Specta
Batch-process up to 20 spec sheets with an AI queue, then review only the fields confidence-scoring flags.
The problem it solves
Distributors and multi-supplier sellers receive product data as PDF catalogs and spec sheets, one format per supplier, none of them matching your store. Someone retypes the name, SKU, dimensions, material, and price into a spreadsheet, supplier after supplier, product after product. It is slow, error-prone, and never finished. A real onboarding is twenty spec sheets, three of which come back messy, and black-box SaaS PIM onboarding tools still charge per-product subscriptions, hold your catalog on their servers, and make you map columns by hand.
- Manually retyping every supplier's spec sheet
- Re-reading an entire catalog just to find the mistakes
- Per-product SaaS subscription fees for onboarding tools
What you get
Batch queue (new in 1.1)
Process up to 20 supplier files per batch with a per-file status queue, one-click retry on failures, and a hands-off auto-advance mode — no cron required.
Confidence-scored review (new in 1.1)
Every extracted field carries an offline parse-quality score; low-confidence cells glow amber or red so your reviewer checks only what needs it.
Template library
Three editable sample templates (Electronics, Apparel, Food & Beverage) define the exact attribute columns, types, and unit hints you want out.
Editable platform mappings
Per-template mapping presets for WooCommerce and Shopify CSV let you rename headers, reorder columns, and add fixed-value columns.
Import-ready exports
Export WooCommerce CSV, Shopify CSV, plain CSV, or JSON, with deterministic price parsing across formats like $1,299.00 and 1.299,00 €.
Three AI providers (BYO key)
Switch between OpenAI, Anthropic (native multi-page PDF support), or a local Ollama model any time in Settings.
Installable mobile app (PWA)
Add it to a phone or tablet home screen straight from the browser — a full-screen app served from your own server, with no app store involved. Business data is never cached offline, so what you see is always live.
Own It 2.0 — API, 2FA, backups, dark mode
Specta 2.0 adds the 2.0 owner layer. Upgrade by replacing the files — the database migrates itself, and it is still the same one-time purchase.
- REST API with an OpenAPI spec and signed webhooks
- Two-factor sign-in (TOTP)
- Email notifications through your own SMTP
- One-click backups
- Dark mode
Own It 3.0 — works for your AI, not just for you
The completeness report answers the question you have before publishing: which items are not ready and what exactly is missing — ranked by how many products lack each attribute, exportable as CSV, with zero counting as a real answer. Agents connect over MCP under the same schema rules people face.
- Roles with email invitations and a last-admin guard
- Append-only audit trail across browser, API and agent
- Printable PDFs
- Your logo and colours throughout
- Scheduled backups with a guided dry-run restore
- Optional single sign-on (OIDC)
Pricing — one-time, yours forever
- ✔ Full source included — PHP you can read and change
- ✔ No subscription. One payment, yours forever
- ✔ It never phones home
- ✔ Your data stays on your server
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Honest limitations
- Exports import files (CSV/JSON) only — no live storefront API sync
- Confidence scores are heuristic, computed offline from parse quality; they are not reported by the AI model and are not probabilities of correctness, just a review-priority signal
- Woo/Shopify column sets need verification against your store's current import format before a production import
- Batches process one file per request by design for shared hosting; a 20-file batch means 20 model calls at your own provider cost, and the auto-advance page must stay open
- BYO key: you need an OpenAI or Anthropic API key, or a local Ollama with a vision model
- Multi-page PDFs work best with Anthropic's native document support; other providers are best-effort on PDFs
- Single-tenant: one admin account per installation
- No OCR built in — relies on the AI model's vision capability
- Extraction accuracy is not guaranteed for any specific format, language, or catalog
- One row = one product (flat catalog): there is no variant or parent/child model — a catalog of size × colour variants exports as separate rows that your store or PIM must regroup. If your catalog is variant-heavy apparel, Specta is not the right tool
Two-minute web installer, PHP 8+ with MySQL or SQLite; existing 1.0 installs upgrade in place automatically with data preserved.
Covered in these guides
Supplier spec sheets arrive as PDFs; your store needs structured rows. The PIM platforms that solve this run $499 a month or publish no price at all. What the job actually is, who genuinely needs a PIM, and the one-time tool for everyone else.
Frequently asked questions
Is my API key safe?
Your key is stored in your database on your own server and is transmitted only in the outbound HTTPS request you trigger to your chosen AI provider. It is never logged, echoed, or passed through any Specta infrastructure.
Will this run on shared hosting?
Yes. Specta requires PHP 8+ with pdo, curl, and fileinfo — extensions present on virtually all cPanel/Plesk hosts. Installation takes about two minutes through the web installer.
What about columns not covered by WooCommerce or Shopify?
Every attribute column is preserved. In WooCommerce they become product attribute columns; in Shopify they fold into a spec list in the description; in plain CSV/JSON they're first-class columns.
Does Specta sync live to my storefront?
No — Specta exports WooCommerce CSV, Shopify CSV, plain CSV, or JSON import files that you import yourself; there is no direct live-sync to a storefront API.
What if a provider changes pricing or its API?
You can switch providers in Settings in under a minute. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama are all supported, and Ollama runs locally with no per-call cost.