Vend POS Shopify

The Vend-Shopify integration enables you to easily link an online Shopify store to your Vend account.

If you're new to selling online, the integration takes the pain out of setting up your first store, and makes it easy for you to manage sales, inventory, and reporting.

If you've already got a Shopify store, you can use the integration to streamline your operations by managing your inventory and sales reporting in a single system.

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You can think of the integration as an extra store-window for one of your Vend outlets.

When you turn on the integration, the Shopify store links to one of your Vend outlets.

You can pick which of that outlet's products are shown online. Shopify will show available inventory levels from the linked outlet.

When a customer makes a purchase in your online store, it will be recorded in the linked outlet in Vend, and your inventory levels are updated.

When a customer makes a purchase in the linked outlet, or you complete a stock order, transfer, or stocktake, your Shopify store will automatically be updated.

Integrating other apps, such as inventory managers, with your Shopify store may cause problems. Please test thoroughly before switching on another integration to your Shopify store when linked with Vend. Any third party integration that changes your prices, SKUs, or handles will cause problems.

Important steps before you begin:

• We recommend setting up a new register in Vend in the outlet you want to link to Shopify. This is because sales received in Shopify after you close your register for the day will re-open the register. Setting up a separate register helps to ensure all your reporting is clear.
• Make sure you have set up all the products you need before activating the integration. When you first turn it on, you'll have an option to push all your products to Shopify. After this point, you'll need to push them one-by-one.
• We also recommend you take a back-up of any product data in either system before you begin. You can export your Vend products on the Product page and you can export your Shopify products on their Product page.
• Once the two stores are linked, you must manage all of your products in Vend.

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