Setting Up Permissions

Your agency is ready to set you up for success! Please follow the instructions below to ensure your brand store permissions are properly granted.

Step 1: Granting Agency Permissions - Shopify

Collaborator permissions need to create and install the AdBeacon Shopify app. Please follow the steps below to ensure that permissions settings are correct.

Step #1 – General Settings

- Home
- Orders
  - Manage orders information
  - Export orders

Step #2 – Orders & Product Settings

- Orders
  - Export draft orders
- Products
  - View product cost
  - Manage Inventory
  - Export products
- Gift cards

Step #3 – Customer, Reports, Dashboard, ETC Settings

- Customers
  - Export customers
- Reports
- Dashboards
- Discounts
- Manage and install apps and channels

Step #4 – Online Store Settings

Themes
- Edit theme code

Step #5 – Administration Settings

Manage Settings
View customer events
- Manage and add custom pixels

Step #6 – Set-up Complete

Once saved – your Shopify permissions should be all setup and ready to go.

Please contact/notify your agency partner so they know that your permission updates are complete and they will take care of the rest of your AdBeacon integration. Great job!

If you would like to learn more about what AdBeacon is all about – you can click here.

Step 2: Agency Integrates Shopify in AdBeacon

AdBeacon Shopify integration
Go to Shopify store -> Click Apps

Click -> Sales Channel Settings
1. You may need to scroll to the bottom

Click -> Develop Apps

Click -> Create An App
Name the app “AdBeacon Shopify Integration”. For the App developer section, keep the default name as is.

Click-> Configure Admin API Scopes

Click the following permissions
- read_orders
- read_customers
- read_products
- write_script_tags
- read_script_tags
- read_content
- read_draft_order
- read_themes
- read_inventory

Click -> Save
Click -> Install App, then Click -> Install
Select -> API credentials
Click -> Reveal token once for Admin API access token

Copy the Admin API access token (“shpat_”)
1. Place in AdBeacon Section
2. Type website domain in Domain URL section

Once both rows are completed, Click -> Authenticate

Next, Select -> Auto Install Tracking Script
1. If you prefer to Manually Install Tracking Script then see below instructions (a)
Click -> Install (all done!

Manually Install Tracking Script Instructions

How to install an AdBeacon script on your Shopify store?

Open https://shopify.x/admin
Click on Themes > Customize

Click On 3 dots at the top and then click on Edit Code

Click -> theme.liquid
Add the AdBeacon Script before </head> and click-> Save

Click on -> Settings from the left navigation menu

Click on -> Checkout and accounts and scroll down to “Additional scripts”section

Add the AdBeacon script in “Order status page”
Click on -> Save