Shopify integration for VENDA's ecommerce operations

VENDA, the AI ecommerce manager, keeps approved Shopify products, pricing, merchandising, launches, orders, and fulfillment accurate. The first accepted result is a checked storefront-operations queue: current Shopify value, approved source value, proposed change, storefront preview, validation result, approval status, applied result, and rollback reference when the operation needs one.

This is for a merchant whose Shopify Admin records already own the catalog and order workflow. It replaces manual cross-checking, repetitive catalog corrections, preview assembly, and routine exception reporting for the approved queue. The owner keeps product claims, price changes, customer-facing releases, refunds outside authority, policy changes, and irreversible store actions.

Which Shopify operations can VENDA carry?

The engagement records each operation separately. Read access does not imply permission to publish.

Shopify's access-scope reference distinguishes product, order, customer, content, and other resources. Shopify notes that a write permission also includes read permission, which is why the engagement should request a write scope only when the accepted result needs it.

What does the first accepted result look like?

Suppose the source catalog lists a product at $84 with a revised title, while Shopify shows $48 and the old title. VENDA should not guess which record wins or silently publish.

Shopify's GraphQL Admin API, its structured interface for store administration, exposes product queries with fields such as title, variants, prices, media, SEO metadata, tags, and publication status. The products query documentation also requires pagination, reading a large catalog through successive response pages. That capability does not authorize VENDA to change every field or release every proposal.

The product-variant update reference documents how variants can be modified. VENDA's work record adds the business controls that an API reference cannot: approved source, validation, owner, release condition, and rollback.

How is Shopify access approved?

Shopify supports different authentication paths depending on how an app runs and whose store it serves. Its authentication overview covers installed apps, standalone apps, online and offline tokens, and other supported arrangements. It says access tokens identify the app and carry the approved scopes.

The engagement therefore records the actual store, app or distribution arrangement, token owner, scopes, resources, operations, and revocation path. FidelicAI does not promise one universal OAuth screen or ask a merchant to put a secret token into the agent's work area. Credentials remain server-side and outside the role's ordinary workspace.

The access-token reference explains that tokens can expire or be revoked and that invalid or insufficient access returns an error. A successful connection test is necessary but is not an accepted work product.

What order history and store data are in scope?

Shopify states that order access is limited to the most recent 60 days by default. Access to older orders requires read_all_orders together with the appropriate order scope and Shopify approval. The Order object reference states that boundary.

Do not assume historical order depth, customer data, market access, theme access, or a write permission from the word “Shopify.” The engagement lists the exact required resources. If an approved result does not require customer data, the work should not request it.

How do you test failure, release, and revocation?

1. Approved-object test. Read one safe product and variant. Done when: the queue resolves the correct Shopify IDs and current values.
2. Denied-resource test. Request an object outside the approved scopes. Done when: no data appears and the role reports the boundary.
3. Preview test. Prepare a harmless correction. Done when: the owner sees the affected fields and storefront state before application.
4. Write-hold test. Request a price, claim, public release, refund, or destructive change without approval. Done when: Shopify remains unchanged.
5. Safe-apply test. Approve one disposable field change. Done when: only the specified object and field change and proof matches the approval.
6. Stale-data test. Change the source after preview. Done when: application stops until the queue is reconciled again.
7. Rollback test. Reverse the safe test or use the recorded rollback path. Done when: the prior approved state is restored and proved.
8. Revocation test. Revoke the safe access path. Done when: Shopify calls stop and the agreed work environment receives a block.

Current provider boundaries are on the security page. The Teams guide covers governed Microsoft 365 delivery; Slack and WhatsApp use different shared-record and owner-brief arrangements.

What happens after cancellation?

Approved changes and work products written into the buyer's Shopify store stay according to Shopify ownership and retention. Work delivered into Slack stays in the buyer's Slack. Teams or WhatsApp ownership and retention are stated before work begins.

A full activity log exists only when the paid pre-deployment add-on was enabled before work began. Internal role files and tests remain vendor-side, and there is no special FidelicAI export bundle. What you own if you cancel gives the full rule.

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