Elemtechnic Dropshipping Tools Garden Home Module for PrestaShop — French B2B Catalog 1,310 References

PrestaShop dropshipping module ELEMTECHNIC

Are you launching or running a DIY, gardening or tools online store? You work with Elemtechnic (French B2B wholesaler specializing in tools, power tools, garden, home) and you spend your days manually copying product sheets from their portal, classifying each item into the right sub-category (Screwdriver / Petrol mower / Pressure washer / Submersible pump / Heater…), uploading photos from their CDN, recalculating your selling prices with your margin?

With the Elemtechnic dropshipping tools garden home module, everything becomes automatic. You enter the Elemtechnic CSV URL, you click "Start import", and the module creates your 1,310 PrestaShop products before your eyes, in real time, with their 5 derived images per variant, in a perfectly organized native tree.

⚡ Before vs After the Elemtechnic Module

👤 Who is this module for?

🎯 Complete features of the Elemtechnic Module

🌳 Native Elemtechnic tree — 10 main categories

The Elemtechnic CSV exposes 12 main categories (with 2 case duplicates normalized) and 166 distinct sub-categories (216 CATEGORY × SUB_CAT pairs). The module preserves the supplier's native tree — no artificial fixed tree that would force tedious re-mapping.

• Auto case normalization: "garden" → "Garden", "HOME" → "Home", "workshop storage" → "Workshop storage" — no more PS tree duplicates
• Sub-categories on the fly: created at import time from the SUB_CAT column of the CSV (with their exact name)
• Safety net: if a main category is manually deleted from the PS BO, it is recreated the next time the module is opened
• Customizable sub-root: Home by default, or any category in your tree

📸 Multi-images derived via _F/_B/_U/_Z suffixes — Elemtechnic Innovation

The unique feature of this module. The Elemtechnic CSV provides only one PHOTO_BIG column (URL of the main image). However, the Elemtechnic CDN usually hosts 4 variants per product (Front, Back, Up, Zoom) accessible by naming convention. The module automatically derives these 4 additional URLs by replacing .jpg with the suffixes.

• Resilient download: if a variant does not exist at Elemtechnic (HTTP 404), the module silently moves to the next one. You get exactly the images actually available, with no broken sheet.
• Auto trim supplier bug: ~50 rows of the CSV have a stray space before .jpg ("<REF> .jpg"). The module cleans them automatically with preg_replace('/\s+\.jpg$/i', '.jpg', $url).
• Format validation via getimagesize(): JPEG/PNG/GIF/WebP, corrupted files rejected without crashing the import.
• Auto generation of all PS sizes (small, medium, large, home_default…) via ImageManager::resize()
• PrestaShop 9 BO fix included: 1:1 copy of the original <id>.jpg file in addition to the variants — without this fix, the image does not appear in the PS9 BO product edit page (known PS9 bug).

📦 1 CSV row = 1 PS product — No variants to manage

The Elemtechnic catalog does not contain size/color variants (each REFERENCE is a distinct finished product, like a complete "XYZ 18V drill"). Advantages:

• Simple mapping: 1 CSV row = 1 PS product, no parent grouping logic to understand
• Direct stock on the product: no combinations or attributes to create/maintain
• EAN13 directly on the product (no combination → EAN complexity)
• Clean product sheet: no variant dropdown on the front-end if empty, just the product presented with its 5 derived images

📋 Elemtechnic CSV — Clean and easy format

✍️ Automatic description if empty

If the DESCRIPTION column of the CSV contains at least 30 characters of text (after strip_tags), it is kept and reformatted in clean HTML. If empty or too short, the module automatically generates a structured HTML description from the TITRE, MARQUE, category and REFERENCE — to never have an empty product sheet harmful to SEO.

The module never overwrites a description provided by the supplier.

⚡ Real-time import architecture

💰 Configurable margins & SEO

4 pricing modes

Elemtechnic peculiarity: the CSV does not provide an RRP price (recommended retail price). The module supports 4 strategies:

Customizable SEO templates

• Meta title / meta description with variables: {name}, {brand}
• Auto-generated PS Tags from brand + category
• Smart mini-description: extracted from the first 2 CSV sentences if provided, auto-generated otherwise
• Auto-disable on out of stock (option) or "keep visible for SEO"
• "Image in description" option: injection of the 1st image directly into the long description (on-page SEO boost), position start or end as you choose

⏰ CRON 24/7 — 3 automated actions

• 32-character hex secret key generated on install — your CRON URLs cannot be guessed
• 1-click regeneration of the key in case of leak
• Asynchronous auto-restart: the module re-calls itself in the background if the time-budget is reached (60s by default, configurable) — no Apache 5xx timeout
• Precise resume: resumes exactly at the line where it stopped
• Anti-concurrence lock via flock: no parallel executions
• CSV download retry 3× with backoff 2s/4s/6s
• Stop button on the BO side to cleanly stop a running CRON
• Test mode with configurable product limit (50 to validate quickly)

🏷️ The Elemtechnic catalog in figures

Flagship brands of the catalog (excerpt, by volume):

🛠️ Maintenance — Selective deletion

• ☐ Imported products: detection from 4 sources (meta, supplier, product_supplier, category mapping), compatible with PS9 multi-shop quirk with SQL wipe fallback on 25 linked tables
• ☐ Orphan brands: deletes the 50 Elemtechnic manufacturers (ELEM Garden Technic, WARM TECH, CONSTRUCTOR, X-PERFORMER, BRICK, GARDEO Pro, I-WATTS, MASTER PUMPS, COOL CLIMA…) that no longer have any product
• ☐ Elemtechnic supplier: deletes the supplier only if it no longer has any linked product
• ☐ Internal logs: truncate of history and import_errors tables

Triple confirmation (dialog box + DELETE input + button). No "Orphan attributes" checkbox (Elemtechnic has no size/color variants). No "Categories" checkbox: the tree is managed by the module and recreated if manually deleted from the BO.

⭐ 12 reasons to choose the Elemtechnic Module

1. 🚀 3-minute installation: CSV URL + tree created + start the import
2. 🌳 Native tree preserved: 10 main categories + sub-cats on the fly (vs. imposing an artificial fixed tree)
3. 🔡 Auto case normalization: "garden" / "HOME" / "workshop storage" merged to their clean form
4. 📸 Multi-images derived via _F/_B/_U/_Z suffixes: unique innovation of the Elemtechnic module, exploits the supplier CDN naming convention
5. 🛡️ Auto trim supplier bug: ~50 rows with stray space before .jpg automatically cleaned
6. 📦 1 CSV row = 1 product: no variant complexity, direct and deterministic mapping
7. ✍️ Auto-generated description if empty: no ghost product sheet on the front-end
8. 💰 4 pricing modes: Fixed markup (default 50%) / Tiers / Wholesale / RRP — adapted to the absence of supplier RRP
9. ⚡ Real-time product-by-product import: live bar, console log, Stop button
10. ⏰ CRON 24/7 with time-budget, asynchronous auto-restart, retry, lock
11. 🛡️ Compatible PS 1.7 → 9.x: EtCompat compatibility layer + PS9 BO image bug fix included
12. 🇫🇷 French author · No AdminController, no override: does not pollute your BO menu, does not break your other modules

🎬 How it works in 4 steps

🔧 Technical compatibility

❓ Frequently asked questions

📦 Module developed by WebPoint · webpoint.fr · Regular updates · Clean & commented code