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Installing Shipatron from Shopify

Background

Shipatron helps you connect your ecommerce store to fulfilment partners and to other ecommerce marketplaces. With an easy to use interface and integration with many popular ecommerce platforms, you'll be automating orders and product updates in no time.

The Shipatron app for Shopify lets you pull products from Shopify to other marketplaces, which we call channels. You can also get orders to where they need to go, using fulfliments that you configure.

Notes

  • You don't have to use Shipatron to manage both fulfiments and marketplaces. If you dispatch goods from your own home and don't need any fulfilment automation, you can skip the "Add Fulfliment" step and still use Shipatron for updating your products on marketplaces.
  • Shipatron considers the first channel you connect to be the master. Changes you make to products within the master will flow through to other channels. For most shopify users, Shopify will be the master, so connect that first.
  • Each marketplace you use will have its own slightly different format for displaying product information to customers. So the product page your customers see may look a little different when published to mirakl compared to how it looks on Shopify.
  • When you add a channel or a fulfilment, you'll need some information so shopify can make the connection. The information varies for each type of connection. It could be as simple as logging in or may require some more technical information like an API key or an FTP server. Your fulfilment partner or marketplace provider will be able to provide the information Shipatron needs.

Installing Shipatron

  1. Make sure you are logged in to the shopify admin area of your store. Select “Apps” from the main menu and click “Visit Shopify App Store”. Then, in the search box, type “Shipatron”.
  2. Select the Shipatron app and then from the Shipatron profile page, click "Install App".
  3. Shipatron will automatically create your account and connect your Shopify store. A wizard will appear which guides you through the steps for installation.
  4. The first choice you have is whether to install a fulfilment partner (including warehouses or 3PL providers). Click "Show me" if you're ready to install, or "Skip" if you'd like to come back and do that later.
  5. The second phase will be to create a channel. Choose "Show me" to be shown how this works, or "Skip" if you'd like to go straight to Shipatron.

Don't forget, you can come back to add a fulfilment or a channel by logging into Shipatron and choosing the Settings menu at anytime.

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