Pinterest setup

// Reviewed Pins from ArtDrop Web

Pinterest reviewed publishing is available in ArtDrop Web as a beta. After you connect Pinterest, the ArtDrop system creates one Pin at a time on a board you choose, for a Shopify product that ArtDrop already created, and only after you review the exact Pin and click Publish this Pin.

To find it, open Social Publishing from the sidebar, expand Saved connections, and choose Open Pinterest reviewed publishing. During setup, the same Pinterest reviewed publishing card appears in the Social Publishing step.

Connect Pinterest separately for each ArtDrop store. Reviewed Pins are for Shopify stores, because each Pin links to the Shopify product page.

// One connection, one review, one Pin

You click Connect Pinterest, then sign in and authorize on Pinterest. ArtDrop does not ask for your Pinterest password, a developer app, or a manually pasted token. Pinterest shows the access requested: reading your account, boards, and Pins, and creating Pins. Pinterest requires board write access to add a Pin to a board.
ArtDrop records the authenticated Pinterest account ID and username, then loads the account's boards live. The picker includes only boards owned by that authenticated user; collaborative boards and boards without a matching owner are excluded.
You choose one Shopify product that ArtDrop created and one of your boards, then edit the Pin title, description, and image description. The image and the Shopify product link come from that product.
Prepare review freezes those exact values for you to inspect. A separate Publish click is your timing decision and sends that one reviewed Pin immediately. There is no background, scheduled, automatic, or bulk Pinterest posting.
After Pinterest returns a Pin ID, ArtDrop reads that exact Pin back and records success only when the returned identity, board, link, and available copy match the review. An uncertain result is marked for manual checking and is never posted a second time automatically.

// What stays unavailable

Finishing a drop does not create a Pin. Each Pin needs its own review and its own Publish click.
Reviewed Pins are part of ArtDrop Web only, not ArtDrop Mac.
Etsy stores are not eligible, because each Pin links to a Shopify product page.
The ArtDrop system does not create, rename, or delete boards, and it does not edit or delete a Pin after it is sent. Manage existing Pins in Pinterest.
Video Pins, Pinterest ads, and Pinterest catalogs are not part of this workflow.

// Pinterest through Shopify

ArtDrop-created Shopify products can also reach Pinterest through Shopify's official Pinterest sales channel. Install and configure the Pinterest app in Shopify, then manage the catalog and Product Pins there.

This is Shopify channel publication, not direct Pinterest publishing by ArtDrop. The two routes stay separate: the Shopify channel manages Product Pins from your catalog, and the reviewed publishing card sends one organic Pin at a time.

// Previously supplied credentials

If you entered a Pinterest access token or board ID for an older local setup and no longer need them, revoke access in Pinterest.

// What ArtDrop stores

For the Web connection, ArtDrop stores the OAuth access and rotating refresh tokens in an AES-256-GCM encrypted envelope bound to your ArtDrop account and selected ArtDrop store. The browser does not receive those tokens. ArtDrop also stores the connected Pinterest account ID and username. Board names are loaded from Pinterest for the picker. A recent board list may be held briefly in ArtDrop's server memory, for up to six hours, so the picker keeps working when Pinterest is slow. That list is never written to storage, and only the chosen board ID is recorded with the review and the delivery record.

The delivery ledger keeps the selected board ID, exact reviewed image and destination URLs, title, description, alt text, source event, status, Pinterest Pin ID when returned, verification result, bounded error code, and timestamps. ArtDrop does not retain Pinterest's raw API response body in that ledger.

// Disconnect and deletion limits

Use Disconnect on the Pinterest reviewed publishing card, or Remove saved Pinterest connection under Saved connections in Social Publishing. Disconnecting removes the encrypted Pinterest credential from ArtDrop for that ArtDrop store. Pinterest does not provide the end-user token-revocation call this workflow would need, so you must also remove ArtDrop in Pinterest security settings to revoke access there. Disconnecting does not delete a Pin already created on Pinterest, and the delivery ledger remains until account erasure.

ArtDrop account erasure deletes the local Pinterest credential, pending authorization state, and publication ledger, subject to the general backup, security, and legal limits in our Privacy Policy. Pins and other data already received by Pinterest remain under Pinterest's Privacy Policy and must be managed with Pinterest.

// Shopify Product Pins remain separate

The reviewed publishing workflow creates one organic image Pin. It does not create or submit a Pinterest catalog and does not save an existing Product Pin.
Direct ArtDrop Catalogs API publishing is not currently offered. The official Pinterest for Shopify sales channel remains the Product Pin catalog route.
ArtDrop does not request Pinterest catalog, advertising, order, customer, refund, checkout, or fulfillment access and does not handle those activities.
Catalog approval is Pinterest catalog evidence only. It does not prove that an organic Pin was posted. OAuth authorization and board selection also do not prove delivery; the exact Pin readback does.

// Official references

Checked July 29, 2026: Pinterest's authentication and authorization guide, API access tiers, and Developer Guidelines.

// Set up Product Pins

Follow Pinterest's Shopify connection guide or open the Pinterest app in the Shopify App Store.