Depends how fast you can type your passwords! :) But all you need to do is connect your Shopify account and connect your Square account, and we do the rest. On average it takes users less than 5 minutes to configure Sku Harmony.
As you might be able to tell by our name, we loooove SKUs. But no, they're not strictly necessary. SKUs are primarily valuable when trying to synchronize two *already existing* product catalogs, since they provide a way to tell us that two products are the same, even if their name in each system isn't identical.
For example, lets say you sell t-shirts, and last summer you had intern Greg manually copy a bunch of your Square products over to Shopify.Greg was well - meaning, but a little lazy if we're being honest, and the Square product named [Brilliant Red Tank Top - Size Medium] got copied over to Shopify as [Red Shirt - Med].
If we want to keep the inventory counts synchronized, it would be hard for us to know that these two products are the same(curse you, Greg!). But if they have a matching sku value, like 'tank-brilliant-red-med', in both systems, then we can be sure that they are the same product, and their inventories should stay in sync.
Oh, right. Let's back up - SKU stands for Stock Keeping Unit. It's just a stable, unique identifier for each item in your product catalog. It can be a descriptive string like 'red-sweater-with-a-bird-on-it', or a number like '7415156007', or even a combination, like 'my-product-12345'. The ideas is just that it doesn't change, even if the product name or description does. This is useful because when we're talking about inventories, we need an unambiguous way to know which EXACT item we're talking about.
Not a problem. We can automatically generate unique SKUs for you. Your dashboard view shows the number of items that don't have SKU values set and lets you generate a SKU for each item. Depending on how many items you need to update, just send us a note and we'll do it automagically.
Absolutely. You can specify which items to keep in sync, and automate as much or as little of that process as you want to.
We bill via Shopify subscription payments, but will be adding the ability to pay via credit card very soon!
If you create an account but don't sign up for a paid plan, you're limited to syncing 10 items. This is a great way to get familiar with the app and its capabilities before purchasing. And of course we offer a money back guarantee on all payments, but we work so hard to make sure you're happy that it's not usually an issue for most Sku Harmony customers.