • 9 canonical fields
  • 3 required
  • 1 validated
  • 31 header hints, 5 languages

Why it exists

Written for the file you actually receive.

The Products template is the catalogue row — the schema for a Shopify product CSV, a Magento catalog export, or an enterprise PIM dump. Each row carries a SKU (required), a name (required), an optional description, a price (required), an optional currency, an optional GTIN (validated via GS1 mod-10 checksum), a category, a weight in grams, and an in_stock boolean. The Products template is the workhorse import for migrations and quarterly catalog refreshes — most teams run it more often than any other e-commerce template. The GTIN validator accepts EAN-8, UPC-A, EAN-13, and GTIN-14 — all four lengths share the same mod-10 algorithm, so the validator is one path rather than four. The cascade picks up "artikelnummer", "référence", "codice articolo", "código" at zero cost.

price is required because an unpriced product is a draft, not a catalog entry. Currency is optional because most catalogs run single-currency; null means "the default for the workspace". weight_g is in grams (not ounces, not kilos) so cross-store rollups do not need a conversion table.

Migration scenarios & the foreign headers they ship

Migration scenarios for the Products template: full catalog ports between PIMs (Akeneo, Salsify, Plytix), Shopify-to-Shopify migrations during a rebrand, marketplace sync where the canonical catalog must mirror to Amazon / eBay / Etsy, and quarterly catalog refreshes when suppliers ship updated GTIN lists. Foreign headers we see daily: "SKU / Artikelnummer / Référence / Codice articolo / Código / Name / Nom / Nome / Nombre / Beschreibung / Description / Descripción / Descrizione / Preis / Prix / Prezzo / Precio / Währung / Currency / Devise / GTIN / EAN / Barcode / Kategorie / Catégorie / Categoría / Categoria / Gewicht / Poids / Peso / Vorrätig / En Stock / Disponible". The GTIN checksum validator catches barcode-typo corruption before it lands in the marketplace sync — a single bad GTIN can hide a whole product from Amazon search.

The cascade

Five layers, and the cheapest one wins.

Layers run in order and stop the moment a column resolves. That is the single biggest cost lever in the system: a column caught on layer 2 never reaches the metered layer 5.

  1. L1Statisticsno LLM

    Auto-accepts a header that past confirmations already resolved the same way, at {minN:100, minRatio:0.95} or {minN:20, minRatio:1.00}.

  2. L2Heuristicno LLM

    Normalises accents, punctuation and whitespace, then compares against the column name, the label, and every registered hint (DE / FR / IT / EN / ES).

  3. L3Fuzzyno LLM

    Token-set ratio plus Levenshtein over the normalised strings. Auto-accepts at 0.80 — it absorbs typos and reordered words.

  4. L4Semanticcheap, cached

    Embedding cosine between the header and the field’s label + hints. Catches the long tail of paraphrases.

  5. L5LLMmetered

    Everything still unresolved goes up in ONE batched, collision-aware call, constrained to this template’s column set so it cannot invent a field.

Try it

One template id, two ways in.

REST for your import pipeline, MCP for your editor. Both run the same cascade and both honour the same schema-only clamp.

REST · POST /v1/uploads

Name the template; the cascade picks up the rest. The canonical definition is read-only at GET /v1/templates/products_v1.

bash
curl -X POST https://api.adaptivmapr.com/v1/uploads \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADAPTIVMAPR_API_KEY" \
  -F "template=products_v1" \
  -F "file=@your_data.csv"
→ upload created · mappings ready · confirm before commit

MCP · Cursor / Claude Desktop

Drop AdaptivMapr into your editor and call the same cascade as a tool. Schema-only calls leave only column names and up to three clamped sample rows.

mcp
// In Cursor or Claude Desktop with the AdaptivMapr MCP server installed:
adaptivmapr.match_headers({
  template_id: "products_v1",
  headers: ["sku", "name", "description", "price"]
})
schema-only · headers and ≤3 rows, 80 chars each
MCP install instructions

Questions

Products CSV import — FAQ

One row per variant SKU. The canonical row is variant-level because that is what fulfilment runs on; product-group rollups happen downstream.
One row per currency, or a separate `prices` table linked by SKU. The canonical row is one currency to keep migration straightforward.
Yes — GTIN is optional. Inline marketplaces without barcoded products work cleanly.
Both belong in a media-and-content table linked by SKU, not on the canonical product row. The catalog template keeps the row narrow so PIM-to-PIM migrations stay portable.

Ready when you are

Map products in production — without shipping raw records.

Schema-only mode leaves only headers and a handful of clamped samples. Add full-data when you need row-level AI, routed in-region under a BAA.

No free tier · $10 prepaid wallet to start · every map draws a small flat fee, deterministic ones included