What are the access scopes that the app requires and how they are used?

To perform its jobs, the app needs to access your data in Shopify on behalf of your store. To be able to do this, it requires some access scopes (or permissions).

The app strives to request the minimum access to function, therefore the access is divided into mandatory scopes, granted at time of app installation, and optional scopes, granted to enable features or enhanced app usage.

Mandatory access scopes

These scopes are granted at app installation because they are required for the app to perform basic operations.

Read products

Read product and collection data to build feeds.

Read locales

Read locales data to see what languages a shop support via Shopify language API.

Read translations

Read product data translations via Shopify language API to build foreign language feeds.

Optional access scopes

These scopes are granted during app usage, to enable features or enhance the user experience while using the app:

Read products on storefront

Read GTranslate translations.

Read metaobjects

Metaobjects are custom structured data to enhance your Shopify product data which can be used in several ways.

This scope is required if you want to pull data stored in metaobjects to build feed attributes via metaobject tokens.

Read shipping

Read detailed shipping data for:

• shipping rates of items in custom shipping profiles
• shipping rates set in local currency. Without this scope, the app will assume that all rates in shipping settings are set in shop currency, and might derive the wrong shipping cost if some rates are set in local currency.
• item's shipping profile token. This token can be used in expressions to create rules based on an item's shipping profile
• store's shipping profiles. These consts can be used in expressions, for example to "exclude variants belong to profile A", or "double the price of items belong to profile B"

Read publications

Read product publication data for market specific availability.

Read markets

Read Shopify Markets data for enhanced usage of:

• Market specific translation
• International pricing

Read inventory

Read inventory data for:

• Cost of goods sold
• Variant level inventory tracking
• Inventory tracking across locations

Read locations

Read locations data for inventory tracking across locations

Read themes

Read the theme files to detect theme integration including Google site verifications and Google Automated discounts.

Write discounts

Create Google Automated discounts

Write proxies

Create proxy endpoints. Required for Google Automated discounts.

Write products

The app no longer needs this scope to write custom settings. In some edge cases, this scope might be re-granted so the app can complete the migration of custom settings into new storage. After the migration complete, this can be revoked for good.

Scopes that are no longer required

We continue to maintain minimum access scopes through out the app lifecycle. As a result there could be scopes that once required in the past, but are no longer required. Those scopes can safely be removed.

How to check granted permissions

You can check the permissions granted to the app from inside or outside of the app

From inside the app, go to Settings screen > Privacy tab

Optional scopes can also be added/removed from this screen. Although adding scopes can be done by any users, removing scopes can only be done by the store owner.

From outside of the app, go to Shopify admin Settings > App and sales channels > Click the app > Permission details

How to grant all permissions at once

Granting missing permissions when a feature is enabled could be disruptive. It might be desired to grant all permissions to the app at once. It could be done in the Settings tab > Privacy.

1/ Select all the scopes that are required

2/ Click Save to bring up the consent screen