Web Shop Manager is an eCommerce platform that’s geared toward helping manufacturers and companies in the automotive and powersports industries handle numerous transactions on a daily basis. Fishbowl’s integration with Web Shop Manager lets companies automate their online sales process by importing sales orders into Fishbowl. This ensures nothing gets missed and the order fulfillment process happens fast.
Benefits of Fishbowl's Integration with Web Shop
Fishbowl’s integration with Web Shop Manager works much the same as every other eCommerce integration it offers. It enables you to import sales orders for fulfillment, export fulfillment data to Web Shop Manager, export products to be listed on your eCommerce store, and keep your inventory records updated regularly.
In addition, you can import products from Web Shop Manager into Fishbowl’s inventory management software to help you track those items. If you are selling products in the eCommerce platform that you don’t have in Fishbowl, this import is an invaluable way to improve your inventory management.
When you integrate with Web Shop Manager, you also keep it updated with current inventory quantities. This may not be the only eCommerce solution you integrate with. After you make sales through other eCommerce stores, Fishbowl will update its available inventory quantities and export that data to Web Shop Manager to ensure you only make sales you have sufficient inventory to fulfill.
Follow these steps to install the Web Shop Manager plugin in Fishbowl Advanced:
- 1. Go to the Plugin module in the Fishbowl Client. It is under the Integrations module group.
- 2. Click the Install button next to Web Shop Manager.
- 3. Close the Fishbowl Client (and all other clients), and exit the Fishbowl Server by selecting that option after right-clicking the Fishbowl Server tray icon.
- 4. Open the Fishbowl Server again. If you have admin rights, you will be able to see the Web Shop Manager module in the Integrations module group.
- 5. Go to the User Group module under the Setup module group to give non-admin users access to the Web Shop Manager module.
You can configure the integration in the Web Shop Manager module by following these additional steps:
- 1. Ask for your Product API Key and Order API Key from either your Project Manager or Customer Support Representative through Web Shop Manager’s Service Desk, which is their ticketing system. You will need these keys for the Fishbowl integration.
- 2. Copy your Web Shop Manager website’s Store URL.
- 3. Go to the Web Shop Manager module in Fishbowl, and click the Settings button at the top of the interface. A popup will appear. Paste the Store URL, Product API Key, and Order API key you obtained earlier into the appropriate fields.
- 4. Test the connection if you want to make sure you entered the correct details. Then click Save.
- 5. Visit the Order Import, Fulfillment Export, Product Import, Product Export, and Inventory Update tabs to create your settings in each one. And schedule their imports and exports.
Visit Fishbowl’s Web Shop Manager documentation article for in-depth instructions on setting up this integration.
Fishbowl Integrates with Web Shop Manager FAQs
No. However, Fishbowl does have integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho CRM.
Yes and no. As a standalone solution, Fishbowl is not an ERP because it focuses on inventory management, manufacturing, order management, and other logistical areas of tracking inventory. However, it doesn’t have its own accounting software, CRM, or payroll processing solution. The great thing about Fishbowl is that it integrates with QuickBooks, Xero, Web Shop Manager, Shopify, and many other solutions to basically offer the equivalent of an ERP. The difference is that it’s much cheaper than purchasing an ERP, and it allows you to stay with the accounting software and other business solutions you’re familiar with.
Yes, Fishbowl Advanced integrates with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online. Fishbowl is well known for its seamless integration with QuickBooks, importing and exporting inventory data and invoices between the two solutions to keep them in sync. In addition, Fishbowl Drive integrates with QuickBooks Online.
So, the two main versions of Fishbowl Inventory integrate with QuickBooks products. Fishbowl also has an integration with Xero accounting software to eliminate double data entry, automate invoice creation, and import/export data. Both Xero and QuickBooks Online are purely cloud-based accounting solutions.
Fishbowl doesn’t have its own CRM, but it does integrate with HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho CRM to handle that side of business. Fishbowl focuses on the inventory management and order management side of things, and it has integrations with CRMs to keep track of customer interactions.
Fishbowl is one of the first inventory management software solutions aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. It came onto the market in 2001. Three years later, Fishbowl was granted Gold Developer status by Intuit, allowing it to seamlessly integrate with QuickBooks. Since then, Fishbowl has been the #1-selling inventory management software among QuickBooks users.
Over the years, Fishbowl has helped thousands of businesses manage inventory, grow from one warehouse into numerous warehouses, handle purchase order management, use shipment tracking and barcoding, and do much more. Yes, you can definitely say that Fishbowl Inventory is legit.
Yes. Fishbowl is famous for integrating with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, but it also integrates with Xero accounting software. It has integrated with Xero accounting for more than a decade, giving small businesses more options than just QuickBooks when it comes to the accounting software they want to use.
Yes, Fishbowl has a REST API, which enables users and third-party developers to create their own integrations with its inventory management software. Visit the following link to learn how to access Fishbowl’s API documentation. The instructions differ depending on if you are on the Fishbowl Server computer or a Fishbowl Client computer.
Fishbowl offers direct integrations with Adobe Commerce, Amazon, BigCommerce, eBay, Kinein, Pepperi, Shift4Shop, Shopify, Volusion, WooCommerce, and Zen Cart. And it integrates with even more eCommerce platforms via its Fishbowl Commerce plugin.
You can find even more solutions that Fishbowl integrates with on our main Integrations page. A variety of integrations, from accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero to shipping solutions like ShipStation and ShipWorks, are on there.
Yes, Fishbowl integrates with Shopify. In addition to Shopify, Fishbowl integrates with Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and many other eCommerce platforms. Fishbowl automatically exports updates of inventory quantities and order management data to each of these solutions. That way, you will be able to avoid data entry errors, inventory quantity discrepancies, and oversold items. Plus, Fishbowl imports sales orders to help with order fulfillment.
