The problem
BeeBike had a brochure site and wanted a real store, with products, prices and stock that match what the supplier has, without anyone retyping the supplier's catalog by hand.
The story
Prices and stock change in the store without anyone typing them.
A custom Shopify store for BeeBike plus a background service that keeps products, prices and stock aligned with the supplier's.
Worth noting
- · No manual product entry
- · Prices and stock track the supplier on their own
- · A brochure site became a store that maintains itself
Outcome
BeeBike runs a store whose catalog tracks reality. Nobody maintains products by hand, prices do not go stale, and stock does not surprise anyone.
What we built
Customers shop in a Shopify store themed for the BeeBike brand, with product pages, categories, cart and checkout. Behind it, a service reads the supplier's catalog on a schedule, compares it with what it saw last time and updates Shopify only where something changed: a new product, a new price, a stock level. It cleans the feed on the way through, fixing Serbian price formatting, checking images and mapping attributes, so nothing untreated reaches the store.
What it covers
Custom Shopify theme, supplier catalog sync, change detection, price and image cleanup, attribute mapping.
How we approached it
Shopify covers what it is good at: selling, cart, checkout and payment. We solved what it does not do, which is keeping a catalog that belongs to the supplier. The service stays quiet when there is no work. It reads the feed, sees no change and touches nothing, which keeps the store's change history clean and the load on Shopify low.
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