BC + Shopify Implementation / Integration only

Option 01

Shopify to Business Central Integration Services

You already have a Shopify store and you already run Business Central. They just do not talk to each other, or they talk badly. We keep your existing storefront exactly as it is and build the integration into Business Central around the way you already work.

What it costs What gets connected

Your storefront stays untouched
Your store keeps selling throughout
Fixed price after discovery

Option 01Integration only

Fixed price from: $14,500 USD
Market comparable: $15,000 to $30,000
Shopify storefront: Yours, unchanged
Business Central: Yours, already live
Typical duration: 4 to 6 weeks
Connector licence: Included with BC
Middleware subscription: None

Best fit

This is the right option if

Choose integration only

Your situation looks like this

Shopify is live and you are happy enough with the storefront
Business Central is live and your finance team works in it
Somebody is re-keying orders, stock or customers between the two
Or you are paying a monthly subscription for a connector app you would rather not need
You want the two systems joined without reopening either one

Look at another option

Choose something else if

The storefront needs rebuilding anyway. Go to Shopify plus integration, because the catalogue structure decision is cheaper made once
Business Central is not implemented yet. Go to full commerce implementation
An integration is already live and misbehaving. Go to integration rescue first, because you may need remediation rather than a rebuild

Scope

What gets connected

We set up and implement the integration of your Shopify store and Business Central according to your existing commerce processes. Everything below is in scope at this price level.

Included in every engagement

The full connection

Product and item synchronisation
Inventory availability and updates
Customer synchronisation
Sales order integration
Pricing and sales prices
Customer specific pricing
Order fulfilment
Shipping and tracking information
Returns and refunds
Payment information
Tax and financial integration
Location and inventory mapping
Sync process automation
Integration error monitoring

Also delivered

The things that make it stick

An integration that works on the day it goes live but nobody understands is a liability. Every engagement ends with your team able to run it.

written data audit findings
sandbox with your own data
mapping decision record
UAT script signed by name
cutover runbook
rollback plan
end user training
troubleshooting guide
hypercare with a named consultant

What we need from you

The five things that decide the timeline

None of these are unusual, but each one is a place a project stalls when it arrives late. We ask for them in week one.

Business Central sandbox access

A sandbox environment plus a user with permission to install extensions and configure the connector. Your BC partner can provision this if you have one.

Shopify admin and a development store

Admin access to the live store for configuration review, and a development store for testing so nothing we do touches live orders.

Your item master, as it is

Not cleaned up first. We need to see the real state of items, variants, barcodes and units of measure, because that is what determines mapping effort.

Location and tax setup

Which BC locations hold sellable stock, which Shopify locations they correspond to, and how tax is currently resolved for each country you sell into.

A named person who can sign off

One person on your side who can approve the mapping decisions and sign the UAT scenarios. Projects without one drift, whoever is doing the work.

Your pricing rules, written down

Retail price, customer specific prices, discounts and promotions, and which system you consider the owner of each. If that has never been written down, the discovery stage is where we write it.

How it runs

Four to six weeks, four gates

The full six stage approach applies, compressed because Business Central and Shopify are both already live. Payments follow the gates.

Discover and design

We document your current Shopify and Business Central processes, product structure, price rules, inventory model, customer model, order and fulfilment process, returns and financial handling. You get a written findings note listing every data issue that would break sync. Then we decide which system owns which data, what synchronises, when, and what happens on failure.

week 1 to 2
gate: findings and design signed

Configure and develop

Connector setup, item and variant mapping, location mapping, price groups, customer matching rules, tax handling, payment mapping, job queue design and error monitoring, built in a sandbox against a Shopify development store.

week 2 to 4
gate: sandbox demonstrated

Test

Full process testing, not interface testing. Your team runs each scenario and signs it off.

new product
product update
inventory update
new customer
order from existing customer
new customer order
discounted order
multi-line order
partial shipment
full shipment
cancelled order
return
refund

Go live and support

Data validation, configuration check, integration activation, user readiness and transaction monitoring, with us online through the first business day. Then hypercare, tapering from daily log review to weekly, and a documented handover to your team or your BC partner.

week 4 to 6
gate: first clean trading day

Cost

What integration only costs

From $14,500USD, fixed after discovery

The figure moves with catalogue size, number of locations, whether B2B or POS channels are in scope, and how much work your item master needs before it can map. All four of those are assessed in discovery, and the fixed number is confirmed in writing before any build work starts.

There is no ongoing subscription to us and no per order fee. The Microsoft connector is included with your Business Central licence.

Published 2026 market pricing

Shopify ERP integration, single entity, standard catalogue$15,000 to $30,000
Shopify ERP integration, general implementation setup$10,000 to $30,000
Shopify ERP integration, two entity B2B plus DTC$45,000 to $90,000
Middleware subscription, ongoing$600+ per month
North America developer rate$100 to $150 per hour

The subscription line is worth a moment. A middleware connector at $600 a month is $7,200 a year, every year, for as long as you keep selling. Against the native Microsoft connector there is no subscription at all, so over three years that line alone usually exceeds the difference between our price and a middleware vendor's.

Frequently asked

Shopify Business Central integration questions

Do you need to change our Shopify theme?

No. Integration only leaves the storefront exactly as it is. We work in the Shopify admin and in Business Central, not in your theme code. If a change to the storefront turns out to be genuinely necessary, for example a product structure that cannot be mapped as it stands, we tell you in discovery and you decide whether to make it or to move to the Shopify plus integration scope.

Can you connect more than one Shopify store?

Yes. The native connector supports more than one shop, each with its own setup, products and locations. Two or three stores against one Business Central company is straightforward. Several stores fanning into multiple Business Central companies is a larger design question and we handle it as a scoped extension, quoted separately.

What happens to the orders already in Shopify?

That is a decision made in design, not an accident discovered at cutover. You can start clean from a cutover date, or backfill a defined period of history. Backfilling costs time and carries its own risks around already-reconciled payouts, so we walk you through the trade-off and write the choice into the cutover runbook.

We are paying for a connector app already. Can you replace it?

Usually yes, and it is one of the more common reasons people call. We map what the existing app does today, identify what the native connector covers, flag anything it does not, and plan a parallel run so orders are never in flight across two integrations at once. Dropping the subscription often funds a meaningful part of the project.

Will our finance team have to change how they work?

Less than they expect. Orders arrive as Business Central sales orders and follow your existing sales process to a posted invoice, using your posting groups and your dimensions. What changes is that the re-keying stops and the reconciliation gets easier, particularly on Shopify Payments payouts.

Other options

If this is not quite your situation

Next step

Send us your item master

A scope call, then a written findings note naming every data issue that would break synchronisation. No charge, and no obligation to continue.

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