How to integrate Shopify with SanMar to sync products?

Simplify inventory management with an easy SanMar Shopify integration. This guide explains how to automate SanMar product imports, inventory syncing, and price updates in your Shopify store. This process helps you keep accurate stock levels and cut down on manual work.

The Shopify SanMar Inventory Sync provides real-time inventory updates, trusted variant mapping, and automated pricing. This setup ensures your customers always see current product availability and supports efficient business growth.

Pre-requisites:

• A fully functional Shopify store with admin access.
• miniOrange Shopify Inventory Sync application installed and activated.
• FTP access credentials from SanMar (FTP Username and FTP Password) to securely import and sync SanMar product and inventory data with Shopify.
• Access to your Shopify store's location settings for proper inventory mapping.

Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring SanMar Inventory Sync with Shopify

Step 1: Create and Select Connection

• Navigate to App section and click on the Inventory Sync application.

• Click on the Create Connection button.

• Select Sanmar as the connection source from the list of suppliers.

Step 2: Connection Setup

• To establish the connection, provide a suitable “Connection Name” to identify the connection.
• Enter your Sanmar credentials, which include your FTP Username and FTP Password.
• Click on the Test Connection button.

• After successful Test Connection, you will see the next step i.e. the Location Mapping step where you need to map Sanmar locations to your Your store locations.

Step 3: Location Mapping

• Select your Sanmar Locations (Source Locations) and Store Location (Destination Location).

• Click on the "Add location" button to map multiple locations.
• Click on the "Save & Next" button.

Step 5: Schedule Sync

• Enable the “Schedule sync” option to choose how often to sync inventory products.

• Choose “Select Schedule” from the dropdown how often you want to sync your inventory products (i.e, Hourly, Daily, Weekly)
• Enter the “Sync Interval”. (In case you have selected Schedule as “Hourly”, you will be required to enter sync interval in hours, while in all other cases you should enter a “Time” at which you want your import or sync to start.)
• Click on the “Save & Next” button.

Step 6: Price Update

• Enable the “Price Update” button to apply the pricing rule to all products in the store.

• Click on the “Add Rule” option to add pricing rules. (You can add pricing rules from the list. There are three different types of pricing rules available, e.g, Fixed Amount, Percentage, and Custom expression.)

Custom Expression — This option allows you to manually define how a value should be calculated rather than using a fixed number or pre-defined formula. You can enter your mathematical formula in the form of an expression like “Price*5/2”, Where price — A variable representing the original price, * — Multiplication operator, / — Division operator. To configure a pricing rule, select 'Updated by', 'Operations', and 'Value'.

• To configure a pricing rule, select 'Updated by', 'Operations', and 'Value'.
• Then, click on the “Save & Next” button.

Step 7: Publication

• Choose all “Sales Channels” where you want to publish your products.
• Then, click on the “Save & Next” button.

Step 8: Manual Sync

This is optional. If you have already configured the schedule sync option, the products will be imported and synced automatically at the scheduled time. The Schedule Sync option is recommended to import and sync the products regularly.
Use this option if you want to import the products right away.

• Click on “Import Products” to transfer your products from source to store.

• Once the “Import Products” button is clicked, the transfer of products from the source to the store starts immediately. However, the completion of the process may take about an hour.

• The process of product import is complete.