<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>vinney...axkl wrote</title><author_name>vinney...axkl (npub19m…8axkl)</author_name><author_url>https://njump.me/npub19ma2w9dmk3kat0nt0k5dwuqzvmg3va9ezwup0zkakhpwv0vcwvcsg8axkl</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://njump.me</provider_url><html>which part sounds unnecessary?  &#xA;the company that built the shopify&lt;&gt;distributor integration did a really great job. the distributor doesn&#39;t provide a modern API; it&#39;s some insane FTP-based invoice system where you have to upload purchase orders and jump through awful hoops to get fulfillment status updates (for the purpose of updating shopify). $300/month is definitely steep, and I expect that will come way down once they have a competitor - but at the moment they simply don&#39;t.&#xA;&#xA;the other option - which is not off the table, given our very low sales volume - is I could ditch the shopify integration and do a &#34;monkey behind a curtain&#34; style thing where i literally place the orders myself with the distributor, using the customer&#39;s address as the ship-to, and my own credit card as the payment. that would technically work and is definitely scrappier, but it just feels wrong.</html></oembed>