Peasy and Shopify

Shopify is great for running your online store — but when it comes to purchasing, production, multi-location inventory, and vendor management, you need something more. Peasy fills that gap, giving you a complete operations platform that syncs with your Shopify store.

Why Connect Shopify to Peasy?

Shopify handles your storefront: product listings, checkout, payments, and shipping. Peasy handles your backend operations: purchasing from vendors, receiving deliveries, tracking inventory across locations, managing production, and selling to wholesale customers.

When you connect the two, your Shopify products and Peasy inventory can stay connected. Receive a delivery? If Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled, your Shopify stock levels update. Complete a production run? The new finished goods can become available to sell online automatically. Sell at a farmers market or through a wholesale channel in Peasy? Peasy can push the updated quantity to Shopify so you don't oversell.

What the Integration Does

Product Import

Bring your Shopify products, variants, and images into Peasy with AI-assisted grouping. Peasy maps Shopify variants to items, suggests categories, and lets you review everything before importing. See the complete import process in Importing from Shopify.

Variant Mapping: Shared Pool vs. Separate Inventory

During import, Peasy uses AI to group your Shopify products into item families — and you decide whether each variant pulls from a shared pool or stocks separately. This is the most important setup decision for inventory accuracy.

Shared inventory pool — Variants like a 6-pack and a 12-pack of the same product, where loose units get assembled into either pack on demand. Group these as one family and Peasy deducts from a single pool when either variant sells.
Separate inventory — Two SKUs you manufacture independently and stock as separate finished goods. Keep these as separate families.

Each Shopify variant maps 1:1 to a Peasy variant. You can review and adjust the mapping during import, and you can change it later from the Shopify integration settings if you got it wrong the first time.

Inventory Sync

Peasy is the source of truth for inventory. When quantities change in Peasy — from receiving, selling, producing, adjusting, or transferring — Peasy can push updated levels to Shopify if Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled.

Shopify orders can also flow into Peasy and deduct inventory when Shopify-to-Peasy sync is enabled. Shopify inventory-count updates do not automatically overwrite Peasy's real inventory count; they are used for comparison, initial import when enabled, and manual Sync Shopify → Peasy actions. See how the sync engine works in Shopify Sync and Webhooks.

Order Awareness

Shopify orders can flow into Peasy so your dashboard and reporting reflect sales from all channels — not just orders created directly in Peasy.

Who This Is For

Food makers selling DTC on Shopify — You use Shopify to sell directly to consumers but need Peasy to manage ingredient purchasing, recipe-based production, and multi-location inventory. When you finish a batch and add finished goods to Peasy, your Shopify store quantities can update automatically if Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled. See Peasy for Food Makers.

Retailers adding operational control — You've been running your Shopify store successfully but need better inventory tracking, purchase orders, and vendor management as you grow. Peasy adds the back-office tools that Shopify doesn't provide.

Multi-channel sellers — You sell through Shopify online and also through wholesale channels, farmers markets, or a physical store. Peasy tracks inventory across all channels and can push updated quantities to Shopify when Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled.

What Peasy Adds That Shopify Doesn't

Shopify and Peasy complement each other. Here's what Peasy brings to the table:

Purchase orders and vendor management — Create POs, manage vendors, track costs, and set restock points
Receiving workflow — Receive deliveries against POs to update inventory automatically
Production and recipe tracking — Build templates, schedule work orders, track ingredient usage and yields
Multi-location inventory — Track stock across warehouses, kitchens, and stores with transfers between locations
Wholesale sales — Manage B2B customers with price lists and sales orders alongside your Shopify DTC channel
Bill pay and invoicing — Pay vendors and invoice customers through Peasy

How to Verify the Sync Is Working

After connecting Shopify and importing products, here's how to confirm the sync is doing what you expect:

Check Sync History. Go to Configure > Integrations > Shopify > History. You'll see incoming Shopify orders, outgoing inventory updates, and any sync errors.
Spot-check an item's Inventory History. Pick any item that's been selling on Shopify and open its Inventory History. You should see deductions tagged with the corresponding Shopify orders.
Place a test order. If Shopify-to-Peasy sync is enabled and you want full confidence, place a low-quantity test order on your Shopify store. Within a few seconds, the sales order appears in Sell > Sales Orders and inventory deducts as Peasy processes the Shopify order.

How to Get Started

Connect your Shopify store — Follow the setup guide in Connecting Shopify. You'll authorize Peasy to access your Shopify products and inventory.
Import your products — Review and import your Shopify products into Peasy. The import process groups variants, maps units, and lets you assign categories. See Importing from Shopify.
Set up your items and units — Configure any additional units or conversions for items that need them. See Understanding Items and Units.
Start using Peasy for operations — Create your first purchase order, receive your first delivery, or set up production templates. Turn on Peasy-to-Shopify sync when you want Peasy inventory changes to update Shopify automatically.

What Stays Separate

Shopify continues to handle checkout, customer-facing payments, shipping labels, marketing campaigns, and your online storefront theme. Peasy handles inventory tracking, purchasing, receiving, production, vendor management, and B2B sales. The integration bridges inventory between the two systems.

Common Questions

Does Peasy replace Shopify? No. Peasy and Shopify complement each other. Shopify runs your online store; Peasy runs your backend operations. You keep both.

Does inventory sync happen in real time? Near real-time for order and inventory-sync activity. Shopify orders flow into Peasy within seconds to minutes when Shopify-to-Peasy sync is enabled, and Peasy pushes updated counts to Shopify as Peasy inventory changes when Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled. See Shopify Sync and Webhooks for details.

Can I connect multiple Shopify stores? Currently, one Shopify store connects per Peasy account.

Will connecting Peasy change anything in my Shopify store? Connecting is read-only for your product data. Peasy imports your products and can sync inventory levels depending on your settings — it doesn't modify your product listings, prices, or store design. Shopify inventory quantities change only when Peasy-to-Shopify sync is enabled or you manually push a linked item's Peasy count to Shopify.

What if I sell on Shopify and at farmers markets? Peasy tracks inventory across all your channels. Record your farmers market sales in Peasy, and the updated quantities can sync to Shopify so your online store reflects the correct available stock. This requires Peasy-to-Shopify inventory sync to be enabled.

Connecting Shopify — step-by-step connection guide
Importing from Shopify — bringing products into Peasy
Shopify Sync and Webhooks — how ongoing sync works
Integrations Overview — all available integrations
What Is Peasy? — overview of the full platform