Webkoding ShopKit Connect for WooCommerce

Webkoding ShopKit Connect for WooCommerce is the companion plugin of the ShopKit mobile app. Products, cart and checkout come from WooCommerce’s own Store API; this plugin adds what a shopping app needs on top of it:

• App keys and a connection code. Create a key under WooCommerce > ShopKit Connect and scan its QR code in the app (“Connect your store”) or paste the connection JSON there; the app then shows your store, without a rebuild. For a production build the same JSON goes into the app’s build configuration instead. Your WooCommerce REST API keys never go into the app.
• Customer accounts. Sign in, register, password reset by email, profile and password changes, and account deletion. Sign-in uses short-lived tokens that are stored hashed, can be revoked, and are throttled against password guessing.
• Checkout on your own checkout page. The app hands its cart to your normal WooCommerce checkout in a secure in-app browser, so every payment gateway you already use works. The hand-off link works once, expires after 5 minutes and only opens from the app that asked for it.
• Order history with status timeline, customer notes and shipment tracking numbers (from WooCommerce Shipment Tracking or compatible plugins).
• Address book, wishlist and a notification feed.
• Push notifications when an order status changes, plus broadcasts, through Firebase Cloud Messaging. Messages are sent in the background with Action Scheduler, so orders never wait for them.
• Extras the app’s screens use: review summary per star, review writing, sale end dates for countdowns, units sold, colour swatches for attribute terms, and coupons you choose to show in the app.
• Store settings for the app: logo (splash screen), a primary colour (used as the accent by the Core Kit design; the niche designs keep their own palette), home screen banners, contact and legal links, feature switches.

The plugin works with HPOS (custom order tables), the block checkout and the classic checkout.

Push notifications and Firebase

Push is off the network by default: the “Log only” driver writes each notification to the plugin log. To deliver real notifications, choose Firebase Cloud Messaging on the Push tab and enter the path of a Firebase service account key file. See “External services” below.

External services

This plugin connects to Google services only when you choose “Firebase Cloud Messaging” as the push driver on WooCommerce > ShopKit Connect > Push. With the default “Log only” driver nothing is sent anywhere.