The connector can’t skip ordersEvery Shopify order downloads and is email-matched to some contact. So the design corrects rather than prevents: whatever the connector guessed is overwritten by the middleware.
Orders download uninvoicedBrightpearl only invoices at “mark as shipped” — and invoiced orders can’t be edited. That gap is the safe window the PATCH must land inside.
The email is only the front doorAssignment is driven by the site signal: the Shopify Location on checkout orders, the PO site-token on emailed POs. Purchasers change nothing about how they buy.
Billing PATCH moves all the moneyConfirmed by Brightpearl (25 Jul): aged debt, journals, balances and statements all follow the re-pointed billing contact. BP stays the finance system of record.
…but the PDF recipient is frozenThe invoice email’s recipient is set at order creation and does NOT follow the billing PATCH. That one gap is why dispatch is Shopify-side until BP’s enhancement ships.
