Is integrating a custom AWS app with a Shopify membership site possible?

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Hi,

I am helping a friend of mine who want to build a Shopify website that combines an online store, plus a membership (with subscribers - likely will use https://apps.shopify.com/recurring-memberships) and an integration with a custom app (likely hosted on AWS) that is only available to members.

I’m looking to understand if what we’re wanting to achieve is possible (and advisable) to integrate into a Shopify website.

The app itself will be:

  • Primarily a calculator for running specific equations
  • Each time the calculator is run, the results will be saved to AWS and will also need the Shopify subscriber/member ID
  • When the subscriber logs in to the store and navigates to the calculator page, they will see a history of their prior calculations & results, and be able to run new calculations.

So in essence we’d need to be sending subscriber data from Shopify to AWS and visa versa. I realise there are many different ways to achieve this (ie build the UI on AWS vs an providing an API and rendering the UI on the Shopify side), however, I’m looking for a broad acknowledgement of whether this is:

  1. Possible to do utilising Shopify’s dev tools
  2. A good use of Shopify. ie - if this isn’t really a good use of Shopify then we don’t have to use it,

Thank you for any advice you can provide.

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Hi folks,

Has there been 70+ views and no answer because my question is confusing? I’d really appreciate someone’s perspective on what I’m asking. I would have though it’d be a straight forward question for a Shopify expert to answer.