Shopify Akeneo PIM integration
Make Akeneo the single source of truth for your catalogue, and push enriched products, variants, attributes and media into Shopify without manual re-keying.
Enriched in Akeneo, stranded before Shopify
Your team invests in clean, complete product data in Akeneo. Without a proper integration, most of that value is lost on the way into Shopify.
CSV exports and re-keying
Someone exports a spreadsheet, maps columns by hand and uploads it. Slow, error-prone and impossible to audit.
Attributes flattened
Rich family attributes end up buried in the description or dropped, because there is nowhere structured for them to land.
Media handled twice
Images and assets get uploaded to Shopify separately, so they drift out of sync with the product data.
Variants break
Product models and variant axes do not line up with Shopify variants, so SKUs go missing or duplicate.
Locales and channels ignored
Channel scope and locale values are lost, so the wrong products or the wrong language reach the wrong market.
What syncs which way
The boundary is deliberate: Akeneo owns product content, Shopify owns commerce.
| Data object | Direction | System of record | Trigger |
|---|---|---|---|
| Products & product models | PIM → Shopify | Akeneo | Event / batch |
| Variants (SKUs) | PIM → Shopify | Akeneo | Event / batch |
| Attributes → metafields | PIM → Shopify | Akeneo | Event / batch |
| Asset Manager media | PIM → Shopify | Akeneo | Event / batch |
| Categories → collections | PIM → Shopify | Akeneo | Batch |
| Shopify product ID / handle | Shopify → PIM | Shopify | On create |
What the Akeneo integration does
Three things matter in a PIM sync: what moves, how it moves, and what happens when something breaks. Here is how we handle each.
What syncs
- Products and product models mapped to Shopify products and variants
- Family attributes mapped to typed Shopify metafields
- Asset Manager media and images pushed to Shopify files
- Akeneo categories mapped to Shopify collections
- Locale values mapped to Shopify Markets and translations
- Completeness and channel scope decide what goes live
How it works
- Akeneo stays the system of record for product content
- One-way push from PIM to Shopify, with optional write-back for select fields
- Triggered by the Akeneo Events API or a scheduled batch on your cadence
- Attribute-to-metafield mapping defined once and version-controlled
- Channel and locale scoping respected on every sync
- Shopify keeps orders, inventory and checkout
Reliability
- Idempotent upserts, so re-runs never duplicate products
- Automatic retries with backoff on API limits or timeouts
- Per-record error logs with a dead-letter queue for failures
- Reconciliation reports flag drift between Akeneo and Shopify
- Alerting to Slack or email when a sync needs attention
- Built to respect Shopify API rate limits and bulk operations
How we deliver it
A clear path from your Akeneo model to a live, monitored Shopify sync.
Discovery
Audit your Akeneo families, attributes, channels and locales against your Shopify catalogue structure.
Data-flow design
Agree the field map, system of record, sync direction and cadence, signed off before we build.
Build
Develop the middleware, attribute-to-metafield mapping and media pipeline against a Shopify dev store.
UAT
Run real products end to end, check variants, metafields and media, and confirm the edge cases.
Deploy
Cut over with a controlled backfill and monitoring switched on from day one.
Monitor & support
Dashboards, alerting and a support retainer so drift and API changes are handled.
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Scope a Shopify Akeneo integration
Tell us how your Akeneo catalogue is structured and where it needs to land in Shopify. We will map the sync and give you a scoped plan.
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