Connect Shopify with your own app

SemPost can read your Shopify store's products through an app you create in Shopify yourself. This is how you add a Shopify store to a workspace you made at app.sempost.ai, next to your other stores, up to the number your plan allows. SemPost only reads products; it never changes anything in your store.

If you installed SemPost from the Shopify App Store, you don't need this: that app connects your store by itself, as Shopify (SemPost app), and its workspace doesn't take stores connected by hand. See Start from the Shopify App Store.

Connect the storeCopy Anchor Link

The permissionsCopy Anchor Link

Three permissions are required:

• read_products: products and their photos, collections, tags and brands.
• read_inventory: stock, so sold-out products can be hidden or skipped.
• read_discounts: your discount codes, which Generate from products suggests and automation checks before a post goes out.

The other four are optional: read_markets, read_publications, read_locales and read_translations. Add them if you sell in several Shopify markets. With read_markets and read_publications, the Market and Catalog groups appear and products come with each market's price, language and address: see Product groups, markets and catalogs. The SemPost app from the Shopify App Store asks for all seven itself.

When a required permission is missing, the store's row names it after Permissions the app lacks:. Add it to the app's access scopes, release a new version and press Check on the row.

What SemPost keepsCopy Anchor Link

• The Client Secret is stored encrypted and never shown again: the store's row shows only its last four characters, such as secret …a91c.
• With the secret, SemPost gets a short-lived access key from Shopify and renews it when it runs out. The key is stored encrypted too.
• The secret is only ever sent to your store's own .myshopify.com address.
• Products aren't copied: SemPost reads them from the store when it needs them.
• Check on the row asks Shopify for a new access key with the secret, so you see at once whether the secret still works. Removing the store deletes the secret and the access key.

If something goes wrongCopy Anchor Link

• Enter the store's .myshopify.com address (for example example.myshopify.com). Enter the .myshopify.com address, not your shop's own domain.
• The store did not accept these details. Check them and try again. Copy this app's Client ID and Client Secret again, and check that the app is installed on this store.
• The app and the store must belong to the same Shopify organization. Create the app in the store's organization.
• The app lacks a permission SemPost needs. Add it in Shopify and try again. Add the three required permissions to the app, release the version and press Connect again.
• This store is connected to another workspace. A Shopify store connects with its own app to one workspace only: remove it from the other workspace first.
• Connect a store can't be pressed: every store your plan allows is in use. See Store checks, reconnecting and removing.

RelatedCopy Anchor Link

• Start from the Shopify App Store
• Product groups, markets and catalogs
• Store checks, reconnecting and removing
• Connect a WooCommerce store