Shopify Clover integration that keeps the register and the online shop in step
Nothing connects a Clover register to a Shopify shop directly, so a third-party app is what gives the counter and the website one shared stock count. For shops that take money on a Clover register and also sell online through Shopify. Clover has no field for a tracking number, so a Shopify order you post is recorded on Shopify and in QuickSync while the register keeps the sale itself. Both sides tell us the moment something sells, so the other is corrected in under a second.
From $19 a month for two shops · no credit card · connected in about ten minutes · nothing changes until you say so · Updated 13 September 2026
How to connect Shopify and Clover
Connecting both shops takes about ten minutes. Then you leave it watching for a day or two to check the counts agree before you switch syncing on.
Connect Shopify
You approve QuickSync from the Shopify app store. Shopify asks which permissions to grant and you can withdraw them from the Shopify side at any time.
Connect Clover
You install QuickSync from the Clover app market on the merchant account that owns the register.
Let it match your products
We line the two catalogues up by SKU, then by title, and hand you a short list of anything we could not match. You decide what happens to those.
Watch, then switch it on
Leave it watching for a few days and check the numbers agree. When you are happy, let it start making changes, one shop at a time.
What QuickSync syncs between Shopify and Clover
One row per job, based on how QuickSync connects to Shopify and Clover today. Where a side does not allow something, the cell says so.
SupportedNot supported
| What | Shopify | Clover |
|---|---|---|
| Stock count | Both ways | Both ways |
| New listings | We can create and update | We can create and update |
| Prices | Sent, with your rule applied | Sent, with your rule applied |
| Orders in | Into QuickSync | Into QuickSync |
| Tracking back | Sent to the order | Clover does not accept one |
| Photos and options | Photos, sizes and colours | Photos, sizes and colours |
| Update speed | Under a second | Under a second |
| Detection speed | The moment it happens | The moment it happens |
Keep the register and the other channel on one count
A Clover counter sale that never reaches Shopify is how you oversell online. Holding a buffer in both places so you cannot is how you sit on stock you could have sold.
| Two shops, run by hand | Two shops, connected |
|---|---|
| The last one sells in both shops within the same hour | Whichever shop sells it, the other one drops to match |
| Typing the same stock numbers into Shopify and Clover each morning | One count, sent to both, without anyone opening a spreadsheet |
| Changing a price means editing the same product twice | Change it once and each shop gets the price you set for it |
| Orders in two dashboards, matched up by hand at the end of the week | Every order already matched to the right product |
| A refund leaves your numbers wrong until someone notices | A refund puts the stock back and tells both shops |
| Guessing how stale each shop’s number is | A sale on either shop reaches the other in under a second |
One Clover sale, synced in seconds
Real timings, second by second.
Clover · order #447114:02:11Clover41sold here
Shopify41+0.3sCorrecting Shopify takes under a second once we have the sale. The order is in your packing list with the Clover order number on it.
The other direction is the same: a sale on Shopify reaches Clover just as quickly, because Shopify pushes it to us the moment it happens too.
What to know before you connect
Every Shopify Clover integration has constraints. These are the ones that apply here.
Stock updates between Shopify and Clover in seconds
Both Shopify and Clover tell us the moment something sells, so a sale in one is reflected in the other in under a second. There is no polling gap on this pair.
No tracking number back to Clover
Clover has no field for a tracking number, so we cannot write one back. If you also ship from the same stock, the tracking stays in QuickSync rather than on the Clover order.
Listings do not publish to Shopify or Clover on their own
Copying a listing from Shopify to Clover (or the other way) always waits for you to look at it. Stock is the only thing that moves on its own, and only once you have turned it on.
Where you edit products
Both sides can create and update, so decide which one you type into.
Shopify and Clover can each carry the whole product record — name, price, photos, sizes and colours — and we can create and update on either. Most pairings don’t offer that choice, and having it means making one: pick the side you’ll type into and treat the other as the copy.
For most shops that’s Shopify, because a website needs the long description and the second photograph anyway and a register doesn’t. If your range starts life at the counter, though — you buy it, you price it, it’s on the shelf that afternoon — then Clover is the more natural home and the site can follow it.
Either way round works. What causes trouble is not deciding, then spending a fortnight where half the catalogue was last touched in one place and half in the other.
The Saturday problem
A register sells in bursts. A website sells all night.
Clover pushes to us as each sale completes and Shopify does the same, so either side corrects the other in under a second. That matters more here than on a pairing of two websites because of the shape of the trade: a counter can do a fortnight of one item in a single Saturday hour, and there’s no quiet stretch between those sales for a timer to fit into.
So the case that breaks other setups — the same SKU going twice inside a minute, once online and once at the counter — is the ordinary case on this pairing rather than the awkward one. The second sale isn’t waiting on a scheduled look, because there isn’t one.
What still needs a decision from you is what the website should do when the shelf empties at three in the afternoon. We’ll take Shopify to zero. Whether that reads as sold out or as a lost order is a question about your shop, not about the sync.
Items with no code
A register doesn’t ask for a SKU. We can’t pair two shops without one.
Most Clover catalogues were built at the counter, one item at a time, by somebody halfway through serving a customer. Clover doesn’t insist on a SKU when you work that way, so a 400-item till catalogue can arrive with 400 blanks in the single field we match products on. Nothing else about this connection matters until that’s dealt with.
What happens next is visible rather than quiet. A variant with no SKU is left out and shown to you as unmatched, so what you get is a list of exactly which items need one — not a shop that syncs 60% of itself and looks finished.
There are two ways through it. Switch on automatic SKU creation during setup and we’ll generate one per item; it’s off by default, because a code we invented is still a code somebody has to read off a picking list. Or choose the scheme yourself first — our free SKU generator builds one per variant and shows which channels would trim it.
Clover payments and Clover stock are not the same thing
One moves the money at your checkout. The other keeps the shelf and the site on the same number.
Search for a Clover and Shopify integration and you get two kinds of answer, and which one you actually want settles everything else. Clover’s own Payments plugin is free, covers the United States and Canada, and lets a Shopify online store take card payments — Apple Pay and Google Pay included — against the Clover merchant account you already reconcile. If that was the question, the plugin is the answer and it comes from Clover, not from us.
What a payment plugin does not do is touch the catalogue. It creates no item and corrects no quantity, and Clover’s own documentation notes it is not two-way, which is why it asks you to void an order on the Shopify side. Sell the last of something across the counter and the website carries on offering it, because nothing in a payment method was ever looking at the shelf.
That gap is the part we fill, and the two sit alongside each other without overlapping: one is a way of taking money at the checkout, the other is a single stock count shared between the register and the site. Plenty of shops run the plugin for the payments and us for the numbers.
Two connected shops from $19 a month
Pricing is based on catalogue size, not order volume. Every plan includes two connected shops, and each extra shop adds the plan price again — so three shops on Lite is $38 a month.
Lite
$19/mo for two shops1,000 items and up to eight connected integrations, with stock matched on both sides automatically. Enough for Shopify and Clover on their own, at $19 a month for the two.
Pro
$29/mo for two shops2,500 items and up to eight connected integrations. Listings and orders sync here as well as stock. Most sellers running two shops properly end up here.
Ultra at $69 and Ultra+ at $99 add larger catalogues, price rules and setup help. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no card.
Other ways to connect Shopify and Clover
These are the tools that come up on the same search for Shopify and Clover. Each solves a narrower or a different problem; the comparison pages set out where the line falls.
- SKU IQ: POS-to-online inventory sync.
- Thrive Inventory (Shopventory): inventory management with a POS focus.
- Folio3: a Clover-to-Shopify connector.
Questions people ask about this pair
How quickly does Clover update after something sells on Shopify?
Under a second in normal conditions. Shopify tells us the moment the sale happens and we write the new count to Clover straight away. The reverse is the same when Clover sells. If either side is briefly unreachable we hold the update and keep trying rather than dropping it.
Does Clover integrate with Shopify?
Yes, through a third-party app rather than a built-in link. A Clover register and a Shopify shop keep separate stock counts, and neither tells the other when something sells, so something has to sit between them. QuickSync matches products by SKU and corrects whichever side did not make the sale. Clover caps a SKU at 100 characters against Shopify’s 255, so the shorter limit is the one both have to fit.
Can I use Clover as a payment gateway on Shopify?
Yes, using Clover’s own Payments plugin, which is free and covers the United States and Canada. It handles the checkout itself — cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay — against your Clover merchant account. That is a different job from ours: it moves the money and never touches the catalogue, so it neither creates an item nor corrects a stock figure. The two run alongside each other quite happily.
Can I just export a CSV from Clover into Shopify?
For a one-off move, yes, and if you are migrating off the register rather than running both, that is the simpler route. A file is a snapshot though: it is right the moment you export it and out of date by the first sale afterwards, and nothing in it keeps the two catalogues level from then on. Running a counter and a website at the same time is the case a CSV cannot cover.
Does QuickSync sync Shopify and Clover in real time?
Yes, in both directions. Clover pushes each register sale to us as it completes and Shopify does the same for web orders, so either side corrects the other in under a second. There’s no polling timer anywhere on this pair, which is not true of every pair we connect.
Do I have to re-list my Shopify products on Clover?
No. We match your existing Shopify and Clover listings by SKU first, then by title, and hand you a short list of whatever we could not match. You can also copy a listing from one side to the other if you want it in both places; that step always waits for you.
Can I charge a different price on Clover?
Yes. Set a rule once for Clover: a percentage, a fixed uplift, or a price you type yourself. We apply it whenever the price changes, and nothing forces Shopify and Clover to the same number.
Does the tracking number go back to both shops?
Not to Clover. Clover has no way for us to send a tracking number back. Counter sales rarely need one, but it is worth knowing if you also ship from the same stock.
What happens if a buyer cancels or I refund them on Shopify or Clover?
The stock goes back. A cancellation or a refund puts the item back into your count and we send the corrected number to both Shopify and Clover.
Which plan do I need for Shopify and Clover?
Lite covers Shopify and Clover. Lite is $19 a month for two shops and holds 1,000 items, with up to eight connected integrations. You would move up a plan for catalogue size, and your bill goes up by another $19 if you connect a third shop.
Guide for running Shopify and Clover together
A setup walkthrough that goes deeper than this page: a sub-question, not another page chasing the same head term.
Connect another sales channel
Each combination has its own page, including the limits that apply to that pair, not a generic Shopify write-up with the logo swapped.
Or read about one shop on its own
Every channel has a page covering exactly what syncs, what does not, and how fast.
Connect Shopify and Clover and watch one correct the other
Make one test sale and watch the other shop’s count drop. Ten minutes, no card, and nothing changes on either shop until you say so.
No credit card required
Setup guides for this pair
Connect each shop with its own walkthrough, then come back to this page for how Shopify and Clover stay in step.