Vendor inventory management for Shopify merchants who need clean stock decisions from messy supplier data.
PowerSync AI helps ecommerce teams connect Shopify, import their product catalog, add supplier sources, map supplier fields, match supplier SKUs to Shopify variants, and review safe inventory recommendations before anything can change in the store.
Products, variants, vendors, locations, SKUs, and inventory quantities.
CSV/XLSX now, with AI-assisted website, portal, email, drive, PDF, and feed architecture prepared.
Dry-run proposals first. Human review stays in control before any Shopify write action.
From scattered supplier data to safe Shopify inventory decisions.
PowerSync AI collects authorized vendor files, websites, portals, emails, and feeds, uses AI to extract inventory signals, validates every row, matches those rows to Shopify variants, and creates reviewable actions before any live update is allowed.
Products, variants, vendors, SKUs, barcodes, inventory item IDs, locations, and current quantities.
Extracts supplier evidence, validates structure, scores confidence, matches variants, and writes an audit trail.
Tenant-aware imports, mappings, matches, decisions, logs, policies, and review states.
Duplicate conflicts, unmatched rows, and low-confidence decisions are held for review.
Exactly what would change in Shopify, held for merchant review.
Missing SKUs, duplicate conflicts, stale supplier data, and risky stock moves.
Supplier health, inventory exposure, and AI recommendations.
Audit-ready holds show what would change without writing to Shopify.
Read authorized supplier sources and the Shopify catalog.
AI turns messy pages, files, and messages into normalized inventory rows.
Strict schema checks reject malformed data and mark weak evidence for review.
SKU, model, barcode, and title signals connect supplier rows to Shopify variants.
Rules create AI PowerSYNC proposals, review holds, alerts, reports, and audit logs.
Shopify-changing actions stay as dry-run holds for merchant review.
PowerSync AI v2 Beta Mission
The product should feel like an inventory management team that learns each supplier once, then repeats the work for the merchant.
The merchant guides PowerSync through the authorized supplier path one time: login checkpoint, menu path, SKU search, export, or inventory table.
Approved browser steps and source hints become the supplier recipe. Cloudflare, CAPTCHA, and 2FA remain manual checkpoints; one-time codes can be entered once and are not saved.
Agent-ready suppliers run together in the background. The merchant gets alerted when normalized Shopify-ready proposals are ready.
Rows are review-safe until the merchant chooses what to approve. No hidden Shopify writes are part of the beta demo.
How To Use PowerSync AI
Beginner-friendly setup flow from first install to first safe inventory check.
Install PowerSync AI, grant read permissions, and let the app read products, variants, SKUs, vendors, locations, and inventory quantities.
Bring your Shopify product and variant catalog into the local workspace so supplier data has something accurate to match against.
Use Job Builder to add a supplier source. Portal / Website is the active beta path, while Gmail, PDF, and XLSX / CSV are staged as guided workspaces.
For portals, teach PowerSync where to log in, search, click Inventory, export stock, or find the table. Saved steps make the supplier Agent-ready.
The app compares supplier SKUs, manufacturer SKUs, model numbers, barcodes, and product names against Shopify variants.
Use Island Mode for all ready sources, or open Job Builder for a visible run against Gmail, PDF, Portal / Website, or XLSX / CSV evidence. Shopify catalog data is matching background, not a supplier source.
What A Merchant Does Day To Day
PowerSync AI is meant to become the inventory control desk between Shopify and every supplier source.
Open Dashboard, start Island Mode, review Alerts, and focus on products with stockouts, duplicate conflicts, or low confidence.
Open Job Builder, choose Portal / Website, open the controlled browser, teach PowerSync the login/search/export path, then save the sequence.
Open Job Builder, upload the newest CSV or Excel file, let AI read the source artifact, and compare proposed changes before Shopify is touched.
Use Search and Dashboard proposal rows to find missing SKUs, weak matches, duplicate model numbers, and supplier rows that need manual approval.
Use Reports to see supplier health, current risk, proposed stock changes, and which integrations or plan limits are holding the workflow back.
What Happens During AI PowerSYNC
AI PowerSYNC is the safe preview layer for dry-run inventory decisions.
PowerSync AI reads Shopify catalog data and supplier inventory rows.
It matches supplier rows to Shopify variants using SKU, model, barcode, and title signals.
Rules calculate proposed inventory quantities, backorder zeros, discontinued zeros, and skipped review items.
The merchant sees exactly what would happen before any Shopify update can be enabled.
Current Launch Mode
The app is intentionally conservative while Shopify launch review is prepared.
Shopify writes stay disabled in this release. Merchants can review dry-run holds, supplier evidence, duplicate conflicts, and confidence thresholds before making manual changes in Shopify.
How The App Organizes Merchant Data
These are the plain-English building blocks behind the app. They help merchants understand why setup has several steps.
The Shopify shop, plan context, permissions, API version, latest import, and location used for inventory reads.
A Shopify product copied into the workspace so supplier rows can be matched without constantly rereading Shopify.
The exact sellable Shopify variant, including SKU, barcode, inventory item ID, location quantity, and status.
A saved source of supplier evidence. Portal / Website is the live beta runner; file/email connectors are staged or gated until their parsers are fully wired.
The saved translation between supplier column names and normalized PowerSync AI fields like SKU, quantity, status, and lead time.
A timestamped copy of normalized supplier rows from one file or source run, preserved for auditing and comparison.
The link between one supplier row and one Shopify variant, with confidence, evidence, and review state.
An AI PowerSYNC proposal such as set inventory to zero, restock to a capped quantity, or skip because review is needed.
Supplier Source Types
PowerSync AI is designed as an AI inventory intelligence layer, not only a spreadsheet importer.
Train PowerSync once on an authorized supplier portal or website. Browserless LiveURL is required for the merchant-visible controlled browser window.
Upload a supplier spreadsheet in the browser. PowerSync normalizes supplier columns into Shopify-ready review rows.
Upload a supplier catalog, sell sheet, or inventory PDF. The beta UI is staged for extraction and preview.
Gmail OAuth remains gated until Google verification and secure token storage are ready for client use.
Future connection for shared vendor price lists, stock sheets, Drive folders, and changing supplier links.
Future source for supplier feeds after the core portal and file flows are stable.
What AI Does And Does Not Control
The product is AI-assisted, but Shopify inventory control stays validation-first and merchant-controlled.
Suggest field mappings, read messy supplier text, propose SKU matches, explain confidence, summarize alerts, and draft extraction recipes.
Update Shopify by itself, override safety rules, archive products, ignore source authorization, or approve low-confidence decisions.
Deterministic checks validate schema, confidence, duplicate conflicts, source age, supplier status, and plan policy before actions are created.
Safety And AI Rules
AI can assist extraction and matching. Final inventory control remains rule-based and reviewable.
Example Inventory Decisions
These examples explain what merchants should expect when supplier rows turn into proposed Shopify actions.
Dry-run proposes a safe capped Shopify quantity, usually 5, so the store can sell without overselling.
Dry-run proposes setting Shopify inventory to 0 and records the supplier evidence for review.
Dry-run proposes 0 available quantity and marks the reason as backorder, without archiving the product.
The match is held as needs review because fuzzy matching alone should not drive inventory updates.
The action is skipped as a duplicate conflict so an operator can decide which supplier signal wins.
Dry-run proposes zero inventory, but product archiving stays disabled until a later controlled phase.
Review Build
Read-only Shopify import, supplier setup, and dry-run AI PowerSYNC proposals.
Free Access
The review build has no app charges, subscriptions, or checkout flow.
Connector Previews
Additional source types are visible as previews but cannot be activated in this release.
Private Access
Additional connectors and AI provider options are prepared for later release.
Common Terms
Plain-English definitions for the words merchants see inside the app.
A merchant-approved source of supplier inventory evidence, such as a dealer portal, website, CSV/XLSX file, PDF, or Gmail attachment.
The saved recipe that says which supplier column maps to SKU, quantity, stock status, lead time, and other inventory fields.
The connection between one supplier row and one Shopify variant. Higher confidence means the app is more certain it found the right item.
The central merchant workflow. The merchant gives instructions, selects a source and Shopify target, and receives validated inventory proposals without automatic live changes.
A review pass that reads supplier information, matches products, and prepares inventory recommendations.
A match or inventory decision that should be checked by a human before any automated action can happen.
The one-click beta workflow that runs saved Agent-ready supplier sequences in the background and notifies the merchant when proposals are ready.
Where To Go From Here
Use these links when setting up or reviewing the app.
Shopify Reviewer Notes
Concise testing context for app review, demo walkthroughs, and merchant onboarding calls.
PowerSync AI is built to say: connect your store, connect your suppliers, and let AI extract inventory signals from supplier files, portals, websites, and emails. Then PowerSync AI safely turns verified availability into dry-run Shopify review proposals.