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The Shopify integration publishes ChatFeatured articles to a blog on your Shopify store. You create your own app in the Shopify Dev Dashboard, install it on your store, and paste its Client ID and Client Secret into ChatFeatured. There’s no App Store listing to install. You’ll find it under Integrations → Shopify in your project.

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Before you start

In Shopify, sign in to the Dev Dashboard with the account that owns the store. The app and the store must belong to the same Shopify organization.

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Setup

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Step 1: Create an app in the Shopify Dev Dashboard

  1. Go to dev.shopify.com and sign in with the account that owns your store.
  2. Open Apps, select Create app, then Start from Dev Dashboard.
  3. Give it any name, for example “ChatFeatured Publisher”, and select Create.

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Step 2: Add permissions and release

  1. Open Versions.
  2. Set the App URL to https://chatfeatured.com. Shopify requires one, but ChatFeatured never calls it.
  3. Add the read_content and write_content scopes.
  4. Uncheck Embed app in Shopify admin if the option is shown.
  5. Select Release and confirm the new version.

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Step 3: Install the app on your store

  1. Go back to your app’s Home tab in the Dev Dashboard.
  2. In the Installs section, select Install app.
  3. Choose your store, then select Install.

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Step 4: Connect in ChatFeatured

  1. In the Dev Dashboard, open your app’s Settings and copy the Client ID and Client secret.
  2. In ChatFeatured, go to Integrations → Shopify.
  3. Enter your Store domain. Use the .myshopify.com domain (for example your-store.myshopify.com), not your storefront domain.
  4. Paste the Client ID and Client Secret.
  5. Click Connect store.
If the credentials work, you’ll see “Shopify store connected! Now pick a blog to publish to.” You don’t need to reconnect unless you rotate the app’s secret or uninstall the app.

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Step 5: Pick a blog

  1. Under Publish to blog, choose the blog articles should go to.
  2. Optionally enter a Default author name, for example “Jane Doe”.
  3. Click Save blog selection.
You can’t publish until a blog is selected.

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Publishing articles

From the article editor, click Publish (or Schedule) and choose Shopify. You can also publish from the agent or MCP. The Publish to Shopify dialog has these fields:
  • Publish Status: Publish as Hidden, Publish Now or Schedule.
  • Schedule Date & Time and Timezone, when you pick Schedule.
  • Author: prefilled with the connection’s default author. If you leave it blank, ChatFeatured uses the default author, then your project name.
  • Tags: type a tag and click Add.
Publish as Hidden is Shopify’s version of a draft: the article is in your blog but not visible on your storefront.

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Field mapping

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What happens when you publish, update, unpublish, schedule

Once an article is published, the editor shows Manage in Shopify instead of Publish. To change it, open the article’s menu in the Articles list and choose Unpublish, edit the article, then publish it again. The same Shopify article is updated. When an article goes live, ChatFeatured records its address on your store’s primary storefront domain and starts attributing AI citations of that page to the article.

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Troubleshooting

One of the two is wrong. Copy both again from your app’s Settings page in the Dev Dashboard.
The full message reads “Make sure the app is installed on this store, and that the store and app belong to the same Shopify organization.” Install the app on the store from the app’s Home tab (Step 3). If it’s installed, check that you created the app while signed in as the store’s owner.
The released app version doesn’t include the scopes. Add read_content and write_content under Versions, release the new version, then connect again.
Use the store’s .myshopify.com domain, not your storefront’s custom domain. You’ll find it in the Shopify admin under Settings → Domains.

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