Give your AI agent "Store Awareness" by connecting your Shopify backend. This allows the AI to check stock levels, provide order tracking, and recommend products in real-time.
⏱️ Setup Time: 10 Minutes
✅ Difficulty: Moderate
1 Phase 1: Creating a Custom App
Shopify requires a "Custom App" to allow third-party AI agents to securely access your store data.
- Log in to your Shopify Admin panel.
- Navigate to Settings > Apps and sales channels.
- Click "Develop apps" and then "Create an app".
- Name it "InitialChat-AI" and select your developer email.
2 Phase 2: Scopes and Permissions
You must tell Shopify exactly what data the AI is allowed to see.
- Click "Configure Admin API scopes".
- Search for and check the following scopes (Select both
readandwritewhere applicable):- - write_products, read_products
- - write_orders, read_orders
- - read_inventory
- - read_customers
- Click Save and then "Install App" in the top-right corner.
3 Phase 3: Connection
Once the app is installed, Shopify will generate an Admin API Access Token.
📢 Note: This token is revealed only once. Reveal and copy it immediately!
- Copy your Admin API Access Token.
- In InitialChat, go to Integrations > E-commerce.
- Paste your token and enter your Shop URL (e.g.,
your-store.myshopify.com). - Save to enable real-time order tracking for your AI.
