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Unlock eCommerce Excellence: Seamless BNG & Shopify Integration

Automate Orders, Sync Inventory, and Harmonize Customer Data for Unprecedented Efficiency and Growth.

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The Challenge

The Hidden Costs of Disconnected eCommerce & Back-Office Systems

Without a robust integration, your Shopify store and BNG system operate in silos, leading to operational inefficiencies, costly errors, and frustrated customers. This disconnect hinders growth and drains resources.

  • Manual order entry from Shopify to BNG, leading to delays and human errors.
  • Inaccurate inventory levels on Shopify, resulting in overselling and customer dissatisfaction.
  • Disjointed customer data across systems, impacting marketing and support efforts.
  • Complex and time-consuming financial reconciliation of eCommerce payments.
  • Lack of real-time visibility into sales performance and stock availability.
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The Solution

Intelligent Automation: Connecting BNG and Shopify with iPaaS

Our AI-powered iPaaS provides a comprehensive, low-code solution to seamlessly integrate BNG and Shopify. It orchestrates complex workflows, ensures real-time data synchronization, and empowers your teams to build, manage, and monitor integrations with unparalleled ease and intelligence.

  • Pre-built connectors for BNG and Shopify for rapid deployment.
  • Visual drag-and-drop workflow builder for custom process automation.
  • Real-time, event-driven synchronization via webhooks.
  • Robust data mapping and transformation engine.
  • AI-driven anomaly detection and fraud flagging for orders and transactions.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Pre-built connectors for BNG and Shopify for rapid deployment.
  • Visual drag-and-drop workflow builder for custom process automation.
  • Real-time, event-driven synchronization via webhooks.
  • Robust data mapping and transformation engine.
  • AI-driven anomaly detection and fraud flagging for orders and transactions.
  • Centralized error handling, logging, and alerting.
  • Secure credential management and API access control.

Technical Integration Details: BNG and Shopify

The integration between BNG and Shopify is facilitated by an iPaaS acting as the central orchestration layer. It leverages the robust API capabilities of both systems, employing event-driven architectures where possible to ensure real-time data flow and consistency.

Data Flow Steps

Authentication & Connection: Securely establish connections to BNG (OAuth 2.0/API Key) and Shopify (OAuth 2.0/Private App Access Token) via the iPaaS's credential manager.

Webhook Configuration: Register Shopify webhooks (e.g., `orders/create`, `products/update`, `customers/update`) with the iPaaS as the listener URL. Configure BNG events/webhooks if available, or establish efficient polling for critical BNG data.

Data Mapping & Transformation: Design visual mappings between source (Shopify) and target (BNG) entities. Implement data transformation rules, lookups, and conditional logic within the iPaaS to reconcile schema differences (e.g., `total_price` in Shopify to `TotalAmount` in BNG).

Workflow Orchestration: Build multi-step workflows in the iPaaS, defining the sequence of operations (e.g., 'new Shopify order' → 'create BNG customer' → 'create BNG sales order' → 'update Shopify fulfillment').

Error Handling & Monitoring: Configure comprehensive error logging, automated retry mechanisms with exponential backoff, and alerts for critical failures. Utilize iPaaS dashboards for real-time monitoring of integration health.

Deployment & Lifecycle: Promote tested integration flows from Dev to QA to Production environments using the iPaaS's built-in lifecycle management features, ensuring version control and rollback capabilities.

Data Touchpoints

Shopify: Orders, Products, Product Variants, Customers, Inventory Levels, Fulfillments, Refunds, Payment Transactions, Webhook Events, Locations.
BNG: Sales Orders, Products, Inventory Items, Customers, Invoices, Payments, General Ledger Entries, Shipments, Vendors, Purchase Orders.

"A typical BNG-Shopify integration flow starts with an event in one system (e.g., Shopify Order Creation). This event triggers a webhook to the iPaaS. The iPaaS then retrieves additional necessary data, transforms the payload to match the target system's schema, and calls the target system's API (e.g., BNG Sales Order API). The target system processes the request, and the iPaaS may then update the originating system (e.g., Shopify Fulfillment Status) or another downstream system. All steps include error handling, logging, and monitoring."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating BNG

Integrating BNG fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

Hover over the steps on the right to see detailed integration points.
Data Mapping

Key Entities & Field-Level Mapping Between BNG and Shopify

Understanding the core entities and their field-level mappings is crucial for a successful integration. Our iPaaS provides a visual interface to define these relationships, supported by AI to suggest accurate transformations and validations.

Order / Sales Order

Represents a customer's purchase. Shopify's 'Order' maps to BNG's 'Sales Order'.

BNG Fields

SalesOrderID (BNG Primary Key) ExternalOrderID (from Shopify) CustomerID OrderDate OrderStatus TotalAmount LineItems (Product, Quantity, Price) ShippingMethod PaymentStatus

Shopify Fields

id (Shopify Primary Key) order_number customer_id financial_status fulfillment_status total_price lineitems (id, productid, variant_id, sku, quantity, price) shipping_address billing_address created_at updated_at tags metafields

Mapping Notes

Shopify's `id` maps to BNG's `ExternalOrderID`. Shopify's `lineitems` need to be transformed into BNG's `LineItems` array, requiring mapping of `variantid` or `sku` to BNG `ProductID`. `financialstatus` and `fulfillmentstatus` drive BNG `PaymentStatus` and `OrderStatus` updates. Shopify's `shippingaddress` and `billingaddress` map to corresponding fields in BNG. Custom `metafields` in Shopify can store BNG-specific IDs or attributes.

Next Steps

See BNG + Shopify integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Automated Order-to-Cash Cycle

Seamlessly transfer new Shopify orders into BNG, trigger inventory allocation, generate invoices, and update order statuses in real-time.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Shopify `Order` created.
  2. 1 iPaaS receives Shopify `orders/create` webhook.
  3. 2 iPaaS maps Shopify `Order` to BNG `Sales Order`, creating BNG `Customer` if new.
  4. 3 BNG processes `Sales Order`, allocates `Inventory Item`.
  5. 4 BNG generates `Invoice`.
  6. 5 iPaaS updates Shopify `Fulfillment` and `financial_status`.

Business Outcome

Faster order fulfillment, accurate invoicing, reduced manual data entry, improved cash flow.

Frequency

Real-time

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Accelerated Order Processing
Automate the flow of Shopify orders directly into BNG, reducing manual entry time by up to 90% and speeding up fulfillment cycles.
Eliminate Overselling & Stockouts
Achieve real-time inventory synchronization from BNG to Shopify, ensuring accurate stock levels and preventing frustrating overselling incidents.
Enhanced Data Accuracy
Minimize human errors and ensure data consistency across customer, product, and financial records between Shopify and BNG.
Improved Financial Reconciliation
Automate payment postings and financial entries from Shopify transactions into BNG's GL, streamlining month-end close and audit processes.
360° Customer View
Synchronize customer data between Shopify and BNG, providing your teams with a complete, unified profile for personalized service and marketing.
Scalability for Growth
Build an integration foundation that scales with your eCommerce growth, handling increased order volumes and expanding product catalogs without bottlenecks.
Proactive Operations with AI
Leverage AI for fraud detection, anomaly flagging, and intelligent data validation, transforming reactive issue resolution into proactive operational excellence.
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Accelerated Order Processing

90% Reduction in Manual Order Entry

📋 What You Get

Automate the flow of Shopify orders directly into BNG, reducing manual entry time by up to 90% and speeding up fulfillment cycles.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 90% improvement in Reduction in Manual Order Entry, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
GET, POST, PUT, DELETE /api/v1/customers Manage customer master data (create new, update existing, retrieve details).
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/products Synchronize product catalog, pricing, and attributes.
GET, POST, PUT /api/v1/sales-orders Create, retrieve, and update sales orders from Shopify.
GET, POST /api/v1/invoices Manage customer invoices for payment reconciliation.
POST /api/v1/payments Record incoming payments from payment gateways.
GET, PATCH /api/v1/inventory/{item_id} Retrieve current stock levels and apply inventory adjustments.
POST /api/v1/gl-entries Post general ledger entries for financial reporting.
POST /api/v1/webhooks/subscribe Register webhooks to receive real-time event notifications from BNG.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Schema Normalization: Aligning disparate field names and data types (e.g., Shopify `created_at` (ISO 8601) to BNG `OrderDate` (YYYY-MM-DD)).
  • Value Mapping: Translating categorical values (e.g., Shopify `fulfillment_status` 'fulfilled' to BNG `OrderStatus` 'Shipped').
  • Data Aggregation/Splitting: Combining multiple Shopify `line_items` into a BNG `Sales Order` line item array, or splitting a BNG `Product` into Shopify `Product` and `variants`.
  • Calculations: Applying tax calculations, currency conversions, or deriving new fields based on existing data.
  • Data Enrichment: Performing lookups to add missing information (e.g., retrieving BNG `CustomerID` using Shopify `email`).

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Invalid Data: Shopify sends malformed `Order` data, rejected by BNG API. iPaaS logs, alerts, and routes to dead-letter queue.
  • API Rate Limit Exceeded: BNG/Shopify API returns 429. iPaaS automatically retries with exponential backoff.
  • Network Interruption: Temporary loss of connectivity. iPaaS queues messages for retry upon reconnection.
  • Business Rule Violation: An order doesn't meet BNG's minimum quantity requirements. iPaaS flags, alerts, and holds for manual review.
  • Duplicate Record: Attempt to create an existing customer in BNG. iPaaS detects, updates instead, or flags as warning based on rules.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ What is the best way to integrate BNG with Shopify?
The most effective approach is to use a modern iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). It provides pre-built connectors, robust mapping engines, and orchestration capabilities to seamlessly sync orders, inventory, product data, and customer information between BNG and Shopify. This ensures real-time data flow, reduces manual effort, and scales with your business needs.

Workflow Automation FAQs

▸ Can I automate my Shopify order fulfillment and financial reconciliation with BNG?
Absolutely. An iPaaS can automate the entire order-to-cash cycle. New Shopify orders are automatically sent to BNG for processing and inventory allocation. Once fulfilled and paid, the iPaaS can update Shopify with tracking information and automate payment postings and GL entries in BNG, ensuring accurate financial reconciliation and faster fulfillment.

AI-first Integration FAQs

▸ How does AI enhance BNG and Shopify integrations?
AI augments integrations by providing intelligent capabilities like automated data validation, anomaly detection in financial transactions (e.g., unusual GL postings in BNG), smart mapping suggestions between systems, and even fraud detection for new Shopify orders. This makes your integrated workflows more efficient, accurate, and proactive.

Data Synchronization FAQs

▸ How do I ensure real-time inventory synchronization between BNG and Shopify?
Real-time inventory synchronization is best achieved using event-driven architecture. Configure BNG to send webhooks or events whenever inventory levels (`Inventory Item`) change. The iPaaS captures these events and immediately updates the corresponding Shopify `Product Variant` `Inventory Level` via its API, preventing overselling and ensuring accurate stock availability.

Error Handling FAQs

▸ What happens if an integration with BNG or Shopify fails?
A well-designed iPaaS integration includes comprehensive error handling. Failures are logged with contextual information, alerts are sent to relevant teams, and automated retry mechanisms with exponential backoff are in place for transient errors. For persistent issues, data might be routed to a dead-letter queue for manual investigation, with AI potentially suggesting resolutions.

Customization FAQs

▸ Can I customize the integration to handle specific BNG fields or Shopify metafields?
Yes, our iPaaS offers extensive customization. You can easily map BNG custom fields to Shopify `metafields` (and vice-versa) using the visual mapping canvas. The platform's rules engine and low-code capabilities allow you to define custom business logic, transformations, and conditional routing to meet your unique operational requirements.

Integration Management FAQs

▸ How do I manage the integration lifecycle (Dev, QA, Prod) for BNG and Shopify?
Modern iPaaS platforms provide robust lifecycle management features. You can develop and test BNG Shopify integrations in isolated 'Dev' environments, promote them to 'QA' for comprehensive testing, and then deploy them to 'Production' with version control and rollback capabilities. This structured approach ensures stability, minimizes risks, and facilitates controlled releases.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What security measures are in place for the BNG Shopify integration?
Security is paramount. The integration uses OAuth 2.0 or secure API keys, stored in an encrypted credential vault. All data in transit is protected by HTTPS/TLS 1.2+. Shopify webhook signatures are verified. We adhere to least-privilege access principles and are compliant with standards like GDPR, CCPA, and PCI DSS (for payment token handling), ensuring your data is always secure.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with BNG + Shopify in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both BNG and Shopify, with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most BNG + Shopify deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for BNG + Shopify.

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See BNG + Shopify integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo