Shopify app that works with an external website

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Hey there,

If I’ve understood correctly your desired flow when installing the app is in this order

  1. Connect the store with a user record you have
  2. Go through OAuth the install the app.

It sounds like you need to switch the order these two things, e.g:

  1. Go through OAuth the install the app.
  2. Connect the store with a user record you have

Technically this would look something like:

  1. Check if you have an offline token for this store
  2. Redirect to OAuth if not
  3. Check if you have a user record from your database associated wit the store.
  4. Redirect to a page where they can connect the store with your user record if not.

Does that sound possible?

I think the order matters here because a merchant has to give permission to share data before they actually share data. If a user first connects their store with your user record, then they have not yet given permission to share any data.

Richard