DATANORM online viewer

No. The file is read in your browser and never sent. You can check this yourself: load the page, disconnect from the network, then open the file. It still works, because there is nothing on our side to talk to. That matters because a DATANORM delivery often contains DATANORM.RAB with negotiated discount groups.

Article files DATANORM.001 to .999, the product group file DATANORM.WRG, price change files DATPREIS.001 and the discount file DATANORM.RAB. You can select several at once, and adding the product group file turns group codes into readable names. DATANORM 4.0 and 5.0 are both supported.

DATANORM is the German exchange format for article master data in the building trades. Wholesalers and manufacturers ship their product and price data with it, and every trade software has to read it. A file is plain text, one record per line, fields separated by semicolons, encoded in codepage 850.

Usually because of the price unit field. Up to DATANORM 4.0 it is a code, where 2 means "price per 10 units", not per 2. From 5.0 the number itself is allowed. Reading that wrongly shows prices off by a factor of five or ten, which is why this viewer reports the detected version.

Real supplier catalogues are the benchmark: the largest we test against has 170,000 articles in a single file, around 30 MB. That is read in a few seconds. The limit is your device's memory, not a server quota, because there is no server involved.

The parser follows the same rules as the one inside Skava, which reads supplier catalogues so material prices are available when you write an invoice. If you build trade software yourself and want to talk about the format, write to support@skava.io.