Shopify Integration

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Key Concepts

The Shopify integration connects your Shopify storefront directly to Printago's production system so that incoming customer orders automatically generate print jobs. When a customer purchases a product, the integration syncs the order to Printago, matches the Shopify SKU to your Printago SKU definitions, and optionally queues the resulting jobs for production immediately.

The Printago Shopify app runs directly inside your Shopify Admin panel, giving you a Synced Orders dashboard to monitor order and job status, a Settings page to configure automation behavior, and a Production Status block on each order detail page to track print progress — all without leaving Shopify.

What You Get

Real-time order sync from Shopify to Printago
Manual backfill sync for historical orders with date range and fulfillment status filters
Synced Orders dashboard with job progress tracking inside Shopify Admin
Per-order Production Status block showing print completion
Automatic queueing (optional) for new valid order items
Progress tags written back to Shopify (optional)
Auto-close behavior for synced orders (optional)

Before You Start

You have access to a Printago account with Commercial features enabled
You have admin access to your Shopify store
Your Shopify SKUs are mapped to SKUs in Printago (exact SKU match or suffix match)

Connect Shopify to Printago

1. Install the Printago app in Shopify

In your Shopify Admin, install the Printago app from the Shopify App Store.

2. Connect from the Shopify app

Open the Printago app in your Shopify Admin. You'll see a welcome screen with a Connect to Printago button. Click it to begin the connection flow.

A popup window will open where you confirm the account binding in Printago:

Shopify connect flow confirmation in Printago

Select your Printago organization and click Connect. Once confirmed, the app stores your credentials and redirects you to the Synced Orders dashboard.

3. Verify connected status

After connecting, the app automatically redirects to the Orders page. You can verify your connection details in Settings, which shows your Printago store name, store ID, and connection date.

Synced Orders Dashboard

The Orders page is the main interface of the Printago Shopify app. It shows all orders synced between Shopify and Printago along with their print job status.

Synced Orders dashboard in Shopify Admin

Dashboard Features

Order count and job summary at the top, including total orders and print jobs
Date range filter — view orders synced in the last 7, 14, 30, 60, or 90 days
Hide completed checkbox to focus on in-progress work
Sortable columns — Order number, Status, Created date, Synced date

Order Status

Each order row shows a progress bar and job count (e.g., "1/1 jobs") indicating how many print jobs are complete. Orders with no matching SKUs show "No jobs".

Actions

Print — queue an individual order's items to the print queue
View — open the order in Printago for full details
Print All Orders — bulk-queue all visible orders to print
Manually Sync Orders — open a sync modal to import historical orders

Manual Sync

Click Manually Sync Orders to import existing orders. You can configure:

How many days back — 7, 14, 30, 60, or 90 days
Fulfillment status filter — Unfulfilled, Partially fulfilled, Fully fulfilled

This is useful for your first sync or to catch up on orders placed before the integration was connected.

Real-time Sync

After connection, new Shopify orders sync automatically via webhooks with no manual action needed.

Order Production Status

When you open an individual order in Shopify, the Printago app block displays a Printago Production Status card showing print completion progress for that order.

Order detail page with Printago Production Status block

The status block shows:

Completion percentage (e.g., "100% complete")
Job count (e.g., "1 completed")

Clicking the progress badge opens Printago's Queue filtered to that specific order.

Settings

Open Settings from the Printago app navigation to configure integration behavior.

Shopify app settings page

Automatically Print Orders

When enabled, new orders from Shopify are automatically added to the print queue. Order items with SKU errors are skipped.

Write Progress Tags

When enabled, Printago automatically applies order status tags in Shopify to reflect production progress (e.g., printago:in-progress, printago:printed). These tags are visible in your Shopify orders list.

Shopify orders list with Printago tags

Auto-close Orders

Controls when Printago orders are automatically closed based on Shopify fulfillment status:

Never — do not auto-close
When fully fulfilled — close when all items in the Shopify order are fulfilled
When partially fulfilled — close when any items are fulfilled

Line Item Properties

Shopify line item properties are custom key-value pairs that customers can set at checkout (e.g., engraving text, custom colors, personalization options). By default, Printago ignores these properties during order import.

To promote specific line item properties to SKU options for variant matching, add the exact property names to the whitelist. For example, if your customers select a "Text Color" property at checkout and you have a matching SKU variant option in Printago, adding Text Color to the whitelist will include it during SKU resolution.

Type the property name in the input field and press Enter or click Add
Remove a property by clicking the × on its tag
Property names match what Shopify sends ignoring capitalization and extra spaces
If a variant option and a line item property share the same name, the variant option takes precedence

You can inspect a line item's properties on the order detail page by clicking the icon next to any order item that has properties attached.

Ignored Variant Names

Some Shopify variant options may not affect your 3D printed product. The Ignored variant names setting lets you exclude specific variant option names from SKU matching so they don't interfere with order resolution.

Ignored variants are still stored on each order item for reference — they just aren't used when Printago resolves which SKU variant to print.

Type the variant option name in the input field and click Add
Remove a name by clicking the × on its tag
Names match the Shopify variant option name ignoring capitalization and extra spaces

Example: If your product incorporates wood parts and your Shopify listing has Color and Wood Type options, but the Wood Type doesn't affect your 3D printed parts, add Wood Type to the ignored list. Printago will match orders using only the Color option.

Connection Info

The Settings page also shows your connection details:

Printago store name
Store ID
Connected date

Disconnect

Click Disconnect from Printago in the danger zone at the bottom of Settings to remove the integration. This stops future syncs but does not remove historical orders already imported into Printago.

SKU Variant Support

The Shopify integration supports two methods for resolving product variants. You can use both in one store, but each order line uses exactly one of them, decided by its SKU code (see Matching Orders to Variants for the full flowchart):

Option-based matching

When a Shopify order comes in, Printago fetches the variant's selected options (e.g., Color=Red, Size=Large) directly from Shopify and matches them to your SKU Variant definitions in Printago.

This is the simplest setup — just make sure your Shopify option names and values exactly match your Printago variant names and values. See SKU Variant name matching for details.

SKU suffix matching

If your Shopify variants use compound SKU codes (e.g., WIDGET-001-RED-LG), Printago can also resolve variants by parsing the SKU suffix:

Each variant option/value combination in Printago must have a SKU suffix defined
Each Shopify variant must have a SKU value defined in Shopify
Printago automatically resolves compound SKUs by matching the base SKU and suffix options

Example:

Printago SKU: WIDGET-001
Color option: Red (suffix: -RED), Blue (suffix: -BLUE)
Size option: Small (suffix: -SM), Large (suffix: -LG)
Shopify variant SKU: WIDGET-001-RED-LG resolves to WIDGET-001 with Color=Red, Size=Large

Line item property matching

If your products use Shopify line item properties for customization options that go beyond standard variants (e.g., "Text Color", "Logo", "Back Color"), you can promote these to SKU options by adding them to the property whitelist in Settings.

How resolution works

When a Shopify order arrives, Printago resolves each line item's SKU in this order:

Build the selections: the variant's selected options (Color, Size, etc.), minus any ignored variant names, plus any whitelisted line item properties. A variant option wins over a line item property with the same name.
Exact SKU match: Printago looks for a SKU whose code exactly matches the Shopify variant's SKU (e.g., WIDGET-001). If found, the selections are matched to that SKU's variants by name or alias.
Suffix match: if no exact match is found, Printago tries to read the code as a SKU plus suffixes (e.g., WIDGET-001-RED-LG → WIDGET-001 with Color=Red, Size=Large). The parsed values replace the selections from step 1, including whitelisted line item properties; only personalization answers are kept.

If you use a single SKU code across all variants (e.g., every variant uses WIDGET-001), option-based matching handles everything automatically. If each variant has its own compound SKU code (e.g., WIDGET-001-RED-LG), suffix matching kicks in.

Shopify Integration

Key Concepts

What You Get

Before You Start