Shopify

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What is Shopify?

Shopify is the platform many businesses run their online store on, orders, products, inventory, customers, fulfillment, and the storefront around them. Running it is a constant stream of operational work: processing and fulfilling orders, updating products and inventory, managing customers, handling refunds and drafts. This connection lets Fabric's assistant handle much of that for you, in plain language.

What Fabric's assistant can do with Shopify

Once your Shopify is connected, Fabric's AI assistant can act on your store from plain-language requests.

Find and read. Find customers, orders, products, variants, and metafields, get an order or its fulfillment orders by ID, and find order transactions, so you can pull what you need without opening the admin.

Manage orders. Create and update orders and draft orders, add line items, capture an order, mark it as paid, create a fulfillment, and issue gift cards, so processing sales can be handed off.

Manage products and inventory. Create, update, and publish products and variants, update inventory items and quantities, and find-or-create products and variants, so your catalogue and stock stay current.

Manage customers. Create and update customers and companies, create a company location, and add or remove tags, so your customer records stay in order.

You describe what you want and the assistant maps it to the right Shopify action or trigger.

You stay in control

The assistant acts only when you ask. For anything consequential, capturing an order, marking it paid, creating a fulfillment, publishing a product, updating inventory, it confirms with you before going ahead, unless you've told it not to for a particular task. Finding and reading never change anything in your store.

When something should happen regularly, you can set up a Fabric AI job that runs on a schedule, tagging customers after an order, flagging abandoned carts, updating inventory from another source, so the routine store work runs itself while you keep approval over anything that captures, fulfils, or publishes.

Search your Shopify from Fabric

Alongside the assistant, connecting Shopify adds keyword search over your store from Fabric's main search, so an order, product, or customer is findable by matching text in the same place you search the rest of your library, rather than searching the admin separately.

How people use it

Store owners process and fulfil orders, update products, and manage inventory by asking, keeping the store running without living in the admin. It fits anyone running a business on their own time.

Ops teams let store activity, a new order, an abandoned cart, a refund, trigger follow-on actions like tagging, fulfilling, or notifying.

Merchants managing a catalogue create, update, and publish products and variants in bulk by asking, rather than editing each by hand.

Teams with recurring store work set up a scheduled AI job to handle it, while keeping approval over anything that captures, fulfils, or publishes.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Shopify connection do?

It lets Fabric's AI assistant run your Shopify store, taking actions across orders, products, inventory, and customers. It also adds keyword search over your store in Fabric.

What can the assistant do in Shopify?

It can find customers, orders, products, variants, and transactions, create and update orders and draft orders, add line items, capture orders, mark paid, create fulfillments, issue gift cards, create, update, and publish products and variants, manage inventory, and create and update customers and companies. You ask in plain language rather than choosing from a fixed list.

Does the assistant change my store on its own?

No. It acts only when you ask, and for consequential actions, capturing or fulfilling orders, publishing products, updating inventory, it confirms with you first, unless you've deliberately told it not to for a specific task. Finding and reading change nothing.

Can it fulfil and process orders?

Yes. It can create fulfillments, capture orders, mark them paid, and add line items, with your confirmation on the consequential steps, so order processing can be handed off while you stay in control.

Can I automate store operations?

Yes. A Fabric AI job can run on a schedule, for example tagging customers after an order or flagging abandoned carts, while you keep approval over anything that captures, fulfils, or publishes.

Can I search my Shopify from Fabric?

Yes, by keyword, from Fabric's main search, so an order, product, or customer is findable by matching text alongside the rest of your library.

Does it work well with the Stripe connection?

Yes. Many stores handle payments through Stripe, so the two pair naturally: Shopify for store operations, the Stripe connection for payments, invoices, and subscriptions.

Will it capture orders or publish products without asking?

No. Nothing consequential happens without your confirmation, unless you've chosen to let a specific task run without it.

Is my Shopify data secure?

Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest. The connection acts on your store with your authorisation, and you control what it does. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does this work through MCP or the API?

Fabric also exposes your library and connected tools to external AI through its MCP server and API; this connection is the built-in way to have Fabric's own assistant work with your Shopify.

Does Fabric work with other tools alongside Shopify?

Yes. Shopify is one of many connections. You can also connect Notion, Google Drive, and Gmail, and automate across many apps with Zapier.