Sync inventory with multiple sales channels (Sync-It)

In this article, you will learn how to sync your inventory with multiple sales channels.

Why you will need this:

Dealing with multiple sales channels is hard and adds a whole lot of work. Synchronizing and centralizing your inventory and sales (regardless of how many sales channels you have – online or offline) will help you sell with confidence and never oversell again.

What you will need:

Connect SwiftCount to your main 3rd party platform.
Assign SKUs to every products in order to link items in the two platforms. Click here to learn how to update product information

Step 1: Search for your second sales channel integration

Click the “Integration” icon on the header
In the category “My integration” you should already have one integration done (your master sales channel).

Click on 3rd party package (accounting package, add-on, E-commerce, Inventory Management or Point of Sale)
Select the second 3rd party platform you want to sync with

Step 2: Connect the second sales channel integration

Click “Connect”

Enter your credentials
Click “Sign in”
Click “Authorize Application”

Step 3: (optional) Choose to associate integrations

You can choose between associating both platforms or keep them separate. The difference is that there will be different inventories if you select the latter, whereas the first option inventory is shared between the two platforms If you wish to sync both inventory, then …

Select “Associate integrations”
Click “Ok”

Select the store you want to merge with your 2nd sales channel
Click “Next”

Check “Import products”, “Import categories”, “Import images” and “Export products”
Select “Manual” if you want to export products manually (meaning that you can update a product in SwiftCOUNT and it will update the sales channel only if you tell it to)..

Check “Export Movements”
Click “Next”

Check “Export counts”
Click “Next”

Check “Import suppliers”, “Import orders” and “Export orders”
Click “Next”

Check “Import sales”
Click “Next”

Select if you want to change the main package to this one.
This step is very important because at this point you will determine which package is your main integration. By default, the “master” integration is the first one you connect to your SwiftCount account. What this means is that every changes made to a product in the “master platform” will be reflected in the other one.

Click “Finish”

After the integration is complete you will see this information window. It tells you the following:

Inserted: New products inserted in SwiftCOUNT
Updated: Existing products in SwiftCOUNT to which a modification was made
Failed: Products that failed in their process of getting into SwiftCOUNT
Data sent: Products created in SwiftCOUNT and as consequence pushed to Shopify