How to use cartTransformCreate mutation in online store?

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Hello, I’m using Cart transform to make a Bundle product, using an app created by Dev dashboard. In dev store, I can run code in GraphQL dashboard, and create a cart Transform function. when I install the app to online store, how can I do this?
Pls help, thanks!!

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Hi Zara,

Is the issue here that everything is working as expected in the dev store that your app is installed on, but if you install it on a live store, it’s not working?

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@Liam-Shopify Yes, it works in different dev stores, but it doesn’t work in live store. I don’t know why, and I can’t check the logs, which is very troublesome.

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Hi @Zara

Are you using the cartTransformCreate mutation of each store that’s installing your app?

The flow should be:

  • A store installs the app
  • You receive an API call to your server
  • You verify that this is a new install
  • Obtain Offline Access Token
  • You run cartTransformCreate mutation for that store using Admin API and the access token

Once this is done. It should work for every store.

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No, only the dev store runs cartTransformCreate in the GraphiQL dashboard, so you mean, when installing to a new Live store, It needs to judge, and then run GraphQL to create a cart Transform function, right?

But we did not deploy the app to the server, we just deploy it to Shopify. I read the doc and said that Functions can be used without deploying the app. In the Cart transform of extensions, it seems that the cartTransformCreate mutation cannot be run.

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Yes. That is correct. In order to run function, you don’t need to have a server.

But in order to make it seamless, you would have to run a graphql mutation for creating Cart Transform on a new store.

Maybe @David-Shopify can shed more light on this.

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Thanks for your explanation.
Without Server, I don’t know how to run GraphQL that creates Cart Transform inside the cart-transform extension. So is the server necessary?

@David-Shopify Can you help this? Thank you very much!

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Hello @Zara,

Is this a private app or a public app. As functions dont run on private app.

When you are on test store then functions will run but once you are on a live store functions will run only if app is a public app.

To create a cart transform mutation, you must execute a GraphQL API mutation query, which requires a server and a function ID obtained after deploying the function to Shopify.

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@Ankit_Shrivastava Thanks for replying.

I created the app in dev dashboard, maybe this is a feature of Shopify Plus. This app can only be installed in this organization. It should be a private app and belongs to this organization only.

Just deploy the cart transform extension to Shopify, I think it couldn’t run GraphQL in this, can I use this function in live store?

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@Zara : Unless you are on Shopify Plus you cant have functions related features on private app.

You will have to release app as a public get it approved by Shopify and once published then only you can use that app for a non Shopify Plus store.