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FirstSpirit
CFC
Connect for Commerce Shopify Bridge
Content + Commerce, simplified
What is the FirstSpirit ConnectForCommerce (CFC) Bridge for Shopify?
The Shopify Bridge brings Shopify products and categories directly into FirstSpirit, following Crownpeak’s proven ConnectForCommerce pattern. It lets your content teams use live commerce data as building blocks for content-rich pages, campaigns, and headless experiences—without leaving FirstSpirit.
Key Features
- Catalog Sync to FirstSpirit: Pull products and collections (categories) from Shopify into FirstSpirit as structured content.
- Author-Ready Entities: Use product data (titles, images, pricing metadata, etc.) alongside editorial content, media, and personalization.
- CFC Architecture: Built on Crownpeak’s ConnectForCommerce approach for consistency, scalability, and easy extension.
- Open & Extensible: Available on GitHub for teams who want to review, adapt, or extend the connector.
- Flexible Delivery: Works for hybrid/headless sites, content for commerce, and multi-site scenarios.
Benefits
- Faster time-to-value: Skip one-off integrations—stand up a content+commerce workflow quickly.
- Richer merchandising & storytelling: Blend live product data with brand storytelling, assets, and layout control in FirstSpirit.
- Operational efficiency: Keep commerce operations in Shopify while authors work natively in FirstSpirit.
- Consistency & governance: Centralize content quality, approvals, and localization with FirstSpirit’s editorial toolset.
- Future-proof foundation: Extend to new storefronts, regions, and channels without re-wiring your catalog integration.
Why Choose the Shopify Bridge?
The challenge: Content and commerce live in separate systems, causing delays, duplicate data, and rigid templates. Our solution: Make Shopify catalog entities natively available in FirstSpirit so marketers can design high-impact experiences with current product data—no context-switching, no copy-paste workflows.
How It Works (At a Glance)
- Connect your Shopify store to the Bridge.
- Sync products and collections into FirstSpirit (as CFC-compatible entities).
- Author pages, campaigns, and components in FirstSpirit using live product data.
- Publish/Deliver through your chosen architecture (hybrid, headless, or static generation).
Technical Details
- Architecture: Implements Crownpeak’s ConnectForCommerce pattern for ingesting and mapping Shopify product/collection data to FirstSpirit entities.
- Data model: Pulls categories (collections) and products from Shopify; designed to support common merchandising attributes and media references.
- Extensibility: Developers can extend field mappings, add attributes, or adapt the sync scope per project needs.
- Source: Open repository on GitHub: e-Spirit/fcecom-bridge-api-shopify.
Requirements & Compatibility
- Platforms: Shopify + FirstSpirit
- Access: Shopify admin/API credentials and FirstSpirit project access
- Who installs it: Typically your implementation partner or internal dev team familiar with CFC
Get Started
- Explore the GitHub repo: e-Spirit/fcecom-bridge-api-shopify
- Talk to us: Want help scoping your Shopify + FirstSpirit rollout? Request a demo and we’ll walk you through the CFC pattern for your use case.