Integrating with an ERP
As your store grows, it’s natural to slowly piece together different pieces of technology to solve the day-to-day challenges of running a business. You’ll likely have different systems for the following:
- Accounting
- Taxes
- Shipping
- Inventory
This is fine for small stores, but as you grow, it becomes a lot to remember. For example, you might sell 10 bicycles a month and have 11 bikes left. A customer buys a bike, and WooCommerce sends you a low-stock notification. You ask your vendor for a quote/invoice and wait to hear back. You pay the invoice and log it in your accounting system. You receive the bicycles, and you have to mark the order as received. Then, you log the bicycles in WooCommerce so that new users can buy them.
This is a delicate process and breaks the single-source-of-truth principle we talked about earlier because, at certain points, you have to remember to log the same event in multiple systems.
Luckily...
