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Unify Your eCommerce & ERP: Acumatica Shopify Integration

Automate orders, inventory, customers, and financials for peak operational efficiency and real-time insights across your business.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect: Why Fragmented Acumatica & Shopify Data Slows Growth

Without a seamless integration, your Acumatica ERP and Shopify store operate in silos, leading to operational inefficiencies, costly errors, and a lack of real-time visibility. This disconnect directly impacts profitability and customer satisfaction.

  • Manual order entry from Shopify to Acumatica is time-consuming and prone to human error.
  • Delayed inventory updates between Acumatica and Shopify lead to overselling, stockouts, and dissatisfied customers.
  • Inconsistent customer data across platforms hinders personalized marketing and accurate CRM.
  • Lack of real-time financial reconciliation creates accounting headaches and compliance risks.
  • Product information management becomes a manual nightmare, leading to discrepancies and missed sales opportunities.
  • Slow fulfillment processes due to delayed data transfer impact shipping times and customer experience.
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The Solution

The Integrated Solution: Connecting Acumatica & Shopify with an iPaaS

Our powerful iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) provides the intelligent bridge between Acumatica ERP and Shopify eCommerce. It's designed to automate complex workflows, ensure data accuracy, and deliver real-time operational visibility, propelling your business forward.

  • Pre-built, customizable connectors for Acumatica and Shopify.
  • Real-time, event-driven data synchronization via webhooks and APIs.
  • Low-code/no-code visual workflow designer for easy automation.
  • Advanced data mapping and transformation engine.
  • Robust error handling, logging, and alerting mechanisms.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Acumatica + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Acumatica and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Acumatica + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Pre-built, customizable connectors for Acumatica and Shopify.
  • Real-time, event-driven data synchronization via webhooks and APIs.
  • Low-code/no-code visual workflow designer for easy automation.
  • Advanced data mapping and transformation engine.
  • Robust error handling, logging, and alerting mechanisms.
  • Scalable architecture to handle peak eCommerce traffic.
  • Centralized monitoring and management dashboard.

Acumatica Shopify Integration: Technical Overview & Implementation

Our iPaaS-powered integration provides a robust, scalable, and secure framework for connecting Acumatica and Shopify. It leverages API-first and event-driven principles to ensure real-time data synchronization and operational efficiency.

Data Flow Steps

**Discovery & Requirements Gathering:** Define specific business processes, data points, and transformation rules required for the integration.

**iPaaS Configuration & Connectivity:** Set up secure connections to Acumatica and Shopify using their respective APIs and authentication methods.

**Data Mapping & Transformation:** Visually map fields between Acumatica and Shopify entities. Define data transformation rules, validation logic, and error handling within the iPaaS.

**Workflow Design & Orchestration:** Design multi-step, conditional integration workflows using a low-code canvas. Incorporate event triggers (webhooks) and scheduled syncs.

**Testing & Validation:** Thoroughly test workflows in a sandbox environment, validating data integrity, performance, and error recovery scenarios.

**Deployment & Monitoring:** Deploy the integration to production. Implement real-time monitoring, alerts, and detailed logging for continuous operational oversight.

**Optimization & Iteration:** Continuously optimize workflows based on performance metrics and evolving business needs.

Data Touchpoints

Shopify: Orders, Products, Product Variants, Customers, Inventory Levels, Fulfillments, Refunds, Transactions, Locations.
Acumatica: Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Stock Items (Products), Customers, Vendors, Shipments, Invoices, Credit Memos, General Ledger, Inventory.

"A typical Acumatica Shopify data flow starts with a Shopify event (e.g., new order webhook). This triggers the iPaaS, which retrieves the full order data via Shopify's API. The iPaaS then transforms and validates this data, mapping it to the Acumatica Sales Order schema. The iPaaS calls the Acumatica Sales Order API to create the order. Subsequent fulfillment in Shopify triggers another webhook, updating the Acumatica Sales Order and creating a Shipment/Invoice. Inventory updates originate in Acumatica, are pushed by the iPaaS to Shopify's Inventory Levels API. Customer and Product data can flow bi-directionally or unidirectionally based on master data strategy, typically from Acumatica to Shopify for product master, and Shopify to Acumatica/CRM for new customers. Error handling and logging are inherent at each step, with alerts for critical failures."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Acumatica + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating Acumatica

Integrating Acumatica fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

Hover over the steps on the right to see detailed integration points.
Data Mapping

Key Data Entities & Mapping Between Acumatica and Shopify

Understanding the core data entities and their field-level mapping is crucial for a successful Acumatica Shopify integration. Our iPaaS provides a visual canvas to define these relationships and apply necessary transformations.

Order

Represents a customer's purchase in Shopify, mapping to a Sales Order in Acumatica. This is central for sales, fulfillment, and financial reconciliation.

Acumatica Fields

OrderType OrderNbr CustomerOrderID CustomerID CustomerLocationID OrderDate RequestDate Hold Status Description FinancialStatus ShipToAddress BillToAddress LineItems (InventoryID, OrderQty, UnitPrice, ExtendedPrice) FreightAmount TaxAmount PaymentMethod PaymentRef CuryID CuryInfoID SalesPersonID

Shopify Fields

id order_number customer (id, email, first_name, last_name) line_items (id, product_id, variant_id, sku, title, quantity, price) total_price financial_status fulfillment_status shipping_address (address1, city, province, country, zip) billing_address created_at gateway currency total_tax shipping_lines

Mapping Notes

Shopify `order_number` often maps to Acumatica `CustomerOrderID` or a custom field. Shopify `financial_status` and `fulfillment_status` drive Acumatica `Status` and subsequent actions. Line items require careful mapping of `variant_id`/`sku` to Acumatica `InventoryID` for accurate product identification and pricing. Shipping and tax amounts need to be aggregated and mapped to respective Acumatica fields.

Next Steps

See Acumatica + Shopify integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Shopify Order to Acumatica Sales Order & Inventory Allocation

Automatically captures new Shopify orders and transforms them into sales orders within Acumatica. This includes customer details, line items, pricing, shipping preferences, and payment status, triggering immediate inventory allocation in Acumatica to prevent overselling.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer completes purchase on Shopify.
  2. 1 Shopify `orders/create` webhook triggers integration.
  3. 2 iPaaS fetches full order details from Shopify Orders API.
  4. 3 Data transformation: map Shopify customer to Acumatica customer (create if new, update if existing).
  5. 4 Data transformation: map Shopify product variants to Acumatica Stock Items, handling pricing and discounts.
  6. 5 iPaaS creates Sales Order in Acumatica via the Sales Order API.
  7. 6 Acumatica allocates inventory based on the sales order.
  8. 7 Confirmation of order creation and inventory allocation sent back to iPaaS for logging.

Business Outcome

Real-time order processing, accurate inventory, reduced manual order entry errors, improved order fulfillment speed.

Frequency

Real-time (event-driven)

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Boost Operational Efficiency
Automate manual data entry between Shopify and Acumatica, freeing up staff to focus on higher-value tasks and strategic initiatives.
Ensure Data Accuracy
Eliminate human errors with automated, validated data synchronization, ensuring consistent information across Acumatica and Shopify.
Accelerate Order Fulfillment
Real-time order transfer and fulfillment updates streamline your supply chain, leading to faster shipping and happier customers.
Optimize Inventory Management
Synchronize inventory levels in real-time between Acumatica and Shopify, preventing overselling and improving stock visibility.
Gain Unified Business Insights
Achieve a single source of truth for customer, product, and financial data, enabling better reporting and strategic decision-making.
Enhance Customer Experience
Provide accurate product information, real-time order status, and faster resolutions, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Scale with Confidence
Our scalable iPaaS architecture supports your growth, handling increasing transaction volumes without compromising performance.
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Boost Operational Efficiency

80% Reduction in manual data entry time

📋 What You Get

Automate manual data entry between Shopify and Acumatica, freeing up staff to focus on higher-value tasks and strategic initiatives.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 80% improvement in Reduction in manual data entry time, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with Acumatica + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Acumatica and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Acumatica + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • **Data Normalization:** Standardize data formats (e.g., dates, addresses, phone numbers) between Shopify and Acumatica's distinct schemas.
  • **Value Mapping:** Translate specific fields like 'financial_status' or 'fulfillment_status' from Shopify into corresponding Acumatica status codes or flags.
  • **Data Enrichment:** Augment Shopify data (e.g., customer details) with additional information from Acumatica (e.g., customer segment, payment terms) during two-way syncs.
  • **Conditional Logic:** Apply business rules, such as routing orders to different Acumatica warehouses based on product type or shipping location, or applying specific tax rules.
  • **ID Management:** Store cross-reference IDs (e.g., Shopify Order ID in Acumatica, Acumatica Sales Order ID in Shopify metadata) to ensure efficient lookup and update operations.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • **Shopify API Rate Limit Exceeded:** iPaaS automatically retries with exponential backoff.
  • **Acumatica Validation Error:** Invalid data (e.g., missing required field, incorrect format) is sent to a dead-letter queue for review and correction.
  • **SKU Mismatch:** If a Shopify product SKU doesn't exist in Acumatica, the order line item is flagged, and the order might be put on hold in Acumatica.
  • **Duplicate Customer:** If a new Shopify customer's email matches an existing Acumatica customer, the iPaaS updates the existing record instead of creating a duplicate.
  • **Network Downtime:** iPaaS queues messages and retries once connectivity is restored, ensuring data persistence.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Acumatica + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ What is the best way to integrate Shopify with an ERP system like Acumatica?
The best approach is to use a modern iPaaS platform. This enables API-first, event-driven integrations for real-time data sync (orders, inventory, customers), robust data transformation and validation, and low-code/no-code workflow orchestration, moving beyond fragile point-to-point connections.

Workflows FAQs

▸ Can I automate my Shopify order fulfillment process with Acumatica?
Absolutely. By integrating Shopify with Acumatica via iPaaS, you can automate order routing, trigger shipment creation in Acumatica, and update Shopify with tracking numbers and fulfillment status, significantly streamlining your fulfillment operations.

Technical FAQs

▸ How does an iPaaS handle Shopify API rate limits?
A robust iPaaS includes built-in queuing, throttling, and exponential backoff mechanisms. It intelligently manages the flow of requests to Shopify's APIs, ensuring your integrations don't exceed limits while maximizing throughput and preventing data loss.
▸ What are Shopify webhooks and why are they important for integration with Acumatica?
Shopify webhooks are automated notifications sent when specific events occur (e.g., a new order is placed, a product is updated). They are crucial for event-driven architecture, enabling real-time integration workflows with Acumatica without the need for constant polling, making integrations more efficient and responsive.

Data Synchronization FAQs

▸ What kind of data can be synchronized between Shopify and Acumatica?
Virtually any data available via Shopify's APIs can be synchronized. Common entities include orders, products (and variants), inventory levels, customers, fulfillments, refunds, and transactions. An iPaaS ensures these are harmonized across all connected systems, including custom fields.

Financial FAQs

▸ How do I ensure data consistency between Shopify and Acumatica's accounting software?
An iPaaS facilitates real-time synchronization of financial data. This includes automatically posting Shopify orders as sales invoices, processing refunds as credit memos, and reconciling payment transactions in Acumatica, significantly reducing manual effort and improving financial accuracy.

Low-Code/No-Code FAQs

▸ Can low-code tools be used for complex Acumatica Shopify integrations?
Absolutely. Modern iPaaS platforms offer low-code/no-code interfaces that allow you to build complex, multi-step integration workflows, including conditional logic, data transformations, and error handling, often without writing a single line of code. This empowers business users and accelerates development.

Security FAQs

▸ What are the security considerations when integrating Acumatica and Shopify?
Key considerations include using OAuth 2.0 with minimal scopes, securing API keys/tokens in a secrets manager, validating webhook payloads, encrypting data in transit (HTTPS), and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) for customer data across both systems.
Next Steps

See Acumatica + Shopify integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Acumatica + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both Acumatica and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most Acumatica + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Acumatica + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See Acumatica + Shopify integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo