✅ Connect Your Shopify Store to Forward Inertia
Secure setup takes just 5–10 minutes. No code required.
Forward Inertia makes it easy to sync your Shopify store with our flash sale network. This one-time setup gives us secure, limited access to your catalog, inventory, and orders—so we can route sales automatically, without any manual effort from your team.
🔧 Step-by-Step Setup Guide
1. Log in to your Shopify Admin
Sign in at shopify.com and open the Admin dashboard for your store.
2. Navigate to App Setup
Click Settings (bottom left corner)
Click Apps and sales channels (left navigation bar)
Click Develop apps (top right)
3. Create a Custom App
Click Create an app (top right)
Enter Forward Inertia as the App name
Leave the App developer as your default (typically your admin account)
Click Create app (bottom right)
4. Configure Admin API Permissions
Click Configure Admin API scopes and enable the following 9 permissions in this order:
✅ write_customers
✅ read_customers
✅ read_fulfillments
✅ read_inventory
✅ write_locations
✅ read_locations
✅ write_orders
✅ read_orders
✅ read_products
⚠️ Only these 9 scopes are required. You stay in full control of your store access.
5. Save and Install the App
Click Save (top right)
Then click Install app (top right)
In the popup window, click Install to confirm and generate your credentials.
6. Immediately Email Your Credentials to [email protected]
After installing the app, you’ll land on the API credentials page, where you'll see your Admin API Access Token, API Key, and API Secret Key.
Click Reveal token — Shopify will only display it once!
🛑 If you lose the token, you’ll need to generate a new one.
Copy and email the following to [email protected] right away:
📝 Subject Line: Shopify App Credentials – [Your Brand Name]
- Admin API Access Token (example: 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)
- API Key (example: 7000370ff88c3c4a81ceb61b5b73fea2)
- API Secret Key (example: d36197ad9545456cbb9f8fe9eb4fe2cb)
- Shopify Store URL (example: yourbrand.myshopify.com)
📍 You can find your store URL in Shopify Admin → Settings → Domains