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Create a custom workflow

Transform your Shopify store with AI-powered automation by connecting Shopify triggers to Perplexity AI actions through Make. Automatically generate compelling product descriptions, answer customer questions, and gain competitive insights whenever store events occur—eliminating manual work while improving your e-commerce experience with intelligent, real-time responses.

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

Shopify
Trigger: Watch events
Perplexity AI
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when a new event occurs in Shopify.

  • Triggers when a new event occurs in Shopify. Allows you to map any event and doesn't require any scopes in advance.

  • Triggers when an order is created or updated.

  • Triggers when a product is created or updated.

2. Select an action

  • Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.

  • Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.

  • Generate contextualized embeddings for document chunks. Chunks from the same document share context awareness, improving retrieval quality for document-based applications.

  • Generate vector representations (embeddings) for the text you provide.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Connect Perplexity AI as a trigger and Shopify as an action through Make's automation platform. When specific events occur in your Perplexity AI store—such as new orders, product updates, or customer inquiries—Perplexity AI triggers automated workflows that activate Shopify actions. These actions use Shopify's advanced search capabilities to generate compelling product descriptions, answer customer questions, analyze product trends, or conduct competitive research based on the data received from your Perplexity AI trigger. This integration enables your e-commerce business to automatically improve your online store with AI-powered insights whenever Perplexity AI events occur, eliminating manual processes while Perplexity AI triggers activate Shopify's capabilities.

Adjust an inventory level
Adjusts the inventory level by a relative amount.
Action
Create a chat completion
Creates a chat completions with the chosen model.
Action
Create a customer
Creates a new customer with the provided information.
Action
Create a fulfillment
Creates a fulfillment for a given fulfillment order.
Action
Create a product
Creates a new product.
Action
Create a product variant
Creates a new product variant.
Action
Create an agent response
Generate a response for the provided input with optional web search and reasoning.
Action
Create an article
Creates a new article.
Action
Create an order
Creates a new order.
Action
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How to set up Shopify and Perplexity AI in 5 easy steps

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Get your Perplexity AI API key

Log into your Perplexity AI account and click on the Settings icon next to your username. Navigate to the API section from the left sidebar, create a new API group, and then go to the API Keys tab. Click the Create Key button to generate your unique API key, then copy and save it securely as you'll need it to connect with Make.

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Connect Perplexity AI to Make

Log into your Make account and add a Perplexity AI module to your automation workflow. When prompted, click Create a connection and paste the API key you copied from Perplexity AI into the API Key field. You can give your connection a memorable name to identify it later, then click Save to establish the connection.

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Add a Shopify module to your workflow

In your Make account, add a Shopify module to your automation scenario. This module will serve as the connection point between your Shopify store and Make. When you add the module, you'll see an option to create a new connection—click on it to begin setting up your Shopify integration.

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Enter your Shopify store information

Select the standard Shopify connection type from the dropdown menu. In the Domain field, enter only the unique part of your store address—for example, if your store is xyz.myshopify.com, just enter xyz. Optionally, you can name this connection for identification, then click Save to proceed.

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Authorize and complete the setup

A new window will appear asking you to install the Make app in your Shopify store. Review the permissions that Make needs to access your store data and perform automated tasks, then click Install to approve. Once both Perplexity AI and Shopify connections show as active in your Make scenario, you're ready to build automated workflows between these two platforms.

Transform your Shopify store with AI-powered automation

Integrate Shopify and Perplexity AI to automate product research, generate intelligent content, and gain real-time market insights that drive sales and organize operations for your store.

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AI-powered product research

Automatically leverage Perplexity AI to research market trends and generate data-driven product descriptions for your Shopify store.

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Intelligent customer support automation

Use Perplexity AI to instantly answer complex customer questions by pulling information from your knowledge base and automatically updating Shopify order notes.

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Smart inventory insights

Automatically query Perplexity AI to discover supplier information, competitive pricing, and market demand for your Shopify products.

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Automated content generation

Generate SEO-optimized blog posts, product descriptions, and marketing content using Perplexity AI based on your Shopify catalog data.

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Integrating Shopify with Perplexity AI through Make enables you to leverage AI-powered knowledge discovery to improve your store operations. You can automatically generate product descriptions, answer customer inquiries with accurate information, create marketing content based on trending topics, and provide intelligent product recommendations. This integration allows you to tap into Perplexity's vast knowledge base to improve customer experience, optimize product listings, and make data-driven decisions without manual research, saving time while improving the quality of information across your store.

No coding skills are required. Make provides a visual, drag-and-drop interface that allows you to connect Shopify and Perplexity AI through pre-built modules and triggers. You simply select the actions you want to automate, such as when a new product is added to Shopify, trigger Perplexity AI to generate optimized descriptions or research competitor information. Make handles all the technical integration work behind the scenes, making it accessible for business owners, marketers, and team members without programming experience to create powerful automated workflows in minutes.

You can create numerous powerful workflows, including: automatically generating SEO-optimized product descriptions when new items are added to your catalog, researching and summarizing market trends to inform inventory decisions, creating personalized customer support responses based on order history and product information, generating blog content ideas related to your products, analyzing competitor offerings and pricing strategies, and enriching product data with detailed specifications and use cases. These automations run continuously in the background, ensuring your Shopify store always has up-to-date, high-quality information without manual intervention.

With Make, you can set up your first Shopify and Perplexity AI integration in as little as 15-30 minutes. The platform offers ready-to-use templates and an intuitive scenario builder that guides you through the setup process. Once activated, your workflows run automatically and immediately. You'll start seeing results right away—whether that's newly generated product descriptions, automated research reports, or improved customer communications. Make offers a free tier to get started, allowing you to test the integration and experience the benefits before committing to a paid plan, making it risk-free to begin automating your e-commerce operations today.