Hi,
I have recently started looking into shopify app development. I know how to build UI for Shopify App for now.
My App Idea uses an API which ...
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Your web application is responsible for storing its own information. This typically means a database that backs your service in some way.
Essentially, you are building a regular ol' boring web application, with the fundamental difference being that you're integrating Shopify APIs, and your web all gets loaded inside a Shopify Store.
But otherwise all the other rules for web applications remain.
But I need something to map a customer with my database, right. How to do that ?
You have a few different ways of doing that. You can NOT store that information yourself, and rely on Shopify, using their customer api to register and manage users.
Or, you can tap into what's called "multipass" which is a premium feature which provides apis for your Shopify application to sync users between your app and Shopify.
The latter option requires a Shopify plus subscription however, which is very expensive for most store owners.
What about
metafieldsat store level ? Would it work ?That's for storing data related to an object. It would be an inappropriate place to store customer data.
Using Customer API is not an option for me. As the data I want to save is about the store itself (Here, Shopify store is my customer, not the people who buy at store).
I am interested in this discussion. I am making an app that needs to do the same thing and that is to record a transaction id in cookies in order to hook a conversion to a publisher. Have you been able to find a solution?