Why Connect Shopify?
Connecting your Shopify store directly to Lefty allows you to fully automate your product seeding workflows:
Sync Inventory: Automatically upload and sync the exact products you wish to gift to influencers, ensuring you never offer out-of-stock items.
Automate Fulfillment: Creating a shipment in Lefty immediately creates a corresponding order in your Shopify dashboard. This completely streamlines the process from the influencer's selection to your warehouse shipping the product.
How to Connect
You can initiate the Shopify connection from two different areas within the Lefty platform.
Step 1: Navigate to the integration setup Choose one of the following paths in your Lefty dashboard:
Go to Product Seeding > Stores > click Add Store.
OR go to Settings > Integrations.
Step 2: Install the Lefty App Once you select the option to add a store, you will be automatically redirected to the Shopify App Store. Click to install the Lefty app to your Shopify workspace.
Step 3: Confirm the connection After the installation is complete, Shopify will redirect you back to the Lefty platform. Your Shopify store will now appear as "Connected" in your integrations list.
FAQ
FAQ
Will processing gifting orders directly through the platform distort our Shopify sales metrics?
If left unfiltered, high volumes of zero-dollar or heavily discounted influencer gifting orders can impact your conversion rates and inventory metrics. However, our integration includes built-in identifiers that allow your digital team to easily filter these orders out of your primary reporting.
How can I identify and filter out influencer gifting orders in Shopify? There are a few different ways you can isolate these orders in your Shopify backend:
The automatic order tag (Recommended): Every order created through our platform automatically includes the tag
LEFTY. Your e-commerce team can use this tag to instantly filter out influencer orders from standard sales reports.Dedicated shipping options: You can create a specific, hidden shipping option designated solely for influencer gifting. You can then exclude orders utilizing this shipping method from your revenue and conversion metrics.
Order IDs: Each gifting order is tied to a specific Order ID that originates from our platform, which can be cross-referenced to identify non-retail transactions.
How do high-volume clients handle influencer gifting inventory?
For brands handling a massive volume of influencer seeding, standard filtering may not be enough. A common enterprise-level solution is to set up a secondary, hidden Shopify site specifically dedicated to influencer operations.
By doing this, you can allocate specific inventory strictly for the influencer team. This guarantees that gifting operations never accidentally pull from your live, customer-facing retail inventory, and keeps your primary store's data 100% isolated from marketing activities.