One place for your product data. Every store stays in sync.
Multi-store Shopify operators run on Apimio, one source of truth across every store, Quality Guard catching incomplete listings before they go live, and AI handling the tedious work at scale. Built for teams who outgrew Shopify admin but don't want a six-month PIM project.
What changes in your first quarter at 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.
Six problems every multi-store Shopify operator knows
These aren't edge cases. They're the six conversations we have every week with mid-market Shopify operators. Each one has a specific fix inside Apimio.
Without Apimio
With Apimio
"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 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 means 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, and SEO metadata from your real structured attributes, not generic prompts. Output is spec-grounded by construction. Quality Guard flags the gaps. AI closes them, 5–10× faster than writing from scratch, with humans-in-the-loop for review.
Purpose-built for Shopify. Nothing bolted on.
Generic PIMs target every platform and end up perfectly suited to none. Apimio is built exclusively for how Shopify actually works, and for the operators running 2+ stores on it.
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. 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.
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.
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, not generic prompts. Output is spec-grounded by construction.
Vertical-aware out of the box
Furniture variant matrices, fashion size charts, beauty INCI ingredient lists, home décor artisan supplier formats, handled natively. No custom configuration per vertical.
Five products on one source of truth
Catalogue Hub, Quality Guard, Sale Scheduler, Supplier Bridge, Trade Portal, designed to work as one continuous workflow. The platform compounds: each new feature amplifies the ones already running.
Built for four kinds of Shopify operations
Pick the closest match to where your team is today — every entry point 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.
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. The catalog operates itself. You go back to working on the business, not in spreadsheets.
The work you get back when catalog runs itself
Time that used to go into spreadsheets and sync rituals now goes into growing the business. Here's what that looks like in practice.
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 canonical 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 takes 30 minutes, end-to-end. Every subsequent import takes 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 SEO metadata 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 what's broken in your catalog. Today. For free.
Connect Shopify in 30 seconds and Quality Guard scores your entire catalog instantly. Most teams find 200+ incomplete listings they didn't know about before ever paying a cent.
Pricing that scales as you grow
No SLA contracts. No 6-month implementations. No surprise enterprise quotes. Start with the foundation and add modules as you need them, more stores, more suppliers, more dealers, more AI.