Influence’s integration with Shopify gives you the power to track your shops’ sales performance across your campaigns. Get step-by-step instructions in this article to connect your Shopify account and begin tracking your Shopify sales.

Connecting Your Shopify Account

1. Go to your Shopify account and navigate to Settings > Apps and sales channels. If you don't yet have an app, click on the Develop apps button at the top and create a new one.
2. After you've created the app or clicked into an already existing app, click on Configure Admin API Scopes and make sure Read access is selected for the following scopes, then click Save:
3. Once saved, navigate back to the top of the page and click on the API Credentials tab. On this tab, click Install app. After it has been installed, you'll be able to see the API Key and Secret Key that you'll need to input into your Influence dashboard.
4. In Influence, navigate to Settings > Shopify and click + Add Shopify account. You can connect multiple Shopify accounts if needed.
5. Enter your Shop Name, Shopify API Key, and Password.
   • Shop Name: Please use the shop name you originally used to create your shop. If your shop name has been updated, you may find it in your shop URL (e.g. “ShopName.myshopify.com”).
   • API Key: Available in your Shopify dashboard.
   • Password: This is your API Secret Key in your Shopify dashboard.
6. Click Connect to finalize your Shopify connection.

Setting Up Shopify Performance Tracking in Your Campaign

After you've connected your Shopify account, you can start tracking Shopify performance data across your campaigns. To set this up for your campaign, go into the specific campaign and click into the E-commerce tab.

Select the store name you want to pull sales data from for the campaign. This tab will also display a list of the influencers participating in the campaign and a place for you to add referral codes and/or coupon codes for each. 

What is a coupon code?

Coupon codes are an easy way to track sales from specific influencers or other marketing activations, while also granting your customers a discount on their purchase. When attaching a coupon code to an influencer in our system, we will pull in the performance of that code to the campaign so you can easily see the sales, number of transactions, ROI, products sold, etc. related to that code. Read more about setting up discounts and coupon codes in Shopify's help center.

What is a referral code?

Referral codes are the most flexible option when tracking influencer sales through Shopify. Unlike coupon codes, they do not require setup in Shopify.

To create a referral code for your influencer, take the shop URL and add ref="UniqueCode" to the end. For example: myshopifystore.com/products/slide?ref=j2tj1tn2. In the example link, the referral code for the influencer would be j2tj1tn2 and you would enter this code in our system for tracking. Influence will track the performance of these referral codes in your campaign report, just like coupon codes.

Once your codes are entered for your influencers, their sales performance will start populating in your campaign report under the Shopify Analytics section.

Please note that new data will be synced from your Shopify account into Influence on a daily basis overnight:

• Analytics: This tab will display the aggregated sales performance across all influencer referral and coupon codes set for this campaign.
• Products: This tab will break down the sales performance per product so you can easily identify the most popular products with your customers.
• Customer Geography: This tab will display the geography of the customers visiting your store through the referral and coupon codes.
• Influencer Performance: This tab will display individual influencer sales performance.