Connect Shopify
Publishing articles to a Shopify blog.
What this key lets us do. It lets us create blog articles on your store. With only write_content it cannot see orders, customers or payments.
Step by step
- In your Shopify admin open Settings, then Apps and sales channels.
- Click Develop apps. If it is your first time, Shopify asks you to allow custom app development — accept it.
- Press Create an app, name it “OrchardRank”, and create it.
- Open Configuration, then Admin API integration, and switch on write_content (it may be listed as “Blog posts and pages”).
- Save, then open API credentials and press Install app.
- Shopify reveals the Admin API access token, starting with
shpat_. Copy it now — it is shown once.
Bold words are the exact buttons and menu names to look for. These are screens of other companies and they move them — if the layout does not match, searching that bold name in their own help usually finds where it went.
What to paste here
| Field | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Store address | yourstore.myshopify.com |
| Admin API access token | Starts with shpat_ |
What usually goes wrong
- Grant write_content only. Anything more gives us access to orders and customers, which we neither need nor want to hold.
- The token appears once. If you lose it, uninstall the app and install it again — the old one stops working, which is the point.
Now do it
Connect your site →Whatever you paste is encrypted the moment it arrives. It is never shown back to you and nobody here can read it — support sees a fingerprint like “ending 7f3a2c”, never the value.
Stuck? The help desk answers this exact question, and it is a real answer rather than a form. Open the help desk → If you would rather go to the source, read the official documentation: Shopify: custom apps