WooCommerce is an eCommerce solution that is designed for use in the WordPress interface. Fishbowl integrates with WooCommerce to populate its shopping cart with product quantities, and other information while also speeding up the order fulfillment process. This integration is available in the form of an embedded Fishbowl plugin.
Benefits of Fishbowl's Integration with WooCommerce
When you integrate Fishbowl and WooCommerce, you ensure that each system updates the other shortly after a sale is made and a sales order is fulfilled. Fishbowl’s WooCommerce integration works much like every other eCommerce platform it integrates with.
Users are invited to schedule regular order imports to ensure that new sales orders are recorded in Fishbowl. This speeds up the fulfillment process. Fishbowl then exports fulfillments to WooCommerce on a scheduled basis so that it can stay updated on the progress of its sales.
An additional benefit of Fishbowl’s integration with WooCommerce is that products can be imported and exported between the inventory management system and eCommerce platform. Not long after you add a new product to Fishbowl, it will be automatically reflected in WooCommerce, and vice versa.
Fishbowl also exports inventory quantities to WooCommerce. This enables customers to see which items are in stock, and it helps you avoid accidentally overselling items.
Installing WooCommerce in Fishbowl Advanced is easy. To get started, go to the Plugin module in the Integrations module group, find WooCommerce, and click its Install button. You’ll be informed that you have to restart the Fishbowl Server before it will appear as a module. Go ahead and do that. Reopen the Fishbowl Client when that’s done and go to the WooCommerce module under Integrations.
Once the easy part is done, you can get into the nitty-gritty details of setting up the integration. Follow the 12 steps laid out in Fishbowl’s WooCommerce documentation article. The first eight must be done in your WordPress dashboard, and they enable Fishbowl to access your website’s REST API. This API connection is crucial for making updates to your online store. The last four steps are completed in the Fishbowl Client.
Only an administrator on your site (such as a manager or software developer) will be able to perform all of the tasks required to set up the integration. Be sure to copy your Store URL, Consumer Key, and Consumer Secret from the WordPress dashboard. You’ll need to enter those credentials into the WooCommerce module in Fishbowl.
In Fishbowl, you must enable meta data mapping in order to import detailed information on orders, products, and customers from WooCommerce. After you save those settings and test the connection, you should be good to go. You can start importing sales orders, product images, and other specific data from WooCommerce into your Fishbowl inventory management system.
If you prefer, you can also integrate with WooCommerce through a plugin called Fishbowl Commerce. This acts as a funnel that connects you to numerous eCommerce stores, including Amazon, BigCommerce, Shopify, and Walmart. For Fishbowl Drive users, this is the only way to integrate with WooCommerce since it doesn’t have a standalone plugin for it.
Fishbowl & WooCommerce Integration for Inventory Management FAQs
Fishbowl Drive is a cloud-based inventory management solution. Fishbowl Advanced is a desktop solution, but it can be hosted on secure servers that enable it to be accessed in the cloud via a service known as Fishbowl Hosted Services.
Yes, Auttomatic (which owns WordPress) purchased WooCommerce in 2015 and instituted it as the default eCommerce solution for its WordPress platform.
WooCommerce offers integrations with numerous business solutions. It integrates with every version of Fishbowl’s inventory management system through the Fishbowl Commerce plugin. WMS users will find Fishbowl Advanced to be an ideal solution when it comes to fulfilling sales orders from their website. Fishbowl Drive is also an excellent choice with its Fishbowl Commerce plugin connecting to numerous eCommerce stores and keeping them updated.
Yes, Fishbowl’s WMS integrates with Shopify, as well as WooCommerce and other eCommerce platforms. To integrate with Shopify’s API, you can simply follow the steps in Fishbowl’s Shopify documentation article. It requires knowing your Shopify API key and other credentials.
Fishbowl recognizes that maintaining good relationships with customers requires more than an occasional email. That’s why Fishbowl integrates with top CRMs like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho CRM to enable users to connect with customers and partners in new and personalized ways.
That’s a pretty big question. Fishbowl’s inventory management system integrates with dozens of software solutions beyond WooCommerce and Shopify. It integrates with eCommerce websites, CRMs, accounting solutions, shippers, merchant services, tax software, EDIs, and other solutions with an API. If you’re interested in learning more about the specific software Fishbowl integrates with, check out our main Integrations page. From sales orders to warehouse management, you’ll find Fishbowl’s inventory management system to be a great fit for your business needs.
