# Kive for Shopify: AI Product Photos for Your Whole Catalog

> Kive for Shopify is a Shopify App Store app that imports your products into Kive, generates on-brand AI product photos, and adds them back to each product.

## What Kive for Shopify does

Kive for Shopify is a Shopify App Store app that links a store to a Kive workspace, imports products as AI product models, and adds the generated images back to the product in Shopify.

Each imported product becomes an AI product model built from up to four of its existing images, so generated shots stay accurate to the real product. Ask Agent to find gaps in your product pages, add missing angles or create lifestyle shots across the catalog, with your preferred presets keeping everything consistent.

The results go straight back to Shopify. No downloading and re-uploading each image. The app is free to install from the Shopify App Store, and workspaces that install it start with 200 free credits.

## Key facts

- Free to install from the Shopify App Store. Workspaces that install it start with 200 free credits, and generating uses credits after that.
- Starting the connection from Kive instead, in Settings → Integrations, needs a paid plan (Basic, Pro or Enterprise) and workspace admin access.
- Shopify permissions are read and write on products and files. Kive writes only when you add an image back to a product.
- Any number of stores can connect to one Kive workspace. Each store gets its own section in Organize → AI models.
- Product models use up to four existing product images, so shape, label and packaging survive generation.
- Generations started from Shopify use the same workspace credits as generations started in Kive.

## How the Shopify integration works

1. Install Kive from the [Shopify App Store](https://apps.shopify.com/kive) and pick the Kive workspace your store belongs to.
2. Import products from the Shopify section in [Organize → AI models](https://kive.ai/app/organize/ai-models), or ask Agent to pull them in.
3. Generate studio shots, lifestyle scenes and missing angles with your presets, so every product looks like the same brand.
4. Push the results straight back onto the product in Shopify.

![Kive listing on the Shopify App Store with a callout pointing to Install](https://kive.ai/images/learn/shopify-setup/install-kive.png)
*Install Kive from the Shopify App Store*

![AI models page in Kive with the Import from Shopify section listing store products and an Import button on The Complete Snowboard](https://kive.ai/images/learn/shopify-setup/import-products-shopify.png)
*Import products from Organize → AI models*

![Kive Create page with a Shopify product selected in the Products panel, the prompt field and Generate](https://kive.ai/images/learn/shopify-setup/create-image-shopify.png)
*Select a Shopify product, describe the shot, generate*

## Create without leaving Shopify

Every product in the Shopify admin gets a Create with Kive action that opens the Kive creator with that product selected. Results can be downloaded or added straight to the product's images. Generations use the workspace's Kive credits.

![Kive creator embedded in the Shopify admin: an imported Shopify product, the studio picker and the Create product images button](https://kive.ai/images/learn/shopify-setup/embedded-creator.png)
*The Kive creator, inside your Shopify admin*

## Shopify app vs Import from URL

| Feature | Shopify app | Import from URL |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reads your catalog through | The Shopify API | Your storefront, like a visitor |
| Password or bot protection | Never blocks the import | Can block it: "No products found" |
| Product titles and images | Exactly as set in Shopify | Whatever the page layout exposes |
| Add images back to the product | Yes, from Kive or the Shopify admin | No, download and upload by hand |
| Works with | Shopify stores | Any online store |

## FAQ

### Which Kive plans include the Shopify integration?

Installing from the Shopify App Store works on any plan, and a workspace that installs the app starts with 200 free credits. Generating images uses credits after that, the same as in Kive. Starting the connection from Kive’s Settings → Integrations instead needs a paid plan (Basic, Pro or Enterprise) and workspace admin access.

### What permissions does the Kive app ask for in Shopify?

Shopify asks for access to read and write products and files. Kive reads product titles and images to build product models, and writes only when you choose to add a generated image back to a product. It does not change prices, inventory, orders or customer data.

### Can I connect more than one Shopify store to Kive?

Yes. You can connect several Shopify stores to the same Kive workspace, and each connected store gets its own Import from Shopify section in Organize → AI models. Import the products you need from each store, then generate images for all of them from one workspace.

### Do I need to leave Shopify to create images?

No. Every product in your Shopify admin gets a Create with Kive action that opens the Kive creator with that product selected. Pick a studio, set the aspect ratio and quality, generate, and add the result straight to the product’s images without switching tabs.

### How is the Shopify app different from Import from URL?

Import from URL reads your storefront the way a visitor would, so bot protection, password protection or an unusual page layout can block it. The Shopify app reads your catalog through Shopify’s API, so product titles and images come across exactly as you set them up, and results can go back to the product.

### Do generations started from Shopify cost extra?

No. Generations started from the Shopify admin use your Kive workspace credits, the same as generations started in Kive. The credit cost per image depends on the quality mode and number of variants you choose, and it is shown before you generate.

## Links

- [Human page](https://kive.ai/integrations/shopify)
- [Install Kive on Shopify](https://apps.shopify.com/kive)
- [Setup guide](https://kive.ai/docs/integrations/shopify): install, import products, create inside Shopify.
- [AI product photography for Shopify](https://kive.ai/learn/ai-product-photography-shopify-guide): A setup guide for store owners: image specs, what to generate first, and how to keep a catalog consistent.
- [Best AI tools for Shopify product images](https://kive.ai/learn/best-ai-tool-product-images-shopify): Kive compared with Photoroom, remove.bg, Pebblely and Shopify Magic on realism, pricing and limits.
- [Kive MCP for Claude](https://kive.ai/mcp/claude): Run the same Shopify workflow from an AI assistant: pull products, generate in your styles and push visuals back to the store.
- [Pricing](https://kive.ai/pricing): plans and credits; the Shopify app is free to install and starts a workspace with 200 free credits.
- [Kive homepage Markdown](https://kive.ai/index.md): complete agent-readable positioning for Kive.