Option to sync product costs from Core into Shopify Answered

Thanweer Kamaldeen

We would like to request the ability to sync product cost prices (such as average cost or last cost)/ COGs from Core to Shopify, similar to the current inventory sync functionality. This integration would greatly benefit business operations by ensuring that cost data is accurately reflected across both platforms.

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  • Comment author
    Community Team
    • Official comment

    Hi Thanweer,

    thank you for your suggestion.  Cin7 Core is the master of inventory and therefore the master of the product costs of the inventory.  

    May I ask, why the product costs need to be synced to Shopify?  What is your use case in consuming the product costs from Shopify as opposed to the product costs in Core?

  • Comment author
    Peter Ngo

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    1. A Shopify-Cin7 integration with a two-way sync, if implemented correctly, would provide multiple platforms access to inventory data while avoiding the unforeseen and questionable need to upgrade to a higher Cin7 license solely to obtain additional user licenses.
    2. Successful system integrations are designed for both systems to work seamlessly together, enabling the sharing of information and improving process efficiency.
    3. Operations require vital data for managerial reporting, particularly related to product pricing.
       
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    Nicolas Noakes

    We second this request to sync the Average cost for a product in Cin7 to the Cost per item field in Shopify. This should be continuous and automatic like the inventory quantity.

    The reason is that our sales team operates entirely out of Shopify B2B and it is helpful for them to be able to see margins so that they can quote effectively.

    Please implement this feature. The integration already has a toggle for “Update stock levels in Shopify” and you just need one more for “Update cost prices in Shopify”.

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  • Comment author
    Nicolas Noakes

    See also: https://help.core.cin7.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/11843512362511-Map-Shopify-Cost-per-item-field-to-Cin7-Core

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    Eric S

    Syncing average cost automatically on a variant level from Cin7 to Shopify would allow: 

    1. More accurate margin reporting within Shopify, without the need to upload average cost daily or weekly. 
    2. Ability to utilize 3rd party marketing tools like Profit Metrics which rely on accurate cost data. 
    3. Cost + discounts in Shopify (via 3rd party apps), as opposed to % off Compare-at-price or Current Price.
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    mike

    we require the cost to be sent to Shopify also - we are using price scraping software and need the cost to do this - it is inaccurate to only to this on a periodic basis

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