How to integrate multiple vendor sites for real-time order processing?

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Hello,

I am working on creating a new website to house merch on for our agent database of about 23,000 real estate agents. We currently work with a couple of different vendors for our promotional items and apparel. One of of vendors currently has their own shopify site that they want us to integrate with. We cannot house all of our merch items on their site as we work with multiple vendors and would run into problems that way.

I am wondering if there is a way that their shopify account can integrate with ours if we own the page and domain. So for example, I list the item for sale on our website and the order kicks over to the vendor’s shopify site so they can process the order in real time and manage inventory levels for the items they sell on our site.

Please let me know if you would like me to elaborate more or if you would like to give me a call for further help!

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2 ways you could do this:

  1. Affiliate style, where you have a link with a url parameter going to their site, so they can track attribution (theirsite.com

  2. If you want to have people checkout on your site, you can create a private Shopify app when an order is placed on your site, you can then use the Shopify API to generate an order in your partners Shopify store (you’d set it up as a private app on their store, so the API access keys allow you to place orders programmatically on their site).