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Akeneo to SAP Business ByDesign integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign

Keep the storefront in step with the back office: Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign share products, inventory, and orders in real time, in both directions.

Akeneo runs the storefront and takes the orders; SAP Business ByDesign owns the item master, the stock on hand, and the finance behind every transaction. The two overlap wherever the same products, customers, and sales matter to both — and when re-keying or an overnight batch is what connects them, the store oversells items it can't ship, quotes prices finance never set, or leaves buyers waiting on status that already changed.

Stacksync syncs Products, Product models, Categories, Attributes in Akeneo with Materials / Products, Purchase Orders, Opportunities, Projects in SAP Business ByDesign field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields — stock and pricing from SAP Business ByDesign, order and customer detail from Akeneo — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent and resolves conflicts by rules you set.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push enriched Products and their Assets into an ecommerce storefront or commerce database when product.created and product.updated webhooks fire.
  • 02 Write Categories, Families, and Attributes from an ERP or supplier feed into Akeneo to build and maintain catalog structure.
  • 03 Align the ByDesign material master with external product catalogs and inventory systems.
  • 04 Sync project and time data with external professional-services tools for billing.

Common sync patterns

Fulfillment and shipment status close the loop

As orders are picked, shipped, or invoiced in SAP Business ByDesign, tracking and status flow back to Akeneo so buyers see accurate updates.

One customer master

Where both systems keep customer records, a correction in either propagates to the other, ending dual maintenance.

Where SAP Business ByDesign is the inventory system of record: stock stays accurate

Available quantities from SAP Business ByDesign publish to Akeneo, so the store shows what can actually ship and stops overselling.

What you can sync between Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Akeneo objects SAP Business ByDesign objects How this pairing syncs
Product models Parent records for configurable products; hold shared attribute values that cascade to their variant products, synced alongside Products. Purchase Orders Procurement documents exchanged with supplier systems. Product models is specific to Akeneo and Purchase Orders to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Categories The category tree used to classify products; read out for storefront navigation or written in from an ERP to seed catalog structure. Opportunities Built-in CRM records synced with external sales tools when both are in use. Categories is specific to Akeneo and Opportunities to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Attributes Attribute definitions plus attribute options and groups; describe the shape of product data, usually mastered in Akeneo and read downstream. Projects Project structures and tasks read for time and billing integrations. Attributes is specific to Akeneo and Projects to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Families and family variants Templates defining which attributes a product carries and how variants axis out; synced to keep catalog structure consistent across systems. Employees Worker records referenced by time, expense, and project data. Families and family variants is specific to Akeneo and Employees to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reference entities and records Structured lookups like brands, manufacturers, or ingredients with their own records (Enterprise Edition); synced two-way or read into a warehouse for reporting. Business Partners (Accounts) Customer and supplier master data synced with CRMs and procurement tools. Reference entities and records is specific to Akeneo and Business Partners (Accounts) to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Assets Asset-family media (images, documents) managed in Akeneo's DAM; linked to products and synced to storefronts and commerce systems. Contacts Person records linked to accounts, aligned with CRM contact objects. Assets is specific to Akeneo and Contacts to SAP Business ByDesign — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Akeneo SAP Business ByDesign Sub-second propagation

DetectionAkeneo notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to SAP Business ByDesign through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

SAP Business ByDesign Akeneo Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls SAP Business ByDesign for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling on last-changed timestamps.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Akeneo through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Akeneo: REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.
What ships with Akeneo ⇄ SAP Business ByDesign

Connect Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Akeneo–SAP Business ByDesign connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Akeneo or SAP Business ByDesign instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Akeneo or SAP Business ByDesign data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Akeneo or SAP Business ByDesign record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Akeneo ⇄ SAP Business ByDesign sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign.

How the Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign connectors work

Akeneo

Integration surface
REST API (plus a GraphQL API) and an Events API for webhooks
Authentication
OAuth2 password grant: client_id/secret plus an API user's username/password exchanged at /api/oauth/v1/token for a bearer access_token and refresh_token; Apps use the OAuth2 authorization-code flow
Change detection
Events API webhooks (product.created, product.updated, product.deleted, plus product-model equivalents; product.updated.delta carries old and new values); falls back to polling the 'updated' datetime search filter where the Events API is unavailable
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
REST protection triggers above roughly 100 requests/second per PIM instance (HTTP 429 with Retry-After); the Events API caps at 4000 requests/hour with a 500ms webhook ack timeout.

SAP Business ByDesign

Integration surface
SOAP web services plus OData services for analytical and custom data access
Authentication
Basic authentication over TLS for service users; OAuth-based options exist for certain scenarios
Change detection
Polling on last-changed timestamps; the platform does not offer a general webhook surface
Capabilities
read · write
How it works

How to connect Akeneo to SAP Business ByDesign — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Akeneo connected
    SAP Business ByDesign connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Akeneo and SAP Business ByDesign objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Akeneo ⇄ SAP Business ByDesign
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Akeneo SAP Business ByDesign
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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