How to Sync Shopify Products to WooCommerce

Keep your product catalog in sync between Shopify and WooCommerce automatically.

What This Integration Does

Running two storefronts on different platforms is common - Shopify for the main brand site, WooCommerce for a wholesale or regional sub-site. Maintaining the catalog by hand on both is a guaranteed source of drift. This workflow takes Shopify as the source of truth and propagates create and update events to WooCommerce on a schedule.

The workflow runs every hour (or whatever cadence suits), reads products updated since the last run, and creates or updates the matching WooCommerce product keyed by SKU. State is cached locally so re-runs are idempotent and a one-off backfill doesn't double-write the catalog.

Prerequisites

A Shopify connection with read_products scope.
A WooCommerce connection (REST API consumer key + secret) with product write access.
An agreement on SKU as the cross-platform natural key.

Step 1: Schedule Trigger

Add a Trigger node of type Schedule. Hourly is a sane default. Capture since as the last successful run timestamp so the workflow is incremental.

Step 2: List Updated Shopify Products

Add a Connector node calling shopify list-products with updated_at_min={{ since }}. Page through results until empty - Shopify caps at 250 per page on REST.

Step 3: Loop and Find by SKU in WooCommerce

Wrap subsequent steps in a Loop. For each Shopify product, pick the first variant's SKU and call woocommerce list-products with sku={{ sku }}. Branch on whether a product comes back via a Condition node.

Step 4: Transform Shopify Shape to WooCommerce Shape

Use a Transform node to map fields:

Shopify title to WooCommerce name.
Shopify body_html to WooCommerce description.
Shopify vendor to a WooCommerce custom attribute or meta field.
Shopify variants[].price to WooCommerce regular_price (as string).
Shopify images[].src to WooCommerce images[].src.

For products with multiple variants, set WooCommerce type to variable and prepare a variations array to PUT after the parent is created.

Step 5: Create or Update in WooCommerce

On the "not found" branch, call woocommerce create-product:

{
  "name": "{{ shopify.title }}",
  "type": "{{ wcType }}",
  "sku": "{{ shopify.variants[0].sku }}",
  "regular_price": "{{ shopify.variants[0].price }}",
  "description": "{{ shopify.body_html }}",
  "images": {{ images }}
}

On the "found" branch, call woocommerce update-product with the existing id and the same body. Cache the Shopify-id-to-WooCommerce-id mapping in MongoDB so subsequent runs skip the lookup.

Step 6: Summary and Error Routing

After the loop, post counts (created, updated, skipped, failed) to slack send-message. Per-item failures get logged individually so one malformed product doesn't break the batch.

Tips

WooCommerce prices are strings in the REST API. Convert numerics to strings in the Transform step or you'll get cryptic 400s.
WooCommerce variations are a child resource - create the parent first, then POST each variation. Use raw-api-request when batch operations help.
For very large catalogs, run the initial backfill with the loop limited to 100 items at a time and a backoff between batches.

Common Pitfalls

SKU mismatch - If you ever change a SKU in Shopify, the next sync will create a brand-new WooCommerce product instead of updating the old one. Sync state caches help detect this; consider also matching by meta_data.shopify_id.
Image bandwidth - Shopify CDN URLs are public, but WooCommerce downloads each one on create. Throttle to avoid hammering both servers during a backfill.
HTML sanitisation - WooCommerce strips unsafe tags. Custom inline CSS in Shopify descriptions won't survive - test on a representative sample first.

Testing

Hard-limit the loop to a single Shopify product (one simple and one variable) and run manually. Open the resulting WooCommerce products in the admin UI and check name, price, SKU, description, images, and variations. Re-run to verify the update path doesn't duplicate.