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.
Write products
Read product and collection data to build feeds.
- Write to product metafields to store product level feed settings
- Add tag, _wf_cus, to "mark" products as having product level settings
- Add tag, _wf_exc, to "mark" products as excluded from feeds
(You might want to exclude these tags from showing on your theme if needed)
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.
Read products on storefront
Read unit pricing. Read translations (GTranslate)
Optional access scopes
These scopes are granted during app usage, to enable features or enhance the user experience while using the app:
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"
Due to the way Shopify manage access scopes, read_shipping also allows reading some order information via shipping and fulfillment data. This leads to a dreaded warning when read_shipping is requested
The app does not read nor store order or customer personal data. Read_shipping is only used for the above-listed purposes.
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 good 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
How to check granted permissions
You can check the permissions granted to an app in 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.
