Creating Shopify private app

The setup defined below is required to establish connectivity with your Shopify store and Molecule Data tool. This process grants Molecule Data as a custom application so order data can be transmitted to/from Shopify and Molecule Data.

1. In your Shopify store admin section, navigate to Apps and click "Apps and sales channels settings" at the bottom.

Navigating to Apps

1. Click the "Develop app" button at the top of the page.

Custom Apps section

1. Click the "Create an app" button.

Create an app section

1. Type the name of the app. We recommend using "Molecule Data" as the name. Type the email.

The Emergency developer email should be your (the customer’s) email information.

Giving app name

1. In the Access scopes section, click "Configure Admin API scopes" button and set the following permissions to allow order import, fulfilment, and inventory updates. Use the scroll bar to access each permission setting as needed.

Navigating to Admin API scopes section

1. Select the permissions listed below:

Permissions
read_analytics
read_assigned_fulfillment_orders
read_customer_events
read_customers
read_discounts
read_discovery
read_draft_orders
read_fulfillments
read_gift_cards
read_inventory
read_locations
read_marketing_events
read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders
read_orders
read_packing_slip_templates
read_pixels
read_price_rules
read_product_feeds
read_product_listings
read_products
read_purchase_options
read_reports
read_returns
read_channels
read_shipping
read_locales
read_shopify_payments_disputes

Selecting Custom app API scopes

1. Click the Save button to save the new permissions and application entries.

Now you have successfully created and configured your custom app.

1. Now that your app is ready, you need to install the app and add the provided API keys into Molecule Data Shopify Integration section.

Intalling the Custom app

1. Copy the "Shared Secret token" key.

Retrieving the Shared Secred token

1. Paste it in the Molecule Data Shopify integration section.

Adding credentials into Molecule Data integration section

The Shop name can be easily found in the admin URL of the shop.

You are done!