Shopify & Virtualstock Supplier
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The Shopify & Virtualstock Supplier blueprint includes everything you need to sync orders, fulfillments, and inventory between Virtualstock Supplier and Shopify. The high-level architecture is illustrated below:
Orders are pulled from Virtualstock Supplier and created in Shopify with a paid and unfulfilled status. When a fulfilment partner ships an order in Shopify, Patchworks pulls shipment information and sends this (together with a tracking number) to Virtualstock Supplier. Finally, inventory is synced from Shopify to Virtualstock Supplier.
| Item | Notes |
|---|---|
Virtualstock & Shopify staging/sandbox credentials | Virtualstock Supplier credentials are provided by the associated Virtualstock merchant- e.g. John Lewis. |
Virtualstock & Shopify live/production credentials | Virtualstock Supplier credentials are provided by the associated Virtualstock merchant- e.g. John Lewis. |
List of all Shopify SKUs and corresponding Virtualstock Supplier part numbers | This will usually be in the form of a spreadsheet that's issued by the Virtualstock Supplier merchant. For example, John Lewis provide a spreadsheet named Smartsheet or JL SKUs. Note: for testing, you only require enough SKUs/part numbers to fulfill required tests. |
List of Shopify carriers that will be used for Virtualstock Supplier orders | The Slug for these carriers is usually provided by the Virtualstock Supplier merchant (e.g. John Lewis). |
Test scenarios | Some Virtualstock merchants mandate specific test scenarios - for example, John Lewis require three test orders to be processed before live/production credentials are released. |
Confirmation of predefined values to be used for acknowledgement back to Virtualstock Supplier. |
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In Patchworks, an operation is counted whenever a request is made to send or receive a payload to/from an endpoint. The operations count for installed process flows is shown below:
| Process flow | Operations count | Default run frequency* |
|---|---|---|
4 per order | Every 10 minutes | |
2 per fulfillment | Hourly | |
3 per sync | 2 x daily |
* You can change the frequency at which process flows run - please see our installation guide for details.
Please see our installation guide.
Please see our available process flows section.
Cancellations both from Virtualstock Supplier and From Shopify
Returns/Refunds
Product Creation
Lead Time updates to Virtualstock Supplier
