The Short Answer Is "Most of Them"
If you are asking whether your ERP can be connected to Shopify, the answer is almost certainly yes. Shopify is one of the most widely integrated platforms in commerce, and every mainstream ERP either publishes its own connection, is covered by middleware, or exposes an API that a competent integrator can build against.
Which makes "does it integrate?" a weak question. It sorts almost nothing, because almost everything passes. The questions that actually sort suppliers are narrower: what does the connection cover, what does it not, and who owns the difference?
Three Routes, Not One
Connections to Shopify arrive in one of three shapes, and knowing which you are being offered explains most of the price difference between quotes.
1. A first-party app from the ERP vendor
The ERP vendor builds and maintains the connection themselves, usually listed on the Shopify App Store. Brightpearl is a clear example: it publishes a Brightpearl by Sage listing on the Shopify App Store, and its own documentation describes the integration as managing inventory, prices, orders and shipments across Shopify stores. When a first-party app fits how you trade, it is the cheapest good answer available — someone else carries the maintenance.
2. Middleware
A third-party service sits between the two systems and speaks both. Broad coverage, quick to stand up, and priced per record or per connection. The trade-off is that your commercial rules end up living in a system neither you nor your ERP vendor controls, and costs scale with volume rather than with complexity.
3. A purpose-built integration
Built for your business against the ERP's API. The most flexible and the most expensive to get wrong, because everything the first two options gave you for free — error handling, retries, monitoring, someone else's maintenance — is now yours. It is the right answer when your trading rules genuinely do not fit the common case, and the wrong one when they do.
One Naming Trap Worth Knowing
Sage acquired Brightpearl, so the Shopify App Store listing now reads Brightpearl by Sage. That is the Brightpearl product carrying its new owner's name — it is not Sage's own ERP range.
If you run Sage 50 or Sage 200 and a supplier implies that a Brightpearl connector covers you, that is not correct. They are separate products with separate integration routes and separate costs. It is an easy mistake to make in good faith and an expensive one to discover late, so it is worth confirming explicitly which product a quote refers to.
What a First-Party App Usually Does Not Cover
A published connector handles the common case well: catalogue, stock, orders, and fulfilment status moving between the two systems on a sensible schedule. For a retail business that is often the whole job.
Trade businesses tend to find the gap in the same four places, because these are the things a retail-shaped connector has no reason to model:
- Customer-specific pricing — the same product legitimately having a different price per account
- Catalogue visibility — customers who may only see part of the range, as a contractual matter rather than a display preference
- Back orders — ordering stock that does not exist yet, which is routine in wholesale and awkward in software
- Credit terms and account status — which live in the ERP and govern what the website is allowed to let someone do
None of this makes a first-party app the wrong choice. It means the honest scope of a project is the connector plus whatever these four require, and a quote that prices only the connector is not pricing the job.
The Question Underneath
Often what looks like an integration question is really a platform-fit question. If most of your commercial logic lives in the ERP and your trading rules are genuinely per-customer, the difficulty is not connecting Shopify to your ERP — it is how much of that logic the storefront has to enforce.
We have written separately on where that line falls, in do we use Shopify for B2B, and on the difference between ERP-first and ERP-last builds. Both are worth reading before committing to a route, because the answer changes the integration scope substantially.
Four Questions That Sort Suppliers
Whichever route you take, these separate a real answer from a demo:
- Which records sync, and in which direction? "Everything, both ways" is not an answer — it is the absence of one
- What happens when a record fails? Who finds out, how quickly, and what do they do about it
- Which system wins when they disagree about a price or a stock figure?
- What does a change cost after go-live? Your commercial rules will move; the question is what that costs when it happens
Suppliers who have run integrations in production answer all four quickly. If you want the cost side in more detail, our ERP integration cost model sets out the six drivers that move the number.
What We Connect
For completeness, and so nobody has to guess from a marketing page: we build and maintain connectors for Brightpearl, SAP Business One, Caliq, Shopify, Faire, Blue Alligator and structured file feeds. Anything outside that list is bespoke work, and we will say so rather than implying a connector exists.
That includes Sage's own ERP range, for the reason set out above — we do not publish a Sage connector, and Brightpearl's change of ownership does not give us one.
ERP and Shopify: Common Questions
Which ERP systems integrate with Shopify?
In practice, most mainstream ERPs can be connected to Shopify one way or another — the differences are in how, not whether. Some vendors publish their own first-party app: Brightpearl, for example, maintains a Brightpearl by Sage listing on the Shopify App Store that syncs inventory, prices, orders and shipments. Others are connected through middleware or a purpose-built integration. Because the answer is nearly always yes, "does it integrate?" is a weak question. The useful one is what the connection actually covers and who owns what it does not.
Is Brightpearl's Shopify integration the same as a Sage integration?
No, and this trips people up regularly. Sage acquired Brightpearl, so the Shopify App Store listing appears as Brightpearl by Sage — but that is the Brightpearl product, not Sage's own ERP range. If you run Sage 50 or Sage 200 and are told a Brightpearl connector covers you, that is not correct. They are separate products with separate integration routes.
Does a first-party ERP app mean we do not need any integration work?
It means the plumbing exists, which is genuinely valuable and removes real cost. It does not mean the connection matches how your business trades. First-party apps are built for the common case, and the work that remains is usually the part specific to you — customer-specific price lists, catalogue visibility rules, back-order behaviour and credit terms. Budget for the gap rather than assuming there is not one.
Can Shopify handle B2B wholesale with an ERP behind it?
It can for some trade operations, and the honest answer depends on how much of your commercial logic lives in the ERP. Where pricing is genuinely per customer, where catalogue visibility is a contractual matter, and where back orders and credit terms drive what a customer may do, more of that logic has to be enforced in the storefront than a retail-shaped platform expects. That is a platform-fit question rather than an integration question.
What should we ask a supplier about a Shopify to ERP connection?
Four questions separate a real answer from a demo. Which records sync, and in which direction? What happens when a record fails — who finds out, and how? Which system wins when the two disagree about a price or a stock figure? And what does a change cost after go-live, once your commercial rules move? Suppliers who have run integrations in production answer these quickly.