Made-to-measure manufacturer · via agency
WooCommerce → Shopify without touching the factory's software
A manufacturer wanted to move from WooCommerce to Shopify, but their production-planning application, deeply wired into the WooCommerce API, could not be rebuilt. I designed a middleware that speaks WooCommerce to the factory and Shopify to the world.
Node.jsShopify Admin APIWooCommerce APIWebhooks
The challenge
The legacy production app polled the WooCommerce API with cron batch workers and webhooks to plan manufacturing. Rebuilding it was out of budget and too risky. A standard migration would have cut the factory off from its orders on day one.
What I built
- ✓A WooCommerce-API-compatibility middleware: the legacy app keeps calling the same endpoints, the middleware translates to Shopify data behind the scenes
- ✓Order, product and status mapping between the two platforms' data models
- ✓Webhook bridging so production planning reacts to Shopify orders in real time
- ✓Migration executed with the store live: no downtime for sales or manufacturing
Result
- →The factory's software never noticed the platform underneath it changed
- →Migration risk reduced from 'rebuild everything' to one well-tested translation layer
- →The store got Shopify's ecosystem without sacrificing its operations backbone
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