Connect Shopify

Shopify connects by authorizing the Lynomia Chat Commerce app on your store. You enter the store's myshopify.com domain, approve the app in Shopify, and come back. No token is typed anywhere.

This is Lynomia Chat's only Shopify integration. If you connected a store here before, nothing changes.

What you need first

Administrator access in Lynomia Chat, and a plan that includes Commerce.
Shopify offered on your installation. If the picker marks it Not available yet, the app is not configured there.
The store's myshopify.com domain, which is in Shopify admin under Settings → Domains. Your custom shop domain is not accepted; the myshopify one is the store's identity.
Shopify's Protected Customer Data approval for the Lynomia Chat Commerce app. Shopify treats a customer's email and phone number as protected, and those two fields are what matching needs. Until Shopify approves it, the store connects but the section reports that customers cannot be matched.

Steps

Settings → Commerce → Add store → Shopify.
Enter the store domain, for example your-store.myshopify.com.
Connect with Shopify. Shopify opens in the same browser.
Sign in and approve the Lynomia Chat Commerce app. It asks to read customers and orders, and nothing else.
You come back with the store listed as Active.

Finish in the browser you started in: Lynomia Chat ties the return to that browser.

A worked example

A customer writes about order 1042.

The agent opens the conversation. The contact's email matched a Shopify customer, so the section lists that customer's recent orders.
Order 1042 is older than the five shown. The agent uses Find an order and types 1042 — the number as Shopify prints it, without the #.
The order comes back with its fulfillment status, its payment status and its tracking number, and View order opens it in Shopify admin.

If order 1042 were from last year, it would not be found. See the order window below.

Who can do this

Connecting, reconnecting, disabling and disconnecting are administrator actions, recorded in the audit log. Any agent who can see a conversation sees the Shopify orders in it.

Limits

Only the last 60 days of orders. The app asks for ordinary order access, and Shopify limits that to the last 60 days. An older order does not appear in the list and is not found by number.
Order actions are not available. Lynomia Chat implements two Shopify writes — cancelling an unpaid, unfulfilled order and creating a refund — but they are held until they are verified on a live store, and no setting turns them on. Beyond those two there is nothing: Shopify has no order status to set, so there is nothing to change, and resending an invoice or a payment link is not supported.
No customer name. The app does not request customer names, so a matched Shopify customer is shown without one. The contact's own name is what agents see.
Guest checkouts are matched by email only. Shopify's order search has no phone filter, so a checkout with no Shopify customer can only be matched by its email address.
Order statuses are Shopify's fulfillment stages, read as processing, on hold, shipped, cancelled, and delivered once every shipment on the order is delivered. There is no completed.
Payment is shown only when Shopify states it: paid, unpaid, partially paid, refunded, partially refunded. Shopify's authorized, voided and expired read as Payment not confirmed.
Shopify meters requests by query cost. When the budget runs low, the section shows its last answer, labelled with the time, rather than failing.
Abandoned checkouts are not available. The feature is switched off for Shopify and cannot be turned on.
Only the latest 5 orders per customer are shown, so every figure is visible, not lifetime.

If it does not work

"Enter the store's myshopify.com domain." You entered a custom domain, or added https:// and a path. Use the plain your-store.myshopify.com form from Shopify admin → Settings → Domains.

"This store is already connected." The store is already connected under Settings → Commerce, either in this account or in another one. Check your store list first; if another account holds it, that account has to disconnect it before you can connect it here.

The section says Shopify has not approved reading customer data. That is Protected Customer Data. The store's orders cannot be matched to contacts until Shopify approves the app. Nothing in your account changes this.

Shopify sent me back without connecting. The authorization was finished in a different browser, or it took too long. Start again from Connect with Shopify.

An order the customer is asking about is missing. It is probably older than 60 days.

Disconnecting. It removes Lynomia Chat's access and every customer link for that store. Nothing in Shopify changes: to remove the app from the store, uninstall it in Shopify admin.