Integration Hero
Connect™

Volusion & Kentico Integration: Unify eCommerce, Content & Customer Experience

Achieve real-time synchronization of orders, products, inventory, and customer data between Volusion and Kentico. Automate critical workflows with an intelligent iPaaS and deliver a seamless digital experience.

Get Pricing

See how it works
The Challenge

The Challenge: Disconnected eCommerce & Content Experiences

Managing separate Volusion eCommerce and Kentico DXP environments often leads to operational inefficiencies, data discrepancies, and a fragmented customer journey. Without a robust integration, businesses face significant hurdles.

  • Manual data entry for orders, products, and customers across systems.
  • Inconsistent inventory levels leading to overselling and customer dissatisfaction.
  • Delayed order fulfillment due to lack of real-time data flow.
  • Fragmented customer profiles hindering personalized marketing and support.
  • Complex and error-prone content synchronization between CMS and eCommerce.
  • Difficulty in reconciling payments and financial data.
  • Lack of comprehensive visibility into cross-platform performance.
Integration Diagram
Solution Illustration
The Solution

The Solution: Intelligent Integration with a Modern iPaaS

Our iPaaS-powered integration solution bridges the gap between Volusion and Kentico, creating a unified ecosystem where data flows freely and intelligently. We leverage advanced connectors, low-code automation, and AI-driven capabilities to transform your digital operations.

  • Real-time, event-driven data synchronization.
  • Robust visual workflow builder.
  • Pre-built connectors for Volusion and Kentico APIs.
  • AI-assisted data mapping and validation.
  • Centralized error handling and monitoring.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Volusion + Kentico in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Volusion and Kentico, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Volusion + Kentico deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Real-time, event-driven data synchronization.
  • Robust visual workflow builder.
  • Pre-built connectors for Volusion and Kentico APIs.
  • AI-assisted data mapping and validation.
  • Centralized error handling and monitoring.
  • Scalable architecture for peak performance.
  • Comprehensive security and compliance features.

Technical Integration Details & Architecture

Our integration solution orchestrates data flow between Volusion and Kentico using a modern iPaaS, leveraging their respective APIs and webhooks for optimal performance and real-time synchronization. This ensures a robust, scalable, and secure data exchange.

Data Flow Steps

Connectivity Setup: Securely connect the iPaaS to Volusion using API Keys and to Kentico using OAuth 2.0. Credentials are stored in an encrypted vault.

Event Listener Configuration: Configure webhooks in both Volusion and Kentico to notify the iPaaS of critical events (e.g., new order, product update, content published).

Data Ingestion: The iPaaS receives event payloads or initiates API calls to retrieve full data entities.

Transformation & Harmonization: Data is mapped from the source system's schema to a canonical model, then transformed to match the target system's schema. This includes data type conversions, value lookups, and business rule application.

Validation & Enrichment: AI-driven validation checks data integrity and completeness. Data can be enriched with information from other systems (e.g., customer segment from CRM).

Routing & Delivery: The iPaaS intelligently routes the transformed data to the appropriate API endpoint in the target system (Volusion or Kentico).

Error Handling & Monitoring: Automated retries, dead-letter queues, and real-time alerts ensure data integrity and immediate notification of failures.

Bi-directional Sync: Workflows are designed for both one-way and bi-directional data flow, ensuring all systems remain consistent.

Data Touchpoints

Volusion: Orders, Products, Customers, Inventory, Payments, Shipments, Returns, Categories, Coupons
Kentico: Orders, OrderItems, Products, ProductVariants, Customers, Addresses, Inventory, Payments, ContentItems, MarketingActivities, CouponCodes
Shared: Product IDs, Customer IDs, Order Numbers, SKUs, Inventory Levels, Pricing

"Kentico <> iPaaS (Connectors, Mappings, AI, Orchestration) <> Volusion. With additional branches to ERP/CRM/WMS/PIM."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Volusion + Kentico.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating Volusion

Integrating Volusion fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

Hover over the steps on the right to see detailed integration points.
Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping

Our iPaaS provides a visual mapping canvas and AI assistance to accurately bridge the differing data schemas of Volusion and Kentico, ensuring data integrity and consistency across all integrated entities.

Order

Represents a customer's purchase. Critical for fulfillment, inventory, and financial reconciliation.

Volusion Fields

OrderID CustomerID OrderDate OrderStatus TotalAmount PaymentStatus ShippingAddress BillingAddress LineItems (SKU, Quantity, Price)

Kentico Fields

OrderID OrderDate OrderStatus CustomerGUID BillingAddress ShippingAddress TotalPrice CurrencyCode OrderItem (SKU, ProductName, Quantity, UnitPrice)

Mapping Notes

Requires careful mapping of line items from Volusion's 'LineItems' array to Kentico's 'OrderItem' collection. Order status codes need to be harmonized (e.g., 'Pending' in Volusion to 'New Order' in Kentico). Customer and Address IDs must be linked.

Next Steps

See Volusion + Kentico integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo
Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Automated Order-to-Fulfillment Lifecycle

A customer places an order on your Kentico-powered storefront or directly through Volusion. The iPaaS instantly captures the order, transforms it, and pushes it to your ERP/OMS for processing, then updates inventory and triggers shipment notifications back to both eCommerce platforms.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places order on Kentico or Volusion.
  2. 1 iPaaS webhook triggers on new order event.
  3. 2 Order data (products, customer, shipping) extracted and validated.
  4. 3 Data transformed to match ERP/OMS schema.
  5. 4 Order created in ERP/OMS, inventory reserved.
  6. 5 Fulfillment status and tracking information updated from ERP/WMS to Kentico/Volusion.
  7. 6 Customer receives automated shipment notification.

Business Outcome

Faster order processing, accurate inventory, reduced manual data entry, improved customer satisfaction with real-time updates.

Frequency

Real-time (event-driven)

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Real-time Order Fulfillment
Automate the entire order lifecycle from Kentico/Volusion checkout to ERP/WMS processing, ensuring rapid fulfillment and immediate customer updates.
Accurate Inventory Synchronization
Maintain real-time inventory levels across Volusion, Kentico, and your ERP/WMS to prevent overselling and optimize stock management.
Unified Customer Experience
Synchronize customer profiles and purchase history across Kentico, Volusion, and CRM for personalized marketing and improved service.
Streamlined Product Information
Automate the sync of product details, images, pricing, and attributes from a PIM/ERP to both Volusion and Kentico.
Enhanced Financial Accuracy
Automate payment reconciliation from Volusion and Kentico with your general ledger, reducing manual accounting effort and errors.
Proactive Fraud Detection
Leverage AI to analyze Volusion/Kentico order data for anomalies, flagging suspicious transactions and reducing financial risk.
✨

Real-time Order Fulfillment

30% Faster Order Processing

📋 What You Get

Automate the entire order lifecycle from Kentico/Volusion checkout to ERP/WMS processing, ensuring rapid fulfillment and immediate customer updates.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 30% improvement in Faster Order Processing, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with Volusion + Kentico in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Volusion and Kentico, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Volusion + Kentico deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/orders Retrieve, create, or update Volusion orders. Used for inbound orders from Kentico (if applicable) and outbound orders to ERP/OMS.
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/products Manage product catalog. Essential for syncing product data from PIM/ERP to Volusion.
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/customers Access and manage customer profiles for CRM synchronization.
GET, PUT /api/v1/inventory Dedicated endpoint for real-time inventory updates from WMS/ERP.
POST /api/v1/webhooks Configure webhooks for event-driven notifications (e.g., new order, product update).

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Data Type Conversion: Automatically convert data types (e.g., string to integer, date formats).
  • Value Mapping: Map discrete values (e.g., 'VolusionPending' to 'KenticoNew').
  • Field Concatenation/Splitting: Combine or split fields (e.g., 'FirstName' + 'LastName' to 'FullName').
  • Conditional Logic: Apply transformations based on specific conditions (e.g., apply tax rate based on shipping region).
  • Lookup Tables: Enrich data by looking up values from external sources or internal tables.
  • Address Standardization: Normalize and validate shipping/billing addresses.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • API rate limit exceeded: iPaaS retries with exponential backoff.
  • Invalid data format: Data routed to dead-letter queue for review/correction.
  • System outage (Volusion/Kentico): iPaaS queues messages for processing once system is back online.
  • Duplicate record creation: Idempotent API calls or deduplication logic prevents duplicates.
  • Security token expiration: iPaaS automatically refreshes OAuth tokens.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Volusion + Kentico.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General FAQs

▸ What is the primary benefit of integrating Volusion with Kentico?
The primary benefit is achieving a unified digital experience. It allows for real-time synchronization of critical eCommerce data (orders, products, inventory) from Volusion with Kentico's powerful content and customer management capabilities, automating workflows, improving data accuracy, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Technical FAQs

▸ How does the integration handle product and inventory synchronization between Volusion and Kentico?
Utilizing an iPaaS, product master data (SKU, descriptions, images, pricing) and inventory levels are synchronized bi-directionally or from a central PIM/ERP to both Volusion and Kentico. For Kentico, this includes managing 'ProductVariants' and their specific stock levels. Webhooks ensure real-time updates to prevent overselling.
▸ What happens if an integration workflow fails?
Our iPaaS includes robust error handling. For transient issues, automated retries with exponential backoff are attempted. Persistent failures are logged in detail, routed to a dead-letter queue for manual review, and trigger intelligent alerts to relevant teams, ensuring no data is lost and issues are resolved promptly.

iPaaS Capabilities FAQs

▸ Can I automate my Volusion and Kentico workflows without extensive coding?
Yes, absolutely. Our modern iPaaS platform features a low-code/no-code visual builder with pre-built connectors for both Volusion and Kentico. This empowers business users and citizen integrators to design, deploy, and manage complex integration workflows with minimal to no coding required.

AI Features FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance the Volusion and Kentico integration?
AI significantly augments the integration by providing capabilities like automated mapping suggestions, anomaly detection (e.g., suspicious orders in either platform for fraud prevention), intelligent error handling, and predictive insights for inventory or customer behavior. This improves data quality and reduces manual effort.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What security measures are in place for data exchanged between Volusion and Kentico?
Security is paramount. All data in transit is encrypted using TLS 1.2+. API keys and OAuth tokens are stored securely in an encrypted vault. The iPaaS enforces least-privilege access, provides comprehensive audit trails, and adheres to compliance standards like PCI-DSS (for payment data), GDPR, and CCPA.

Performance FAQs

▸ How are API rate limits managed for Volusion and Kentico?
The iPaaS intelligently manages API rate limits for both platforms through features like intelligent queuing, batching of requests for bulk operations, and exponential backoff retry logic. This ensures that integrations operate efficiently, avoid exceeding limits, and maintain data consistency even during high-volume periods.

Use Cases FAQs

▸ Can content created in Kentico be used to enrich products in Volusion?
Yes. Kentico's 'ContentItem' entity can be leveraged. Once content is published in Kentico, an iPaaS workflow can extract specific content elements (e.g., rich descriptions, images) and map them to relevant fields in Volusion's product catalog, ensuring product pages are always updated with the latest, richest content.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Volusion + Kentico in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Volusion and Kentico, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Volusion + Kentico deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Volusion + Kentico.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See Volusion + Kentico integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo