Skip to content

Codeless News

Press Releases

Retailer Improves Business Operations by Integrating Shopify, POS and SYSPRO

Meridian Farm Market gains access to real-time data by automating data transfers between Shopify, POS and SYSPRO using BPA Platform

Codeless Platforms today revealed that Meridian Farm Market, a Canadian-based retailer of meat and farm produce, has automated its sales orders and data transfers between Shopify, POS and SYSPRO using BPA Platform. The business has now removed vast amounts of manual data entry, which has improved its overall business processes and provided access to real-time data and better insight into its sales.

“We’re a retail company, so we are using BPA Platform to connect our point of sale (POS) system to SYSPRO. It pulls the product pricing from the POS software and updates SYSPRO. BPA Platform then takes that pricing information from SYSPRO and updates Shopify. BPA Platform also uploads the product information, titles, names and descriptions from SYSPRO to Shopify, as well as updating the inventory levels. All sales data is downloaded from Shopify into SYSPRO, and once it’s in SYSPRO we then fulfil the orders. When the orders are fulfilled, BPA Platform then marks the orders as fulfilled in Shopify,” explained Brody McDearmid, CFO, Meridian Meats & Meridian Farm Market.

Prior to implementing its ERP system Meridian Farm Market was entering all of its data manually and only recording bulk sales values into its accounting software on a monthly basis.

“We therefore started looking for an ERP solution that would improve that, and SYSPRO was one of the ERP systems that we evaluated. As part of the solution, we needed the ERP to integrate to our existing website, which was built on Shopify. Therefore, as part of the request for proposal (RFP), we informed all of the ERP companies that we needed the ERP to integrate to Shopify,” said Brody McDearmid.

Meridian Farm Market subsequently selected SYSPRO as its ERP of choice. As part of the agreement, SYSRPO presented BPA Platform as the middleware solution to provide the integration with Shopify. However, the project took a little while to get fully implemented due to its complexity.

“Whilst SYSPRO was initially leading this project, due to the complex nature of our integration, SYSPRO enlisted the help of Codeless Platforms as the experts in the field. Codeless Platforms was able to parachute in, take over the responsibility and deliver the project quickly and easily. Ever since their involvement, things have been working extremely well. It was great,” revealed Brody McDearmid.

“If we had tried to undertake the development and integration without BPA Platform it would have required a significant amount more time, and instead we would have embarked on a custom development project, which is nowhere near as agile or as scalable as BPA Platform.”

“The main benefit from the project and installing BPA Platform is the elimination of that manual data entry. We also now have access to real-time data. We’re taking sales orders, fulfilling the sales orders, and immediately have that financial data available to us in SYSPRO. We didn’t have that before because we were only doing it once a month. So, it’s definitely improved our business processes and insight into our sales.”

About Meridian Farm Market
Meridian Farm Market is a family-run business that has grown from a small butcher shop in Port Coquitlam, Canada, to eight locations and farm markets throughout Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. In 2022 they added a home-delivery service where customers could place an order online and have their order delivered the next day. Since 1989, its goal has been to provide exceptional craft meats, local produce and farm market goodness combined with the best possible customer service. Learn more at: meridianfarmmarket.ca

About Codeless Platforms
Codeless Platforms provides a powerful low-code platform that empowers global businesses to take full control of their data and accelerate business growth. Customers use our cutting-edge BPA Platform to create a fully integrated, streamlined ecosystem, automate business processes and synchronise their data. Since 1999, we have developed our flexible and scalable platform to help businesses easily respond to the rapidly changing business demands of today as well as prepare them for the future. With over 450 global partners, more than 7500 customers use Codeless Platforms’ software solutions. Learn more at: www.codelessplatforms.com

Case Study: Meridian Farm Market

Case Study: Meridian Farm Market

Canadian-based retailer of meat and farm produce automates sales orders and data transfers between SYSPRO, Shopify and POS system

Related Articles

Business Process Automation CTA

Got a question?

Send us your questions and we will provide you with the information and resources that you need.

Ready to Talk?

You don’t learn everything in life by reading a manual, sometimes it helps to get in touch

Phone: +44 (0) 330 99 88 700

Want more information?

Fill in your details below and one of our account managers will contact you shortly.

    First Name

    Last Name

    Business Email

    Phone

    Tell us your requirements