Shopify helps in building smooth retail web applications by improving the quality continuously. The Shopify developers have worked tirelessly to enhance the functionality of the platform. Matrix Marketers is a web and mobile development company. We have built many applications using Shopify and we normally develop retail websites using Shopify

Matrix Marketers wishes to empower more on the web by building bigger and better applications. The reason of becoming Shopify so popular is the support of the APIs which are used toad advanced features. These tools will give you the ability to create new solutions for Shopify merchants, whether within a specific Shopify store or as part of your own Shopify App.

Let’s take a deeper look at the use of APIs, to build better applications.

Analytics API

Shopify offers a variety of facilities to the merchants such as product sales, payment methods, cart analysis and much more. Shopify generates reports by making the use od merchant analysis database.

For the first time ever, we are opening up our analytics platform to our developer community. This means that your Shopify Apps can read aggregate data from Shopify to create insightful reports and charts for merchants.

Your apps can interact with our analytics platform using ShopifyQL. This is similar to SQL and allows your app to read information about storefront sessions. By making use of ShopifyQL sales, payments and other data models are accessed

Tax Service API

The Tax Service APIs are quite useful as they can look into the application to calculate the tax details for a Shopify store for customers in real time. The Tax Services API enable apps to calculate the tax on the basis of location product, shipping, cart, etc.

Many Shopify Apps don’t include tax API, it is added on the request basis. The documentation of how the APIs are used are created. It will officially launch in July 2016 at which point applications will start to be accepted.

Refund and Transaction API

Shopify is known as one of the finest platforms for doing online shopping with more than 150k web store using the solution with no less than $7 billion worth of sales. It offers benefits to B2B vendors that help merchants organize online stores in much better ways, and makes every transaction much easier.

As the application can get the access of the data only from the web store, mostly APIs get the data from the shopping cart. The Shopify API support this structure well.

About the Shopify API

The API supports both XML and JSON, and works with such types of HTTP requests as Getting, POST, PUT, and DELETE. To work efficiently, Shopify API makes use of the methods defined by Shopify. There are approximately 35 methods such as Category, Customer, Order, Product, etc.

API authentication. Having obtained an API access token, you are ready to send authenticated requests to REST API. They come with this header, X-Shopify-Access-Token: {access token} where you add the access token you have. But where do you get it?

As a developer, you need to get credentials that would let you access particular data to start working on the project your Shopify client paid for. To get the API Key, you have to create a private app in the admin page of the Shopify store. Sounds too tangled? Let us clarify this by moving step-by-step.

If you are not working for a client who would give you the necessary information or their email and password to log in, there appears a necessity to register a shop on Shopify.

Go to the admin page and press Apps>Private Apps>Create a Private App.

There you find the API Key.

Press the Tool button.

Authentication.

Your Shopify Apps can now access our Refund and Transaction API to calculate and process refunds for merchants. This API is the same one that we use in Shopify POS, and it complements the existing Transaction API.

There is a benefit in Shopify App to determine the products and quantities to refund using API which can specify whether to issue a full or partial refund to the amount paid by the customer for shipping.

The Refund and Transaction API will calculate the correct amount to refund to the customer, taking into account anything which may have affected the product’s price at the time of purchase, such as discounts and applicable taxes.

Summing Up

The Shopify APIs act as a gap filler for the application and client and shares data needed. Being both useful and usable, it will always be in demand. And such perspectives are favorable for a developer willing to work.

API can be a solution to some difficulties occurring in the developing process. Shopify offers great support to the APIs and fully allow to integrate other platforms in case you require to run a cross-platform application accessing products, orders, categories, etc.

It is integrated with more than 30 chief platforms such as Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, etc. So, if you need to deal with more than one shopping cart, consider the service. It is an easy and time-saving way out.

The documentation clearly mentions that hoe an API can be used and maximum benefit can be gained. Contact, Matrix Marketers, if you are planning to build Shopify based web application to deliver excellent retail service.