Spark Shipping integration
Automate your supplier feeds — inventory, pricing, orders, and tracking — and keep the theme's compatibility metafields populated without manual data entry.
What Spark Shipping does
Spark Shipping automates the supplier side of a parts store, end to end. Instead of maintaining spreadsheets or hand-updating products, you connect your suppliers and distributors once and Spark Shipping keeps your Shopify catalog and orders in sync:
- Inventory sync — stock levels update automatically as suppliers change.
- Pricing updates — cost and retail pricing stay current with supplier feeds and your rules.
- Order routing — orders are sent to the right supplier or dropshipper for fulfillment.
- Tracking writeback — shipment tracking flows back into Shopify and to your customer.
It can populate the theme's fitment data
This is where Spark Shipping and the theme fit together. Beyond stock and pricing, Spark Shipping can write the compatibility and fitment metafields the theme reads — spark.compatibility, spark.part_number, and spark.fitment_summary — directly into your products. That means the "Fits your vehicle" badges, part numbers, and fitment summaries stay accurate automatically as your catalog changes.
How the flow works
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Connect your suppliers
Link the distributors and manufacturers you buy from. Spark Shipping ingests their product, inventory, pricing, and fitment feeds.
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Map product & fitment data
Match supplier fields to Shopify — including SKUs, part numbers, and vehicle fitment — and set your pricing and publishing rules.
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Spark Shipping writes to Shopify
Products and their metafields are created and kept up to date in your store, including the compatibility metafields the theme displays.
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The theme displays it
The Spark Automotive Theme reads those metafields and shows part numbers and "Fits your vehicle" badges on cards and product pages — no extra work from you.
The theme does not require Spark Shipping — you can populate metafields any way you like. But they're built to work together, so your catalog and its fitment data stay accurate on autopilot.
See it on your catalog
Book a walkthrough with real supplier feeds and see how automated inventory, pricing, and fitment data look in the theme.