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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | 
Oct 1, 2024 |
Business value
The new release of the Shopify connector enables you to export items from Business Central as variants in Shopify. With this feature, you get more flexibility and convenience when you manage product information across both applications.
Feature details
Shopify and Business Central both offer extensive features for managing products and variants. Depending on your needs, choose the option that works best for you. In Shopify, you focus on convenience for customers. In Business Central, you consider other criteria, such as the ability to define an assembly BOM.
We added support for export scenarios when Shopify has products with variants, but the list of items is flat on the Business Central side. Use the Add item as Variant action on the Variants subpage of the Shopify Products page.
Details
When you add an item, you add it as a Shopify variant under an existing product option. For example, you add the item under color, material, or title. If the product uses the default variant, you add the item under the title. If a Shopify product has more than one product option, you can't add the item as a Shopify variant.
Add items as variants when the items have their own item variants. However, you can only add the item itself, not the item variants.
You can't add an item as a variant when you turn on the UOM as Variant toggle on the Shopify Shop Card page.
Shopify always creates a variant, even if you don't define any variants. This variant is called Default title. When you add more variants through Shopify admin, you delete this technical variant entry. The Shopify connector uses similar logic. When you add the first item to Shopify as a product, you add the Default title variant to Shopify and to Business Central. When you run the Add Item as Variant action, you add the selected item as a variant and delete the default variant in both Shopify and Business Central.
When you add an item as a variant, the connector doesn't search by SKU or barcode.
Product information overview
| Production information | Business Central: Flat item list. Only items, no variants. |
Business Central: Items with item variants | |
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| Shopify: Flat product list. Only products, no variants. |
Supported Import into Business Central. Use the barcode or SKU field in the Shopify product to point to an item in Business Central. Export items from Business Central with the Add Item to Shopify action. |
Not supported You can create products and items manually in both systems. Use the barcode or SKU for automatic mapping, or map products to item variants manually. |
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| Shopify: products with variants | Supported We recommend that you select Item No., Vendor Item No., or Barcode in the SKU Mapping field, and add the barcode or SKU on the variant. This setup ensures that when you import a product or variant from Shopify, the system finds the corresponding item in Business Central. Export from Business Central via the new Add Item as Variant action. |
Supported We recommend that you select Item No.+Variant Code in the SKU Mapping field, and add the barcode or SKU on the variant. This setup ensures that when you import the product or variant from Shopify, the system finds the corresponding item or variant in Business Central. Export from Business Central via the Add Item to Shopify action. |
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For more information, see Effect of Shopify product SKUs and barcodes on mapping and creating items and variants in Business Central
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