Shopify: Connection Credentials and Settings

Overview

Order Time has several integrator e-commerce partners. The partnership with these platforms makes inventory and order processing system significantly efficient.

In Order Time, the e-commerce partners are presented as ‘Carts’. When you are setting up your E-commerce Integration in Order Time, you have to add the appropriate connection settings for the cart of your choice. 

This article will show you the steps for setting up your Cart and generating connection credentials for Shopify.

Create the app

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

2. Click Develop apps.

3. Click Create a custom app.

4. In the modal window, enter the App name and select an App developer. The app developer can be the store owner, or any staff or collaborator account with the Develop apps permission.

5. Click Create app.

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Select API scopes

After you create a custom app, you need to assign API scopes to it. OrderTime uses the Admin API scopes.

1. Click Select scopes.

2. In the Admin API access scopes section, select the following API scopes:

   1. write_assigned_fulfillment_orders

   2. write_customers

   3. read_discounts

   4. write_fulfillments

   5. read_gdpr_data_request

   6. read_gift_cards

   7. write_inventory

   8. read_locations

   9. write_locations

   10. write_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders

   11. write_orders

   12. read_payment_terms

   13. write_product_listings

   14. write_products

   15. read_channels

   16. read_shipping

   17. write_third_party_fulfillment_orders

   18. write_custom_fulfillment_services

After assigning API scopes, be sure to Save the settings.

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 your API access tokens after you install.

1. Click Install app.
2. In the modal window, click Install app.
3. Get the access token:

Go to the Admin API access token section and click Reveal token once.

Make sure you save the Admin API access token as this is needed by Order Time Inventory when setting up the integration. If you do not save the Access Token after revealing it, you’ll need to uninstall and delete the custom app and start over from the beginning.

Connect Order Time Inventory to your Shopify Custom App

1. Click on the Gear icon to access the Admin screen of Order Time
2. Click Ecommerce Integration under the General section.  
3. Select Active and click the Add Cart button.
4. Select Shopify by clicking the Add button.   
5. In the ECommerce Integration Editor page, enter and set the connection settings in the General tab

You’ll need your store URL followed by “/admin” for the API URL. Then put in the Access Token you received above and press the Test Connection button. You can now save the setting.