Connect Shopify to your production and inventory.

Orders import automatically

New Shopify orders import as sales orders automatically, along with cancellations and refunds — a cancelled order cancels on the OakNex side too, or parks for review if it already shipped, and a refund either restocks the returned goods or links as a money-only adjustment. Buyer and shipping details come across with the order, so addresses are not re-entered by hand.

If a variant on the order does not have a mapped item yet, that order waits for you to fix the mapping rather than importing with a guess — a short delay is preferable to the wrong material being picked for a customer order.

Inventory levels push back to Shopify

As you produce and ship in OakNex, available inventory pushes back to Shopify as an absolute quantity, summed across your real locations (excluding stock in transit) — so your storefront reflects what you can actually promise, rather than a figure from the previous sync. That number comes straight out of the same stock ledger the rest of the app relies on, so a finished batch landing in inventory shows up on your storefront the same way it shows up in every other report.

Variant ↔ item mapping by SKU/barcode

OakNex matches Shopify variants to your items automatically by SKU or barcode where they match, with manual mapping and a re-run-match option for anything that doesn't. A catalog import can pull your Shopify products in and attempt the match in bulk, so connecting an existing store does not require mapping each variant by hand.

Fix a mismatch once and it sticks — re-run the match after you correct it, and the same fix applies to every future order for that variant instead of you catching it manually each time.

Fulfillments with tracking pushed back

When a shipment posts against a Shopify order, the fulfillment — with tracking, when you have it — pushes back to Shopify, using the same sales and shipping flow that handles every other order. Your customer receives a fulfillment notification, and OakNex checks before creating one so a shipment never double-fulfills the same order.

What OakNex does not do

OakNex is not a storefront builder, a marketing tool or a replacement for Shopify's app ecosystem — it is the manufacturing and inventory backend behind the store you already run on Shopify. Theme editing and checkout customization remain Shopify's role; OakNex keeps the numbers behind the store — what is in stock, what has been produced, what has shipped — accurate.

If you sell on Shopify with no manufacturing behind it — pure resale, nothing you build yourself — OakNex is likely not needed. It becomes valuable once your store's inventory depends on a recipe and a production floor rather than only a supplier's stock feed.

It is also not a one-way sync bolted onto a spreadsheet workflow — orders, inventory, mapping and fulfillment all run through the same connection, so there is one place to check rather than several dashboards that may disagree.