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Nice proposal.

Getting an Icecat product data sheet module together would be fairly trivial.  I'll put that on the list for post-release development.  Very similar to what's done for GoogleBase.

Loading vendor, manufacturer, category, inventory, product and option data via an IcecatPIM integration would be well beyond the scope of anything we'd consider releasing without a substantial sponsorship (via Custom Shop job) from a client like yourself.  But it can be done, and would be awesome.

I'm looking at this as an XML feed which the software produces, which you can configure Icecat to pickup and include in it's database.

That's the big job:

Loading vendor, manufacturer, category, inventory, product and option data via an IcecatPIM integration would be well beyond the scope of anything we'd consider releasing without a substantial sponsorship (via Custom Shop job) from a client like yourself.  But it can be done, and would be awesome.

You're asking if PIM could be taken out of the picture and direct XML download and parsing be handled in V9.  Yes, that could be done as well, and would be simpler than doing an integration with PIM, and more desireable.  It's a fairly complicated, big job, which (up to this point) there has been no demand for, therefore anyone wanting something like this should speak up, or someone should sponsor the module through a custom shop job.

We need to look at what the module will cost to build.  That's based on specs, time estimated and the hourly rate, discounted based on anticipated demand, and then split by the number of sponsors.  So to arrive at a cost, we first need to know the specs, or scope.  What is it exactly that you guys are looking to do?  How far do you want to go with it?  How many sponsors might there be for this?