Bloom's ShipCompliant integration allows alcohol producers and retailers to understand the compliance status of their Shopify orders. Once set up orders will be marked with their compliance status and any issues are displayed on the order. The integration is straight forward but there are some items that need to be completed before it can be set up.
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Before you start
First step is to complete your onboarding with SOVOS. This will include setting up your account, licenses, States (agreeing to rules), adding Brands, fulfillment accounts, and adding in products. We'll want your ShipCompliant account up and running in order to test our integration.
Additionally, your products in Shopify need a SKU and Vendor in Shopify's product details that matches the Product key and Brand key in ShipCompliant. Sometimes a brand or vendor don't match up, if that's the case please let us know. If you had us migrate your product data when you switched to Bloom, you can ignore this part.
What we need from you
Before we set up your ShipCompliant integration, you need to add a Web Service User to your ShipCompliant account. If you are unsure how to create a new user in your ShipCompliant account, no worries – contact us and we can help.
Connecting your Web Service user
The next step is to provide us with the login information for the Web Service user. We will configure other settings, like whether to use ShipCompliant's tax calculations on batch orders. Then, your integration will be ready to use. Nice.
To check that your integration is working properly, see: Syncing Products With ShipCompliant.
Linking shipping rates
To track what shipping services you use, ShipCompliant uses Carrier Codes. As part of your store setup, we will work with you to map the shipping rates you offer your customers to ShipCompliant's Carrier Rate Codes. Once these are mapped out we will add the configuration into Bloom. This configuration transforms your store rates names into a carrier code that ShipCompliant recognizes.
Important details
A few things to note about the ShipCompliant integration. Unless you are using Avalara, taxes are gathered by Shopify ahead of the order being checked by ShipCompliant.
If you decide to add to or edit your shipping rate names please let us know and we can help reconfigure your shipping configuration in the Bloom app.