Creating a Custom Connector for Shopify in Power Automate (PART 2)

In Part 1, we created a Custom connector for Shopify and added One Action to retrieve customer data.

In this blog we will add more Actions to our Shopify Connector.

Actions:

Create Customer
Update Customer
Retrieve All Products

Steps:

Go to Definition section

Action for Creating Customer

Click on “New Action”

Enter Summary, Description and Operation ID

Go to Request and Click on “Import from sample”

Select the verb and POST request URL, to create a new customer in Shopify

Verb: POST
URL: 
https://{apikey}:{password}@{hostname}/admin/api/2020-10/customers.json
Example: https://ee28cad19:shp_8dba8dffe0c4f@vvyas.myshopify.com/admin/api/2020-10/customers.json

You can copy the sample Body from the Shopify API Developer documentation.

A Request would look like the one given below:

Now let’s change a few things so that the connector is more friendly when someones uses it in a flow.

In the Request area, choose body then Edit.

In the Parameter area, you now see all the parameters that the API expects to create a new customer.

We will make the first name, last name, and email as required.
select “first_name” click on more commands(…) and then click on edit.

Enter Title and Set “Is required” to “Yes”

Click on Back
Repeat this for Last name and Email.

Add Response

Go to Response section and click on “+Add default Response”

NOTE: you can add sample response from the Shopify API Documentation

Paste the sample in “Body” and click on Import

Once your Action is ready click on “Update Connector”

Action for Updating Customer

Create a new Action
Enter Summary, Description, and Operation ID

Summary: Update Customer
Description: Update Customer in Shopify
Operation Id: UpdateCustomer

Go to Request and Click on “Import from sample”
Select the verb and PUT the request URL to update customer in Shopify

Verb: PUT
URL: 
https://{apikey}:{password}@{hostname}/admin/api/2020-10/customers/{customer_id}.json
Example: https://ee28cad19:shp_8dba8dffe0c4f@vvyas.myshopify.com/admin/api/2020-10/customers/{customer_id}.json
Here, {Customer_id} is the input parameter.

Add Response

Go to Response section and click on “+Add default Response”

NOTE: You can add a sample response from the Shopify API Documentation

Paste the sample in “Body” and click on Import

Action for Retrieving All Products

Create new Action
Enter Summary, Description, and Operation ID

Summary: Retrieve All Products
Description: Retrieve All Products
Operation Id: RetrieveAllProducts

Go to Request and Click on “Import from a sample”
Select the verb and GET request URL to retrieve all the products

Verb: GET
URL: 
https://{apikey}:{password}@{hostname}/admin/api/2020-10/products.json
Example: https://ee28cad19:shp_8dba8dffe0c4f@vvyas.myshopify.com/admin/api/2020-10/products.json