Written by Luc Brulet, Senior Software Engineer at TrackIt
Integrating TikTok with Shopify allows businesses to leverage TikTok’s vast audience while ensuring seamless product synchronization, efficient order management, and real-time inventory updates. By linking Shopify with TikTok Shop, merchants can automate product listings, track orders, and enhance their social commerce strategy—all while keeping Shopify as the central system for managing operations.
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TikTok Shop Partner Central & API
TikTok Shop Partner Central provides merchants with tools to list products, process orders, and analyze performance on TikTok. The TikTok Shop API enables businesses to integrate their e-commerce platforms by automating product synchronization, inventory updates, and order fulfillment. This API is essential for ensuring real-time data flow between Shopify and TikTok.
Step-by-Step Integration Guide
1. Create a TikTok App
- Register a TikTok app through the TikTok Shop Partner Central portal.
- This will generate an App Key and App Secret, which are required for authentication and API access.
2. Configure the Redirect Callback
- Set up the callback URL to authorize the API to receive TikTok notifications via a webhook.
- When a callback is triggered, it will return an access token.
- This token is necessary for retrieving the shop_cipher and making API calls, including refreshing the access token when needed.
3. Set Up the Webhook
- The most important webhook topic is “Order Status Change”—this ensures a notification is received whenever an order is placed on TikTok.
4. Implement a Token Refresh Mechanism
- The TikTok access token expires every 10 days.
- To maintain a continuous connection, a script or an AWS Lambda function should be scheduled to run at least once every 9 days.
- In this case study, the refresh process was automated to run daily to ensure uninterrupted operations.
Conclusion & Next Steps
This tutorial provided a step-by-step guide to integrating TikTok Shop with Shopify, enabling merchants to automate product listings, manage orders efficiently, and ensure real-time data synchronization. By leveraging the TikTok Shop API, businesses can streamline operations and enhance their social commerce strategy, making it easier to reach and convert TikTok’s engaged audience.
For companies considering integrating TikTok with their Shopify stores, it is recommended to partner with an integrator like TrackIt, which has extensive experience in cloud-native software development and e-commerce workflows.
About TrackIt
TrackIt is an international AWS cloud consulting, systems integration, and software development firm headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA.
We have built our reputation on helping media companies architect and implement cost-effective, reliable, and scalable Media & Entertainment workflows in the cloud. These include streaming and on-demand video solutions, media asset management, and archiving, incorporating the latest AI technology to build bespoke media solutions tailored to customer requirements.
Cloud-native software development is at the foundation of what we do. We specialize in Application Modernization, Containerization, Infrastructure as Code and event-driven serverless architectures by leveraging the latest AWS services. Along with our Managed Services offerings which provide 24/7 cloud infrastructure maintenance and support, we are able to provide complete solutions for the media industry.