Shopify API, libraries, and tools

Extend Shopify’s core functionality by building apps that integrate into Shopify’s admin, online store, checkout and more.

Admin API

At the core of Shopify is the Admin API, available through GraphQL and REST. It provides data on products, customers, orders, inventory, fulfillment, and more.

Partner API

Scale your business with the Partner API. When you use the Partner API, you can access the data found in your Partner Dashboard to automate front and back-office operations.

App Bridge

Use App Bridge to build embedded apps integrated with the Shopify admin.

Remix app package

Build your app's web experiences with Remix, integrate with Shopify APIs, and embed into the Shopify admin.

Payments Apps API

Use the Payments Apps API to manage user account data including payments, refunds, and more.

Shopify Function APIs

Use Shopify Function APIs to customize the backend logic that powers parts of Shopify.

Multipass

Use the REST Admin API Multipass resource to manage the authentication of customers across multiple applications to provide a single login experience.

Explore the available component libraries and references for building apps. Seamlessly add your app’s functionality to Shopify user interfaces using app extensions.

Discounts

Use Shopify's discount React library to build a discount form page.

ShopifyQL

Use ShopifyQL to write analytical queries and find insights in user store data.

Admin UI extensions

Use Admin UI extensions to create a deeper integration into the Shopify admin.

Product subscription app extensions

Use Product subscriptions extensions to help merchants manage selling plans in the Shopify admin.

Checkout app extensions

Use checkout app extensions to extend your app code into checkout and customize many aspects of the checkout experience.

Shopify POS app extensions

Use Shopify POS app extensions to build custom POS UI Extensions, loyalty programs and discounts in Point of Sale shopping carts, as well as product recommendations.

Web pixel app extensions

Use web pixel app extensions to collect behavioral data for marketing campaign optimization and analytics.

Marketing activities app extensions

Use marketing activities app extensions to enable users to manage promotional campaigns and marketing automations from the Marketing page in the Shopify admin.

Help users express their unique brand in their storefront by building a custom theme.

Liquid

Use Liquid to build or customize Shopify themes using the Liquid template language.

Ajax API

Use the Ajax API to add dynamic elements to Shopify online stores with a lightweight JSON API for product data, recommendations, and shopping cart management.

Section Rendering API

Use the Section Rendering API to update page content by fetching only partial elements of a page instead of reloading it entirely.

Customer Privacy API

Use the Customer Privacy API to integrate buyer consent and opt-outs.

Build commerce experiences and branded custom storefronts using the Storefront API and Hydrogen.

Storefront API

Build custom shopping experiences for any platform. Render product and inventory details and initiate checkouts from any surface, such as web, mobile, gaming, and more.

Customer Account API

Securely manage and personalize customer data such as orders, payments, discounts, refunds, and more, with a single sign-on experience across multiple surfaces.

Hydrogen and Oxygen

Use Shopify’s recommended full-stack solution for building headless commerce experiences, with off-the-shelf components, hooks, utilities, and hosting built in.

Hydrogen React

Explore an unopinionated and performant library of Shopify-specific React components, reusable functions, and utilities for interacting with the Storefront API.