Integration

• Access
• Overview

Initial Setup

• Create Account
• Shopify Token
• PriceCharting Token

Linking Data

• Link Products
• Configure Prices
• Customize Prices

Run

• Testing
• Update Prices

How to Integrate PriceCharting Data Into Shopify

This tool works with: Video games & Trading Cards only. We plan to add other categories in the future.

Current Access: You do not have access to Shopify integration. Partial directions are listed below. Signup for Legendary Level Subscription for full access.

Basics of Shopify Integration

We've created a tool for Legendary level subscribers to automatically update their Shopify store prices based on PriceCharting price data.

You go through some initial steps to link your PriceCharting subscription with our Shopify tools. This takes about 5-10 minutes.

Then you setup rules linking our price data with your Shopify store inventory. You can link products via UPC, Amazon ASIN, PriceCharting ID or TCGPlayer ID. And choose from multiple price points including "Loose", "CIB", "New", "Suggeted Loose Sell Price", "Suggested CIB Sell Price", "Gamestop Price", and more. Trading cards have their own price points too.

You can also choose to run price updates on a schedule or automatically on a regular basis.

Initial Setup

These initial steps are required one time so our tool can create a connection between your PriceCharting account and your Shopify account. This should take about 5-10 minutes to complete.

Create Account in Linking Tool

Visit this link: link will appear when you are Legendary level subscriber
You should see a page that looks like this:

1. Enter any name/username
2. Enter your email address
3. Enter a password
4. Enter your myshopify.com store name
   Copy/Paste this from the url on myshopify.com.
   Be sure to remove the https:// portion
   
5. Copy/Paste your access token from Shopify (see next section for directions)

Create Shopify Access Token

You can follow the latest Shopify steps for this here or follow our directions below.

1. From Shopify Admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels
   
2. Click "Develop apps for your store" button
   
3. Click "Allow custom app development" button
4. Click "Allow custom app development" button again (a confirmation)
5. Click "Create an app" button
   
6. Give you app any name, like "PriceCharting Integration"
   Click "Create App"
   
7. Click "Configure Admin API Scope"
   
8. Check both read and write options in Product Listings and Products sections
   Leave all other checkboxes blank
   Click "Save" button at the top of the page
   
9. Click "API Credentials" tab at the top of the page
10. Click "Install App" button
    Click "Install" to confirm
11. Click "Reveal token once" link
    
12. Copy token
13. Paste token into last step of create account form

Link PriceCharting Access Token

The last of the one-time integration steps.

1. Log into the app using the email address and password used in create account step
2. Visit this link: link will appear when you are Legendary level subscriber
   
3. Click "Download/API" button
4. Copy your API authentication token at the bottom of the page
   
5. Paste the token into app form
   
6. Submit the form

You should be done with the one-time setup.

Linking Data for Price Updates

These steps allow you to link your Shopify inventory to our PriceCharting products and customize the prices you want to use with your Shopify store.

Link Products & Schedule Updates

1. Click "Configuration"
   You should see options like this
   
2. Choose Product Category to Match
   Options are: Video Games, Pokemon, Magic or YuGiOh cards.
   
3. Choose the schedule for price updates
   On Demand = you need to manually click "Sync" for prices to update
4. Choose the "Key" to link PriceCharting products to your Shopify products
   This "Key" needs to be in your Shopify database.
   This can be one of these:
   PriceCharting ID (like 6910 and listed on every product page on the site)
   UPC code (like 045496830434
   Amazon ASIN (like B000035Y63)
   TCGPlayer ID (like 54761)
   
5. Choose A Shopify Field/ Product Metafield
   Choose the Shopify field that contains the "Key" selected above
   Can be one of these:
   SKU: The Shopify SKU field
   Barcode: The Shopify Barcode field
   Other field: Enter the name of the field in Shopify you want to use.
6. Click "Update Configuration"

Default Saved Configuration

Choose which prices to use with which items in your database. You can create multiple configuratons for each price rule you want to setup.

BEST PRACTICE: We STRONGLY RECOMMEND creating one test keyword rule to make sure prices update as you expect. Create the test keyword to match only one product (For example, a specific SKU in your database). Then sync the prices manually. Check your Shopify database for the price on that item and make sure the price matches your expectations. Then you can delete this rule and create rules that apply to more products.

1. Navigate to the "Add New Keyword Price Configuration" section
   You will see options like these
   
2. Choose a "Shopify Key"
   Either "SKU" or "Title" or "Option Value 1" (a custom label)
   The field you choose is a field in your Shopify data where you store information like "Loose", "Complete", "New", "Ungraded", "Grade 10", etc to distinguish the exact condition of the item.
   Example: A store has a SKU like "1234Loose" or "1234CIB" to distinguish product ID "1234" in "Loose" or "CIB" condition.
   
   
3. Choose a "Keyword" that you use to distinguish the condition in your database.
   Example: "Loose" for keyword. Any "Key" field with the keyword "Looose" will use the price rule you choose in the next step.
   Example: "Box" is keyword. Any "Key" field with the keyword "Box" will use the price choosen in the next step.
   Capitalization and puctuation DO NOT matter
4. Choose a price point to associate with this keyword
   Choose the price that makes the most sense for your business
   For example "Loose" can equal "Loose Price" or "CIB" can equal "Retail CIB Sell"
   
5. Save the configuration
6. Repeat if needed
   Make more keyword-to-price configurations.
   You can have as many keyword rules as you need.
   

Customize Prices

Optionally, you can customize the prices to adjust them higher or lower than the standard prices. You can adjust prices by dollar amount and/or percentage.

1. Click "Customize the Prices" checkbox
   
2. Choose the "operation"
   "+" increases the price. "-" decreases the price.
3. Choose the "$ Price Adjustment"
   The price will be that much higher or lower (depending on which operation you choose).
   Example: +$2 will be $2 higher than price in our database
   Example: -$1 will be $1 lower than price in our database
4. Choose the "operation"
   "+" increases the price. "-" decreases the price.
5. Choose the "% Price Adjustment"
   The price will be that much higher or lower (depending on which operation you choose).
   Example: +10% will be 10% higher than price in our database
   Example: -5% will be 5% lower than price in our database

Testing & Run Updates

Full details about testing will appear here after creating a Legendary subscription