PuppetVendors Bridge - Vendor as a Shopify Store
The article describes how you can activate PuppetVendors Bridge/Vendor as a Shopify store so your vendors can sync inventory and product information directly into your Marketplace in their Shopify store.
- No CSV upload required
- No manual creation of products one at a time
Article Content
- Purchase and activate the add-on - PuppetVendors Bridge
- Select your primary inventory location and fields you would like to keep in sync
- Invite your Shopify Vendors
- FAQs
Activate PuppetVendors Bridge
- Go to Settings > Add-Ons > PuppetVendors Bridge
- Select your primary inventory location and fields you would like to keep in sync, and then select the Save button. This is a location on your Shopify store where all inventory imported/synced with your Vendor's Shopify Store will be pushed to.
Invite Shopify Stores (as vendors)
Invite your Shopify Vendors to sync products via PuppetVendors Bridge. Upon inviting, your vendors will receive an email with instructions to get started with PuppetVendors Bridge. You may also share the link directly at https://bridge.puppetvendors.com.
- Navigate to Vendors -> Users
- Create New User -> Make sure to check Send Invitation to PuppetVendors Bridge?
- Your vendor will then receive details to install and set-up the connector
- As a vendor, log into the vendor portal and navigate to Products. Click on the Connect your Shopify Store button and follow the steps.
Important notes & FAQs
Questions | Answers | |
|---|---|---|
How often are products from the vendor store synced over to the merchant store? | Products and attributes are synced in real-time from your vendor's store to your Shopify store. The speed also depends on your PuppetVendors plan. | |
First Sync / When the vendor publishes an item to the Bridge channel for the first time | All product attributes (title, description, images, variants, etc) from the vendor's Shopify store is synced across for all new products | |
Ongoing product attribute changes | Attribute sync settings kicks in for ongoing subsequent syncs once the product exists on your Shopify store. e.g.: The first sync imports all product information while the sync after that only updates the inventory and images. | |
What happens when a vendor sets a synced product to draft, deletes a product or stops selling the product via PuppetVendors Bridge sales channel? | The product on your Shopify store will be completely deleted. | |
How does a merchant stop the item from getting sold in the vendor store? | The merchant can simply unpublish the item from the PuppetVendors Bridge sales channel or if your item has a pv_bridge tag, the merchant can remove the pv_bridge tag which will then remove the item from the vendor store. |
Updated on: 20/08/2026
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