Shopify

Set up the Microsoft Shopify Connector and optional Bevica enhancements.

Business Central has a standard connector to communicate with Shopify. It can synchronise items, customers and sales orders/invoices. In addition, the Bevica Shopify Connector provides a number of enhancements.

Prerequisites

An active Shopify account and store.

Microsoft Shopify Connector extension installed. Shopify Connector

Microsoft Learn - Shopify Connector

The Shopify Connector training module as provided by Microsoft will take approximately 5 hours to complete. This Learn module can be found here and is essential to progress with the installation of the connector.

Connecting Business Central Bevica to Shopify

Shopify provides a Dynamics 365 Business Central app which must be installed from the Shopify app store into your Shopify environment. See here for more details Shopify Connector

Business Central Setup

In broad terms to setup the connector you:

1

Create

Create a Shopify Shop in Bevica linking to your online shop.

2

Setup

Set a Location for inventory figures if necessary.

3

Synchronise Inventory

Set item & inventory synchronisation rules and execute them with the following routines:

• Sync Products
• Sync Product Images
• Sync Inventory

4

Synchronise Customers

Set customer synchronisation rules and execute them with the following routine:Sync Customers

5

Additional attributes

Map Shipment Method and Payment Method codes

6

Synchronise Orders

Set Order synchronisation rules and execute them with the following routines:Sync Orders

• Sync Shipments
• Sync Payouts

List of connector areas:

For general reference and in no particular order, this is a list of areas the connector impacts on Shopify & Bevica. For further information see Microsoft and Shopify Help files.

Store

• Shops
• Location

Item

• Item Details
• Images
• Customer Price Group
• Customer Discount Group
• Inventory
• Attributes
• Variants
• Item Units of Measure
• Item Template
• Item Tags
• Item Template

Customers

• Customer details
• Shipping Agents
• Customer Template

Orders

• Orders / Invoices
• Credit Card Companies
• Transactions
• Payment Methods
• Shipping Methods
• Order Risk
• Order Tax Line
• Payment Transactions
• Payouts
• Shipping Charges
• Gift Cards
• Province
• Payment Gateway
• Fulfilled Orders

Synchronise

• Products
• Attributes
• Tags
• Extended Text
• Orders
• Shipments
• Product Images
• Inventory
• Customers
• Payouts

Admin

• Log Entries

Troubleshooting

The following learn article goes through steps you can take to troubleshoot synchronisation issues:

Troubleshooting the Shopify and Business Central Synchronisation