# The Shopify action

The [**Shopify action**](https://learn.mechanic.dev/core/actions/shopify) allows developers to submit any request to the Shopify Admin API. By [**responding to action results**](https://learn.mechanic.dev/techniques/responding-to-action-results), the data returned by Shopify can be retrieved, and re-used by the calling task.

This approach should (probably) only be used as a last resort, when Mechanic's other methods of [**reading data**](https://learn.mechanic.dev/core/shopify/read) do not cover the scenario.