Adding Gift Card Inventory from a Shopify Plus Account

If you are have a shopify account but not the Shopify Plus plan then you are unable to connect Gift Cards through out system organically. In order to do so please follow these instructions in order to create a direct link between your Prizeout Merchant Portal and your Shopify account. 

Create a Shopify Private App:

1. Go to your Shopify account and in the left menu click Apps
2. At the bottom click At the bottom click Manage Private Apps
3. Click Enable Private App Development
4. Check all 3 boxes
5. Again click Enable Private App Development
6. Click Create Private App
7. Enter Private App name (for your reference only) and Emergency Developer email address
8. Click Show inactive admin API permissions
9. Change Inventory, Orders, & Products to Read and write
10. Change Product Listings and Customers to Read access
11. Do not check Allow App to access Storefront
12. Click Save
13. Click Create app
    1. *Please wait for it to load and only click Create App once
    2. If you do click more than once, you will end up with multiple Private App copies
    3. To fix, click Apps in the left menu again and at the bottom click Manage Private Apps
    4. If there is more than one copy, you can delete all extras
    5. Once you have only one copy of the recently made Private App, click into it
14. Click Apps, Manage Private Apps, and then click into your Private App to view API connection information

Connect Private App to Merchant Portal

1. Enter the Prizeout Merchant Portal
2. Click Inventory in the Portal menu
3. Click Connect with Shopify
4. Enter your Shopify URL. Format: [your-shop-name]. myshopify.com
5. Copy and paste the API Key, Shared Secret, and Password into the corresponding fields from
   the information in your Shopify Private App
6. Click Connect
7. Click Add Gift Cards
   1. *Pop-up may appear*
   2. Click Connect Inventory Now
   3. This will take you back to your Shopify account
   4. Click Add Gift Card Product
   5. Exit Shopify
   6. In the Merchant Portal, click Close in the pop-up
   7. Again, Click Add Gift Cards
8. By default, we use our pre-generated list of denominations. If you wish to only provide select Gift Card values please deselect those you do not wish to offer through your Prizeout merchant portal.
9. You have now successfully linked your Shopify account Gift Card Product to the Prizeout Merchant Portal

Please visit the Merchant Help Center or contact Prizeout Support if you have any
questions or encounter any issues.