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Shopify Integration

BotShield integrates with Shopify using platform-supported checkout extensibility to verify human presence at checkout, protecting high-demand product drops and preventing bot-driven purchases.

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Overview

The Shopify integration allows you to:
  • Verify human presence at checkout
  • Prevent bot-driven purchases and scalping
  • Ensure fair access for real customers during limited-access drops
  • Protect high-demand product releases

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How It Works

BotShield integrates with Shopify through:
  1. Checkout Extensibility — Shopify’s official extension points
  2. Server-Side API — Your backend calls BotShield’s REST API to create verification requests
  3. Seamless UX — The user verifies via BotShield (deep link or QR code) and returns to checkout

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Integration Flow

  1. Customer initiates checkout on your Shopify store
  2. Your checkout extension calls your backend
  3. Your backend creates a BotShield verification link via the API:
  1. Customer completes verification in the BotShield app (5 seconds for returning users)
  2. BotShield delivers an anonymous, Svix-signed webhook to your endpoint — carrying only { type, event_id, request_id, verified_at, product, metadata } (where type is census.human_verified / census.multipass_active / census.human_unavailable and event_id equals request_id), no identity
  3. Your backend verifies the Svix signature, correlates by the request_id (and your metadata), and allows the checkout to proceed

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Configuration Options

You control when verification is required:
  • All checkouts — Every purchase requires verification
  • High-value orders only — Orders above a price threshold
  • Specific product collections — Limited-edition or high-demand items
  • Limited-access drops — Time-limited product releases

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Use Cases

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Limited-Access Drops

Protect high-demand product launches from bot scalping. When a sneaker drop or limited-edition release goes live, BotShield ensures only real humans can complete checkout.

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High-Value Orders

Require verification for orders above a threshold. Low-value, everyday purchases proceed normally; high-ticket items get an extra layer of human verification.

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Benefits

Fair Access

Ensure real customers get access to limited products

Bot Protection

Prevent automated purchases and scalping

Seamless UX

No CAPTCHA puzzles — 5-second biometric verification

Platform Native

Uses Shopify’s official checkout extensibility APIs

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Early Partner Program

We are onboarding a small group of Shopify merchants running high-demand checkouts to restore fair access for real customers. Early partner pricing available for a limited time. Contact us to learn more about the early partner program.

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Privacy

The Shopify integration is anonymous by construction. BotShield never receives or returns customer identity — no email, name, or Shopify customer id crosses the boundary. You learn that a human verified at checkout, never who. Results correlate to your order solely by the request_id and metadata (e.g. shopify_order_id) you supply when creating the verification link. Each checkout resolves to one of three result states — Human Verified, MultiPass Active, or Human Unavailable — which your backend acts on per your own policy.

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