# Connect Shopify

Canonical URL: https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/connect-shopify

The quickest way to connect a Shopify store: OptiQube reads your products straight from your storefront. There is nothing to install and no token to create.

## What to do

1. Click the store name in the top-left corner → **Connections** → **Connect catalog**.
2. Under **Where do your products live?**, choose **Shopify**.
3. Under **Shop address**, check the address. It is your shop's address, the one your customers visit, and OptiQube fills it in from your store.
4. Click **Connect shop**.
5. If OptiQube asks **Use one of your feed slots?**, confirm.

> **Watch out:** This uses one of your plan's feed slots, and disconnecting later does not free it. See [Product sources and feed slots](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/product-sources-and-feed-slots).

## What OptiQube reads

Products, prices and pictures from your storefront. They are read again on their own: every hour if the store has an active campaign or a live product group, otherwise once a day.

## Password-protected store?

A password-protected or bot-guarded store keeps its catalog closed, so OptiQube cannot read it from the storefront. In that case, click **Connect with a token instead** under the form and follow [Connect Shopify with a token](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/connect-shopify-with-a-token).

Once connected, the source is listed with your shop's name and how many products OptiQube read, for example *Shopify shop · Sissora · 124 products · 124 with an image*.

> **Done when:** your products show up under **Products** in the sidebar.