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Connecting your Uphance account to your Shopify store lets you:

After connecting your Uphance account to your Shopify store, you'll have the option to link your Uphance product SKUs to Shopify variants.

For products in Uphance and Shopify that are "linked" the inventory levels in Shopify can be kept up-to-date with inventory levels in Uphance, allowing you to sell your excess inventory through your online store.

Uphance also monitors sales that are made on your Shopify store to reduce inventory levels in Uphance appropriately.

As you work within your Uphance account, inventory levels are constantly monitored and any changes are immediately synced to your Shopify account.

In Uphance, your excess inventory (not destined for any wholesale customer) is known as your "available to sell" inventory. You can view these levels on the Available to Sell report page.

Because "available to sell" includes pending production (stock that you haven't yet received from your manufacturer), Uphance keeps track of an additional level, "available to sell from stock" which doesn't include this pending production. This is the quantity you can immediately send to your online customers. You can view the current "available to sell from stock" levels on the Available to Sell From Stock report page.

Alternatively, by editing your Shopify integration settings, Uphance lets you sync your entire in-stock quantities to Shopify. You may want to do this if you want to prioritize online orders over your wholesale order book. When you sell in this way, you may need to cancel or reduce quantities from wholesale orders before they are shipped. When you create pick tickets for wholesale orders, Uphance will tell you

Uphance watches for new orders on your Shopify store and immediately adjusts inventory for ordered products. Your "in stock" inventory levels in Uphance will reduce and consequently the "available to sell from stock" level will also reduce.

You'll also be able to see a "Shopify Order" grouped inventory adjustment on the Update Inventory page, as well as individual (SKU level) adjustments in the inventory change log.

You can manage the connection between your Uphance account and your Shopify store from the Shopify integration settings page within Uphance.

Now that your Uphance account is connected to your Shopify store, you can proceed to link your products so that Uphance knows how to keep ATS inventory levels in sync.

Shopify pricing channel
If you use Uphance to quickly upload a new product to Shopify, prices for the product will be taken from this channel. These settings are not involved in the automatic update of inventory levels.

Quantity to sync to Shopify
This is the permissible quantity of stock you can sync to Shopify. Usually, you will want to use the default settings, "Available to sell from stock" (described above). If you want to allow online customers to purchase units of inventory destined for your wholesale orders, you can change this setting to "In stock" which will sync your basic in-stock inventory levels to Shopify. You should bear in mind that you may have a shortfall when you come to ship your wholesale orders, and it will then be up to you to cancel any "oversold" units from those wholesale orders before shipping.

Uphance will only keep inventory levels in sync for Uphance SKUs that are "linked" to Shopify product variants. You can link up existing Uphance products to Shopify products or, if it's a new product that you haven't yet entered manually into Shopify, you can upload the basic product details from Uphance to Shopify. Both of these operations can be accomplished by navigating to the product details page and clicking the "Shopify" button at the top of the page.

Each Uphance product variation can be linked to a particular Shopify product. If you have several products in your Shopify store that are represented by a single product in Uphance, you can link them by entering a different Shopify product ID for each Uphance product variation.

If you have an existing product in Shopify, you can "link" that product to the matching product in Uphance.

To do so you will need to locate the product "ID" in Shopify. This can be done by navigating to the product in the Shopify admin area, and then copying the number from your browser's address bar:

When you have this ID number, take the following steps to link the Uphance product to Shopify:

Uphance will inspect the product within Shopify and try to match the Shopify product variants to individual Uphance SKUs by color and size. If your colors and sizes are named differently within your Shopify store, Uphance won't be able to automatically link them and you'll need to manually select the correct Shopify variants using the dropdown menus.

If you have multiple Shopify products represented by a single product within Uphance, enter the first Shopify product ID using the steps above. Uphance will link all variations to the first Shopify ID, but you'll then be able to update each Uphance variation with the correct, individual Shopify product ID.

If you haven't yet added the product to Shopify, you can start the process quickly by uploading the product from Uphance to Shopify. This will create and add a new product in Shopify with the correct product options and variants linked to each SKU within Uphance. After uploading, you can finish setting up the product in Shopify and remove any variants that aren't intended for sale.

To upload a product from Uphance to Shopify:

You can manually copy your "available to sell from stock" inventory levels from Uphance to Shopify for a particular product:

Within a few seconds, "available to sell from stock" inventory levels will be copied across to your Shopify store. During normal operation, changes to inventory will be updated in Shopify automatically.

To disable syncing of inventory levels between Uphance and Shopify click the "disconnect" link on the Shopify integration settings page. Uphance remembers how products are linked between Uphance and Shopify so it is safe to disconnect temporarily.

You can now add your preferred shipping method for all sales coming through Shopify in Uphance.

To do so, scroll down to the Carriers section. Then click the Add an option link.

Upon clicking, a shipping carrier will be automatically added to the page. Enter your shipping line code, select a carrier, and then a shipping service.

Hit the Save Changes button once you are done.