Shopify
The Shopify platform offers online retailers a suite of services including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools.
Creating a Shopify connection
To create the connection you need:
- Access to your Shopify store
- An access token
Obtaining the credentials
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From your store admin page, click Apps and sales channels.
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Click Develop apps for your store.
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Select Allow custom app development.
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Confirm that you wish to Allow custom app development.
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Click Create an app.
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Name your app. (i.e., Blink Integration) > Create App.
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On the app’s dashboard, select Configure Admin API scopes.
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When prompted to configure Admin API access scopes, make sure to select the scopes
read_customers
andwrite_customers
. Save your selections. If you only wish to search for customers, you only need theread_customers
scope. -
Click the API credentials tab near the top.
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Click Install app.
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Confirm the installation by pressing Install.
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It should now display a new section called Admin API access token. Press Reveal token once and save the access token in a secure location.
Creating your connection
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In the Blink platform, navigate to the Connections page > Add connection. A New Connection dialog box opens displaying icons of external service providers available.
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Select the Shopify icon. A dialog box with name of the connection and connection methods appears.
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(Optional) Edit the name of the connection. At a later stage you cannot edit the name.
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Select API Token as the method to create the connection.
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Fill in the parameters:
- The full URL to your store in the format
https://<your-store>.myshopify.com
. - The Admin API access token.
- The full URL to your store in the format
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(Optional) Click Test Connection to test it.
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Click Create connection. The new connection appears on the Connections page.
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