Shopify

Guide to integrate your Shopify with Sprinkle

Datasource Concepts

Before setting up the datasource, learn about datasource concepts here

Step by Step Guide

STEP-1: Configure Connection

To learn about Connection, refer here

• Log into Sprinkle application

• Navigate to Datasources -> Connections Tab -> New Connection ->

• Select Shopify

• Provide all the mandatory details

  • Name: Name to identify this connection

  • Shop Name: Provide the shopname {SHOP_NAME}. For ex:- https://{SHOP_NAME}.myshopify.com/

  • ACCESS TOKEN: Enter Access-Token key provided by Shopify. How to generate Access-Token in Shopify click here

• Advance settings : refer here

Post login, users will be prompted to allow permissions required for sprinkle to read data further. Once a user provides consent by clicking on Install, the connection can be created from Sprinkle.

Next, in the datasets tab, users need to name and select the report type from the drop down fields list that needs to be ingested.

• Test Connection

• Create

STEP-2: Configure Datasource

To learn about datasource, refer here

• Navigate to Datasources -> Datasources Tab -> Add ->

• Select Shopify

• Provide the name -> Create

• Connection Tab:

  • From the drop-down, select the name of connection created in STEP-2

  • Update

STEP-3: Create Dataset

Datasets Tab: To learn about Dataset, refer here. Add Dataset for each report/dataset that you want to integrate, providing following details

• Report Type (Required):

  • Customers:

    • Sub-Reports: Select from drop-down

  • Events

  • Marketing_Events

  • Metafields

  • Orders

    • Sub-Reports: Select from drop-down

  • Products

    • Sub-Reports: Select from drop-down

  • Tender_Transactions

• Flatten Level(Required) : Select One Level or Multi Level. In one level, flattening will not be applied on complex type. They will be stored as string. In multi level, flattening will be applied in complex level till they become simple type.

• Destination Schema (Required) : Data warehouse schema where the table will be ingested into

• Destination Table name (Required) : It is the table name to be created on the warehouse. If not given, sprinkle will create like ds_<datasourcename>_<tablename>

• Destination Create Table Clause: Provide additional clauses to warehouse-create table queries such as clustering, partitioning, and more, useful for optimizing DML statements. Learn more on how to use this field.

• Create

STEP-4: Run and schedule Ingestion

In the Ingestion Jobs tab:

• Trigger the Job, using Run button

• To schedule, enable Auto-Run. Change the frequency if needed

Advanced Connection Settings

• API Read Timeout (In seconds) : Maximum time of inactivity between two data packets when waiting for the server's response. The default value is 30 seconds.

• API Connection Timeout (In seconds) : Time period within which a connection between a client and a server must be established.

• Retry Limit : Number of retries allowed when an API call fails. For example if an API call fails and retry limit is 5 then it will check 5 times for that API call and if it succeeded then it will stop checking.

• Retry Sleep Time (In milliseconds) : Given time, after which retry should happen in case an API call fails.

• Version : It gives information about the version of Google Analytics core reporting API being used.