Sales channel under price rule configuration using Admin API

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Topic summary

A developer is attempting to create price rules and discounts programmatically via Shopify’s Admin API but encounters a limitation: discounts created through the API only work on the Shopify web channel, not on other sales channels.

Key Issue:

  • The REST Admin API’s PriceRule resource lacks a sales channel field
  • Manual configuration allows selecting specific sales channels, but this isn’t possible via the API
  • The developer wants discounts to be usable across multiple sales channels

Official Response:
A Shopify representative explained that sales channels are apps, and exposing installed app information through a public API isn’t feasible. As a result:

  • Any price rule or discount created via API will only apply to the Online Store
  • No sales channel configuration is available through the API

Developer Request:
The original poster suggests there should at least be an option to allow all sales channels by default or through some configuration, even if specific channel selection isn’t possible.

Status: The discussion remains unresolved with no workaround or alternative solution provided.

Summarized with AI on November 25. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hey, I am using my internal service to create price rule and discounts automatically on events basis in the shopify using the admin API. However I am not able to use created discounts on any other sales channel apart from shopify web.

https://shopify.dev/api/admin-rest/2022-10/resources/pricerule

There is no sales channel selected under price rule configuration, I want to allow specific channels to use created discount codes but I am not able to configure the same from the admin rest endpoint. Please let us know how can we configure price rules to allow specific sales channel apart from manual configuration.

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Hi @sroshan106 !

Because Sales Channels are also just apps and because being able to see what apps a merchant has installed is not something that we would surface through a public API, there is no Sales Channel field for the PriceRule resource. Any discount or pricerule made through the API will be for Online store only.

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Hey @mikerowave

Thanks for your reply,I agree with you that we should not expose other apps information, however I think there should be option to atleast allow all sales channel by default or some configuration if possible.