# Shopify Connector

The Struct PIM **Shopify Connector** acts as the definitive bridge between your PIM and your storefront. By establishing a seamless flow of data, it ensures that your Shopify store remains a perfect reflection of your master product records in real time.

This integration eliminates the friction of manual updates and the risk of data silos, allowing you to manage complex catalogs with total confidence. Ultimately, it transforms your PIM into a single source of truth that drives a consistent, professional experience for every customer.

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### What you can do with the Shopify Connector

* **Automated Real-Time Sync:** Instantly push updates from your PIM to your Shopify store, ensuring customers always see the most current product details, pricing, and media.
* **Granular Data Mapping:** Gain full control over how your PIM attributes translate to Shopify fields, including deep support for Shopify Metafields and custom tags.
* **Multi-Store Management:** Effortlessly manage and distribute product data across multiple Shopify stores from a single, centralized Struct PIM environment.
* **Complex Variant Handling:** Seamlessly sync intricate product hierarchies, including colors, sizes, and materials, without manual reconfiguration in the Shopify backend.
* **Data Validation:** Use Struct’s built-in completeness checks to ensure only "market-ready" products with all required fields are published to your storefront.

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### Shopify Connector walkthrough

#### The overview page

The overview page is the app's main dashboard view. Here you can get an overview of your stores, how many entities have been updated today, and how many pending updates are queued. You can also navigate to other functions within the app.

#### Stores

You can click on the 'Stores'-card to go to [Stores](https://docs.struct.com/reference/app-store/struct-apps/shopify-connector/stores).

#### Data Models

You can click on the 'Data models'-card to go to [Data Models](https://docs.struct.com/reference/app-store/struct-apps/shopify-connector/data-models).

#### Integration Queue

You can click on the 'Integration Queue'-card to go to [Integration Queue](https://docs.struct.com/reference/app-store/struct-apps/shopify-connector/integration-queue).

#### Setup

You can click on the 'Setup'-card to go to [Setup](https://docs.struct.com/reference/app-store/struct-apps/shopify-connector/setup).

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