What This Is
We build custom integrations with Shopify’s API that connect your store’s data — products, orders, customers, inventory, and fulfilment — to your internal business systems. Instead of managing Shopify as an isolated silo, the integration makes store data flow into your application where it can be acted on alongside everything else.
Shopify’s API surface is extensive: Admin API for store management, Storefront API for headless commerce, and webhooks for real-time event processing. We work across all three depending on what the integration needs to achieve. Whether it is syncing orders to your internal CRM, managing inventory across multiple channels, or building a fully custom storefront powered by Shopify’s backend, the integration is built as a reliable, maintained connection — not a fragile script.
These integrations are built on the same patterns we use for production API work across other platforms — service layers that abstract the API, webhook processing through queue jobs, and error handling that accounts for rate limits, network failures, and data inconsistencies.
When You Need This
Shopify API integration makes sense when your store needs to connect to systems outside Shopify’s native ecosystem. Common scenarios:
- You need order data flowing into an internal system — a custom CRM, ERP, warehouse management tool, or reporting dashboard
- Inventory management spans multiple channels or locations and needs a single source of truth outside Shopify
- You are building a headless storefront using React or another frontend framework, powered by Shopify’s Storefront API
- Customer data needs to sync between Shopify and your marketing, support, or loyalty systems
- You want to automate fulfilment workflows — routing orders to different suppliers, generating shipping labels, or updating tracking information programmatically
How We Work
Shopify integration projects start with data flow mapping — identifying what data moves between Shopify and your systems, in which direction, and how frequently. We determine whether the integration is event-driven (webhooks), scheduled (polling), or on-demand (API calls triggered by user actions).
We build a dedicated Shopify service layer inside your Laravel application that handles authentication (OAuth or private app tokens), rate limiting, pagination, and error recovery. Your application interacts with this service layer, not with the Shopify API directly. This keeps your business logic clean and makes the integration testable.
Webhook processing follows our standard pattern: events are received, verified, and dispatched to queue jobs for processing. Each webhook type has its own handler with idempotent logic — Shopify can send the same webhook multiple times, and the system handles duplicates gracefully without corrupting data.
What You Get
- Order sync — orders flowing from Shopify into your internal systems in real time via webhooks or scheduled pulls
- Product management — create, update, and manage products programmatically from your application
- Inventory sync — inventory levels managed across Shopify and external systems with conflict resolution
- Customer data integration — customer records synced between Shopify and your CRM, marketing, or support tools
- Webhook processing — real-time event handling for orders, products, inventory changes, and customer updates
- Headless storefront support — Storefront API integration for custom frontend experiences
Technologies We Use
- Shopify Admin API — REST and GraphQL endpoints for store data management, order processing, and product catalogue operations
- Shopify Storefront API — headless commerce queries for custom frontend experiences
- Laravel — service layer with OAuth handling, rate limit management, and queue-based webhook processing
- PostgreSQL — local data cache for order history, product catalogues, and customer records
Related Systems
Shopify integrations typically feed into broader business systems — a CRM tracking customer relationships beyond the store, a reporting dashboard combining sales data with other business metrics, or an invoicing system that incorporates wholesale and B2B orders alongside retail.
Talk to Us About Shopify Integration
If your Shopify store needs to connect to your business systems beyond what apps and plugins can handle, get in touch and we will map the integration and build it properly.
