madebyalf

Newcastle upon Tyne — available for projects

I connect Shopify stores to the systems that run the rest of the business.

Selected work

Shopify → SugarCRM · heritage UK tea & coffee brand

Up to 10 hours a week back from reconciling orders and fixing sync errors.

Ecommerce is one channel of a much larger business. Replaced a Zapier integration with a custom sync that delivers web orders in the same format every other department already reports in, so Finance and Manufacturing work from one consistent view.

100k+
orders a year
−50%
sync running cost
10 hrs
saved per week

12+ months

in production without a hiccup

Shopify ⇄ IBCOS Gold ERP · specialist arboriculture & forestry supplier

Two-way sync into a legacy ERP with no API.

Prices pulled from Gold on a schedule; orders pushed back as XML over HTTP into a system with no visibility inside it. 20k+ orders a year, shipping worldwide, including high-ticket products.

1,000s of SKUs

added to the catalogue, none created by hand

ARI PartStream → Shopify · same supplier

Every spare part orderable, down to the last spring.

Customers browse exploded diagrams of machinery they already own and order any component. If a part isn’t in Shopify yet, the integration creates it on the spot.

Also: theme development, Shopify admin and migrations, and POS — including setting up a London pop-up store end to end, hardware, staff and all.

Alf standing beside a row of red telephone boxes

About

I'm Alf, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. I build the connective layer between Shopify and the tools running the rest of a business — CRMs, ERPs, accounting and POS.

The system on the other end changes every time: a modern CRM, a parts catalogue, an ERP with no API at all. The job doesn't: get the right data where it needs to be, in the shape the business needs, and keep it there.

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