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Connecting Shopify does two things: it gives Soran your orders, products, and customers, and it installs tracking on your store. Most of it happens for you. One switch does not, because Shopify reserves it for the merchant.
You need a property first. See Create a property.

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Two ways in

You can start from either end and land in the same place:
  • From Shopify. Install Soran from Shopify, and you arrive with your store already named. Soran matches it to a property, or sends you to register one.
  • From Soran. Create a property for your store, and creation hands you straight to the connection.
Each step is worked out from your store’s actual state rather than held in the page, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off.

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What happens

1

Name your store

If Soran does not already know which store this property reports on, it asks. Arriving from Shopify skips this — Shopify named the store on the way in.
2

Approve Soran on your store

Soran hands you to Shopify, Shopify asks you to approve the app, and you come back.Approving is also what installs checkout tracking: Soran creates the app pixel over Shopify’s Admin API during authorization. Checkout and thank-you page events start flowing with no further work from you.
3

Switch on the storefront

This is the one step only you can do. An app may not write to a Shopify theme without the merchant’s consent, so Soran cannot throw this switch for you.Use the button in the flow to open your theme editor, or do it by hand: in your Shopify admin, open Online Store → Themes → Customize → App embeds and switch on Soran.
Without the theme embed, your storefront reports nothing — no pageviews, no product views, no cart actions. Checkout still works, so the store looks connected while most of the funnel is missing.
The step closes itself as soon as your first storefront pageview arrives, which only the theme embed produces. Soran cannot tell “embed off” from “no visitors yet”, so once you have opened the editor you can also confirm it yourself with I’ve turned it on.

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You do not need the snippet

The theme app embed replaces the install snippet. Do not paste both — you would count every page twice. Install the tracker is for sites that are not on Shopify.

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Next

Your first report

Read what your connected store is telling you.