Acenda and ShipStation collaborated to build a direct integration for inventory management. In order to connect these two systems, you will need to install an integration in both your Acenda account and ShipStation accounts.
Section 1: Install ShipEngine within Acenda
Step 1 - Install a new Fulfillment Provider.
Go to Integrations and click the New button in the fulfillment providers section.
Find the ShipEngine integration and then click the "Add" button.
Step 2 - Open the newly installed ShipEngine integration and get your API key
Go to the Settings tab and click on the Authorization vertical tab.
You will see a button to copy your api key. We will use this key within ShipStation next.
Section 2: Configure within ShipStation
Step 1: Log in to your ShipStation account.
Go to the gear icon in the upper-right. Then, click on Selling Channels > Store Setup. Click on the Connect Store button.
Add the Acenda App:
Step 2: Add your API key
Add your API key from Section 1 Step 2 into ShipStation and hit connect.
You should get a success that looks like this:
You should now be fully connected to Acenda.
Note that there are additional steps within ShipStation to configure settings for inventory sync. The rest of this article will discuss these settings.
Managing your inventory within ShipStation and syncing to Acenda.
Shipstation has a guide that walks you through its inventory sync process. The guide can be found here. We can sync your active inventory levels with Acenda. This is the inventory level less all open orders in ShipStation for a specific sku.
Inventory is managed from the Products admin within ShipStation:
Once inventory is added to ShipStation, you need to enable Acenda as a source for this inventory.
Click the gear icon in the upper-right.
Go to Inventory Management > Inventory Sync. Click on the Edit button with the pencil. Select Acenda as a target and hit save.
Click the checkbox, then click "Save Configuration."
That's it!
This process will create a new warehouse in Acenda, and your inventory will automatically update from ShipStation. Once the inventory starts syncing, you will want to update your Sales Channels and map to this new warehouse.