Connect your Shopify store

The Kive app links a Shopify store to a Kive workspace, so your catalog shows up in Kive ready to use. Install it once and you can turn any product into a product model without downloading and re-uploading its photos. You also get a Create with Kive action on every product in your Shopify admin, so you can generate images and push them back onto the product without switching tabs.

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Before you start

You’ll need two things: an active paid Kive plan, and admin access to the Kive workspace you want to link. Kive only offers workspaces you administer during setup, so if a teammate owns the workspace, ask them to run the install or to make you an admin first. On the Shopify side you need permission to install apps in the store. If you don’t have a Kive account yet, install the app first — Kive walks you through signup and creates the workspace as part of the flow.

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Install the app

You can connect more than one store to the same workspace — each connected store gets its own section in Kive.

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Import products into Kive

Open Organize → AI models. Each connected store appears as an Import from Shopify section listing your products with their image counts. Click Import on a product and Kive builds a product model from up to four of its images, which you can then use in any prompt by typing @modelname. Long catalogs paginate — click Load more products to keep going. Products with no images can’t be imported. Add at least one image in Shopify, then reload the page.

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Create images inside Shopify

Open any product in your Shopify admin and choose Create with Kive from the product actions menu. The embedded Kive app opens with that product selected, and you can pick a studio, set an aspect ratio and quality, and generate. Each result can be downloaded or added straight to the product’s images in Shopify, and Open advanced tools in Kive takes you to the full Create page when you want more control. Generations started from Shopify use your Kive workspace credits, the same as generations started in Kive.

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Shopify app vs. Import from URL

Kive’s Import from URL option in the model training modal works with any online store, but it reads your storefront the way a visitor would. Stores with bot protection, password protection, or an unusual page layout can block it, and you’ll see No products found even though the URL is correct. If your store runs on Shopify, install the app instead. It reads your catalog through Shopify’s API, so store security settings never get in the way and product titles and images come across exactly as you’ve set them up.

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See also

• Train a custom model
• Create professional AI product shots
• Plans and credits