VL by eHouse | AS/400 Connector

AS/400 ERP software runs some of the most demanding manufacturing operations in the world. Optimized for engineer-to-order, make-to-order, job-shop, and project-oriented manufacturers and service contractors, it supports single-site and multi-site operations, multiple currencies, and US, Canadian, and European taxation. Many businesses have decades of process knowledge encoded in their AS/400 environment — which is exactly why replacing it to “go digital” is rarely the right first move.

The VL by ehouse AS/400 Connector lets you keep the ERP and modernize around it. It's a fully scalable, managed integration that connects AS/400 to Shopify and the rest of a modern commerce stack, built on iPaaS technology.

What the connector does

• Extracts and delivers AS/400 data — orders, inventory, customers, invoices — to one or many destination systems
• Applies business rules directly to data as it moves, translating between AS/400 formats and modern commerce APIs
• Automates flows that would otherwise mean manual exports, spreadsheets, and re-keying
• Scales from steady B2B order flow to consumer-facing peak volumes

Can a legacy AS/400 system power modern ecommerce?

Yes — with an integration layer doing the translation. AS/400 systems weren't designed for REST APIs or real-time storefront queries, but they are reliable systems of record, and that's the role they keep in a modern architecture. The VL by ehouse connector manages the secure connection into the AS/400 environment, converts its data into commerce-ready formats, and keeps a Shopify storefront (or B2B portal, or marketplace channel) synchronized with what the ERP knows: live inventory, customer accounts, order status, pricing. Business rules are applied in flight, so the quirks of a decades-old data model never reach your customers. For manufacturers, this is usually the fastest path to D2C or B2B ecommerce — measured in weeks of integration configuration rather than the years (and risk) of an ERP replacement. The storefront gets modern; the back office keeps doing what it's proven at.

Who it's for

Manufacturers and service contractors on AS/400 who want to sell direct, launch a B2B portal, or automate order flow with trading partners — without an ERP migration as a prerequisite.

Download the information sheet below for this connector's key workflows.