What is the best way to seamlessly and accurately sync inventory with Shopify?

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Hi @madebyfell ,

In order to make sure inventory sync is seamless and accurate you need to keep the following things in mind.

Make sure you have one master data which means either QuickBooks Inventory count should be correct or Shopify Quantity is correct.

The syncing of inventory is basically related to Order postings in Quickbooks. So let's take an example that you are selling a shirt on Shopify and quantity is 10 on Shopify and QB qty is 10. You sold 1 shirt on Shopify QTy gets reduced to 9 on Shopify and Qb still has 10. Now if you enter the Order in QB as sales receipt then only qty will get reduced to 9 in QB. This will make sure your inventory count is correct. 

But what if you directly sold an item from QB and not thru Shopify so QB qty got reduced to 9 and Shopify still has 10 shirts. Here you need to sync QB quantity to Shopify using any app.

So if you are dealing with thousands of SKU's you need to have an app which prepares a list of items whose quantities are not matching and then sync in whichever direction you ask it to do.

One of the app is Webgility Desktop which does so.

Also you need to make sure the fulfillment locations on Shopify are also been tracked properly and if you are having advanced Inventory enabled in QuickBooks Enterprise version then you need to make sure proper inventory location should also be taken into consideration. 

I hope this will give you some idea  how to manage inventory to some extent :)

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Thank You

Do you enter inventory into Shopify only or both QuickBooks and Shopify?  I was told to make QB inactive and only enter inventory into Shopify. Is that correct?

Hi @HaloSalonBoutique.
 

Thank you for posting in the Community.
 

As to clarify things up, you can use both applications QuickBooks Online (QBO) and Shopify. It was mentioned their by @Shahji that you can sync the accounts and choose one master data.
 

You can combine our product by syncing it to any supported applications in QBO, @HaloSalonBoutique, or visit the Shopify's website for more info.
 

To learn more about our integration with other applications, visit QuickBooks Apps.

Please feel free to leave a query if there's anything else. I'll be happy to help you. Have a good one!

@HaloSalonBoutique 

Consider using an inventory management app to take care of your inventory actitivities and sync it with Shopify and QBO. You may start exploring these options:

http://www.primaseller.com/?utm_source=Affiliate&fp_ref=primaseller

https://go.tradegecko.com/register?code=fiat-lux

Hope it helps.

Importing the quantities of inventory would overwrite your inventory data, so only when other adjustments in inventory, for examples ongoing sales, are not taking place should you import your inventory.

We've written an article about How to import inventory on Shopify, you can check it out. I believe it will help you to accurately sync inventory with Shopify as your requested