About Grover

Grover, Europe's premier tech subscription platform with access to cutting-edge electronics that offers a flexible rental model over traditional ownership. With an extensive product portfolio spanning categories such as audio & music, cameras & drones, and computers & laptops, Grover caters to diverse tech needs. Founded in 2015 by Michael Cassau, Grover champions the belief that technology should be a universal right, empowering individuals to explore new personal and professional horizons. By subscribing to Grover, users can keep, switch, return, or even purchase devices, ensuring maximum flexibility and affordability. As a leader in the circular economy, Grover drives sustainability by extending the lifespan of tech products, minimizing e-waste, and maximizing value for users worldwide.

Grover Case Study

Download This Free Copy And Learn:

  • How Aqtivaqua ditched Google Sheets and made product management easy.
  • The trick to automating listings across 12 Amazon marketplaces (goodbye manual work!).
  • How AI helps keep product info accurate across different platforms and languages.
  • How a centralized dashboard gives total control over product data and updates.

Project Objective

Have the ability to grade products in an automated way:

  • Create a custom import that excludes unnecessary categories and entities.
  • Enrich initial product data via connection with Icecat content provider.
  • Export product data in XLSX, CSV formats products that are enriched with Icecat, and JSON with customized product attributes for compliance with the Grover Grading System.
  • Overcome data silos by centralizing and structuring product data within a single source of truth.

How It Works

Addressing Technical Challenges

Challenges

  • Supporting multiple taxonomies and custom categories

  • Connection to Content Provider

  • Multi-Locale taxonomy import

  • Reporting/Dashboards

  • Taxonomy management through UI

Solution

Supporting multiple taxonomies and custom categories

We addressed this challenge by mapping the taxonomies of Grover and Icecat and implementing an import configuration that allowed the client to provide their own categorization, bypassing the initial one.

Connection to Content Provider

To facilitate seamless access to product content data, we established the Icecat Content Connector, ensuring a reliable connection to the content provider.

Multi-Locale taxonomy import

We tackled the complexity of importing taxonomies with multiple locales by developing logic that examines the file structure and enables users to update and assign translations to the Grading Master taxonomy.

Reporting/Dashboards

In response to the need for comprehensive reporting, we gathered analytics and metrics of products within all catalogs and individual ones, including periods and stages of product data validation in the dashboard logic.

Taxonomy management through UI

To streamline taxonomy management, we developed a user-friendly taxonomy management module within the Gepard platform. This module empowers users to efficiently manage taxonomies, including all related entities such as categories, attributes, attribute groups, brands, and attribute values.

Business Values Our Customers Received

Custom Import Implementation

Business Value: Reduction of manual work during mapping & transforming product data. Established a centralized source of truth.

Working closely with Grover, we configured a custom import system to pull all necessary entities from the provided data sources (one taxonomy and two product data files) and transform them. This feature enables Grover to categorize products efficiently, aligning with their unique requirements and automating the overall workflow.

Full compliance with the Grover Grading System

Business Value: Opportunity to estimate product reuse levels for more accurate pricing.

Our team successfully developed a unique custom export of a Grading Master file in JSON format. This JSON file has a strict order and structure, featuring an array of products with SKU, unique variant, EAN, GTIN, brand, category, subcategory, and data from linked files for each product.

Comprehensive Dashboard Creation

Business Value: Enhanced decision-making capabilities through access to detailed, real-time data insights. You gain control over enrichment status and validation, as well as how much product data is filled.

Through our collaboration with Grover, we developed dashboards displaying statistics on product catalog data, EAN/GTIN validation, and the number of products enriched with content providers.

Icecat Connector Setup for automated data enrichment and trasformation

Business Value: Increased customer satisfaction and engagement through enriched and accurate product information.

We also established an Icecat connector, allowing Grover to seamlessly access enriched product content. This integration enhances the quality and depth of product information available to Grover's customers.

Leading The Way

Cyril Dorogan Cyril Dorogan

Chief Commercial Officer at Gepard

Ionenko Olena Ionenko Olena

Project Manager at Gepard

Bart Van Uffelen Bart Van Uffelen

Lead Developer at Grover

Santiago Zanko Santiago Zanko

Operations Development Analyst at Grover

About Gepard

Gepard is an independent turn-key eCommerce platform that automates work with product data. For more than 15 years the Gepard team of 150+ dedicated specialists has been working on product information management solutions for clients around the globe.

Gepard Benefits

  • Enable product data syndication with Gepard to automate manual data entry;
  • Keep your product information high quality and constantly updated;
  • Adjust your product data to the requirements of various marketplaces;
  • Automate your product content distribution to multiple retail platforms with AI mappings;
  • Entrust Gepard’s experienced specialists with your data maintenance;
  • Optimize your user experience with retailer-specific content;
  • Spend less time on data-related tasks and increase your team’s productivity.
Get My Free Copy

Let’s Get In Touch

Need to contact us? Just use this form

Gepard Privacy Policy
Success