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Shopify & Visual Ink integration: Establishing Connection in Visual Ink

This setup ensures that orders placed on your Shopify store can be pushed to Visual Ink to be processed and fulfilled through the Visual Ink fulfillment center. By connecting a Shopify store with a Visual Ink, various aspects of order handling can be automated. This reduces manual data entry and enhances efficiency. In this article, we'll guide you through the process of establishing this connection.

1. Log into your Visual Ink Shopify Store

2. Browse the left panel

3. Select Fulfill Shopify Orders from the Store admin menu.

 

The Shopify Settings page is loaded in the work area.

 

 

4. Enter the Shop Name and Admin API Access Token.

  • Find the Shopify Name part of your Shopify store domain. It is the part that appears before ".myshopify.com" in the settings section of your Shopify admin (in the top left corner, above the menu). Enter the shop name into the Shop Name field.
  • Retrieve the Admin API access token from the app page of the custom third-party order fulfillment app installed in Shopify. Copy and paste this token into the Admin API Access Token field.
     

5. Configure the Workflow settings.

  • Using 'Starter' or 'Basic' plan: Tick this option if your Shopify store is on the Starter or Basic plan. Shopify restricts access to customer details for third-party fulfillment apps on the Starter and Basic plans. Ticking this option will apply the status "Requires Customer Details" to your Shopify orders to ensure that you remember to manually enter the customer details to ensure that your orders are processed correctly and that the necessary information is available for fulfillment.
  • Automatically Submit New Orders that are ready: Tick this option to have new orders automatically submitted for fulfillment when they are ready. If unchecked, you will need to manually submit each order.
  • Submit Orders as Quotes Requiring Approval: Tick this option if you prefer to have orders submitted as quotes first, allowing you to review and approve them before production begins.
     

6. Configure the product Fields.

Specify the names that you would like to use for the color and size fields. If you want to use the default names "color" and "size," you can leave these fields blank.
 

7. Configure the Shipping Methods.

The shipping method settings allow you to map shipping methods between your Shopify and Visual Ink, ensuring that the correct shipping method is applied to Shopify orders entering your Visual Ink store. By creating and mapping shipping methods to match those in your Shopify store, you streamline the order fulfillment process.

   a. Click "add" to create shipping methods that will be linked to Shopify orders coming into to your Visual Ink store. Make sure to create enough shipping methods to match the options available in your Shopify store. Click "add" to create shipping methods that will be linked to Shopify orders coming into to your Visual Ink store. Make sure to create enough shipping methods to match the options available in your Shopify store.  

 

b. Enter the Shopify shipping method name.

For each shipping method, enter the corresponding Shopify shipping method name and assign a matching shipping method from your Fulfillment Center.

 

c. Save your settings
Click Save & Continue to save the shipping method configuration.

d. Lock shippping methods (Optional).

Tick the Locked checkbox if you want Shopify ordres to be restricted to the mapped shipping method; unlock shipping method mappings can be modified in the order.

8. Configure Design Matching.

If file metafields have been defined in Shopify to store designs, specify them here. This will allow Visual Ink to automatically match the designs for the mapped products to the respective front or back of the products in the Shopify store.

The Front and Back Design fields will only appear here if metafields have been defined in the connected Shopify store.

Select the metafields that have been defined for the front and back designs if they are available.

9. Configure Design Options.

Specify the default decoration process and the placement of your designs:

  • Default Decoration Process: select the default decoration process from the dropdown list. This determines the default decoration process used to apply designs to products.
  • Design Placement: Choose the default design placement from the Default Alignment dropdown list:
    • Top Left
    • Top Center
    • Top Right
    • Middle Left
    • Center
    • Middle Right
    • Bottom Left
    • Bottom Center
    • Bottom Right

 

10. Click Save.

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