---
title: "Publish to Shopify"
description: "Connect your Shopify store blog to RankControl with a custom app. Takes about three minutes."
---

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# Publish to Shopify

RankControl publishes articles to your store blog as native posts. You connect
the store with a small custom app that you create yourself in Shopify. The app
is private to your store, needs no review, and can only read and write blog
content. Nothing else in your store is touched.

You need the store owner account, or a staff account with the app development
permission.

## 1. Open the Dev Dashboard

In your Shopify admin, go to **Settings → Apps**, then click **Develop apps**
and **Build apps in Dev Dashboard**.

![Shopify admin, Apps settings with the Develop apps button](/docs/shopify/step-1.webp)

## 2. Create the app

In the Dev Dashboard, click **Create app**. Name it anything you like, for
example `RankControl Publisher`.

![Dev Dashboard apps list with the Create app button](/docs/shopify/step-2.webp)

## 3. Add the two scopes

In the app version, open the **Access** section and click **Select scopes**.
Search for `content` and tick exactly two Admin API scopes:

- `read_content`
- `write_content`

Click **Done**, then **Release** the version.

![Scope picker with read_content and write_content](/docs/shopify/step-3.webp)

## 4. Install the app on your store

On the app's overview page, find the **Installs** panel and click
**Install app**. Pick your store.

![App overview with the Install app button](/docs/shopify/step-4.webp)

Shopify shows a yellow banner that says the app has not been reviewed. That is
expected. Review only applies to public App Store apps, and this app is your
own, visible to nobody else. Confirm with **Install**.

![Install confirmation with the expected review banner](/docs/shopify/step-5.webp)

## 5. Copy the credentials into RankControl

Open the app's **Settings** in the Dev Dashboard and copy the **Client ID**
and **Client Secret**.

In RankControl, go to **Brand Control → Publishing**, choose **Shopify**, and
enter your store domain plus both values. Click **Test connection**, pick the
blog to publish into, and save.

Done. Articles now publish to your store blog on schedule, and updates to an
article revise the same post.

## Troubleshooting

**"Shopify rejected the Client ID or Client Secret."** Check both values
against the app's settings in the Dev Dashboard, and confirm the app is
installed on the store (step 4). A released version alone is not an install.

**"No blogs found on this store."** Create one first under
**Online Store → Blog posts** in your Shopify admin, then test again.

**The store domain is not accepted.** Use the `.myshopify.com` domain from
your Shopify admin URL. Your public domain works too, and RankControl resolves
it to the right store.

Source: https://rctrl.com/shopify/index.mdx