The Items in Business Central are equivalent to the products in Shopify and include physical goods, digital downloads, services, and gift cards that you sell. There are two main reasons to synchronize items:
- Data management primarily happens in Business Central. You need to export all or some data from there into Shopify and make it visible. You can export the item name, description, image, prices, availability, variants, vendor details, and barcode. Once exported, you can review the items or have them made visible immediately.
- When an order from Shopify is imported, the information about items is vital to further document processing in Business Central.
The preceding two scenarios are always enabled.
A third scenario is to manage data in Shopify but import those items in bulk to Business Central. This scenario can be useful for data migration events, such as when you want to connect an existing online shop with a new Business Central environment.
Define item synchronizations.
1 . Choose the search icon and enter Shopify Shop.
2 . From the Sync Item field, select the required option.
Blank – Products are imported together with the importing of orders. Products are exported to
Shopify if a user runs the Add Item action from the Shopify Products page.
To Shopify – Select this option if, after the initial sync is triggered by the Add Item action, you plan to update products manually using the Sync Product action or using the job queue for recurring updates.
From Shopify – Choose this option if you plan to import products from Shopify in bulk, either manually using the Sync Product action or using the job queue for recurring updates.
Run item synchronization.
Full or partial item synchronization can be performed in many different ways.
Initial sync of items from Business Central to Shopify
1 . Search for Shopify Products, and choose the related link.
2 . Choose the Add Items action.
3 . In the Shop Code field, enter the code. If you open the Shopify Product window from the Shop Card page, the shop code will be populated automatically.
4 . If you configured image and inventory synch, you can include them into the same process.
5 . Define filters on items as required & Choose OK.
Sync item images.
Synchronization of images can be configured for synchronized items. Choose from the following options:
1 . To Shopify – Pictures of items are exported to Shopify.
2 . From Shopify – Images from Shopify are imported to Business Central.
Image synchronization can be initialized in the two ways described below.
1 . Sync product images from the Shopify shop page
Search for Shopify Shops, and choose the related link, select the shop for which you want to synchronize images to open the Shopify Shop Card page and choose the Sync Product Images action.
2 . Sync product images from the Shopify products page
Search Shopify Products, and choose the related link and choose the Sync Product Images action.
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Next in Business Central Shopify blog Series
Now your products has been synced in to a online shop from Business Central. In the next steps, you’ll define.
1 . Synchronize Inventory & Catalogue.
2 . Synchronize Customers & Price.
3 . Synchronize Orders.
Stay tuned….