How to connect your Shopify store ?

To connect the Shopify store your brand to Kartapult, follow these steps

1. Enable custom app development from the Shopify admin

Before you can create a custom app for your store, you need to enable custom app development. You need to be the store owner or a staff member with the Enable app development permission to enable custom app development.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.

2. Click Develop apps.

3. Click Allow custom app development.

4. Read the warning and information provided, and then click Allow custom app development.

2. Create and install a custom app

After you've enabled custom app development, you can create and install a custom app in your Shopify admin. You need to set API scopes to determine which parts of your store the custom app can access. After the app is installed, you'll receive access tokens that the app uses to access information from your store using Shopify's APIs.

The store owner, collaborators, and staff members with the relevant permissions, can create and install custom apps.

Create the app

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.

2. Click Develop apps.

3. Click Create create an app.

4. In the modal window, enter the App name as Kartapult and select an App developer. 

Note : The app developer can be the store owner, or any staff or collaborator account with the Develop apps permission.

5. Click Create app.

Select API scopes

After you create a custom app, you need to assign certain API scopes to it. 

1. Click Configuration.

2. In the Admin API integration, click configure,

3. Select the read_orders scopes from the list

4. Select the read_products scopes from the list

5. Click Save.

Install the app and get the API access tokens

After you've set API scopes for your app, you can install the app. You'll get the API access tokens after you install. 

1. Go to Overview and click Install app.

2. A pop up opens, click Install app.

3. Get the access token

4. Go to the Admin API access token section and click Reveal token once. Copy and save the token somewhere safe as you won't be able to access it again

5. Go to https://app.kartapult.io/account/settings#website_connect

6. From platform select Shopify

7. Enter your store URL (example - https://my-store.myshopify.com)

8. Enter the access token obtained in Step 4.

9. Click on Agree & Continue

10. Kartapult will verify and connect your Shopify store, by displaying store URL and store ID