Shopify

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Shopify is a cloud-based e-commerce platform that enables users to create, customize, and manage online stores. It provides a wide range of features and tools for businesses to sell products and services online, including website templates, payment processing, inventory management, and marketing tools. Shopify allows users to reach customers across different channels, including web, mobile, social media, and marketplaces, making it a versatile solution for individuals, entrepreneurs, and enterprises looking to establish and grow their online presence.

Connecting

In Blackbird, navigate to ‘Apps’ and search for Shopify.
Click Add Connection.
Name your connection for future reference e.g. ‘My Shopify connection’.
In Shopify, go to Store settings -> Apps and sales channels -> Develop apps.
Create the develop app.
Click Configure Admin API scopes to select the scopes you want to provide Blackbird with. Make sure to provide read_locales access scope. Other scopes that may be needed depending on desired actions are: write_products, read_products, write_publications, read_publications, write_translations, read_translations, read_themes, read_content.
After selecting the scopes click Save and go to API credentials and install the newly created app.
It will create the Admin API access token that you need to copy and paste it to the appropriate field in Blackbird.
Next in store settings click Domains and copy the name of the store from the domain and paste it to the appropriate field in Blackbird. F.E. if your domain is mystore.myshopify.com, you need to take mystore
Click Connect.
Confirm that the connection has appeared and the status is Connected.

Actions

Store

Get store locales information Get primary and other locales setup in the store
Get store resources content as HTML returns content of all store resource type items in HTML format.
Upload store resources updates content of all store resource type items.
Download store content returns content of the store. You should specify what resources you want to export: theme, menu, shop or shop policy.
Upload store content updates content of the store.

Articles

List online store articles List all articles in the online store
Download online store article Get content of a specific online store article
Upload online store article Update content of a specific online store article

Blogs

List online store blogs List all blogs in the online store
Download online store blog Get content of a specific online store blog. You can also specify Include articles to True to export all blog post’s articles as well.
Upload online store blog Update content of a specific online store blog

Products

Search products Search for products based on provided criteria
Download product Get content of a specific product. You can also optionally specify more entities to export, f.e. metafields, options, option values.
Uploade product Update content of a specific product

Metafields

Download metafields returns product metafield contents
Upload metafields updates product metafield contents from
Get metafield returns metafield details of a specific product
Update metafield updates metafield value of a specific product

Themes

Download online store theme returns specific theme’s contents
Upload online store theme updates specific theme’s contents

General

Upload content updates content of a specific content. You can specify the content type manually by using optional input;

Events

On product created
On product deleted
On product updated
On product publications added
On product publications deleted
On locale created
On locale updated
On articles created
On articles updated
On pages created
On pages updated
On content created or updated (for article and pages)

Example

The following example shows how a bird can be setup so that anytime a Shopify product is updated, we get the locale setup of the online store, download the source content for the updated product as an HTML file, translate the file into all target locales using GlobalLink NOW MT solution and update all target products.

Sample Bird

Feedback

Do you want to use this app or do you have feedback on our implementation? Reach out to us using the established channels or create an issue.