How to Link your Shopify Account with Lister
How to connect Shopify to Lister in about 5 minutes
Overview
In this article, we'll go over how to link your Shopify account to Lister.
To get started, open the admin portion of your Shopify site by going to shopify.com and clicking "Log in" at the top right of the page.
Table of Contents
Step 1: Create and Install a Custom App in Shopify
Begin by following the steps in this Shopify help article to create and install a custom app. Ensure all API scopes are enabled when you create the custom app. We’ve summarized the steps below.
Open your Shopify and click the gear icon at the bottom left to navigate to the settings page
Click “Apps and sales channels” in the left navigation menu
Click the “Develop Apps” button in the top right of the page
Click the “Create an app” button in the top right corner of the page
Name the app “Upright Lister Integration”
Click the “Create App” button
Click “Configure Admin API scopes”
Scroll down the list of scopes and select every checkbox
Click “Save” at the top right of the page
Click the “Install App” button at the top right of the page
Step 2: Copy API Credentials into Lister
Open Upright Lister in a separate browser and click the gear icon in the top right corner to navigate to the admin settings page
Click “Shopify” in the left navigation menu
Click the green “Link my shop” button
You'll see a popup asking you to enter the details of the custom Shopify app we created above in step 1. This popup box has four fields that need to be filled out with data from your custom app in Shopify:
Open your Shopify account in a separate browser window and click the gear icon at the bottom left to navigate to the settings page
Copy the store URL under your store name at the top left of the page. eg: "Example-store.myshopify.com"
Paste the URL to the Shop URL field in Lister
Return to the settings page in Shopify and click “Apps and sales channels” in the left navigation menu
Click the “Develop Apps” button in the top right of the page
Click the Upright Lister Integration app we created in Step 1 above
Click “API Credentials”
Click to reveal the Admin API access token and copy it to your clipboard
NOTE: To protect your data, you’ll only be able to reveal your Admin API token once. Copy and save your Admin API access token in a secure place!Return to Lister and paste the Admin API Access token to the Admin API Access token field
Return to the API Credentials page in Shopify and click the clipboard icon next to the “API key” field to copy the API Key
Return to Lister and paste the API Key to the API Key field
Return to the API Credentials page in Shopify and click the clipboard icon next to the “API secret key” field to copy the API secret key
Return to Lister and paste the API secret key to the API secret key field
Click the blue “Link Shop” button
Step 3: Verify Account Link
At this point, you're all set to start listing with Shopify. Verify the account is connected when this shows up in your Lister>Admin>Shopify settings page:
Troubleshooting
If you see permissions errors, make sure all of your API scopes are enabled correctly in the Shopify custom app settings (as described in Step 1), then click “Link Store” again.
Lister Error:
Shopify Settings:
Next Steps
The following guides will help configure your Shopify store for shipping and local pickup.
Related Guides
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