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Connecting your store

What it is

Voorcast works from your own data. It reads your products, stock, suppliers, orders and purchase orders from Picqer, and when you send a purchase draft, it creates the purchase order in Picqer for you. That makes Picqer required: without it there is nothing to forecast from and nowhere to send an order.

Magento 2 is optional. If you sell through Magento, Voorcast can also read its products and orders, alongside Picqer.

When you'd use it

  • You've just signed up. Connecting Picqer is the first step of the Get started checklist on your Home.
  • Your Picqer API key has changed, or you've moved to a new Picqer address.
  • You also sell through Magento and want its orders counted.

How to set it up

Connect Picqer first. Each integration has its own page with the steps to find its key in that system and enter it in Voorcast:

  1. Picqer: required. Your products, stock, suppliers, orders and purchase orders.
  2. Magento 2: optional, if you sell through Magento.
  3. Slack: optional, notifications in your Slack channels (Professional).
  4. Klaviyo: optional, your campaigns and back-in-stock subscriptions.
  5. RUMvision: optional, your shop's loading speed beside your sales.

All of them live in Voorcast under Settings → Integrations (in the Data & Integrations group), each on its own card with a Configure button.

Once Picqer's connection checks out, Voorcast sets up live updates from Picqer and starts your first sync. The card shows its progress, and the Get started checklist says when the sync is running.

Good to know

  • Only admins and owners can connect or change an integration. Other members see Configure greyed out.
  • The first sync can take several minutes. Your products and sales fill in when it finishes.
  • After that, Picqer tells Voorcast about changes as they happen, and every organisation also gets a full sync overnight. Magento has no live updates, so its data catches up at the next sync.
  • Magento data syncs together with Picqer, so Magento on its own isn't enough to get started.
  • Switching Enable Integration off makes Voorcast stop using that connection.