Shopify ERP, POS & back officeIn production

Canopy: the Shopify ERP built inside a real retail business

Shopify is a brilliant storefront. It is not an accounting, procurement, payroll or multi-location operations system. Canopy fills that gap without fighting Shopify — it keeps Shopify as the source of truth and runs everything behind it.

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Canopy ERP in short

Canopy is a Shopify ERP and point-of-sale system by Dé Lime Tree. It connects to Shopify and adds what Shopify lacks for multi-location retailers: an offline-capable trilingual POS, a stock ledger across locations with batch and expiry tracking, purchase orders and goods received notes, AI supplier-invoice OCR, returns and credit notes, gift cards and loyalty, payroll with Sri Lankan statutory deductions, VAT reporting, and sales and inventory BI. It has run in production at a Sri Lankan retailer since 2026.

Features

Everything your Shopify business runs on, under one canopy.

Offline-ready POS

Trilingual till (English, Sinhala, Tamil), barcode scanning with the phone camera, split tender, gift cards, loyalty points, cash-drawer sessions with X/Z reports — and sales that queue offline and sync safely.

Multi-location inventory

Every stock movement written to a ledger, relative Shopify adjustments that never overwrite live counts, transfers, stock-takes, batch/lot and FEFO expiry tracking.

Procure-to-pay

Purchase orders → goods received notes → supplier invoices captured by AI OCR → payment vouchers, cheque register and supplier credit notes.

Sales & invoicing

Quotations, invoices and PDFs; line-level and automatic discounts synced from Shopify; payment-method pricing rules; tax and non-tax invoice series.

Returns & credit

Customer and supplier return notes, exchanges, credit notes that mint Shopify gift cards, and refunds at the till.

HR & payroll

Pay runs with EPF/ETF/APIT, multi-company salary splits, loans and advances, leave, lieu days and printable payslips.

Insights & AI

Sales BI across POS, Shopify and delivery apps; ABC analysis, dead stock and demand-driven reorder; ask-your-data AI assistant.

Multi-company & multi-store

Several legal entities with their own number series, and a second Shopify store mirrored daily from one stock pool.

Controls built in

Role-based permissions, audit log, 2FA, PIN lock at the till, and per-user company restrictions.

Who Canopy is for

Canopy is designed for Shopify merchants who also sell in person — from one showroom to several stores and a warehouse — and who have outgrown spreadsheets for purchasing, stock and staff. It suits retailers, distributors with a Shopify storefront, and brands running more than one legal entity or Shopify store.

Why “Shopify-native” matters

Many ERPs treat Shopify as just another sales channel and try to be the master of product data. That creates duplicate catalogues and constant sync conflicts. Canopy does the opposite: Shopify stays the source of truth for products and inventory, and Canopy writes stock changes back as relative adjustments, so a POS sale and an online order at the same moment never overwrite each other.

Built in production, not in a slide deck

Every module in Canopy exists because a real retail team needed it — the case study is here. That’s why it handles the unglamorous edge cases: partial deliveries against supplier invoices, per-variant receiving, split-tender refunds, cash counted at close, and a till that keeps selling when the internet drops.

Availability

Canopy is in production and being prepared for other merchants. We onboard a small number of retailers at a time with a guided implementation (data migration, configuration and staff training). Join the early-access list below and we’ll arrange a demo.

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FAQ

Canopy ERP — FAQs

What is a Shopify ERP?
A Shopify ERP is an enterprise resource planning system that connects to a Shopify store and manages the back-office operations Shopify doesn’t cover in depth — purchasing, multi-location inventory, accounting documents, payroll and reporting — while keeping product and stock data in sync with Shopify.
Does Canopy replace Shopify POS?
It can. Canopy includes its own POS designed for multi-location retail, with offline selling, a trilingual interface, till sessions and cash reconciliation. Inventory still syncs to Shopify in real time.
Does it work outside Sri Lanka?
The core ERP and POS are country-agnostic. Sri Lankan payroll (EPF/ETF/APIT) and VAT reporting are included; other countries’ payroll and tax rules can be configured or added.
Can it handle multiple Shopify stores?
Yes. A primary store stays live-synced and additional stores are mirrored from the same stock pool, with orders flowing back and revenue reported per store and company.
How is pricing structured?
Pricing depends on locations, users and modules, with a one-time implementation fee. Early-access merchants receive founding-customer pricing.