Ecommerce Fulfillment Services for Volusion Storefronts
Shipwire can be connected to Volusion ecommerce storefront with no programming necessary and just a few steps. Shipwire enables volusion users to benefit from eCommerce fulfillment services once an order has been completed through the shopping cart.
Features that you can get with the Shipwire connection to Volusion
- Real-time order fulfillment
- Live inventory synch from all Shipwire warehouses to your Volusion account (warehouses in Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver and London, England)
- Shipwire will submit order tracking information back to your Volusion store once shipped by the warehouse
To do this you must turn on the Volusion API, add Volusion to your Shipwire account and test.
This should only take a few minutes.
1. Turn on the Volusion API in your Volusion account.
a. Login to your Volusion account.
b. Enable Volusions “Generic API” under Inventory -> Import/Export -> Volusion API.
c. After you have enabled this Generic API integration, click the “run” button in the “Generic/Orders” section.
d. IMPORTANT: You must save the “encrypted password” portion of the URL (see image below if your not sure what part of the URL this is). You will plug this into the Shipwire Volusion wizard so that the Shipwire platform can connect to your Volusion account.
2. Add Volusion to your Shipwire account and connect.
a. Log into Shipwire and go to “Sell” tools section. Add Volusion as a sell tool and select “setup connection” tab.
b. You will be asked to enter the following: Your Volusion e-mail address; the encrypted password (see 1.d. above); your Volusion store domain name or IP.
c. Now tell Shipwire what Volusion order to start importing from and choose what Volusion status you want to use to trigger Shipwire to fulfill the order. We recommend “Ready to Ship” status.
3. Test
a. Place a few orders into your Volusion store and set the status as “Ready to Ship”.
b. Shipwire will pull new orders from your Volusion store every hour. Shipwire will automatically recoginze the order and fulfill the order once the order status is set to “Ready To Ship” in Volusion admin.
Note: In the Shipwire control panel you can delete orders from the Shipwire queue by clicking “Delete Checked Orders”. You can also force the order to be fulfilled even if the order status is not set to “Ready to Ship”.
Shipwire ecommerce order fulfillment services for Volusion. Add Volusion sell tool to Shipwire Step 2.a.
Step 3.Confirm your Volusion order came to Shipwire and that it will be fulfilled in Real Time or held (your option).
Step 3.Confirm your Volusion order came to Shipwire.
Enable Volusion “Generic API”. This will allow Shipwire order fulfillment to talk to Volusion. Step 1.b.
Enable Volusion “Generic API” and then the “Generic/Order” API. This will allow Shipwire order fulfillment to talk to Volusion. Step 1.c.
Shipwire Order Fulfillment setup for Volusion eCommerce. Tell Shipwire what order to start pulling from. Step 2.c
Shipwire Order Fulfillment setup for Volusion eCommerce. Establish Connection. Step 2.b
Test a few orders through Volusion