The differential approach is a function present on some categories of connectors present on bindCommerce. This function, if active, allows the connector to consider only the products that have been created and/or modified since the last execution of the process.

The activation of the differential approach is strongly recommended for all those processes that manage the publication and updating of products, as well as for internal processing processes, as it allows speeding up their execution and optimizing platform performance.

If errors or hangs occur on the execution of a connector, the differential approach ignores it and considers the last successful execution for comparison.

The differential approach, if activated from the first execution of the connector, will not start a process in complete mode (thus considering all products), but a comparison will be made with the start date of the process and consequently no products will be extracted.

To activate the differential approach, just click on Yes in the appropriate section of the connector. We point out that this function is designed to work correctly when the connector is run in repeated mode always with the same configuration and the same product filter (if present). In case of configuration or filter changes it is necessary to execute an execution with inactive differential. At the end of the complete execution it will be possible to reactivate the differential approach.