Shopify Integration

Shopify Integration

Are you looking for a customisable Shopify integration solution to automate Shopify orders and products between your Shopify store and ERP system? Or are you looking to reduce costs and improve order fulfilment times by integrating Shopify with your courier service?

Codeless Platforms is a Shopify Plus Technology Partner and provides Shopify partners and users with an easy-to-use Shopify connector through BPA Platform. It caters for both B2C and B2B integrations and provides companies of any size with drag-and-drop tools to simplify access to the Shopify API, allowing businesses to automate the upload and download of order information between in-house business systems and Shopify.

BPA Platform is an iPaaS Platform that enables cloud-based, on-premises systems and cloud to cloud applications to talk to each other to enable seamless system integration and business process automation capability.

"Following a recommendation from Shopify, Statement work with Codeless Platforms on a variety of integration projects with various systems including NAV, Sage 50, Sage 200 and SAP B1. We find Codeless to be knowledgeable, professional and – most importantly – understanding of our client's needs."

Tom Smith, Technical Director, Statement

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Shopify Integration Features and Benefits

BPA Platforms’ Shopify Integration tool, allows communication between BPA Platform and Shopify. You use the tool to map BPA Platform data to Shopify objects and operations. Operations such as, ADD, UPDATE, GET, and DELETE, are supported for a variety of business objects, such as, Product, Customer and Order. The responses received back from the Shopify API can be saved to file or passed to another BPA Platform tool for further processing. The responses can include details of the object requested, any errors from the provider, or the values of any automatically generated ID fields.

Diagram: Shopify integration architecture using BPA Platform

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Standard operations of our customisable Shopify integration connector:

Automatically download sales orders from Shopify, Shopify Plus and Shopify’s point of sale system (POS) and insert them into your business software without the need for manual input. This means that any sales made using this system will automatically synchronise with your ERP system.

• Shopify ERP integration: e.g. SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign, Sage 200, Sage 1000, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, SYSPRO, Epicor, Access Dimensions etc.

Download sales orders from Shopify to your ERP system:

• Customer shipping details
• Delivery method, as selected by the customer e.g. Courier and delivery timeframe
• Product description, product code and quantity required
• Payment details including Transaction ID

Upload ERP sales order status to Shopify:

Once an order is marked as fulfilled in your ERP system, automatically inform customers with:

• Order status updates
• Courier tracking information

Download products from Shopify:

Automatically download your store products at scheduled intervals. This will allow for the upkeep of product inventory and price changes.

Upload ERP stock level and price changes to Shopify:

Automatically update Shopify with product related changes made within your ERP system, such as:

• Product stock levels
• Product prices changes

Shopify point of sale (POS):

Whether a sale is made on the website or via a separate ‘checkout terminal’, Shopify orders will still automatically be inserted into your business ERP and can be identified as a web or EPOS source.

Part shipments: Ship order items when they become available.

Custom Shopify Connector features:

Our Shopify integration solution is open to customisation which enables you to tailor it to your exact requirements. Common examples of customisation that our customers have implemented with the Shopify integration connector include:

• Multiple Shopify stores
• Shopify PIM integration to ensure catalogue consistency across all business systems and marketplaces
• Configurable products e.g. customisation of a product where multiple choice options within a product listings are available
• Allow for multiple payment methods
• Payment reconciliation e.g. automatically check if payment for an order has reached the vendors bank account before an order can be shipped

Commercial benefits achieved by integrating Shopify with accounting, ERP and CRM systems include:

• Improved customer service levels
• Reduced Shopify order fulfilment times
• Enhanced employee productivity
• Removed repetitive data entry and the capacity for human error

"We produce candles using traditional methods and sustainable production. We were introduced to Codeless Platforms by Shopify as we required an integration solution for SAP Business One. We have been extremely impressed with the functionality of BPA Platform and plan to use it to automate other areas of our business."

Harry Young-Jamieson, Director, St Eval Candle Company