Shopify

🏃‍♀️ Getting Started
In this guide, we will show you how to connect Shopify to Census.
Prerequisites
Have your Census account ready. If you need one, create a Free Trial Census account 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:
​Azure Synapse​
​Databricks​
​Elasticsearch​
​Google BigQuery​
​Google Sheets​
​MySQL​
​Postgres​
​Redshift​
​Rockset​
​Snowflake​
​SQL Server​
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Connecting Shopify
There is some setup that is needed to do on the Census side to setup Shopify, while this process is under construction 🏗
, please contact us via email or start a conversation with us via the in-app chat with the topic: "Shopify Setup". In your communication please provide your Shopify Store URL so we can get started on your set up!
🗄 Supported Objects
Census currently supports syncing to the following Shopify objects (Contact us if you're looking for more!):
Object Name
Supported?
Identifiers
Customer
✅
Email
Product
✅
Tag ID, Handle
Product Image
✅
(via Product)
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Product Variant
✅
SKU
Census also supports Shopify's Custom Metafields on Customer and Product as well.
Updating Product Images
Census supports setting product images by passing a Structured Data Array 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: 
[
  { 
    "position": 1, 
    "src": "https://via.placeholder.com/300.png?text=iPod%20Nano,%208GB", 
    "width": 640, 
    "height": 480 
  }
]
Only the src field is required. position, width, and height are optional.
🔄 Supported Sync Behaviors
Learn more about all of our sync behaviors on our Core Concepts page.
Behaviors
Supported?
Objects?
Update or Create
✅
Customer, Product
Mirror
✅
Product Variant
​Contact us if you want Census to support more Sync behaviors for Shopify.
🚑 Need help connecting to Shopify?
​Contact us via [email protected] or start a conversation with us via the in-app chat.
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