One place for your Shopify catalog.
Multi-store Shopify operators run on Apimio — one source of truth across every store, Quality Guard catching incomplete listings before they go live, Supplier Bridge mapping any CSV in minutes, Trade Portal replacing PDF emails to dealers, and AI native throughout. Built for teams who outgrew Shopify admin but don't want a six-month PIM project.
What changes in your first quarter on Apimio
Numbers reported by typical multi-store Shopify operators within 90 days of going live. Not a marketing average — what teams actually tell us in QBRs.
The catalog problems we know cold
If any of these sound like a Tuesday at your office, you're not alone — these are the six conversations we have with mid-market Shopify operators every single week. Each one has a specific fix inside Apimio.
The pain you're probably feeling right now
What Apimio does about it
"I edit a product in store A and forget store B"
You finally fix the price on the bestseller. Three days later a dealer calls because Store B is still showing the old number. The Friday-afternoon manual sync ritual didn't catch it. This is the single most common pain in multi-store ops without a source of truth.
Catalogue Hub: one canonical record, every store
Real-time bidirectional Shopify sync via GraphQL + webhooks. Edit a product once. Every connected store updates inside seconds — including per-store overrides where you genuinely need them (different price, different copy framing, different visibility).
"A customer returned a sofa because the dimensions weren't listed"
$400 in refund and return shipping. Two hours on the phone with support. A 1-star review that calls out "no dimensions on the product page." Multiply by every almost-complete listing in your catalog and you're looking at the real cost of thin product data.
Quality Guard: a publish gate, not a scorecard
Every product scored 0–100% on completeness against category-aware rules (a sofa needs dimensions; a candle needs burn time). Below threshold = the listing cannot publish to your storefront. Return rate drops in the first quarter — measurably.
"Every season we lose two days reformatting supplier files"
Five suppliers, five different Excel layouts, none of them match Shopify's import schema. Your ops team disappears into spreadsheets while marketing waits for new arrivals to go live. The season launches late. It's avoidable work.
Supplier Bridge: AI maps your supplier's CSV
Drop any supplier file in — Excel, CSV, weird semicolon-delimited European format, doesn't matter. AI suggests the field mapping. Save the template. Next season's onboarding becomes one click per supplier. The 2-day project becomes a 30-minute task.
"I email 24 dealers a quarterly PDF — half ignore it"
Stale pricelists driving orders at last quarter's prices. Manual exception handling per dealer. Every product update means re-emailing every dealer. The pricelist becomes a moving target nobody can hit.
Trade Portal: a branded live portal per dealer
Each dealer logs in to a portal in your brand identity, scoped to the catalog subset they actually carry, always current. Updates flow from Catalogue Hub in real time. PDF emails become irrelevant. Stale pricelists become impossible.
"The night before Black Friday we flip prices manually"
Someone stays up to drop 150 products across two stores. Monday morning we forget to revert 14 of them. Margin lost for three more days. Same story every promo cycle, every year.
Sale Scheduler: schedule it, walk away
Set the start, set the end, set the scope (per-store, per-collection, sitewide). Prices flip and revert on schedule across every connected store. Black Friday runs itself. Forgotten reverts become impossible. The midnight ritual ends.
"Our catalog grew faster than our team's ability to maintain it"
5,000 products, half with thin descriptions, hundreds with no alt text, dozens missing critical attributes. The backlog grows every week. Hiring a content team is expensive. Doing nothing is expensive too.
Apimio AI: native, spec-grounded, not a chatbot
AI generates descriptions, alt text, translations, and SEO metadata from your real structured attributes — not generic prompts. Output is spec-grounded by construction (no hallucinations). 5–10× faster than writing from scratch, with humans-in-the-loop for review.
Why we're different from generic PIMs and sync-only apps
Apimio is purpose-built for Shopify mid-market operators with complex products. Every design decision came from operating teams at real brands across furniture, fashion, beauty, home décor, and other catalog-heavy verticals — not from a generic enterprise PIM playbook.
Shopify-only by design, not by accident
Every feature is tuned for the way Shopify actually works — Bulk Operations API, GraphQL Admin, Markets, Plus Org Admin. Generic PIMs target every platform and end up perfectly suited to none.
Mid-market, self-serve from day one
No SLA contracts. No dedicated CSMs to nurture. No 6-month implementations. Install from the Shopify App Store in 30 seconds, see your catalog scored within minutes, pick a plan when you're ready. Plans from $199/mo, not $25,000/year.
The Quality Guard moat
No other Shopify mid-market tool ships a publish gate based on completeness. Score, impact, fix, block — the four-step system that prevents the $400 wrong-dimension return before it ever ships. This is the feature most teams didn't know they were missing.
AI native to the platform, not bolted on
Apimio AI activates inside Quality Guard and Supplier Bridge — exactly where you need it. It runs on your structured catalog data (real attributes, real categories), not generic prompts. Output is spec-grounded by construction.
Vertical-aware out of the box
Furniture variant matrices (148+ variants per product), fashion size charts, beauty INCI ingredient lists, home décor artisan supplier formats — handled natively. No custom configuration per vertical. No "wait for the consulting hours" gates.
Five products on one source of truth
Catalogue Hub, Quality Guard, Sale Scheduler, Supplier Bridge, Trade Portal — designed to work as one continuous workflow, not five separate purchase decisions. The platform compounds: each new feature you adopt amplifies the ones you already use.
Catalog operations, end to end
Every product reads from the same Catalogue Hub. Click any product card below to see the dedicated walkthrough — pricing, scope, and the specific workflows it replaces in your current stack.
Catalogue Hub
The foundation of every Apimio deployment. A single canonical record per SKU, syncing in real time to every connected Shopify store via GraphQL + webhooks. Every other product in Apimio reads from here.
- Real-time bidirectional Shopify sync (GraphQL + webhooks)
- Multi-store from day one — Plus Org Admin supported
- Per-store overrides (price, copy framing, visibility, channel rules)
- Bulk Price Update across hundreds of products in seconds
- Multi-language via Shopify Markets (translations are structured, not duplicated)
- Variant Manager handling up to 2,048 variants per product
Quality Guard
The unique moat. Completeness scoring with a publish gate — no other Shopify mid-market tool has this. Stops the wrong-dimension and missing-image listings that cause expensive returns before they ever go live.
- Every product scored 0–100% on completeness, category-aware
- Publish gate blocks below-threshold listings from reaching the storefront
- Image Guard for resolution + count + alt-text rules
- Category-aware rules (sofa ≠ candle ≠ moisturizer)
- Impact layer ties scores to refund rate + conversion lift
- AI-assisted bulk fix workflows for the long tail
Sale Scheduler
Promotion automation that actually works at multi-store scale. Schedule the start, schedule the end, walk away. Black Friday and every other promo runs itself — across every connected store, fault-tolerant if Shopify hiccups.
- Set discounts in advance across hundreds of products
- Automatic reversion at sale end (no more forgotten reverts)
- Multi-store: one schedule pushes to all connected stores
- Per-store, per-collection, or sitewide scope rules
- Audit log of every price flip for finance + compliance
- Fault-tolerant queue catches up if Shopify is unreachable
Supplier Bridge
Supplier CSV onboarding for teams with fragmented supplier networks. AI maps any supplier file format. Saved templates make every subsequent import a single-click operation. The 2-day quarterly project becomes a 30-minute task.
- Drop any Excel / CSV — AI suggests the column mapping
- Save per-supplier templates (one click on every repeat import)
- Image fetch + processing from URL columns (CDN-cached)
- Validation against Shopify schema before any product writes
- Quality Guard runs on every imported product automatically
- Handles fragmented supplier networks at scale (10+ suppliers)
Trade Portal
B2B distribution without the PDF emails. Each dealer gets a branded live portal with the catalog subset they carry — in your brand identity, not Apimio's. No app installs. No dealer accounts to provision.
- Branded per-dealer URLs (your domain, your brand identity)
- Catalog subset per dealer (curated assortments per agreement)
- Always current — pulls from Catalogue Hub in real time
- Optional access code per portal for sensitive pricing
- Export to dealer's POS / import format on demand
- No dealer account, no app to install, no friction
Apimio AI
Native AI across the platform — not a chatbot. Descriptions, alt text, translations, column mapping, all spec-grounded on your real catalog attributes. Output is accurate by construction, with humans-in-the-loop for review.
- Generates from structured attributes — not generic prompts
- Quality Guard: AI-assisted bulk fix workflows
- Supplier Bridge: AI column mapping on every import
- Translations into Shopify Markets locales (structured, not duplicated)
- Alt text generation for accessibility + SEO compliance
- Spec-grounded by construction — no hallucinated dimensions
Built for four kinds of Shopify operations
Four entry points, one Catalogue Hub destination. Pick the closest match to where your team is today — every persona below converges on the same source-of-truth model within the first 30 days.
Multi-store Shopify ops
Already on Shopify, catalog is a mess
You outgrew Shopify admin two stores ago. The manual sync rituals broke under the load. Customer-facing inconsistencies are showing up in support tickets and reviews. You need a source of truth — yesterday.
- Catalogue Hub becomes the source of truth in week 1
- Quality Guard surfaces the 200 incomplete listings you didn't know about
- Sale Scheduler ends the midnight price-flip stress
Migrating to Shopify
Magento, WooCommerce, or spreadsheets today
You're moving to Shopify (or Shopify Plus) and you do not want to drag messy legacy data into a fresh store. Clean, structured product data on day one. Quality-gated before launch.
- Supplier Bridge AI-maps your legacy platform export
- Quality Guard scores every listing before migration
- Clean catalog ships to your new Shopify stores
B2B dealer network
Selling through 20+ dealers with email + PDFs
Half your dealers are ordering from stale pricelists. There's no way to keep them current without flooding inboxes. B2B distribution is the bottleneck stopping you from adding the next 10 dealers.
- Trade Portal goes live per dealer in week 1
- Each portal is branded, always-current, dealer-specific
- PDF pricelist emails become irrelevant
Large retailer with many suppliers
CSVs from 10+ suppliers in 10 different formats
Your ops team disappears into spreadsheets every season reformatting supplier files into Shopify-ready imports. Five suppliers, five Excel layouts, zero match with Shopify's schema. Season after season.
- Supplier Bridge AI-maps any supplier CSV on first import
- Save the template once — next season is one click per supplier
- Quality Guard validates every imported product before publish
Five steps from install to running multi-store
From the moment you install to the moment your catalog operates itself. Most mid-market teams complete steps 1–3 in the first 48 hours. Steps 4–5 unfold as you onboard suppliers and dealers.
Install on Shopify
Standard Shopify App Store install. Standard OAuth. No API keys to configure, no Postman, no curl. Total time: about 30 seconds. You're into the Apimio dashboard before your next slack message.
First sync — your catalog scored
Apimio pulls your existing Shopify catalog into Catalogue Hub. Quality Guard scores every listing 0–100% on completeness. The gaps surface immediately — usually 200+ items below the 80% threshold on the first sync.
Connect store 2 (and 3, 4, 5…)
Each additional store is a publishing destination on the same canonical catalog. Per-store overrides where you genuinely need them. No data duplication. Plus Org Admin recognized natively.
Supplier files + dealer portals
Drop supplier CSVs into Supplier Bridge — AI maps the first import, you save the template. Spin up Trade Portal per dealer with branded URLs. Your B2B and supply chain operate on the same source of truth as D2C.
Schedule + automate
Sale Scheduler runs your promo calendar end-to-end. Apimio AI fills the content tail at scale — descriptions, alt text, translations. The catalog operates itself. You go back to working on the business, not in spreadsheets.
What your team actually gets back
Catalog operations stops being the bottleneck. The work that used to take all week takes a fraction — and the work nobody had time for (alt text, translations, supplier onboarding, dealer portals) finally gets done.
8 hours/week back to growth work
Manual catalog sync rituals eliminated entirely. The reclaimed time flows into product strategy, marketing campaigns, and customer experience — the work that actually grows the business.
Confidence to open store #3, #4, #5
Each new Shopify store becomes a publishing destination on the same catalog — not a separate setup project. Marginal expansion cost drops near zero. International rollouts become a Markets configuration, not a re-platform.
Return rate drops in the first quarter
Quality Guard's publish gate prevents the wrong-dimension and missing-image listings that cause expensive returns. Most teams see 10–25% return-rate reduction inside 90 days — measurably tied to scored listings.
Supplier onboarding in hours, not days
First import of a new supplier = 30 minutes, end to end. Every subsequent import = one click via the saved template. Season launches stop slipping. Marketing gets the catalog they need on time.
B2B distribution unblocked
Trade Portal replaces email + PDFs with branded live portals per dealer. Dealers operate on current data automatically. Pricing complaints disappear. Adding the next dealer is a 5-minute task, not a quarterly project.
AI fills the content tail
Apimio AI generates descriptions, alt text, and translations from your structured data — at scale, on spec, accessibility-compliant. The work that never got done finally gets done.
Apimio vs sync-only apps, generic PIMs, and Shopify admin alone
There are four common ways to run multi-store Shopify catalog operations. Here's how Apimio compares against each, row by row — no marketing fluff, just the actual feature differentials that change your week-to-week work.
Shopify admin | Syncio | Best for mid-market Apimio | Akeneo / Salsify | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-store Shopify sync | Manual per store | Real-time bidirectional | Batch sync only | |
| Quality scoring + publish gate | Yes (unique) | Scoring without gate | ||
| Supplier CSV onboarding (AI mapping) | Yes (saved templates) | Manual import only | ||
| B2B dealer portals (branded) | Yes (per-dealer URLs) | |||
| Sale scheduling + auto-revert | Yes (multi-store) | |||
| AI on structured catalog data | Native, spec-grounded | |||
| Implementation timeline | Day 1 | Day 1 | Day 1 (30-sec install) | 3–6 months |
| Pricing | Bundled w/ Shopify | From $29/mo | From $199/mo | $25,000+/year |
| Target customer | Single-store | Single-store sync | Mid-market multi-store | Enterprise |
See Apimio on your real catalog — 20-minute walkthrough
Book a demo and our team walks through Apimio with your actual product data. Or skip the demo and start the trial directly — your catalog will be scored within 30 seconds of connecting Shopify.
Pricing that scales with your catalog
No SLA contracts. No 6-month implementations. No surprise enterprise quotes. Plans from $199/mo for single-store, $499/mo for multi-store + B2B, and custom for Shopify Plus operators at scale. Full breakdown — SKU limits, store limits, AI quotas, dealer counts, and add-on pricing — lives on the pricing page.
Common questions before you install
Quick answers from teams already running Apimio. Need something specific to your stack or your dealer network? Book a 20-minute walkthrough and we'll go through it with your real catalog.
Apimio is Shopify-only by design. Every feature is tuned for the way Shopify merchants actually operate — multi-store, supplier CSVs, dealer networks, Markets, B2B + D2C from one canonical catalog. Generic PIMs target every commerce platform and end up perfectly suited to none. They also assume you have 6 months and $25,000+/year. Apimio assumes you have 30 seconds and want results this quarter.
Install from the Shopify App Store takes about 30 seconds (standard OAuth — no API keys, no curl). First sync of your catalog completes within minutes for most mid-market stores. There is no implementation project, no consulting hours, no API setup. Most teams have Quality Guard scores in front of them inside the first hour.
Sign up at app.apimio.com/register or install via the Shopify App Store. Full access to Catalogue Hub, Quality Guard, Sale Scheduler, Supplier Bridge, and Trade Portal for 14 days — no credit card required to start. After the trial, plans start at $199/mo. If you need more time to evaluate, talk to us and we will extend it.
No. First sync reads from Shopify into Apimio — your Shopify data is the starting source of truth. After the first sync, edits flow both ways through GraphQL + webhooks. Bidirectional from day one. You can audit every write in the activity log.
No hard limit. Most multi-store operators run 2–10 stores from one Apimio catalog. Each new store is a configuration toggle, not a setup project. Shopify Plus organizations with 8+ stores run on Apimio natively via the Organization Admin API — no per-store reauthorization.
Apimio AI generates spec-grounded descriptions from your structured attributes — accurate by construction, not hallucinated. Most teams use AI for first drafts and copywriters for review and brand voice. Speed gain is typically 5–10× vs writing from a blank page. Output is auditable, attribute-traceable, and accessibility-aware (alt text + INCI ingredient lists handled natively).
Yes. One canonical product per SKU. Per-channel overrides handle different pricing, different copy framing, different visibility rules, and different bundle structures. A wholesale-only product stays hidden from retail; a D2C exclusive stays out of wholesale. Trade Portal is the dealer-facing surface for the wholesale catalog subset.
Each dealer gets a private branded URL with an optional access code. They open it like a website — no Apimio account, no app to install, no onboarding call. They browse the catalog you have scoped to them, and export to the format their POS or import tool needs. Updates flow from Catalogue Hub in real time, so stale pricelists become impossible.
Apimio retries failed operations until they succeed. Sale Scheduler is fault-tolerant — the queue persists. If Shopify is unreachable for an extended period, the queue catches up automatically when it comes back, in the original scheduled order. We have not lost a price flip yet.
See Apimio on your real Shopify catalog
Start your 14-day free trial — connect your store, watch Quality Guard score every product inside 30 seconds. Or book a 20-minute walkthrough with our team and we will run it on your real data together.