How does this differ from connecting directly to Amazon or eBay?

ChannelEngine consolidates dozens of operators behind one connector, which is the right call when you want marketplace breadth without per-operator integration work. For a single high-volume operator (Amazon US, say), a direct integration is sometimes a better fit. We help merchants pick at scoping.

What about per-marketplace SLA requirements?

ChannelEngine surfaces operator-specific SLA requirements; the integration pushes fulfilment events back within the right windows. The runbook documents what to do if any operator-side SLA looks at risk.

Can we restrict which products publish to which operators?

Yes. Per-marketplace catalogue filtering happens at the integration boundary; the merchandising team controls eligibility in one place rather than in ChannelEngine and Shopify separately.

Do you support this under SLA after go-live?

Yes. Monitoring on every shipped flow, on-call cover, monthly health checks and tiered response SLAs from £750/month.

Ecommerce Shopify

Marketplaces ChannelEngine

Integration combo

Shopify to ChannelEngine integration

Shopify is the brand storefront. ChannelEngine is the marketplace aggregator: connect once and reach dozens of marketplaces from a single dashboard. Connecting Shopify to ChannelEngine means the catalogue, inventory and pricing publish onto every chosen marketplace under ChannelEngine's operator rules, orders drop back into Shopify for fulfilment, and settlement data ties out against actual gross revenue. Built and supported as a Patchworks Partner Agency, with the SLA picking up at cutover.

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Flow shape

Order sync: ChannelEngine to Shopify

Orders from any of ChannelEngine's connected marketplaces drop into Shopify with channel attribution preserved so reporting splits out marketplace revenue cleanly.

Trigger ChannelEngine Order created order webhook
Extract Patchworks Ingest order queue, dedupe
Transform Patchworks Map to Shopify SKUs, channel, customer
Action Shopify Create order with marketplace tag
Action Shopify Allocate stock against ChannelEngine location
Writeback ChannelEngine Acknowledge with Shopify order ID

Illustrative only. The diagram above shows how an integration of this shape works in concept. It is not a screenshot or export of the actual Patchworks process flow; the production flow has more nodes, more branches and more error handling than a marketing page can usefully render.

Typical delivery

5 to 8 weeks for a standard delivery.

Up to 5× faster using PatchBuddy

Week 1 Discovery: marketplace scope, catalogue filter, fulfilment SLA model.
Weeks 2 to 4 Build: catalogue, inventory, pricing, orders, fulfilment, settlement.
Weeks 5 to 6 Integration testing against ChannelEngine sandbox.
Weeks 7 to 8 Cutover and hyper-care into retainer.

Patchworks delivery

How Patchworks shapes Shopify to ChannelEngine.

ChannelEngine handles the per-marketplace operator complexity; Patchworks handles the Shopify side of the boundary so merchandising and operations only deal with one source of truth. The integration publishes Shopify catalogue + inventory into ChannelEngine on change, and ingests orders back as Shopify orders with channel attribution preserved. Flows live in Patchworks; runbooks cover the cases ChannelEngine surfaces when an operator changes its rules upstream.

Got more connectors that need to live in this flow? A 3PL, a marketplace, returns, a PIM, anything. We can do it. Most live integrations end up larger than a pair, all built and supported as one estate. More on multi-platform estates →

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Questions

Common questions.

01 How does this differ from connecting directly to Amazon or eBay?

ChannelEngine consolidates dozens of operators behind one connector, which is the right call when you want marketplace breadth without per-operator integration work. For a single high-volume operator (Amazon US, say), a direct integration is sometimes a better fit. We help merchants pick at scoping.
02 What about per-marketplace SLA requirements?

ChannelEngine surfaces operator-specific SLA requirements; the integration pushes fulfilment events back within the right windows. The runbook documents what to do if any operator-side SLA looks at risk.
03 Can we restrict which products publish to which operators?

Yes. Per-marketplace catalogue filtering happens at the integration boundary; the merchandising team controls eligibility in one place rather than in ChannelEngine and Shopify separately.
04 Do you support this under SLA after go-live?

Yes. Monitoring on every shipped flow, on-call cover, monthly health checks and tiered response SLAs from £750/month.

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