# Connect Your Shopify Store to Osello

> How to connect Shopify to Osello, authorize the app, and what happens after — products, images, inventory, and prices import and stay in sync automatically.

Connecting Shopify takes a few minutes: add the integration, click **Authorize**, and approve the app in Shopify. From then on Osello imports your catalog and keeps it in sync automatically.

## Connect in three steps

1. Open the store menu at the bottom of the sidebar and choose **Integrations**, then click **New Integration** and select **Shopify**.
2. Fill in the short form:
   - **Connection Mode** — choose **Install Shopify App**. (The custom app modes are for special setups; if you think you need one, [contact us](/help/troubleshooting/how-to-get-help) and we'll walk you through it.)
   - **Shop URL** — your store's address, like `your-store.myshopify.com`.

   Then click **Connect Integration**.
3. On the integration page, a banner asks you to complete the connection. Click **Authorize** — you'll be sent to Shopify to approve the app and its permissions, then returned to Osello.

That's it. Osello confirms the connection and starts working with your store.

## What Osello imports

- **Products** — titles, descriptions, images, variants, tags, and metafields.
- **Prices** — each variant's price from Shopify.
- **Inventory** — your Shopify locations and the stock level at each one.
- **Orders** — so marketplace orders and your Shopify orders can be linked and kept in step.

Osello only reads your product data — it never edits the products in your Shopify store. Everything marketplace-specific happens on your listings inside Osello, so your Shopify catalog stays exactly as you keep it.

## Sync is automatic

You don't need to re-import anything by hand:

- **The first connection imports your whole catalog.** Osello fetches every product rather than only recent ones, so your full Shopify catalog is in Osello from the start. This runs once, on the first connection — reconnecting later resumes the normal schedule instead of re-importing everything.
- When a product changes in Shopify, Shopify notifies Osello right away and the product updates.
- Inventory levels refresh on an hourly schedule, and the full catalog gets a refresh daily.
- Want something pulled in immediately? Open the integration page's actions menu and choose **Pull Products**. Osello asks whether to fetch only recently updated products (the fast default) or your whole catalog.

## Choosing what imports

By default Osello imports your whole catalog. On the integration's settings you can narrow that down:

- **Product Inclusion Tag Filter** — only import products with certain Shopify tags.
- **Product Exclusion Tag Filter** — skip products with certain tags. Products tagged `osello:exclude` are always skipped.
- **Excluded Product Types** — skip products by their Shopify product type. `Bundle` is excluded by default, since bundle SKUs usually can't be listed on marketplaces.
- **Map Vendor to Brand** — on by default; uses each product's Shopify vendor as its brand.

## Where to go next

- [A tour of your dashboard](/help/getting-started/a-tour-of-your-dashboard)
- [Connect your first marketplace](/help/getting-started/connect-your-first-marketplace)
- [From product to live listing: how the flow works](/help/getting-started/from-product-to-live-listing)