Shopify – PrintVis Integration Documentation

Shopify can be integrated with PrintVis through standard Microsoft and PrintVis functionality.

PrintVis focuses on MIS and production management inside Business Central, while Shopify handles the online storefront experience. Using Microsoft’s standard Shopify Connector, orders placed in Shopify can flow into Business Central and then automatically convert into PrintVis Cases.

Shopify can seamlessly be integrated with PrintVis, by using standard functionality. The integration consists of two main steps:

1. Connecting Shopify with Business Central using Microsoft’s standard Shopify connector.

2. Converting the resulting Business Central sales orders into PrintVis cases using the standard Sales Order to PrintVis Case functionality.

Here is the flow of information from Shopify to PrintVis:

Shopify Order

    ↓

Business Central Sales Order (via Shopify Connector)

    ↓

PrintVis Case (via Template + Auto Create Case)

Step 1: Connect Shopify to Business Central

Business Central includes a standard Shopify connector that enables synchronization of:

• Customers

• Items / products

• Prices

• Orders

• Payments and shipping information

Once the connector is configured, Shopify orders can automatically be created as Sales Orders in Business Central.

Reference Documentation

Microsoft Shopify Connector overview: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/shopify/shopify-connector-overview

Step 2: Convert Sales Orders to PrintVis Cases

After a Shopify order has been created as a Sales Order, it can be processed using PrintVis standard Sales Order integration.

PrintVis provides standard functionality to manually or automatically convert an item on a sales order into a PrintVis Case. By using templates, you can streamline this process.

This means Shopify orders can flow directly into PrintVis.

Reference Documentation

PrintVis Sales Order integration: https://learn.printvis.com/PrintVis/SalesOrderIntegration/

PrintVis Work with Templates: https://learn.printvis.com/Legacy/Estimation/WorkTemplates/

PrintVis example setup

After installing the Shopify Connector Extension in Business Central, the next step is to create and set up a Shopify Shop in Business Central and connect it to your Shopify store URL.

To automate the creation of a PrintVis case, we recommend creating the items in Business Central first and letting them sync to Shopify.

On the Item Card, assign a Template and check “Sales Order Auto Create Case”.

In Shopify Shop, check “Auto Create Sales Order”.

Now, when an order comes in from Shopify:

• The Shopify Shop automatically creates a sales order.

• If the items on the order have the setting enabled, the Item Card will automatically create a PrintVis Case.

It is also possible to have variants of an item, but you cannot assign separate templates for the variants, all variants will follow the template of the main item.

In Shopify it will look like this

Sales Prices are also handled in BC and can be synced to Shopify, either from the Item Card

or from a Sales Price List