Well‑designed connectors listen for webhooks first, then apply exponential backoff, jitter, and windowed polling when marketplaces throttle traffic. This balance preserves freshness while respecting platform guards, so a hot product’s sell‑through reflects everywhere quickly, without tripping bans or leaving buyers frustrated by outdated availability on high‑velocity listings.
Listings rarely map one‑to‑one. Connectors normalize identifiers across merchant SKUs, marketplace ASINs, ePIDs, variant options, and regional catalogs. With robust matching rules, aliases, and barcode fallbacks, your stock updates flow accurately, even when a color merges, a bundle splits, or a vendor renames a legacy part mid‑season.
Queueing ensures bursts never overwhelm endpoints, while idempotency keys prevent duplicate decrements during retries. By sequencing events and enforcing ordering, connectors avoid race conditions between simultaneous orders and inbound restocks, preserving truth so every channel reflects precisely the same available quantity buyers can actually receive today.
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