Bihr Importer for PrestaShop
The Bihr Addon for PrestaShop connects your store to the eBihr V3 API and imports the Bihr catalogue — a leading European distributor of motorcycle parts and gear. Prices, stock, images and variants are synchronised automatically, with no manual effort.
Built for large catalogues, the import runs in stages, resumes from where it left off if interrupted, and never creates duplicate products — even with multiple servers or CRON jobs running simultaneously.
Complete Products, Ready to Sell
- Real variants: items available in multiple colours or sizes are created as a single product with combinations, each showing its own images.
- Features and filters: measurements, materials, colours and sizes are imported as product features — including all variant values — so your store's filters work out of the box.
- Clean descriptions: Word-generated HTML found in thousands of product descriptions is automatically stripped and cleaned.
- Multiple languages: if your store runs more than one language, titles and descriptions are imported in those languages whenever Bihr provides them.
- Brands, EAN codes, weights and categories: organised into an automatic category tree or mapped to your own categories.
This structure sets up your catalogue to perform well in an online store built on PrestaShop.
Prices and Stock Under Control
- Retail price calculated from your Bihr cost price, applying the margin you define. The cost price is also saved so you can track margins in reports.
- Real-time stock levels, including items that sell out.
- Back-order items remain available for purchase even when out of stock.
- A mandatory tax group ensures no product is ever created without VAT by mistake.
- Only changed data is saved, keeping synchronisation lightweight for your store.
A Catalogue That Stays Up to Date on Its Own
- Daily CRON synchronisation with stock updates every 3 hours.
- Discontinued products are never imported; items removed from the Bihr catalogue are automatically disabled, with protection against incomplete data files.
- References replaced by Bihr reuse the existing product, preserving its URL, images and Google rankings.
- New sizes and colours are added to existing products automatically.
Keeping product URLs and images stable helps protect your ecommerce SEO performance over time.
Your Edits Are Never Overwritten
Once a product has been created, only its price and stock are updated. Any names, descriptions, images or categories you edit manually will never be overwritten. Products you delete will not reappear.
Full Control in the Back Office
The full-width dashboard displays real-time counters, a detailed activity log and an error list showing the reason for each failure along with a retry button. You can stop an import on one machine and resume it on another.
This module integrates with other PrestaShop addons and can be set up and maintained with the help of a PrestaShop expert.
Features
- Bihr catalogue import via eBihr V3 API
- Over 100,000 products with images and attributes
- Colour and size variants with per-combination images
- Retail price with configurable margin
- Cost price saved for margin reporting
- Real-time stock synchronisation
- Back-order items sellable without stock
- Automatic CRON synchronisation
- Staged import that won't overload your store
- Automatic resume of interrupted imports
- Duplicate product protection
- Manually edited products are never overwritten
- Automatic deactivation of products removed by Bihr
- Discontinued items skipped during import
- Replaced references reuse the existing product
- Automatic or custom category mapping
- Titles and descriptions in multiple languages
- Mandatory tax group (VAT always assigned)
- Compatible with PrestaShop filters and search
- Compatible with PrestaShop 1.7 and 8.x
Technical requirements
PrestaShop 1.7 or 8.x (validated on 8.2)
Bihr reseller account with eBihr API access
PHP cURL and ZIP extensions (available on most hosting environments)