Configure your Shopify App using SmoothCode

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Prakhar Shrivastava

Last Update il y a 2 ans

This is a guide of different set of features that you can use to configure your app.

SmoothCode gives you a lot of features so that you can easily configure your app without writing a whole lot of code.

App Dashboard

  • This is the link of your app dashboard
  • Merchants will be redirected to this link after they install your app or tries to open your app using Shopify Dashboard
  • When a merchant is redirected to this URL, 2 query parameters (or URL parameters) are added
    • shop : Shop of the merchant in the format "merchant-shop.myshopify.com"
    • hmac : HMAC of the shop (merchant-shop.myshopify.com) signed using App Secret with SHA256 digest (App Secret can be obtained from App Settings page)
      • HMAC consists of 3 things:
          • Base String - Merchant Store (eg: merchant-shop.myshopify.com)
          • Secret - App Secret
          • Digest - SHA256
    • Check How HMAC is generated in different programming languages
  • These query parameters are added so that you can easily verify the merchant before showing their data on the Dashboard

App Pricing

  • This is where you can create pricing plans for your app
  • SmoothCode support 3 kinds of Pricing plans
    • Free
    • One Time
    • Subscription
      • Monthly
      • Annual
  • You can create any number of Pricing Plans

Script Tags

  • Script Tags are used when you want to inject a Javascript to the storefront.
  • When a merchant installs the app, we inject this script tag to the merchant storefront
  • For injecting a script tag, your app needs certain access scopes
    • read_script_tags
    • write_script_tags
  • Once you enable the script tags, we automatically add these access scopes to your app
  • Script Tag consists of 3 things
    • URL of the script tag: URL to the public Javascript file that you want to inject on the storefront
    • Display Scope: Where do you want your script to be loaded. The options are:
      • All - On all the pages of the store
      • Online Store - All the storefront pages (Product Listing, Cart, etc.)
      • Order Status - Order Status Page
    • Cache: You can cache your script tag for 15 minutes so that your script is not fetched again and again

Webhooks

  • Webhooks are the event that Shopify triggers. Your app can subscribe to these webhooks.
  • Just select the Webhook topic that you want to subscribe
  • A webhook subscription consists of 2 things:
    • Topic: It is the event that you want to subscribe to (eg: orders/create)
    • Endpoint: It is the URL where you will be notified about the subscribed event
  • All the webhooks are sent to your endpoint by a POST request containing the webhook data
  • To verify that the request is coming from SmoothCode and not anywhere else you need to:
    • Compare the value of the Authorization header with HMAC of webhook ID signed using your App Secret with SHA256 digest
    • HMAC Generation:
      • Base String: Stringified webhook ID
      • Secret: App Secret (Can be obtained from App Settings in SmoothCode Dashboard)
      • Digest: SHA256

Access Scopes

  • If you want to access certain resources from your app you need to ask permission for them using access scopes
  • If you have subscribed to webhooks that requires access to some resources.
    • Let's say, we want to subscribe to order/create webhook, but to subscribe to that topic we should be able to read the orders of the merchant and need the read_orders access scope
    • We automatically add the access scopes that is required by the app based on the webhook you have registered
  • If you have enabled the script tags, we automatically add read_script_tags and write_script_tags access scope

You can check out our API Docs here: SmoothCode API Docs

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