Integrating drop ship products with BC Ecommerce

I wanted to let the Business Catalyst community know about our new integration with the BC Ecommerce platform for automatically loading and updating products from most major drop ship distributors in North America (and some European based ones as well).
For anyone interested, ther dropshipper network from www.inventorysource.com is now fully integrated with BC Ecommerce using the web services API. This means that anyone can have products automatically loaded to their site and updated every day with the inventory information from your distributor, allowing for automated drop shipping.
Currently there are approximately 87 distributors covering about 800,000+ unique products that you can choose from for adding to your current Ecommerce inventory. If you already sell drop ship on your site, your supplier is probably already integrated and can be automated for you.
I welcome any questions related to Inventory Source and the integration with BC Ecommerce. You can learn more at www.inventorysource.com.
Thanks!
Kelly

Hi ,
Is it possible to get example code you have used to integrate API. I am trying to do it using C# but I am unable to get the catalogue list or product list .
Any help will be highly appreciated .
Thanks

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