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 your data source properly configured within Census. See our docs for each supported data source for further information:
​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," where we will ask for some details to complete the setup.
🗄 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: 
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[
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  { 
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    "position": 1, 
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    "src": "https://via.placeholder.com/300.png?text=iPod%20Nano,%208GB", 
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    "width": 640, 
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    "height": 480 
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  }
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]
Copied!
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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