Orders into your ERP or accounting
New orders, refunds and payouts post to your books or ERP with the right customer, items and tax.
Shopify integration consulting
Connect Shopify to the rest of your business.
Shopify runs your storefront and checkout well. We build the connections and tools around it, so orders, stock and customers reach the rest of the business without retyping.
Keep it, then extend it
What Shopify does well, and where teams outgrow it.
Where Shopify shines
- A storefront that just worksCheckout, payments, product catalogs and order management are handled, and they hold up on busy days.
- Built-in automation with FlowShopify Flow, included on Basic and higher plans, watches for store events and runs actions, like tagging orders, alerting staff or holding risky orders, with no code.
- A large app ecosystemThousands of apps cover reviews, shipping, subscriptions and more, so common needs are often one install away.
Where teams hit the limits
- The back office lives elsewhereYour ERP, warehouse, accounting and CRM each need the same orders and customers, and someone keeps them matched by hand.
- Apps that don't talk to each otherEach app solves one job and keeps its own data, so a single order can touch five tools with no one view of it.
- Reports stop at the storeMargin by product or channel needs costs, returns and freight that Shopify doesn't hold, so those reports end up in spreadsheets.
What we build around it
Connecting Shopify to the rest of your work.
Inventory kept in sync
Stock counts from your warehouse or ERP update Shopify, so you stop selling what you don't have.
Fulfillment and tracking updates
Shipments from your warehouse or 3PL flow back to Shopify, and customers get tracking without anyone copying it.
Wholesale orders from email
Purchase orders sent by email or PDF are read and drafted as orders for a person to confirm.
Customer records matched to your CRM
Buyers, wholesale accounts and order history stay matched between Shopify and sales.
Channel and product profit reports
Shopify sales combine with costs, returns and freight from your other tools in one scheduled report.
Before we start
How access works.
The store owner, or staff with permission to install apps, approves the connection and chooses exactly which store data it can read and change. Since January 1, 2026, new custom connections can no longer be created inside the Shopify admin: they are built in Shopify's Dev Dashboard and then installed on your store, while existing ones keep working (see Shopify's changelog). We build and test in a development store, which can't take real payments, before touching your live store. Shopify limits how much software can ask for each second based on your plan, with much higher limits on Plus, so we use Shopify's bulk exports for large data pulls.
Related problems
Common places to start.
Retyping the same information
An order arrives by email. Someone types it into one system, then another, then a spreadsheet. It's slow and dull, and mistakes are easy to make.
Read moreSoftware that doesn't talk
Sales has one number, finance has another, and nobody is sure which is right. Each tool is fine by itself. The trouble is in the gaps.
Read moreReports built by hand
Every month, someone exports from four systems, pastes it all into a spreadsheet and fixes what looks wrong. By the time it's ready, the numbers are old.
Read more
FAQ
Common questions.
Do we have to replace Shopify?
No. Shopify stays your storefront. We build around it and connect what it doesn't reach.
Will this break when Shopify updates?
Shopify releases a new version every quarter and supports each one for at least a year. We build on a supported version, plan upgrades before the old one retires and add checks that alert us if something stops matching.
We have an older custom app in our Shopify admin. Is it at risk?
It keeps working, but Shopify no longer allows new ones to be created there, and the newer Dev Dashboard version has access to more of Shopify's features. We can review what you have and move it when it makes sense.
Are you a certified Shopify partner?
No. We're an independent integration consultant and development team. We build with Shopify's official developer tools and approved access, using the access your team grants, and we work alongside your Shopify admin or implementation partner rather than replacing them.
Sources
- Shopify: Legacy custom apps can't be created after January 1, 2026
- Shopify: Generate access tokens for custom apps in the Shopify admin
- Shopify: Create development stores
- Shopify: GraphQL Admin API rate limits
- Shopify: API versioning
- Shopify Help Center: Shopify Flow
Facts checked against the vendor's own documentation, November 2026. Names are trademarks of their owners. Inkwell is independent and not affiliated with these companies.
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