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Catalog publishing plus royalty imports

Shopify Integration for Book Publishers

Publish book listings from Familiar into Shopify, manage which titles are opted in, and keep Shopify sales flowing into your royalty workflow.

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Connect by OAuthSync selected booksImport sales reports

Shopify catalog

Distribution readiness

Connected

The City Under Glass

Shopify - Ebook

Ready

Northline Atlas

Shopify - Paperback

Missing cover

The Orchard Clock

Shopify - Hardcover

Sync queued

One workflow

Catalog, files, and royalties stay connected.

Familiar already knows your books, contributors, royalty structures, metadata, and files. The Shopify integration uses that publishing context to help staff move selected titles into Shopify and later bring Shopify sales back into royalty calculations.

How Shopify publishing works

A controlled path from store connection to product sync, with blockers visible before anything goes live.

Connect your store

Start from Familiar, enter your Shopify domain, and authorize the Familiar app through Shopify OAuth.

Opt in titles

Choose which books should be published to your Shopify catalog and leave everything else untouched.

Clear readiness checks

Confirm metadata, variant details, and required files before a product sync can run.

Sync and retry

Queue product syncs, track status, and retry after resolving any Shopify or catalog blockers.

Product sync

Send ready books to Shopify without rebuilding the catalog by hand.

Staff can review each book, format, and variant before syncing. If metadata or assets are missing, Familiar shows the issue in the same distribution table your team already uses for other channels.

OAuth connection with Shopify catalog publishing scopes
Per-book opt-in and opt-out controls
Readiness checks for metadata, files, and Shopify listing state
Ebook and print variant support when required assets are present
Listing status, sync failure, and retry visibility
Shopify order and sales report imports for royalty tracking

What Familiar checks before sync

MetadataTitle, format, catalog variant, and Shopify-ready product data
FilesEbook files, print interiors, and covers where the format requires them
Listing stateOpt-in status, prior sync errors, and retry availability
Store connectionConnected shop, granted scopes, and publishing capability

Shopify sales still feed royalties

Shopify catalog publishing sits beside Familiar's Shopify royalty imports. Export orders or sales-by-product reports from Shopify, upload them to Familiar, and keep direct-store revenue in the same royalty workflow as KDP, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, and the rest of your channels.

Read the Shopify export guide

Shopify stays your storefront

Familiar does not take over your store operations. Your team still manages checkout, fulfillment, discounts, customer service, and theme work inside Shopify. Familiar focuses on the publishing-specific parts: book catalog data, readiness, sync status, and royalty inputs.

Built for publishing operations teams

Ready to connect Shopify to your publishing workflow?

Start with Familiar's royalty tools, then bring Shopify catalog publishing into the same operational dashboard.

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