Start by choosing Shopify as the protocol. The server form is organized into sections:

## Store Details

Enter the store URL (e.g. **deployhq-test.myshopify.com**).

![Shopify Store Details](https://i.ibb.co/TD4gQ5SD/shopify-store-details.png)

## Authentication

Enter your API Access token. To generate an API access token for your Shopify store, please [see our guide](Article: #625).

![Shopify Authentication](https://i.ibb.co/b5hSTNKZ/shopify-authentication.png)

## Theme

You can use the name of an existing theme, or simply enter a new one and it will be created for you when you first deploy to it.

![Shopify Theme](https://i.ibb.co/PX3NBjk/shopify-theme.png)

Once you've configured these sections, your server will be ready for its first [deployment](Article: #257).

## Deploying to Shopify

When running a deployment to Shopify, only files that match the [Theme structure](https://help.shopify.com/themes/development/templates#theme-structure) will be uploaded, otherwise any other files outside will be skipped.

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Once the deployment has run, you'll see the files within your Theme.

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Additionally, deployments work in exactly the same way as other services and protocols, so you can easily set up [automatic deployments](Article: #147) to a Shopify theme when you push code to your repository.

**Please note that existing Shopify connections created before 01/01/2024 should continue to work, but following Shopify removing our app from the store, we cannot provide a guarantee that this will be the case indefinitely. If you need to regenerate a manual API token, please follow [our guide](Article: #625) to do so.**

**As of 1st January 2026, Shopify retired the legacy "Develop apps" flow in the store admin. New custom apps must now be created via the Shopify Dev Dashboard — [our guide](Article: #625) covers both the new flow and how to retrieve a token from an existing legacy app.**

**The password generated by Shopify's Theme Access app is a separate credential used by Shopify CLI and Theme Kit, and cannot be used as a DeployHQ API Access Token — you'll need a token from a custom app.**