X-Cart's Dix Performance North integration allows you to use Dix Performance North as a warehouse distributor for your X-Cart store.
Before you start: Requirements and setup
Before you start using Dix Performance North, make sure that all required components are in place.
X-Cart Automotive add-ons: Verify that your store has the key X-Cart add-ons for auto parts commerce enabled (Make/Model/Year, Shop by Brand, Auto Catalog Import, Split Shipments, etc.). If any required add-ons are missing, install them via the X-Cart App Store before proceeding.
Dix Performance North add-on: Install the Dix Performance North integration add-on from the X-Cart App Store. This add-on enables the connection between your store and Dix Performance North.
Dix Performance North account and credentials: You must have an approved Dix Performance North dealer account to use the integration. Once you have an account, connect your integration.
Connect your X-Cart store to Dix Performance
With the prerequisites in place, you can connect X-Cart to the Dix Performance North integration. Make sure you choose the Dix Performance tab under Settings.
Vehicle list (Fitment data)
X-Cart's Dix Performance North integration does not import the list of vehicles (Make/Model/Year) into your store’s database and does not provide product fitment information. For this type of data, you should rely on your catalog provider.
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Catalog data import
Dix Performance North provides a very limited set of product data to its customers. As a result, the data imported into X-Cart from Dix Performance North is not sufficient to fully present products in your store catalog.
For this reason, the recommended approach is to build your store catalog using an integration with a catalog provider that supplies complete product data, and to use the Dix Performance North integration exclusively for updating stock and pricing information for products that have already been imported.
To import data from Dix Performance North, follow these steps:
Сategory import and category mapping are not supported for Dix Performance. You do not need to complete these steps.
Import brands: Import information about brands (manufacturers) provided by Dix Performance North. During the brand import step, X-Cart will fetch a list of all the brands that Dix Performance North makes available to you. Please note that the initial import of brands is informational only; this step does not create any brands in your store. Actual changes to your store's brands list happen only when products are imported, and only brands of successfully imported products are added. Note that before importing products, you will be able to select specific brands from which to import products.
Customize brand settings: Before importing products, adjust the settings that will define how certain data is handled on a per-brand basis.
Import products: Now the main event – importing the products themselves. Choose the brands whose products you want to import and start the import process.
X-Cart will retrieve product data for the selected brands from Dix Performance North and use this data to update the details of products that already exist in your store’s catalog.
You can find a summary of the data types that can be imported from Dix Performance North in the section Data types imported from Dix Performance North.
Depending on how many products are available through the brands you selected, the import can take some time. (It runs in the background, so you don’t have to keep the browser open the whole time.)
If you configured “New product status” as Inactive, remember to activate the imported products when you’re ready to sell – or set that option to Active beforehand if you wanted them live immediately
Note: During product import, X-Cart uses identifiers like SKU, MPN, or UPC to avoid creating duplicates. If you run the import again or add another integration, products might be matched by these fields. It’s strongly recommended not to manually change SKUs or part numbers of imported products in your catalog. If you alter these identifiers, future re-imports may not recognize the product and could create duplicates or fail to update it.
Keeping your price and stock data up to date
Once you have imported product data from Dix Performance North into your X-Cart store for the first time, the job isn’t completely over – prices and stock levels change frequently. To ensure your storefront always reflects the latest information, you’ll need to update your products' price and stock data regularly. The Dix Performance North auto integration provides options for manual re-imports and scheduled automatic updates.
In the Import Options settings for Dix Performance North, you can specify what types of data should be updated during re-import.
After choosing which data types you wish to update by import from Dix Performance North, you need to specify your desired import schedules. For instance, you could schedule nightly jobs that update Prices and hourly jobs that update Stock.
Price and inventory management
When using the Dix Performance North integration, price and inventory management in your store follows X-Cart’s standard inventory and pricing logic, with Dix Performance North acting as one of the external data and stock sources.
Prices imported from Dix Performance North are processed according to your store’s price management rules and brand-level settings. X-Cart determines the final storefront price based on the selected price source, adjustments, and applicable constraints (such as MAP), depending on your store version and configuration. Note: At the time of writing, the import of Retail pricing data from Dix Performance North is not supported.
Inventory from Dix Performance North is treated as external warehouse stock. Dix Performance North provides stock levels per warehouse location, which X-Cart uses alongside your local inventory (if any). Inventory availability is updated through re-imports.
Locations play an important role when working with Dix Performance North inventory. Dix Performance North warehouses are represented as separate stock locations, allowing X-Cart to correctly calculate availability, shipping, and order routing.
The exact behavior of pricing, inventory updates, and location-based stock management depends on the X-Cart version you are using (5.5.1.x or 5.6.x) and on your store’s configuration. See the following articles for details:
Inventory management
Price management
Backorder management
Location management (X-Cart 5.6.x)
Shipping management
Dix Performance North does not automatically provide shipping rate data for order delivery. However, you can still enable shipping cost calculation for Dix Performance North orders by configuring shipping methods in your store that use flat shipping rates.
These shipping methods can be applied to orders fulfilled from Dix Performance North. As a result, when a customer purchases products supplied by Dix Performance North, the corresponding delivery methods will be available for selection during checkout.
Order processing and fulfillment
When you receive orders for products supplied by Dix Performance North, the order is created and managed in your X-Cart Admin area with full details, including products, quantities, selected shipping method, and shipping cost.
Order submission:
The Dix Performance North integration does not support automatic order submission via API. Orders placed in X-Cart are not automatically sent to Dix Performance North, and there is no option to submit them from the X-Cart admin interface. To place an order with Dix Performance North, you must manually create the order in the Dix Performance North admin panel using the information from the X-Cart order.Order status updates and notifications:
Order status updates are not synchronized automatically between Dix Performance North and X-Cart. The store administrator must manually track order progress on the supplier side and manually update order statuses in X-Cart. Customer notifications work as usual, but they are triggered only when the order status is changed manually in the X-Cart admin panel.
Using Dix Performance North with other integrations
X-Cart's Dix Performance North integration is intended to be used in combination with another auto integration of the catalog provider range. For example, it can be paired with ASAP Network, SEMA Data, or AutoSync. A list of installation links for popular X-Cart automotive integrations is available on this page.
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