Dynamically display items in your online store

Allow customers to look up unique item information on the storefront via the app proxy.

The app provides a secure API, which can be used to extend your online store with item lookup capability, similar to the search functionality on the "Tracked items" page within the admin app. This may be useful to merchants wanting their customers to verify the authenticity of their purchased items.

To implement item search functionality on the storefront, basic knowledge of Javascript and Shopify Liquid programming languages is required. See the development API reference for more details.

write_app_proxy access scope

In order to provide the items lookup capability, the app needs the write_app_proxy access scope. Unfortunately, the access scope is required even if your store doesn't rely on the app proxy.

According to Shopify's documentation, "App proxies support Liquid, Shopify's template language. An app proxy response that contains Liquid will be rendered with store data into HTML like it was part of the store's theme."

Please note that even though the app requires access to "Edit your Online Store", it doesn't automatically make any changes to your storefront's content, even if your online store uses the app proxy. The API only returns data in JSON format and not Liquid. However, you can implement custom solutions, which would present such data to your customers.