IDS-Connect: your wholesaler's shop inside the quote
IDS-Connect is the integrated data interface of the German trades. It opens your wholesaler's web shop from inside your software, you fill a cart, and the cart comes back into your quote with article numbers, quantities and your own negotiated prices. No second window, no retyped article numbers, no prices from a catalogue that is a quarter old.
How you know you need it
Article numbers are retyped from the shop into the quote.
Quote prices come from a catalogue that is months old.
After the quote goes out, two items turn out to have gone up.
The same order is entered twice: once in the shop, once in the job.
Nobody knows at costing time whether the article is even available.
What an IDS connection can do
Which of these are actually available depends on the shop. KraftHub asks when connecting and shows what the shop really answered, rather than what it ought to support.
Article search – search the wholesaler's shop from inside KraftHub
Article detail – long text, datasheet and additional article information
Login information – which credentials the shop actually expects
Service directory – which IDS versions and services the shop offers
Cart export – the cart filled in the shop comes back into the quote
Cart synchronisation – a cart is handed from KraftHub to the shop
Before and after
Preconfigured wholesalers
Endpoint and version are already stored for G. Hoffmann, Holter, Nerlich & Lesser, Richter+Frenzel, Sanitär-Heinze and Sonepar; you only add your own credentials. The list is a convenience, not a limit — any wholesaler with an IDS interface can be connected.
Your data comes with you.
Projects, quotes, invoices, customers, prices, site photos and work reports from your old trade software — €1,199 flat, free from many systems until 31.12.2026.
IDS-Connect questions
Terms
- IDS-Connect
- The trades' standard interface for reaching wholesaler and manufacturer shop systems.
- Cart export (WKE)
- The cart filled in the wholesaler's shop is handed back to the trade software.
- Service directory (SV)
- The shop's own statement of which IDS versions and services it offers.
- OCI
- Open Catalog Interface, a related punch-out standard from procurement, common outside the trades.
Other interfaces
Article data, prices and availability straight from the supplier's system.
Load and maintain a supplier's complete article catalogue as a file.
Import a bill of quantities, price it and return it priced.
Let your own AI assistants work with KraftHub data — controlled and revocable.