Shopify integration for sellers

You can bring products from your Shopify store directly into Marketplacer. This requires setting up a connection so that product details and other relevant data like orders and shipping information can flow smoothly between Marketplacer and Shopify.

Important points to remember:

• This process is for Shopify sellers who want to push their product information to Marketplacer. It's not for Marketplacer users who have Shopify Plus as their main e-commerce platform.
• Only products (also known as "adverts") that are part of your Shopify Online Store sales channel will be imported and kept updated.
• Orders (invoices) generated for these imported products will sync back to Shopify.
• Any products you add manually to Marketplacer, or bring in through other methods, won't be included in this sync, even if their barcode or SKU matches a Shopify product.

To set up and use the integration, see these KB articles: 

• Shopify integration for sellers: Connect and set up.
• Shopify integration for sellers: Review and publish products (adverts).
• Shopify integration for sellers: Review settings.

In regular operation, new and changed products (adverts) are imported automatically based on the synchronization frequency (see below). Alternatively, you can start the product import manually, see Shopify integration for sellers: Manual product import for detailed instructions.  The products may need to be vetted and approved before they become available to shoppers. 

The status of the imports must be checked as part of daily operations for a marketplace. See Shopify integration for sellers: Check import status.

How the Shopify integration work for sellers
Key terms

These are the terms used throughout the setup procedures:

• Inventory - the stock level for a given variant or product.
• Item - In Integration Manager, products (adverts) are called items.
• Marketplacer - Marketplacer’s core platform for managing a retail marketplace, where the retailer manages their sellers.
• MConnect - MConnect is our integration platform that allows sellers to keep products and orders in sync between Shopify and Marketplacer.
• Mapping - Refining product data once the product is created in Marketplacer.
• Sellers - Marketplacer sellers are third-party goods and services suppliers who can add products to the Marketplacer platform.
• Seller portal - The individual seller view of the Marketplacer platform, where products, orders, and shipping are managed from a seller's perspective.
• Sync/Synchronization - the transmission of data between Marketplacer and Shopify.

Marketplacer versus Shopify terms

Some of the terms we use in Marketplacer are not similar to those used in Shopify. For example, Shopify uses the term "order", while Marketplacer uses the term "invoice". 

Synchronization frequency

The following table shows the data that is synchronized between Shopify and Marketplacer, and the frequency with which each type of data is refreshed.