Etsy Integration ‑ CedCommerce

We used the CED Commerce Etsy integration for more than 2 years to connect our Shopify store with our Etsy shop. We chose the app because we needed reliable inventory synchronization and centralized management between the two platforms. Unfortunately, our experience was consistently disappointing.

Throughout our time using the app, we encountered recurring issues that significantly impacted our business. The most serious problems included inventory not syncing correctly, resulting in oversold products, and pricing being updated unexpectedly when it should not have been. For an integration app whose primary purpose is to maintain accurate inventory and product data, these issues created unnecessary work, customer service challenges, and lost confidence in the platform.

Whenever problems occurred, we often found ourselves spending considerable time troubleshooting or contacting customer support. While support was generally responsive, the underlying issues frequently resurfaced, leaving us feeling like we were addressing the same problems repeatedly instead of finding lasting solutions.

After more than 2 years of dealing with recurring technical issues and unreliable synchronization, we ultimately decided to cancel our subscription and move to a different solution. We simply could no longer trust the app to accurately maintain our inventory, orders, and pricing across sales channels.

Examples of issues we experienced:

December 2024: Ced Commerce fails to sync inventory for a number of items, causing many to have orders despite selling out all inventory. They blamed the third party APIs and Shopify's own internal systems for their inventory sync failures. Later in the conversation, their support claimed that many other sellers had the same problem using Ced Commerce, implicitly admitting that the problem was on Ced Commerce's side rather than anyone else's. No restitution was offered.

February of 2025: Ced Commerce reset all prices to match what was on Shopify rather than the designated marketplace price, which accounts for free shipping and marketplace feed. The lowered pricing triggered a higher than usual number of sales, resulting in a loss of $464.40 before the problem was identified and rectified. Despite the issue being directly due to Ced Commerce's mistake, they refused to provide anything to offset this dramatic loss until Shopify Support was involved, in which case they offered a smaller credit towards the expenses for the marketplace plan.

March 2025: Ced Commerce accidentally shuts off all plans and stops service to the account, because they "accidentally" thought that our plan had expired and insisted that in order to turn it back on, we needed to pay them. Only when direct receipts of the one year plan were shared, showing that the account still had multiple months already paid for that were left on the account, did they turn the service back on. Despite the fact that this mistake caused lost sales and internal app data to be wiped, they did not believe that anything outside of normal operations had occurred.

April 2025: Ced Commerce's app failed to sync in orders for an extended period of time, causing 22 orders to accumulate unseen, many of which fell past the mandatory ship date. Despite no known outages, they blamed the marketplace API for "glitching" and did not offer any sort of restitution or accountability for the difficulty and lost revenue from unshipped orders.

These were the four over the past couple years that stood out as being by far the worst, as they all caused significant monetary loss, interrupted usual company activity, and in all cases resulted in a lack of accountability.

We understand that every business has different needs, and this was our experience. However, based on the reliability issues we encountered over an extended period, we cannot recommend this app for merchants who depend on accurate inventory synchronization between Shopify and Etsy.