Set up a basic auth connection to Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows users to set up an online store and sell their products. It helps you manage your orders - from inventory to point of sale to shipping and returns.

Shopify documentation: API Guide, Authentication
Additional reference: Supported Shopify APIs

Contents

• A. Set up a Shopify connection
• B. Provide required Shopify application details
  • Retrieve your Shopify username (API key) and password (API access token)
• C. Edit advanced Shopify settings
• D. Test the connection

A. Set up a Shopify connection

Start establishing a connection to Shopify in either of the following ways:

• From the Resources menu, select Connections. Then, click + Create connection at the top right.
      – or –
• While working in a new or existing integration, you can add an application to a flow simply by clicking Add source or Add destination/lookup.

In the resulting Application list, select Shopify.

The Create connection panel opens with required and advanced settings.

B. Provide required Shopify application details

At this point, you’re presented with a series of options for providing Shopify authentication.

Name (required): Provide a clear and distinguishable name. Throughout integrator.io imports and exports, you will have the option to choose this new connection, and a unique identifier will prove helpful later when selecting among a list of connections that you’ve created.

API version (required): Select your Shopify account’s API version. For example, 2023-04. For more information, see Shopify API versioning.

Note: It is recommended to use the 2023-04 API version.

Store name (required): Enter the unique portion of your Shopify store URL. For example, if you sign in at https://demo-store.myshopify.com, then enter demo-store.

Auth type (required): Select Basic as the authentication type for this connection. The form changes depending on the selected authentication type. The Token and OAuth 2.0 authentication types are documented separately.

Username (required): Enter your Shopify app API key.

Password (required): Enter the Admin API access token (not your Shopify account password). Multiple layers of protection are in place, including AES 256 encryption, to keep your connection’s password safe. When editing this form later, you must enter this value again; it is stored only for a saved connection.

Retrieve your Shopify username (API key) and password (API access token)

1. Sign in to your Shopify account.
2. Navigate to Apps > App and sales channel settings > Apps and sales channels > Develop apps.

3. Click Create an app. The Create an app window appears.
4. Provide App name.
5. From the App developer list, select the required name. 
6. Read the license and click Create app.

7. Click Configure admin API scopes, select the required scopes, and click Save.

8. Click Install app. The Install window appears.
9. Read the license and click Install.

10. From the Admin API access token section, read the Note, and click Reveal token once.
11. Copy Access token (password).

Important: You can view the admin API access token on this page only once. Hence, it is recommended to copy and save your token in a secure place. Consider this token as a password and share it only with the developers you trust.

12. From the API key and secret key section, copy API key (username).

C. Edit advanced Shopify settings

Before continuing, you have the opportunity to provide additional configuration information, if needed, for the Shopify connection.

Borrow concurrency from (optional): Select another connection from the list....

Concurrency level (optional): Up to 25 allowed....

D. Test the connection

Once you have configured the Shopify connection, you have a few options for continuing:

• Save – click this button to test the connection, commit the new connection so that it will be available to all integrations for your account
• Save & close – click to test and save the connection and exit the Create connection panel
• Cancel – click to exit without saving any new changes
• Test connection – click this button to verify that your new connection is free of errors

When you test or save the connection, it is verified before continuing. 

The new connection is now successfully added to your account. It will be applied to the current source or destination app, if you created it within a flow. Otherwise, you may proceed to register the connection with an integration.