Shopify Admin API

The Shopify Admin API provides programmatic access to manage Shopify store administration. It enables app developers and merchants to manage products, customers, orders, inventory, shipping, fulfillment, collections, webhooks, and store settings. The Admin API is available in both REST and GraphQL formats. Shopify is transitioning from REST to GraphQL as the primary API, with GraphQL recommended for all new development.

Shopify Admin API publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Shopify Webhooks, Collections API, Customers API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Commerce, E-Commerce, Admin, Product, and Order.

The Shopify Admin API catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.

Shopify Admin API’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, changelog, engineering blog, GitHub presence, code examples, and 19 more developer resources.

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AccessPaid

1 published contract

Commerce E-Commerce Admin Product Order Customers

What this lets a business do 4

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Customer Relationship Management

BC-420

Customers

POST /customers.json

Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management

BC-4270

Webhooks

GET /webhooks.json POST /webhooks.json DELETE /webhooks/{webhook_id}.json

Inventory Management

BC-530

Inventory

GET /inventory_levels.json

Product Lifecycle Management

BC-820

Products

POST /products.json

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 36.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 13.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.8 / 10

Contract Governance 2.5 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 28.9 — up to +9.2 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
GraphQL Ecosystem (Foundation, graphql.org listings, public GraphQL APIs)	standard	16.3	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

AsyncAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Shopify Admin GraphQL API

The Shopify Admin GraphQL API is the recommended API for building Shopify apps and integrations. It provides access to all Shopify admin resources including products, customers,...

Shopify Webhooks

Shopify webhooks allow apps to subscribe to specific events that occur in a store. When an event occurs, Shopify sends an HTTP POST request with a JSON payload to the configured...

Shopify Admin API Collections API

The Collections API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for collections.

Shopify Admin API Customers API

The Customers API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for customers.

Shopify Admin API Inventory API

The Inventory API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for inventory.

Shopify Admin API Locations API

The Locations API from Shopify Admin API — 1 operation(s) for locations.

Shopify Admin API Orders API

The Orders API from Shopify Admin API — 3 operation(s) for orders.

Shopify Admin API Products API

The Products API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for products.

Shopify Admin API Shop API

The Shop API from Shopify Admin API — 1 operation(s) for shop.

Shopify Admin API Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Shopify Admin REST Collections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Customers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Inventory API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Locations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Products API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Shop API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shopify Admin REST Collections Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Shopify Admin API GraphQL API

The Shopify Admin GraphQL API is the recommended API for building Shopify apps and integrations. It provides access to all Shopify admin resources including products, customers,...

GRAPHQL

Shopify Admin API pricing

Not yet checked against Shopify Admin API's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.shopify.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Basic subscription	—
Grow subscription	—
Advanced subscription	—
Plus subscription	—
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

GraphQL Admin API (Standard, Basic/Grow plans): 100 points per second
GraphQL Admin API (Advanced Shopify): 200 points per second
GraphQL Admin API (Shopify Plus): 1000 points per second

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Shopify Admin API's documentation. All 13 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Shopify Admin Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shopify Admin Rate Limits

13 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Shopify Admin API

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Shopify Admin Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Shopify Admin Webhooks

AsyncAPI 2.6 specification modeling the Shopify Admin webhook event surface. Shopify webhooks allow apps to subscribe to events that occur in a Shopify store. When a subscribed ...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Shopify Admin Context

41 classes · 3 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Shopify Admin API — asyncapi rules

4 rules · 1 errors 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Shopify Admin API — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Shopify Admin API API Rules

9 rules · 3 errors 5 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Shopify Admin Customer

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shopify Admin Order

22 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Shopify Admin Product

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Shopify Admin Product Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Shopify Admin Create Order Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Shopify Admin List Products Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Shopify Admin Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shopify Admin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Shopify Admin Agentic Access

22 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Versioning

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

SpectralRules

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Examples

Examples

Examples

Examples

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shopify-admin
name: Shopify Admin API
description: The Shopify Admin API provides programmatic access to manage Shopify store administration. It enables app developers
  and merchants to manage products, customers, orders, inventory, shipping, fulfillment, collections, webhooks, and store
  settings. The Admin API is available in both REST and GraphQL formats. Shopify is transitioning from REST to GraphQL as
  the primary API, with GraphQL recommended for all new development.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shopify-admin.png
tags:
- Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Admin
- Product
- Order
- Customers
tags_raw:
- Commerce
- Ecommerce
- Admin
- Products
- Orders
- Customers
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shopify-admin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-05-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-graphql-api
  name: Shopify Admin GraphQL API
  description: The Shopify Admin GraphQL API is the recommended API for building Shopify apps and integrations. It provides
    access to all Shopify admin resources including products, customers, orders, inventory, fulfillment, and analytics. GraphQL
    enables efficient data fetching with precise field selection, real-time subscriptions, and access to advanced platform
    features not available in REST.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10/graphql.json
  tags:
  - Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Admin
  - GraphQL
  - Product
  - Order
  - Customers
  tags_raw:
  - Commerce
  - Ecommerce
  - Admin
  - GraphQL
  - Products
  - Orders
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/graphql
  - type: Explorer
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/api-exploration/admin-graphiql-explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - url: graphql/shopify-admin-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
  contact:
  - FN: Shopify Developer Support
    url: https://shopify.dev/
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-webhooks
  name: Shopify Webhooks
  description: Shopify webhooks allow apps to subscribe to specific events that occur in a store. When an event occurs, Shopify
    sends an HTTP POST request with a JSON payload to the configured endpoint. Webhooks can be configured for events across
    all major Shopify resources including orders, products, customers, inventory, fulfillment, and app-specific events.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/webhooks
  tags:
  - Commerce
  - E-Commerce
  - Webhook
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Commerce
  - Ecommerce
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/webhooks
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/webhooks/2024-10
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/shopify-admin-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  contact:
  - FN: Shopify Developer Support
    url: https://shopify.dev/
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-collections-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Collections API
  description: The Collections API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for collections.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-customers-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Customers API
  description: The Customers API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for customers.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-inventory-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Inventory API
  description: The Inventory API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for inventory.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Inventory
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-inventory-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-locations-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Locations API
  description: The Locations API from Shopify Admin API — 1 operation(s) for locations.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Location
  tags_raw:
  - Locations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-locations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-orders-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Orders API
  description: The Orders API from Shopify Admin API — 3 operation(s) for orders.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-products-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Products API
  description: The Products API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for products.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-shop-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Shop API
  description: The Shop API from Shopify Admin API — 1 operation(s) for shop.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Shop
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-shop-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- aid: shopify-admin:shopify-admin-webhooks-api
  name: Shopify Admin API Webhooks API
  description: The Webhooks API from Shopify Admin API — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  baseURL: https://{store_name}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-10
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shopify-admin-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest
  - type: Reference
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/latest
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
  - type: JSONStructure
    url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/shopify-admin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/shopify-admin-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/shopify-admin-capability-edges.yml
  name: Shopify Admin API Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shopify-admin-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shopify-admin-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shopify-admin-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shopify
- type: Website
  url: https://shopify.dev/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api
- type: Authentication
  url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/auth/get-access-tokens
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/rate-limits
- type: Versioning
  url: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/usage/versioning
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://shopify.dev/changelog
- type: Blog
  url: https://shopify.dev/blog
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Shopify
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/shopify-admin-product-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/shopify-admin-order-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/shopify-admin-customer-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  url: json-structure/shopify-admin-product-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/shopify-admin-context.jsonld
- type: Examples
  url: examples/shopify-admin-list-products-example.json
- type: Examples
  url: examples/shopify-admin-create-order-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/shopify-admin-vocabulary.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/shopify-admin-rules.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://shopify.dev/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Docs page
- name: Scaffold an app
- name: Build an app
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Shopify Admin API — frequently asked questions

Does Shopify Admin API have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Shopify Admin API, including Shopify Admin GraphQL API, Shopify Webhooks and Shopify Admin API Collections API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Shopify Admin API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Shopify Admin API, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Shopify Admin API?

Shopify Admin API uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Shopify Admin Authentication.

How much does the Shopify Admin API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Shopify Admin API, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Shopify Admin API ready for AI agents?

Shopify Admin API has a Kin Score of 36.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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