How to Connect a Shopify Store as a Supplier

Instructions for connecting a Shopify store to a Smoke Drop account.

  1. Enable custom app development from the Shopify admin
    1. From your Shopify admin, go to Apps.
    2. Click Develop apps.
    3. Click Allow custom app development.
    4. Read the warning and information provided, and then click Allow custom app development.
  2. Create the app
    1. From your Shopify admin, go to Apps.
    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.
  3. Select API Scopes
    1. From your Shopify admin, go to Apps.
    2. Click the custom app you just created.
    3. Click Configure Admin API Scopes.
    4. In the Admin API access scopes section, select the following API scopes:
      1. Assigned fulfillment orders – Read and write
      2. Customers – Read and write
      3. Draft orders – Read and write
      4. Fulfillment services – Read and write
      5. Inventory – Read and write
      6. Locations – Read
      7. Merchant-managed fulfillment orders – Read and write
      8. Order editing – Read and write
      9. Orders – Read and write
      10. Product listings – Read and write
      11. Products – Read and write
      12. Shipping – Read and write
      13. Third-party fulfillment orders – Read and write
    5. When you’re done, click Save.
  4. Install the app and get the API access tokens
    1. Click Install app.
    2. In the modal window, click Install app.
    3. Go to the Admin API access token section and click Reveal token once.
      1. You can see the Admin API access token on this page only one time, because the token provides API access to sensitive store data. After revealing the access token, write down or record the token somewhere secure so that you can enter it into your app account.
  5. Add custom app credentials to your app account
    1. Log in to your app account
    2. From the homepage, go to Account
    3. Select General
    4. Select Shopify
    5. Enter your store name
    6. Enter your .myshopify.com URL
      1. This can be located using the URL from your Shopify admin
      2. Do not include ‘https://’ or ‘www.’
      3. Must end in ‘.myshopify.com’
      4. Example – my-store.myshopify.com
    7. Enter your Admin API access token
    8. Select Save
    9. You’ve successfully connected your Shopify store
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