Connecting a Shopify store

Connecting a Shopify store installs this product as an app on that store. It asks for read and write access to the store’s blog content, and read access to its products, which is what the Catalog screen reads. Install it from Store connection on the project’s Posts screen; the store approves that set or none of it, and what was granted is recorded.

What it reads

Your store’s blog articles, so the Posts screen can put each post beside what Search Console says that post earned. The two are joined on the address, with the query string dropped — so one post with several tagged addresses collapses onto one row rather than being counted several times.

Your products, for the Catalog screen, which reads them beside what Search Console reports for the pages they sit on.

A post Search Console reported no row for and a post Google showed that nobody clicked are different facts and read differently: the first is a dash, the second is a real nought, and the screen says how many posts had no row at all.

What it writes, and only when you say so

Nothing a model wrote is stored until you have pressed Save. Drafting opens a compose form filled in, and the article exists in this product only once you save it and on your store only once you publish it. The handle is chosen here and the byline arrives empty, because the address is this product’s idempotency key and the author is the merchant’s to choose.

If a store was connected before the access widened

A grant made before this product asked for write access does not gain it retrospectively. The screens say what a connection can do, and where that is unknown — a connection older than the record of it — they say unknown rather than guessing either way. Installing again is what widens it.

Uninstalling

Uninstalling the app from your store revokes the access, and this product deletes the credential when the store tells it so. Your articles and their measurements stay: an uninstall withdraws access to a store, and does not retract what the store already told us.