eCommerce - Shopify

eCommerce - Shopify is a way for LS Central to communicate with the Shopify web site. Shopify support was added in LS Central version 20.3.

Watch the video on YouTube to learn more about how to create a Shopify Store:

The articles in this section are a list of current features that eCommerce – Shopify provides as part of the integration between LS Central and Shopify.

Stores

Multiple stores are supported where you can connect an LS Central store to a Shopify store. Mapping is available for tender types, shipping agents, and a Click and Collect Store.

Products

LS Central uses the Item Store Distribution mechanism to update products in Shopify. Product descriptions, item HTML, variants, attributes, vendor information, prices, and images are included.

Product MetaData is supported and can be used to map fields from Item table and other Item related tables.

Note: It is only possible to send items as products to Shopify, not to get products back from Shopify and create items in LS Central.

Scheduler is used to keep products in sync and preactions are used for delta modification.

Scheduler is used to keep inventory levels up-to-date, only levels from LS Central to Shopify are supported.

Member Management

In non B2B mode, LS Central can pull customers from Shopify and create Member Contacts, or have them created on the fly when Customer Orders are created, if the Member Contact does not already exist. Member Contacts are synced based on email addresses.

In B2B mode LS Central Customers can be sent to Shopify, but not pulled from Shopify.

Customer MetaData is supported and can be used to map fields from Customer table and other Customer related tables.

Order Management

LS Central pulls orders from Shopify and creates Customer Orders. Both shipping and Click and Collect orders are supported. Shipping orders will become Sales Orders as well. Full payment or time of order is only supported, and is pulled with the order when created.

Order cancellation and fulfillment (shipping) is synced both ways.

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