Shopify and Business Central

When Microsoft announced they have been working with Shopify to create a quality API between Business Central and Shopify, I was excited.

The prospects were good. The API was built-into Business Central and there was no additional fee for clients to use it. It was a collaborative effort between both software publishers. Check.

The initial release proved to be slightly disappointing as we could not extend (modify) the API and the API did not handle returns.

However, Microsoft being Microsoft, improved the API over time and currently, we can extend (modify) the API. Microsoft also added the ability to handle returns.

Being able to extend the API comes in handy. For example, we have had clients wanting to send a different calculation for quantity available.

We have made further improvements by converting Shopify transactions and payouts into Cash Receipts and auto-applying the cash receipt to the invoice. These are areas perhaps Microsoft will address in the future to round out the API.

The Shopify connector is open to contribution from the community and one can also suggest product suggestions. The link for this is here.