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Shopify GraphQL is an eCommerce platform that allows users to set up an online store and sell products or services directly to their customers.

Follow our setup guide to connect Shopify GraphQL to Improvado.

Step 1. Click the Make a new Connection on the Connections page.
‍‍Categories on the Data sources page group all available platforms. Use a search to find the required one.

Step 2. Click on the Shopify GraphQL tile.

Step 3. Choose authorization option:

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To authorize your account you need to fill in the required fields below following steps 3.1 - 3.10:

• Shop name
• Admin API access token

To do these steps you need to have Develop apps permission or ask the user with that permission to follow through.
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Step 3.1. In Shopify Admin, click Apps, and then click Develop apps to create your app.

Step 3.2. Click Allow custom app development.

Step 3.3. Click Allow legacy custom app development.

Step 3.4. Click Create a legacy custom app.

Step 3.5. Enter your App name, and click Create app.

Step 3.6. After app is created, go to Configuration tab and press Configure for Admin API Integration.

Step 3.7. Select the following permission scopes:

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Step 3.8. Go to API credentials tab and press Install app.

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Step 3.9. Confirm installation by clicking Install.

Step 3.10. Once app is installed, click on Reveal token once to copy and paste to Improvado authorization form.

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Step 3.1. Before authorization, please ensure you are signed in to the account you want to extract data from.

Step 3.2. To authorize your account you need to fill in Shop name field. Please use the same shop name from your shop URL, for example, ```my-shop-name``` if your URL is ```https://my-shop-name.myshopify.com```

Step 3.3. The following access scopes will be requested during OAuth authorization:

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Also, you can find the additional information and in-depth step-by-step guide at the links here:

• ‍Creating and installing custom app in Shopify | Docs‍
• Official video guide‍
• Get the API credentials for a custom app | Docs

Step 4. After the connection process is completed successfully, the Shopify GraphQL connection will appear in your Connected sources list.

Step 5. When the connection status is Active, and the account status column shows a number of accounts, you can move on to data extraction.

Step 6. To extract data from the connected sources, check the instruction on how to set up data extraction.

The schema information shows all report types you can use to extract data from Shopify GraphQL.