Shopify Authentication & Fulfilment Changes
What & Why
Shopify have been implementing two new features:
- Token based Shopify authentication for ‘private apps’.
- New/improved order fulfilment.
These two features necessitate changes to the Shopify connector.
Who needs to update?
If you are using IMan to integrate with Shopify, it is likely that you will need to update your Shopify connector.
You will be supplied a new connector.
We will providing connectors for v4.2 and v5.1 – Customers on v5.0 will need to upgrade to 5.1.
Private App & Token Based Authentication
To comply with the token authorisation we have added the ability for the connector to continue to authenticate using the old Basic Auth/Private App method and the new method.
Customers do not need to update to the newer Token based authentication, but we recommend doing so.
Fulfillment Changes
The new fulfilment handling will be transparent, requiring no changes to the IMan configuration.
The only potential issue is where the translation process (as described in the Fulfillment API documentation linked above) may fail.
The newer fulfillment method requires read/write to the fulfillment services APIs – This may require creating a new private app with those permissions.