Shopify Merchant Onboarding
Connect and onboard a Shopify store from Claude or Cursor when you are a merchant—not an app developer—ready to sell and import or migrate a catalog.
Overview
Shopify merchant onboarding is an agent skill most often used in Build (also Validate, Grow) that walks store owners through Shopify’s canonical hosted SKILL.md to connect, authenticate, and manage a shop from an AI assi
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/shopify/shopify-ai-toolkit --skill shopify-merchant-onboardingWhat is this skill?
- Loads canonical steps from shopify.com/SKILL.md for environment detection and guided onboarding
- Covers merchant goals: connect store, add products, and manage selling workflows from the assistant
- Documents replatform paths from Square, WooCommerce, Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Wix, Google Merchant Center, Clover, and Lights
- Explicitly scoped to store owners; redirects app/theme and multi-shop automation requests to shopify.dev/skill.md
- Compatible with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor per skill metadata
- Canonical instructions are fetched from https://www.shopify.com/SKILL.md
- Migration and import triggers name 9+ source platforms (Square, WooCommerce, Etsy, Amazon, eBay, Wix, Google Merchant Ce
Adoption & trust: 643 installs on skills.sh; 373 GitHub stars; 1/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You want to sell on Shopify but do not know how to connect your store, install the assistant plugin, or migrate products without reading scattered docs.
Who is it for?
First-time or migrating merchants using Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or Cursor who need guided Shopify setup and catalog import, not custom app development.
Skip if: Developers building Shopify apps, themes, or programmatic multi-shop creation—use shopify.dev/skill.md instead.
When should I use this skill?
User wants to set up or connect a Shopify store, install the Shopify plugin, onboard as a merchant, add products, migrate from another marketplace, or follow shopify.com/SKILL.md—excluding app or theme development.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Your agent follows Shopify’s official merchant onboarding flow end to end so the store is connected and you can route into product and migration tasks—or get redirected to the developer skill if you are building apps ins
- Connected authenticated store per hosted onboarding flow
- Routed next steps for products, imports, or migrations
- Developer redirect when the request is app or theme building
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Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Store connection, plugin install, and authentication are integration work that happens while you are building your selling stack, even though planning often starts earlier in validate. Canonical shelf is integrations because the skill’s flow centers on CLI/plugin setup, store auth, and goal routing tied to Shopify’s merchant toolkit.
Where it fits
Decide whether Shopify fits your offer and sketch first-store goals before connecting accounts.
Run CLI and plugin installation plus store authentication from the assistant using shopify.com/SKILL.md.
Route from onboarding into adding products or import tasks once the store link is live.
Re-open onboarding flows when migrating another channel’s catalog into Shopify mid-growth.
How it compares
Merchant-hosted onboarding playbook for store owners, not the Shopify developer skill for APIs and app extensions.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is shopify-merchant-onboarding for?
It is for solo store owners and indie sellers who want their AI assistant to set up or connect a Shopify store, add products, and handle common migrations—not for Shopify app or theme developers.
When should I use shopify-merchant-onboarding?
Use it in Build when connecting Shopify integrations; in Validate when scoping your first online store or replatform; and in Grow when you need assistant-driven catalog or migration help after you have committed to Shopify.
Is shopify-merchant-onboarding safe to install?
Review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page and treat store authentication and plugin installs as sensitive—only proceed when you trust the skill source and your agent environment.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Shopify Merchant Onboarding
Fetch the full skill instructions from https://www.shopify.com/SKILL.md and follow them step by step. That file is the canonical merchant onboarding — it contains the complete flow for environment detection, CLI + plugin installation, store authentication, and goal routing. Execute its instructions exactly as written. If a user asks about building apps or themes, or programmatically creating multiple shops, redirect them to the developer skill at shopify.dev/skill.md.