I'm trying to create a shop that requires paid membership to use. I love what Shopify has to offer. Is it possible (with their API or by using an existing app) to force users to purchase a membership before they can access the store?
It is trivial to do if you can setup a subdomain and use Stripe. No one gets into Shopify without having an account, and no one gets an account except through you. Once they buy a membership via your Stripe form, you create their Shopify account, and send them their invite to use the Shop.
Nothing could be simpler...
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I am working on an e-commerce website similar to E-bay or Amazon, where sellers can list their products.
I have also created a Shopify Sales Channel for my e-commerce website, which can import products from Shopify. A Shopify store installs the Sales Channel App and their products will be imported to my e-commerce website.
All of this is working fine... now I want to build the last step, which is buy the product. A buyer comes to my e-commerce website and wants to buy a product which has been imported from certain Shopify store. I want to enable the buyer to create an order from my e-commerce website.
According to Shopify documentation:
By default, your app can provide checkout links to Shopify's web
checkout for each product. This lets your platform use Shopify's web
checkout instead of building your own native checkout form. You can
direct customers to a checkout link by using the web_url parameter of
the Checkout API.
This is what I want... I want to allow a buyer in my e-commerce website to create an order and redirect him to Shopify for payment... buy how can I actually implement this? Would I be able to implement this using Order API? And how could I redirect the user to Shopify store for payment?
If redirecting user to Shopify store for payment is not an option, then do I need to implement the payment process within my e-commerce using the Checkout API? Would anyone be able to give some details about this?
Use DraftOrder API to create an order. Once created it has the invoice_url attribute which can be used to pay and complete that order.
I have developed a Shopify app, I wonder if we can perform the following functionality :
when a customer has logged in to his account on the store I want to also log him into my app, in another word I want to make a customer account is the same as his account on my app.
One thing you know. A customer logged into a Shopify store has a visible ID to Javascript. You could thus use an App Proxy to securely pass back their ID to your App. Using that ID, you can offer functionality to that customer, in your App. As long as you restrict access to the Proxy, you'd be A-Ok security wise.
If you wanted to allow access to the App without Proxy calls, you'll have to put into place your own security, which as we know from experience, will likely be weak and or a calamity. Most people should never roll their own security patterns. If they login to the App, without Shopify Plus Multipass, you cannot log them into Shopify. So you have no other options AFAIK.
I am trying to make a plan to update my client's shopify stores by building Shopify app or using external library. Basically, I want to provide my clients with some convenience by automating the inventory update, order process and extra stuff.
For now, I have only two scenarios.
Whenever my wholesale inventory changes, i want to update my client's shopify product list to be updated (quantity, price and product description) accordingly.
Whenever my client(shopify store owner) receives an order from his/her customer, i want the order information to be automatically transferred to my server.
If possible, I want my clients to be able to integrate with my application without any tech knowledge. I have looked into the Shopify app (public/private) and some external API(java), because I am a java developer.
I checked Shopify Java library which requires api key and password to be able to access shopify owner's store for product/order access, but I am not sure how user-friendly this approach is in terms of Shopify owner's side.
For Shopify public app, I am not familiar with it, so I am not sure how much I can do with it.
Could somebody provide some details about pros/cons about these approaches?
Thanks.
All you need to know is that with Shopify, you can connect to their shop using standard HTTPS. Even better, it's all GraphQL now. As for credentials, Shopify is fully modern and offers you two methods of getting credentials.
Your merchant client can create credentials with permissions right inside their Shopify Admin -> Apps. They give you the keys, you're in business
You get them (or you) to simply click install your App running at some HTTPS address, and you use oAuth to get the credentials.
Either way, makes no difference to the actual code you write to interact with their shop and deal with inventory, sales etc. You do not need to make your App public in the sense of App store, so you can use your partner dashboard to create an App and oAuth install, or like I said, use the private App way.
I want my customers to be able to login to my Shopify store via my existing website account system.
This means that if they've already entered their address on my website, they don't need to enter it again in Shopify. (And if I can also track my users' shopping behaviour that would be a bonus.)
I found this related discussion on the Shopify forums (about Facebook login), but with no clear answer:
https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-technology/t/login-with-facebook-114126
Is it possible to use oAuth (or some other method) to enable this kind of functionality in Shopify?
The official Shopify method to login to your store from your third-party website is to use Multipass, however this requires a Shopify Plus account (starting at $995/month).
Shopify does provide some support for oAuth, however it appears to be mainly used for shop-owners adding third-party apps into their stores, not for creating customer accounts.
There are various apps available for social login functionality. While these won't exactly provide the functionality you need, they must have a found a way of creating new user accounts, so perhaps they can hint at a possible solution for this.
See https://apps.shopify.com/search/query?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=log+in
I have been studying the API Web Service that Prestahop offers, but this API can only be used for manage the shop, not for the users login and buy items , check it's accounts, etc.
Exist some API in which you can get an access token for authentication to use in the API calls and buy items, check account state, find products, etc to use for example to make an app for the shop.
Thanks in advance.