Canada's Meridian Farm Market boosts business operations by integrating Shopify, PoS and SYSPRO

Codeless Platforms reports that Meridian Farm Market, a Canadian-based retailer of meat and farm produce, has automated its sales orders and data transfers between SYSPRO, Shopify and its PoS system using BPA Platform.

The business says it has now removed vast amounts of manual data entry, which has improved its overall business processes, and provided access to real-time data and better insight into its sales.

“We're a retail company, so we are using BPA Platform to connect our PoS system to SYSPRO. It pulls the product pricing from the PoS software and updates SYSPRO. BPA Platform then takes that pricing information from SYSPRO and updates Shopify,” says Brody McDearmid, CFO, Meridian Meats & Meridian Farm Market.

“It also uploads the product information, titles, names, and descriptions from SYSPRO to Shopify, as well as updating the inventory levels. All sales data is downloaded from Shopify into SYSPRO, and once it's in SYSPRO we then fulfil the orders. When the orders are fulfilled, BPA Platform then marks the orders as fulfilled in Shopify.”

Prior to implementing its ERP system, the retailer was entering all of its data manually and only recording bulk sales values into its accounting software on a monthly basis.

“We therefore started looking for an ERP solution that would improve that, and SYSPRO was one of the ERP systems that we evaluated. As part of the solution, we needed the ERP to integrate to our existing website, which was built on Shopify. Therefore, as part of the request for proposal (RFP), we informed all of the ERP companies that we needed the ERP to integrate to Shopify,” says McDearmid.

Meridian Farm Market subsequently selected SYSPRO as its ERP of choice. As part of the agreement, SYSRPO presented BPA Platform as the middleware solution to provide the integration with Shopify. However, the project took a little while to get fully implemented due to its complexity.

“Whilst SYSPRO was initially leading this project, due to the complex nature of our integration, SYSPRO enlisted the help of Codeless Platforms as the experts in the field. Codeless Platforms was able to parachute in, take over the responsibility and deliver the project quickly and easily. Ever since their involvement, things have been working extremely well. It was great,” says McDearmid.

“If we had tried to undertake the development and integration without BPA Platform it would have required a significant amount more time, and instead we would have embarked on a custom development project, which is nowhere near as agile or as scalable as BPA Platform.”

“The main benefit from the project and installing BPA Platform is the elimination of that manual data entry. We also now have access to real-time data. We're taking sales orders, fulfilling the sales orders, and immediately have that financial data available to us in SYSPRO. We didn't have that before because we were only doing it once a month. So, it's definitely improved our business processes and insight into our sales.”

2024 RTIH INNOVATION AWARDS

ERP systems are a key focus area for the sixth edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards, which are now closed for entries.

The awards, sponsored by Vista Technology Support, Scala, CADS, 3D Cloud, Brightpearl by Sage’s Lightning 50, Business France, and Retail Technology Show 2025, celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.

Check out our finalists here.

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Tuesday, 29th October: 2024 shortlist revealed

30th October-6th November: Judging days

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