Shopify API Integration Proposal
Prepared for: Anstett's Cycle Shop / Committed Powersports
Prepared on: 07/14/2025
Updated on: 07/18/2025
Summary
Anstett's Cycle Shop has built a strong foundation with their Shopify store and established relationships with key distributors like Western Power Sports (WPS). However, manually managing inventory across thousands of powersports parts creates operational bottlenecks and limits growth potential.
This project will automate product synchronization between WPS and your Shopify store, enabling real-time inventory management, automated pricing updates, and seamless Year/Make/Model filtering that customers expect in the powersports industry.
When customers place orders for products sourced from WPS, we'll automatically send those orders to WPS for drop-shipping. This includes periodically querying WPS for order status updates, including the sync of tracking numbers which will trigger Shopify to send an email to the customer.
Upon completion, you'll have a robust Laravel-based system that automatically maintains your product catalog,handles orders with WPS, and provides the foundation for future distributor integrations and drop-shipping capabilities.
Notes / Considerations:
- We will only push products to WPS that have been synced to WPS via their unique identifier.
- Shopify has support for multiple fufillments per order, which will allow an order to contain products from multiple distributors (or from your local store).
- The integration will be seamless to your customers. The shopping and user account experience will remain the same, except for any separate theme updates or app modifications you choose to implement.
- API documentation for WPS is available at: https://www.wps-inc.com/data-depot/v4/api/introduction
Discovery & Technical Analysis
Before we start building, we need to understand exactly what needs to be done. This discovery phase will answer all the important questions that affect how much the project will cost and how long it will take.
What we'll figure out:
- How the WPS API works and what limits it has
- How many products and YMM records we're dealing with
- How you want to handle pricing and markups
- What your current Shopify setup looks like
- How often data needs to update and how to query that efficiently
- What kind of server setup you'll need
What you get: A clear plan with exact project details, timeline, and final pricing for the full build.
Core Integration Development
Based on what we learn in discovery, we'll build the Laravel app with a simple admin interface to handle everything with the WPS connection. This includes syncing products, managing inventory, updating prices automatically, and submitting and syncing orders.
What we'll build:
- Connection to WPS API that complies with their rate limits and API guidelines
- Connection to Shopify API for adding and updating products
- Connection to Shopify API for submitting orders and retriving order status updates
- Smart system to match products and avoid duplicates
- Automatic price markup calculations and updates
- Error handling with notifications and retry mechanisms
Year/Make/Model Integration
We'll connect with your existing YMM Shopify app to make sure product fitment data works properly and customers can search by year, make, and model. This includes working within the 1.5M record limit and setting up weekly data updates.
This includes:
- Getting YMM data from WPS and formatting it correctly
- Making it work with your current Shopify YMM app
- Setting up weekly automatic updates
- Checking data and reporting errors
Admin Interface
A simple admin interface for viewing last sync status and adding price overrides when needed.
What you'll be able to do:
- See when the last sync ran and if it was successful
- Override pricing on specific products when needed
- View basic error information if syncs fail
- View orders that have been pushed to WPS
Investment
| Discovery & Technical Analysis | $1,000 |
| Full Implementation | $8,000 - $12,000* |
*Final implementation cost will be determined after discovery phase based on actual complexity, data volumes, and specific requirements.
Discovery phase includes:
- Full WPS API testing and analysis
- Data volume check and optimization plan
- Business logic documentation
- Technical planning
- Detailed project plan with exact pricing
Terms & Conditions
This proposal is bound by the terms and conditions found at https://borders.dev/terms, which are incorporated herein by reference. By accepting this proposal, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to these terms and conditions.
Payment Terms
Discovery phase: $1,000 paid upfront to begin analysis.
Full implementation: 50% deposit to begin development, 50% upon completion and launch. Final pricing determined after discovery phase.
Acceptance
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