Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform that allows businesses to create online stores and sell products or services. It provides a range of tools and features for inventory management, order processing, payment integration, and website customization, enabling businesses to easily set up and operate their online storefronts.

Refer to our website for the list of metrics and attributes available in Dataddo.

Refer to Shopify's official documentation to see all available endpoints from the Shopify API.

Authorize Connection to Shopify

In Shopify

To authorize your Shopify account, you will need your API access token.

Create an App

1. Make sure you are logged in to your Shopify account and navigate to the Developer Dashboard page.
2. In the top-right corner, click Create app.
   
3. Name your app and click Create.
4. On the Create a version page, scroll down to Access to add the following admin API scopes. You can copy paste the following list or select it from the Select scopes menu.

   read_assigned_fulfillment_orders, read_customers,read_fulfillments, read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders, read_orders, read_products, read_third_party_fulfillment_orders
   

   
5. Click Release to save the app version with updated scopes.
6. On the Home tab, click Install app. Select which Shopify store you want to install the app to. Click Install.
   
7. Back in your Developer Dashboard, select the newly created app and navigate to the Settings page.
8. From the Credentials section, copy your Client ID and Client Secret. These will be used to retrieve your access token.
   

Obtain Your Access Token

Exchange your client credentials for an access token to authenticate your API requests. This is a server-to-server request.

• Endpoint: POST https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/oauth/access_token
• Headers: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• Body Parameters

Copy the access token from the response. You will need this token for account authorization in Dataddo:

{
    "access_token": "shpat_a1b2c3d4f5g6h7j8k9l10",
    "scope": "read_assigned_fulfillment_orders,read_customers,read_fulfillments,read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders,read_orders,read_products,read_third_party_fulfillment_orders",
    "expires_in": 86399
}

In Dataddo

1. On the Authorizers page, click on Authorize New Service and select Shopify.
2. Fill in the following fields:
   1. Subdomain: Shopify subdomain name, aka the name of your shop=. E.g. agencyname from agencyname.myshopify.com.
   2. Access Token: Your Shopify API access token.
3. Rename your authorizer for easier identification and click on Save.

How to Create a New Shopify Data Source

Limitations

Multi-Account Extraction

If you have multiple Shopify accounts and would like to extract the same data from all of them, you can do it via data union.

Troubleshooting

Insufficient Scopes Error

ERROR MESSAGE
Cannot Access Data: Insufficient Scopes

If you cannot access some of your data, please double-check which permissions you've given to Dataddo. In majority of cases, you will need to add additional permissions to your account.

Example
To gain access to the fulfillmentOrders field from the Orders dataset, give Dataddo at least one of the following scopes:

• read_assigned_fulfillment_orders
• read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders
• read_third_party_fulfillment_orders