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Import Scayle for images, text, and content status

Products, live images, and their order from Scayle; new images through your file workflow.

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Scayle

This is the route

Photopilot imports products and their images from Scayle, including position and reference.
For each item, you can see which images are live and in what order.
New images are sent to the shop through your file route, such as FTP or Azure.
Photopilot can remove a replaced image from Scayle on request.

See what comes in and matches Conflicts remain visible to your team.

Explanation

How Photopilot works with Scayle

Scayle teams work headless and usually already have their own pipeline for importing images into the shop. Photopilot fits into that setup: it reads the catalog, attributes, and live images from Scayle and delivers approved images and text through the route your pipeline already uses. This keeps you in control of what changes in Scayle.

What Photopilot reads from Scayle

With an Admin API token, Photopilot reads products, their attributes, and the images that are live, including position, ID, and reference key. Photopilot matches items by reference key, master key, or EAN, so images from other sources connect cleanly to the Scayle product. Brand, color, product group, composition, and care instructions are taken from the attributes when you maintain them there. Photopilot also sees whether each item already has a live description.

Edit outside the shop

All images from suppliers, the studio, and Scayle itself come together in Photopilot, where they are cut out, cropped, and placed on your shop background, with the right image type in each position. AI model photos and ghost mannequin images fill gaps in the sequence, and Iris, the AI creative director, sets up campaign images for new collections. Photopilot recognizes materials and care symbols, and writes product titles, descriptions, and SEO copy in your tone of voice. Your team approves everything before it goes out.

Deliver through your own image workflow

Photopilot delivers approved images to an FTP or SFTP folder or to Azure storage, with filenames that follow your convention, for example item number, color, and position. Your existing import takes them from there into Scayle, so validation and publication remain in your own workflow. Copy and attributes go via the API or the Webshop Excel to the system that adds them to Scayle. If you want a replaced image to disappear from Scayle as well, Photopilot can clean that up on request via the Admin API; by default, that remains your responsibility.

What you see every day

Every two hours, Photopilot reads which images are live in Scayle and in what order, with one full check per day. This lets you see for each item whether a newly delivered image really made it online or whether something got stuck along the way. Reporting shows which products are complete, which are still missing images or text, and which are waiting for approval. With autopilot, fixed steps continue without manual work.

How to set up the integration

You provide an Admin API token, the tenant space, and the shop ID, plus the details for the FTP folder or storage location where your import retrieves images. Together, we define the filename convention and image positions, so the delivery fits seamlessly with what your chain already processes. A storefront token alone also works for reading, but without fixed image positions. No development work is needed in Scayle.

Large catalogs and multiple sources

Scayle shops often have tens of thousands of products. Photopilot imports them in runs of up to half an hour and continues next time exactly where it stopped, so the end of the catalog is always covered as well. Using the modification date from the Admin API, an interim run retrieves only what has changed. This makes Scayle a good fit with an ERP, DAM, or supplier portals as an additional source for images and item data.

Scayle at a glance

What is exchanged: Through the Admin API, Photopilot reads products, images with their position and ID, and whether each product already has a live description. Photopilot does not write new images to Scayle itself: those go through your file workflow. Photopilot can remove a replaced image from Scayle if you enable that.
How often: Every two hours, Photopilot reads which images are live in Scayle, with one full run per day. The content status is also updated every two hours.
What you provide: An Admin API token for your Scayle tenant, the tenant space, and the shop ID. With only a storefront token, Photopilot can also read data, but without fixed image positions.
Good to know: We read large catalogs in rounds of up to 30 minutes. Anything not read by then is picked up in the next round from the same point.

Then in Photopilot

Reliably linked

Let source data flow through to sales-ready product pages

300.000+ articles processed

9,5M+ supplier images indexed

~3.200 photos automatically edited per day

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Photopilot deliver product images for a Scayle shop?

Yes. Photopilot delivers approved images with fixed file names to an FTP or SFTP folder or Azure storage, where your existing import picks them up and adds them to Scayle. This keeps publishing within your own workflow.

How do I connect Scayle to Photopilot?

With an Admin API token for your tenant, the tenant space, and the shop ID. We also agree on the FTP folder or storage location where Photopilot will deliver images.

Does Photopilot upload images directly to Scayle?

No, images go through your own image workflow, so your chain stays in control. Photopilot then reads back from Scayle whether the image is live and in the correct position.

Which key does Photopilot use to link Scayle products?

On the reference key, the master key, or the EAN from the product attributes. This links images from suppliers or your ERP to the correct Scayle product.

How often does Photopilot rescan images in Scayle?

Every two hours, with a full check pass once a day. Large catalogs are read in passes that continue from where the previous one stopped.

Can Photopilot delete old images from Scayle?

Only if you enable it. Photopilot then removes a replaced image through the Admin API; by default, Photopilot leaves existing images in Scayle.

How does product text from Photopilot get into Scayle?

Through the API or the Webshop Excel, to the system that fills the product attributes in Scayle for you. Photopilot then reads back for each item whether a description is live.

Can I approve content before it goes to my Scayle shop?

Yes, images and text are only delivered after approval in the review. You can put fixed steps you trust on autopilot.

How much do AI model photos cost for a Scayle catalog?

AI photos cost between €0.05 and €0.21 per photo at queue pricing and are often ready within an hour. For the highest quality, choose Precision+.

How often does Photopilot read from Scayle?

Every two hours, with one full run per day. The content status is also updated every two hours.

What does Photopilot need for the Scayle integration?

An Admin API token, the tenant space, and the shop ID. A storefront token alone also works, but without fixed image positions.

Is Scayle a source or destination for our product data?

Source. Photopilot reads the catalog and content status but does not upload images or texts to Scayle. Approved images and texts go via an FTP folder or the API.

How do I keep track of the publication status in Scayle?

Photopilot checks per item if content is already live in Scayle. Reports show which products are ready, incomplete, or blocked.

Knowledge base

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How to start

First the trial route, then the technique

The integration is the starting point. After that, Photopilot keeps linking, editing, writing, checking, and publishing together.