You keep a separate stock count for Shopify and for Amazon
You split the stock so neither channel oversells, and then one sits on units the other has run out of. Or you share it, and spend the evening fixing oversells by hand. Manifold keeps one count, and every channel sells from it.
You know this if…
- You hold back a buffer on Amazon “just in case” and it never sells.
- Someone updates Amazon's quantities from a spreadsheet every morning.
- Shopify sold the last one an hour ago, and Amazon is still listing it.
- Amazon orders are shipped from a different list than Shopify's.
Why it happens
Each channel keeps its own idea of what you have. Without one source of truth behind them, every sale on one channel leaves the others out of date until someone corrects them.
Syncing channels to each other doesn't fix it: two copies of the count always drift. The count has to live in one place, with the channels reading from it.
How Manifold handles it
Shopify stores and Amazon marketplaces are each a sales channel in Manifold, and every one of them sells from the same count at the sites that ship it.
Connect both
Install the Manifold app in Shopify and connect your Amazon seller account. Each Amazon marketplace becomes a channel of its own, beside your Shopify stores.
One count per site
A SKU's page shows on hand, held and available at each location: the figure every channel sells from.
Orders hold stock from it
Orders from every channel arrive in one list and hold their units at the site that will ship them; each channel is told what's left.
Ship them the same way
Pick, pack and ship every channel's orders alike. Shipments are confirmed back to the channel the order came from.
What you can check
One number
Every channel reads the same available figure: on hand, less what's held for orders.
Sales channels →Held where it ships
Choose which locations fulfil each channel. Stock is held at the site the parcel will leave from.
Multiple stores
Connect more than one Shopify store, and each Amazon marketplace as its own channel.
Nothing leaves until you say
While you run Manifold beside your current system, nothing is sent to your channels until you go live.
Questions people ask
- Does it work with FBA?
- Not yet. Today the Amazon app takes merchant-fulfilled orders, the ones you ship yourself. FBA stock, Amazon refunds and returns, and listings and prices are coming.
- Can I hold some stock back for one channel?
- Yes. Choose which locations fulfil which channel, and each channel sells from those sites.
- What happens when a Shopify order and an Amazon order want the last unit?
- Whichever is placed first holds it. The other is backordered and shows in the orders that need attention, and both channels are told what's left.
- Do I install anything?
- The Manifold app from the Shopify App Store, and the Amazon app from Manifold's App Store, where you sign in to your seller account.
- Do I have to switch everything over at once?
- No. Every new Manifold business starts read-only: orders come in and your team works in Manifold in full, but nothing goes out to your channels or customers until an owner goes live.
See it on your own products.
Nothing changes until you say so.
Connect your Shopify store or bring a spreadsheet, and your own products, stock and orders are in Manifold the same day. Every new business starts read-only: your team can work in it in full while nothing goes out — no stock to your store, no email to customers — until an owner goes live. Free for 60 days.
Other problems we fix
How to stop overselling across Shopify and wholesale
Stop selling stock you no longer have: one count across Shopify and wholesale, with orders holding units and the store's figure updated within seconds.
Running a second warehouse or site without losing track
A second warehouse, shop or unit without losing track: stock per site, transfers tracked in transit, orders routed to the site that can fill them.
Your quotes and draft orders don't know what's in stock
Quote your wholesale customers in Manifold and stock is held the moment the quote is placed. Shopify draft orders come in as quotes too — coming soon.