Seokai works the moment you install it. But the defaults don't know how your store runs, and a few minutes in settings closes that gap. This walkthrough covers the areas worth touching early: the permissions Shopify asks Seokai to grant, plus the toggles for automation, structured data, language, and notifications.
Permissions and scopes
During install, Shopify asks you to grant a set of permissions, called scopes. They spell out exactly what Seokai can touch, things like reading your products and collections and updating their SEO metadata. The app only requests the scopes it genuinely needs. If a future feature requires a new one, Shopify will stop and ask you to approve it before that feature switches on, so access never expands quietly behind your back.
Decline or revoke a scope and the features that depend on it stop working until you re-approve. You can review what any app has access to whenever you want, from the apps section of your Shopify admin.
Automation
Switch automation on and Seokai generates metadata the moment you create a new product or collection, triggered by Shopify webhooks. New items show up already optimized, no extra step from you. This is the setting to enable if you add products often. Prefer to review everything by hand first? Leave it off, and flip it on later. You can change it any time.
Structured data and AI discoverability
Here you control your schema.org structured data and pick which types to output, Product, Article, Organization, FAQ, and so on. This is also where you manage your llms.txt file, which gives AI crawlers a clean map of your store. Together these help on two fronts: traditional search results that lean on structured data, and the AI assistants more shoppers now ask before they ever open a search engine.
Language
Selling into more than one market? Seokai can generate metadata in multiple languages. Set your preferred languages so generated titles and descriptions land in the right tongue for each audience instead of defaulting to one, which keeps the store reading naturally everywhere you sell.
Notifications and backups
- Turn on weekly email reports to track progress without logging in.
- Use CSV meta backups to export your metadata, and restore from a backup any time you need to roll a change back.
- Check the in-app billing page to see your current plan and credit usage.
A sensible first pass
Run through settings right after installing, then again whenever you ship a big feature or open a new market. Switch on automation, enable the structured data types that fit your catalog, and schedule the weekly report. Set those three up front and Seokai keeps working in the background while you get on with running the store.
