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This page describes how to use Census with Shopify.
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This page describes how to use Census with Shopify.
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In this guide, we will show you how to connect Shopify to Census.
Have your Census account ready. If you need one, now.
Have your Shopify account ready.
Have the proper credentials to access to your data source. See our docs for each supported data source for further information:
Census connects via OAuth, so you need a Shopify user that can login to the instance with the following permission scopes:
write_customers
read_customers
write_orders
read_orders
write_inventory
read_inventory
write_fulfillments
read_fulfillments
write_assigned_fulfillment_orders
read_assigned_fulfillment_orders
write_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders
read_merchant_managed_fulfillment_orders
write_third_party_fulfillment_orders
read_third_party_fulfillment_orders
Object Name
Supported?
Sync Keys
Behaviors
Customer
✅
Update or Create
Fulfillment
✅
Any unique identifier
Add
Inventory Level
✅
N/A
Update or Create
Order
✅
Source ID
Update or Create, Update Only
Product
✅
Tag ID, Handle
Update or Create
Product Variant
✅
SKU
Mirror
Census also supports Shopify's Custom Metafields on Customer and Product as well.
Only the src
field is required. position
, width
, and height
are optional.
There is some setup that is needed to do on the Census side to setup Shopify, while this process is under construction , please via email or start a conversation with us via the chat with the topic: "Shopify Setup". In your communication please provide your Shopify Store URL so we can get started on your set up!
Census currently supports syncing to the following Shopify objects and Sync Behaviors ( if you're looking for more!):
Learn more about all of our sync behaviors in our documentation.
if you want Census to support more Shopify objects and/or behaviors.
Census supports setting product images by passing an to the images
field on the Product. The images array needs to be a set of one more objects that contain URLs to each image you want to upload. It should look something like the following:
via support@getcensus.com or start a conversation with us via the chat.