Shopify Bitcoin User Guide

To enable Bitcoin payments with Coinsnap in your Shopify store, you must meet the following requirements:

• A Shopify website with administrator access, as well as administrator access to the Shopify Partner Portal
• An active Coinsnap account
• The Coinsnap for Shopify extension from the Shopify App Store.

Add Coinsnap (dev@coinsnap.io) as a user to your Shopify admin to allow app installation and configuration

Open your Shopify Store:

Go to Settings and then open the Users section.

Click the Add users button and add a new user.

Enter the dev@coinsnap.io email address and assign the role (Auto-generated) Orders, Settings ….

After assigning the role, you will see a screen like this:

Grant the Partner Checkout and customer accounts and Finance permissions. These permissions are required to configure the payment method and the Thank You page.

This is the final result after adding the user. The Partner only needs to confirm the invitation.

2.1. Log in to the Shopify Partner Portal:

https://www.shopify.com/partners

2.2. Register or log in as a Shopify Partner.

2.3. In the Shopify Partner dashboard, click on App distribution in the menu.

Click the Visit dev dashboard button to open your App Developer dashboard.

2.4. Go to Create app.

2.5. Click Create app manually. Enter the app name (for example, Coinsnap) and click Create.

2.6. The new app is created. Open Settings in the app submenu and save the app credentials: Client ID and Client Secret.

2.7. Go to the Home submenu, find the Distribution section on the right, and click View details.

You will be redirected back to the Partner Portal in a new tab.

2.8. Select API access request from the left menu. Scroll down to Allow network access in checkout and account UI extensions and grant network access.

2.9. Make sure Checkout and Account UI extensions are enabled.

3.1. Go to your Coinsnap App.
Open Settings → Shopify and choose DIY – create the connection yourself.

3.2. Paste the Client ID, Client Secret, and App name, then click Save.

3.3. Click the Deploy button.

If everything is correct, the message Please wait for the deployment process to complete, it should take up to 20 seconds will appear.

Follow the deployment status in the light-green bar above the Deploy button.

3.4. The system will ask for Shopify authorization. Click Open Shopify authorization.

After clicking the button, a new tab will open and Shopify will ask you to log in.

3.5. Shopify will ask you to confirm login to the Coinsnap App. Click Confirm and log-in.

3.6. You will see a message confirming that you successfully logged in to Shopify CLI on the Coinsnap App. You can close the current tab.

3.7. Open the app’s page in the Shopify Developer Portal to verify the successful deployment. You will see a new app version as a result.

After successful login to Shopify CLI on the Coinsnap App, the deployment process is complete.

4.1. Go to your Coinsnap App. Open Settings → Shopify and choose DIY – create the connection yourself.

4.2. Paste the Client ID, Client Secret, and App name from your Shopify Partner Portal, then click Save.

4.3. Click the Deploy button. If everything is correct, the message Please wait for the deployment process to complete, it should take up to 20 seconds will appear.

Follow the deployment status in the light-green bar above the Deploy button.

4.4. The system will ask for Shopify authorization. Click Open Shopify authorization.

After clicking the button, a new tab will open and Shopify will ask you to log in.

4.5. Shopify will ask you to confirm login to the Coinsnap App. Click Confirm and log-in.

4.6. You will see a message confirming that you successfully logged in to Shopify CLI on the Coinsnap App. You can close the current tab.

4.7. Open the app’s page in the Shopify Developer Portal to verify the successful deployment. You will see a new app version as a result.

After successful login to Shopify CLI on the Coinsnap App, the deployment process is complete.

5.1. On your Shopify dashboard, click on Settings (located at the bottom of the left navigation panel), select Checkout, and then click Customize.

5.2. In the editor, change the selected page to the Thank you page.

5.3. Click the Apps icon in the left panel and add the app to coinsnap-checkout by clicking the (+) sign. The extension will be added to your Thank you page.

Important: Click Save in the top-right corner.

To double-check that everything is working, click the left arrow < next to the app name and verify that it is listed in the Order details section.

6.1. Go back to your dashboard and click Settings >> Payments in the left sidebar.
Scroll down to Manual payment methods and click
(+) Manual payment method.

6.2. Select Create custom payment method
from the dropdown menu.

6.3. You can now edit your payment method.

7.1. Fill out the necessary fields and click Review order.

7.2. Check the order information under Review and pay and click Complete order.

7.3. On the order confirmation page, click Pay with Bitcoin.

Now the QR code for the Bitcoin Lightning payment will appear.

Scan this QR code with your Bitcoin Lightning wallet and authorize the payment. The payment will be immediately credited to the wallet specified in your Coinsnap account.

So – now you have Bitcoin payment in your Shopify store!

If you don’t want to go to the trouble of connecting Coinsnap for Shopify with your Shopify store, we’ll be happy to do it for you – free of charge and reliably.

To take advantage of this free Shopify integration service, just complete these two small tasks:

1. Create a new admin-user as an administrator in Shopify
2. instruct us to install Coinsnap for Shopify in your Shopify store for free

-> Learn more about our freee Shopify installation service