PromoStandards integration developer with deep distributor-side experience onboarding dozens of suppliers, building custom PHP integrations, and creating WooCommerce tools.
Promostandards facilitates the development and adoption of technology standards and oversee these standards for businesses and nonprofit organizations worldwide.
Think of these standards as a map that guides developers on how they can write computer code with a common set of instructions. When in place, these standards allow suppliers, distributors, and decorators to automatically send and receive information in real time, effectively scaling business transactions.
Overview
I’ve spent years integrating PromoStandards services for distributors and resellers — including the rare opportunity to onboard dozens of suppliers into a production environment used daily by real customers.
Most developers only see PromoStandards from a single supplier’s API or from isolated test systems.
My background is unusual: I built and maintained a large, custom PHP platform that depended on PromoStandards data from many different suppliers at once — each with unique quirks, incomplete endpoints, inconsistent data, and evolving standards.
That experience led me to create multiple public resources and tools for companies looking to adopt PromoStandards, including two educational sites and a productized WooCommerce integration.
Key Features & Capabilities
Multi-Supplier Onboarding Experience
I’m one of the few freelance developers who has successfully onboarded several dozen PromoStandards suppliers across:
- Product Data (1.0 & 2.0 formatting)
- Inventory Availability
- Media & Images
- Purchase Orders
- Order Status
- Product Pricing
- Compliance Metadata (where available)
Every integration required custom handling due to supplier-specific interpretations of the standard — something most developers don’t see unless they work at scale.
Deep Distributor-Side Understanding
Integrating PromoStandards from the distributor/reseller viewpoint is very different from building a supplier endpoint.
I’ve worked on:
- Pulling product catalogs into custom storefronts
- Normalizing supplier data with wildly inconsistent structures
- Managing real-time pricing from multiple suppliers
- Inventory synchronization
- Multi-source image population
- Order submission workflows
- Status tracking and notifications
- Exception handling for incomplete or missing supplier data
This perspective lets me build integrations that are both accurate and useful for real-world ordering processes.
Custom PHP Integration (No Framework Dependency)
All PromoStandards work I’ve done has been built in:
- Raw PHP
- Custom data models
- Clean, testable integration layers
- Fast caching for product & inventory endpoints
- Logging tools for supplier-side debugging
- Automatic fallbacks and retry logic
This keeps integrations flexible and easy to maintain — especially for small teams or legacy systems.
WooCommerce Integration
I created PromoStandards for WooCommerce, a supplier integration ready plugin that:
- Imports supplier product data
- Maps attributes automatically
- Downloads images
- Syncs inventory
- Normalizes pricing
- Keeps WooCommerce catalogs updated
- Includes cron-based and on-demand refresh tools
This tool is actively maintained and has been integrated into live reseller sites.
Project Details
More than five years of Hands-On PromoStandards Work
Working as the primary developer for a large PHP-driven reseller platform, I:
- onboarded suppliers
- normalized and imported their product data
- built catalog synchronization systems
- resolved edge cases in supplier data
- guided suppliers through fixing their API issues
- implemented order workflows
- provided long-term maintenance and enhancement
Because every supplier implemented the standard differently, I developed a library of reusable solutions to handle:
- broken image endpoints
- missing fields
- incorrect MIME types
- large product catalogs
- inconsistent attribute schemas
- incomplete or delayed inventory feeds
Practical Experience, Not Just Documentation
PromoStandards documentation only tells part of the story.
Real-world integrations require:
- deep debugging
- pattern handling
- correction layers
- data normalization
- performance optimization
- error recovery rules
- supplier communication
I’ve done all of that — repeatedly — at scale.
Result
A robust, battle-tested understanding of PromoStandards that comes only from integrating dozens of suppliers into a live, production reseller environment.
Across multiple companies, I’ve built stable, maintainable PromoStandards functionality that:
- improves data accuracy
- reduces manual updates
- supports real customer ordering
- keeps catalogs synchronized
- removes friction between suppliers and distributors
This is functionality that end-users rely on daily.
Tech Stack
- Logging & error management
- Raw PHP
- Custom integration layers
- Cron-based sync & refresh tools
- WooCommerce integration
- REST/SOAP (depending on supplier implementation)
- Data normalization workflows
- Image processing