Clarity Connect integration
Shopify Wayfair Integration
Sell on Shopify and supply Wayfair? Bring Wayfair purchase orders into the same order flow as your web orders and send one stock figure to both.
How Wayfair differs from a Shopify sales channel
Wayfair isn't a marketplace you list on the way you add a channel in Shopify. You sell to Wayfair as a supplier: Wayfair sends you purchase orders, and you ship them from your own warehouse (drop-ship) or from stock held in Wayfair's CastleGate network. Wayfair's supplier APIs are open to suppliers already selling with Wayfair who have Partner Home access, and they cover catalog, inventory, purchase orders, shipping labels and cancellations.
Shopify
Your direct-to-consumer store
- Orders
- Product variants by SKU
- Inventory levels
- Fulfillments
Wayfair
Purchase orders from Wayfair to you
- Purchase orders
- Drop-ship or CastleGate inventory
- Shipping labels and registrations
- Catalog
Shopify to Wayfair record mapping
A typical starting map for a drop-ship supplier. Your own setup is confirmed in discovery.
| Shopify | Wayfair | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Order | Purchase order | Wayfair to Shopify (or ERP) |
| Product variant (by SKU) | Catalog product (matched by SKU) | Matched both ways |
| Inventory level | Drop-ship inventory | Shopify (or ERP) to Wayfair |
| Fulfillment and tracking | Shipment registration and label | Shopify to Wayfair |
| Cancelled order | Cancellation | Kept in step both ways |
How the sync works
Wayfair purchase orders in
Connect queries Wayfair's purchase order API on a schedule you set and creates each new order where your team fulfils it: as a Shopify order, so it is picked alongside web orders, or straight in your ERP or warehouse system. The Wayfair PO number travels with it, so the two can be matched later.
One stock figure for both
Whichever system holds your real stock, Shopify or an ERP, Connect sends the same available quantity to Shopify inventory and to Wayfair's drop-ship inventory API. CastleGate stock sits in Wayfair's warehouses, so it is tracked through Wayfair's CastleGate APIs, which report the inventory and orders held there.
Labels, shipping and cancellations
Wayfair's order APIs cover registering a shipment, getting its label and handling cancellations. When the order ships from your warehouse, Connect sends those details back to Wayfair, and cancellations are kept in step between Wayfair and the matching Shopify or ERP order.
See Clarity Connect move an order
Watch an online order travel into the ERP and its status come back in our Clarity Connect demo, or book a live walkthrough on your own systems.
What Wayfair's API access involves
Wayfair's supplier APIs use GraphQL. You create an application in Wayfair's developer portal, exchange its client ID and secret for a short-lived access token, and test each operation in a sandbox; only the scopes you've tested are granted in production. Orders placed before production access was turned on can't be read through the API, and the default limit is 60 requests a minute per application.
Wayfair also publishes EDI documentation and lists ready-made integration partners in its Vendor Marketplace, so the API isn't the only route. Discovery compares the options for your order volume.
How Clarity Connect runs it
Clarity Connect is Clarity's integration platform. It keeps a persistent, two-way connection between Shopify, Wayfair and your back office and runs each flow as a task on its own schedule. Connect handles APIs and EDI alike, and Clarity has built more than 3,000 integrations on it. Recorded walkthroughs are in our video playlist.
Discovery
A Clarity business analyst documents the data fields and workflows each system can share and which ones you need.
Tasks and mapping
Each flow becomes a Connect task, such as orders to the ERP or stock to the store, set to run in real time or on a schedule.
Testing
Orders and updates are run end to end, including the return trip of statuses back to the customer-facing system.
Live, with a dashboard
Queues and scheduled tasks show in Connect's Hangfire dashboard. A job whose target is offline is retried 10 times, every 30 minutes, and can be re-queued once the cause is fixed.
Clarity Connect is sold as a SaaS subscription at $599 a month or as a one-time license at $15,000 with no ongoing fees, and larger projects are priced to scope. See pricing.
Questions
Can I use the Wayfair API if I'm not a Wayfair supplier yet?
No. Wayfair's developer portal is for suppliers already selling with Wayfair who have Partner Home access. Once you're set up, the integration can start in Wayfair's sandbox.
Should Wayfair orders go into Shopify or into our ERP?
Either works. Putting them in Shopify keeps one pick list for a small team; sending them to the ERP keeps Wayfair purchase orders, where Wayfair is your customer, apart from consumer orders. Discovery settles it.
Does this work for CastleGate stock?
Yes, with a different flow: Wayfair holds CastleGate inventory, so Connect reads those levels from Wayfair for reporting instead of pushing quantities to it.
How is Clarity Connect priced?
Either $599 a month on SaaS or a one-time $15,000 license with no ongoing fees; projects with more systems are priced to scope. See pricing.
Related resources
Connect Shopify and Wayfair
Tell us how you supply Wayfair today and where your stock is counted. A Clarity business analyst will map purchase orders, inventory and shipping with your team before anything is built.
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