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The order, in the message
about the order.

Search for and attach a real order, draft order, product or customer to any message, so the conversation carries the record rather than a description of it that started ageing the moment it was pasted.

Order #1024 Shopify Paid Unfulfilled 3 items a pasted screenshot

Store conversations are about objects, not ideas

An engineering team talks about code, and their tools have spent a decade learning to render it well. A store team talks about objects that exist in a database somewhere else: this order, that variant, this customer. Every one is a live record whose state changes while you are discussing it.

General chat has no idea those objects exist. So every conversation carries a small tax: somebody fetches the context, pastes it, and hopes it is still accurate ten minutes later.

The pasted screenshot is the symptom

If your team pastes screenshots of your own admin into chat, the chat is in the wrong place.

A pasted order status is true when pasted and possibly false when read. Nobody knows which, so either everyone re-checks, which is slow, or nobody does, which is wrong. The second failure is silent, and silent failures are the expensive kind: nobody discovers they acted on stale information until a customer tells them.

What can be attached

Orders, draft orders, products and customers. Searching happens inside the message composer, so attaching one does not mean leaving the conversation to go and find it.

Store Huddle only reads this information when it is needed to provide search and attachment. It is not copied out and kept in step separately.

Why being embedded matters here

The context advantage only exists because the app runs inside Shopify admin, authenticated through your existing session. There is no second login, no separate account to provision, and nothing to keep synchronised.

It also removes the most under-weighted factor in whether an internal tool gets used at all: how many clicks it sits away from where the team already is.

Questions

Common questions

What Shopify records can I attach to a message?

Orders, draft orders, products and customers, searched and attached from inside the message composer without leaving the conversation.

Does the attachment stay up to date?

The attachment references the record rather than copying a snapshot of it, which is the difference between context and a screenshot that has already aged.

What Shopify data does Store Huddle read?

Limited information relating to orders, draft orders, products and customers, and only when required to provide resource search and attachment. The detail is on the security page.

Does this add anything to my storefront?

No. Store Huddle is an embedded admin app. There is no theme code and nothing your customers load.

Can I attach a record to a task as well as a message?

Yes. A task created from a message keeps whatever was attached, so whoever picks it up has the order rather than a description of it.

See it inside your own admin.

Free for teams up to five, and about two minutes to connect your store.