Definition of “Instance”

DotApparel connects a Shopify store to a Retail API. Each Shopify store needs its own DotApparel app, which is called an "instance" and needs a separate project created within Google Cloud.

As explained in our Creating a Google Cloud account guide, DotApparel runs in a dedicated Firebase project. A single Google Cloud account can have many Firebase projects created. We will usually ask for a staging and production project so that we can test the DotApparel solutions before moving it to production.