To provide maximum inventory transparency, DCL's Shopify integration includes a feature that supports viewing multiple warehouses as separate inventory locations within your Shopify store.
This feature is for brands using multiple DCL fulfillment locations.
The visibility available within Shopify includes:
Which location has inventory
How much inventory is available at each location
A more accurate representation of their physical fulfillment network within Shopify
Please note: Inventory routing by Shopify is not supported. Shopify manages the visibility of inventory by location, but DCL still manages the order routing.
How to Get Started
1. Connect with your DCL Account Manager
Before enabling the feature, connect with your Account Manager to review your current order-routing strategy. We only support DCL order routing (not Shopify routing) at this time, to ensure optimized order fulfillment based on inventory availability, transit time, and shipping cost.
2. Add the new warehouse locations in Shopify
Within your Shopify shipping profile, add the new DCL warehouse-specific locations.
3. Be aware of temporary duplicate inventory
During the transition, which can take up to 30 minutes, both the existing DCL Fulfillment location and the new warehouse-specific locations may appear as active inventory locations.
Because Shopify calculates available inventory across all active locations, inventory may temporarily appear doubled during this setup period. This is expected and will be corrected once the transition is complete.
4. Validate inventory
Once the new warehouse locations appear in Shopify, please compare the inventory quantities against eFactory to confirm they are displaying correctly by location.
5. DCL will clear the original location
After inventory has been validated, DCL will complete the final step by clearing inventory from the original DCL Fulfillment location.
6. Remove the old DCL Fulfillment location
Once the transition is complete, please remove the original DCL Fulfillment location from Shopify.
DCL will partner with your team to closely monitor inventory and order routing during the first business week to ensure everything is working as expected.