App must be a channel or have unauthenticated scopes to create a storefront access token

Retired Boards Appdev Custom Storefronts
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We are working on an app and we want it to use the Storefront API. However, we get an error:

“App must be a channel or have unauthenticated scopes to create a storefront access token.”

We know that there has been a change recently and the application does not have to be a sales channel, which makes us very happy.

However, we are having trouble accessing the Storefront API. Error details:

  1. Our application has the following scopes:
  • read_themes
  • write_checkouts
  • unauthenticated_write_checkouts
  1. We are trying to authorize according to the documentation → we get an error from the API: App must be a channel or have unauthenticated scopes to create a storefront access token.

Additionally, we are trying to get an access token using this API - and we also get the error:

App must be a channel or have unauthenticated scopes to create a storefront access token

I feel like we forgot something obvious.

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We’re encountering this issue on our app too. Even after requesting the required unauthenticated scopes.

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Hello @sebastiandev ! I have the same issue.

It seems to work if you added more scopes:

  • unauthenticated_read_product_listings
  • unauthenticated_read_collection_listings
  • unauthenticated_write_customers

There may be some kind of bug and the “unauthenticated_write_checkouts” scope doesn’t work to allow you to request the Storefront Token. I have added these other three scopes and I no longer get the same error.

I’m still investigating, but with this it seems that I can move forward. Hope this can help you.

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Hi @GuillermoGarcia ,

do you try to create checkout via Storefront API ? I ask because I have issue.

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Hey! Did you ever manage to solve this or find a workaround?