Shopify
as a channel
The transport to Shopify stays with Microsoft's Shopify Connector: OAuth, GraphQL, rate limits, webhooks, variants, refunds and fulfilment with tracking. AD merchantCENTRAL Channel Shopify replaces none of it – it contributes what is missing there and turns the shop into one channel beside Amazon, eBay, Otto, Kaufland and Shopware.
Microsoft's connector is free, part of Business Central online – and a prerequisite for this add-on. The app never calls Shopify itself and stores no credentials.
What Microsoft does not ship
The Microsoft connector transfers reliably – but it knows nothing about supplier stock, channel prices or a central content source. That is exactly where this add-on hooks in, before the data goes out.
One channel like any other
Channel overview and a listing decision per item – from the same channel list that serves Amazon, eBay, Otto, Kaufland and Shopware. One item pool, one cockpit.
Content and SEO fields
Product descriptions in the shop's language from the central content cascade – plus SEO title, SEO description, tags and metafields that Microsoft's connector transfers but never fills. Further languages stay with Microsoft's translations.
Stock from supplier data
All four stock calculations the Microsoft connector ships read the Business Central warehouse – without one of your own, every single one returns zero. merchantCENTRAL publishes supplier availability and the channel allocation instead.
Your own tracking URL
Microsoft reports fulfilment back to Shopify. Microsoft's connector reads the tracking number from the standard Business Central field "Package Tracking No." of the posted shipment – merchantCENTRAL fills it, together with the shipping agent, once "Fill Standard Package Tracking No." is switched on in the merchantCENTRAL setup (from Hub 2.124; on for new installations, existing installations switch it on once). The tracking URL inside the fulfilment comes from the carrier mapping of the merchantCENTRAL shipment modules – the same one every other channel uses.
Shopify orders on the dashboard
Orders created by Microsoft's connector show up on the merchantCENTRAL dashboard – with revenue, item count and the quantity still waiting to ship.
Prices from the price engine
Per shop, pick the price list the Price Engine calculates from margins, rounding and fees. The shop gets the best price valid today, promotions included. The compare-at price is the lowest price of the last 30 days, as EU price-reduction rules require.
Hooked in, not rebuilt
The add-on subscribes to the events of the Microsoft connector and supplies its values before that connector transfers them. No second interface to Shopify is created.
No API access of its own
No credentials, no calls of its own, no API version to keep up with: OAuth, GraphQL, rate limits and webhooks stay entirely with Microsoft.
Switchable per shop
Every contribution – content, SEO, price, stock, tracking – can be switched on and off per shop individually. Several shops run side by side under different rules.
One failure stops nothing
If a contribution fails, Microsoft's own value goes out and the reason lands in the enrichment log – the product export of the remaining items keeps running.
Ready to put Shopify beside your other channels?
Microsoft's Shopify Connector is free and part of Business Central online. Add the merchantCENTRAL hub app and this add-on – 30 days free, straight from AppSource.