Facebook-for-woocommerce: Mechanism to Automatically Force Resync on Set Schedule

[FlairTrade]

This maybe a feature request but a necessity for my business shop. My clothing consignment store model sells every item as a one of a kind. This means each day we add items to our WooCommerce site and sell items that are currently on it. This results in my catalog item list changing daily. What I have been doing for months is force resync from the plugin settings each morning as a manual process just to keep everything update. I can see in the data sources section of my catalog on Facebook that there is a native way to schedule resync's systemically. Is there a way to get the data source URL to set this up or something that can be added to the plugin to establish a resync schedule during the catalog setup process. This is a real world need for people who have constantly changing inventory.

[mengyingdu]

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[FlairTrade]

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[dmitridr]

Hi,

Thanks for the feature request!
Grabbing the products using a fixed URL would be a big change, since we would essentially be switching to a pull model (right now, it's a push model).

I think the easiest thing we can do here to simplify your force-resync-every-day situation is a mechanism which automatically force-resyncs in the backend on a daily basis, using wordpress scheduling functionality. If this sounds like something you'd want, let us know. I think we can build something like this as an advanced feature to be enabled/disabled on the plugin configuration page.

[FlairTrade]

I think that would do exactly what I’m requesting. Didnt intend to dictate architecture just the desired outcome.

[FlairTrade]

THANK YOU @dmitridr @mengyingdu I haven't used it yet but just noticed the feature has been added to the options in the latest release of the plugin. Much appreciated and for those with changing inventory, this is a great feature addition.

[dmitridr]

@FlairTrade Great, glad we could finally build this for you and everyone else who requested it in other issues! (It only took 6 months!) You can already try out the feature, keep in mind you need wp cron functionality enabled for wp scheduling to work correctly. I would also recommend waiting a few days until v1.9.9 to try this out, which should be out early next week, as v1.9.8 has some known instability issues, and the UI looks nicer in 1.9.9.

Cheers, Dmitri.

[FlairTrade]

@dmitridr I have been using the feature for 11 days on the v1.9.8 without issue. The only problem I had to deduce was the time setting, apparently my site is using GMT versus local but once I saw what time it was actually executing just made the adjustment on the time setup to get it to the time I actually wanted. Haven't had an issue since. Look forward to the v1.9.9 UI update. Again, thanks for listening...