dev store test orders #workshop #shopify-api

dev-store-test-orders.md

A Practical Guide to Test Orders on Development Stores

If you are familiar with using REST APIs with tools like Postman or Insomnia, please follow the dev doc example here and skip this guide!

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1. Create a custom app from the Admin of your development store {your-dev-store-name}.myshopify.com and enable Admin API access scopes read_orders and write_orders.

2. Install the your custom app to generate the Admin API access token. Keep this window open as we will need this page in step 4.

3. Click the below button to fork the test order demo and create a Postman account if necessary.

4. Open the forked Your development store environment, and enter your dev store name. Reveal and copy the token from step 2, and enter it into Postman. Make sure to save!

5. Navigate to Collections and set the environment to Your development store at the top right corner.

6. Run the Generate a test order collection to create a test order.

7. (Optional) Set the iterations to as many test orders as you need.

8. (Optional) Adjust the orders attributes in the 1. Create an order request body. Please refer to The Order resource dev docs fore more details.

Notes

• Here is an implementation using our native shopify_python_api library. Click Open in Colab to run this file on Google's Colab servers.
• Other Shopify native Admin API Libraries include:shopify_api Ruby gem. shopify-node-api for NodeJS and shopify-php-api for PHP.