How RocketHooks Works with Shopify

RocketHooks monitors Shopify’s Admin REST API to detect changes across your store: new orders, inventory updates, product modifications, and customer activity. Instead of relying solely on Shopify webhooks (which can miss events during outages), RocketHooks provides a reliable polling layer with intelligent change detection.

Works with any Shopify plan that includes API access via custom apps.

Authentication Setup

Create a custom app in your Shopify admin and configure the Admin API access token:

{
  "auth": {
    "type": "custom-header",
    "headers": {
      "X-Shopify-Access-Token": "YOUR_ADMIN_API_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    }
  }
}

Grant the minimum required scopes for your use case: read_orders, read_products, read_inventory, or read_customers.

Endpoint Examples

Monitor New Orders

Track incoming orders in real time:

{
  "url": "https://your-store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-01/orders.json?status=any&limit=20&order=created_at+desc",
  "method": "GET",
  "pollInterval": 30,
  "changeDetection": {
    "strategy": "jsonpath",
    "expression": "$.orders[*].id"
  }
}

Monitor Inventory Levels

Detect low stock or inventory changes:

{
  "url": "https://your-store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-01/inventory_levels.json?inventory_item_ids=ITEM_ID_1,ITEM_ID_2",
  "method": "GET",
  "pollInterval": 300,
  "changeDetection": {
    "strategy": "jsonpath",
    "expression": "$.inventory_levels[*].available"
  }
}

Monitor Product Updates

Watch for product modifications (price changes, description updates):

{
  "url": "https://your-store.myshopify.com/admin/api/2024-01/products.json?limit=50&order=updated_at+desc",
  "method": "GET",
  "pollInterval": 120,
  "changeDetection": {
    "strategy": "deep-compare"
  }
}

Common Patterns

Order Fulfillment Pipeline

Monitor new orders and route them to your fulfillment system, ERP, or 3PL via webhooks. RocketHooks ensures every order is captured even if Shopify’s native webhooks experience delivery failures.

Low Stock Alerts

Track inventory levels across products and locations. When stock drops below a threshold, send webhook alerts to your operations systems and trigger reorder workflows.

Price Monitoring

Watch for product price changes across your catalog. Useful for marketplace sellers who need to sync prices to other channels when the source of truth updates.

Delivery Channels

Webhooks: Connect to fulfillment, ERP, or accounting systems with HMAC-signed payloads and automatic retries

Additional delivery channels (Slack, email, SMS) coming soon.

Next Steps

Create a custom app in Shopify Admin with required API scopes
Copy the Admin API access token into RocketHooks
Set up your first order or inventory monitor
Configure webhook delivery for your operations workflow

Shopify Integration