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# Welcome to Stork Credit

Issue Shopify store credit automatically — from orders, schedules, CSV imports, Shopify Flow, or any tool that can send a webhook.

🐦 **Stork Credit** turns Shopify's native store credit into a rewards engine. Set a rule once — "2% back on every order", "€10 to every VIP on their anniversary" — and Stork issues the credit automatically, straight to the customer's Shopify store credit balance.

Because it uses **native Shopify store credit**, there is no separate points system and no extra checkout step. Customers see their balance at checkout and spend it like any other payment method.

## What Stork Credit does

* **Rewards orders automatically.** Rules run when an order is paid: a flat amount or a percentage, limited to certain products, collections, customers, or order sizes.
* **Runs scheduled campaigns.** Credit a segment on a date, or on a repeating cycle — birthdays, anniversaries, monthly loyalty drops.
* **Imports balances in bulk.** Upload a CSV to migrate credit from another app or seed a campaign.
* **Connects to everything else.** A Shopify Flow action and trigger, plus a signed webhook endpoint for Klaviyo, Zapier, Make, or your own backend.
* **Shows customers what they'll earn** through a theme block on the cart and, on Shopify Plus, a banner in checkout.

{% hint style="info" %}
**Store credit is issued to a customer account.** Orders placed without a customer — true guest checkouts — cannot be credited, because there is no account to hold the balance. See [How store credit works](/stork-credit/getting-started/how-store-credit-works.md).
{% endhint %}

## Where to start

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4>🚀 Install the app</h4></td><td>Install Stork Credit and turn on the storefront widgets.</td><td></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/getting-started/installation.md">Installation &amp; setup</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>⚡ Create your first rule</h4></td><td>Reward every paid order with credit in about three minutes.</td><td></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/getting-started/quickstart.md">Quickstart</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>🎯 Reward orders</h4></td><td>Every option on an order-value automation, explained.</td><td></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/automations/order-value-automations.md">Order-value automations</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>📥 Import balances</h4></td><td>Bring existing credit over from another tool with a CSV.</td><td></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/bulk-import/csv-import.md">CSV import</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Popular topics

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-type="content-ref"></th><th data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4>Automations</h4></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/automations/order-value-automations.md">Order-value automations</a></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/automations/run-history.md">Run history</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>Integrations</h4></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/integrations/shopify-flow.md">Shopify Flow</a></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/integrations/external-triggers.md">External triggers</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>Plans &#x26; help</h4></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/reference/plans-and-billing.md">Plans &amp; billing</a></td><td><a href="/stork-credit/reference/faq.md">FAQ</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## How the pieces fit together

Every route into Stork Credit ends at the same place — a Shopify store credit transaction on a customer account.

| You want to reward…                     | Use                                                                             |
| --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Customers who place an order            | [Order-value automations](/stork-credit/automations/order-value-automations.md) |
| A group of customers on a date or cycle | [Scheduled automations](/stork-credit/automations/scheduled-automations.md)     |
| A list of customers you already have    | [CSV import](/stork-credit/bulk-import/csv-import.md)                           |
| Anything that happens in Shopify        | [Shopify Flow](/stork-credit/integrations/shopify-flow.md)                      |
| Anything that happens outside Shopify   | [External triggers](/stork-credit/integrations/external-triggers.md)            |