Connect CJ Dropshipping
Connect your own CJ account with an API key, verify it in Dropshipping, and recover safely after a disconnect.
Connect CJ Dropshipping when you want to search, import, and operate CJ supplier products with your own CJ account.
Before you start
Entry path: Project → Store Operations → Dropshipping → Connect supplier
You may also find the CJ card under Project → Apps → Store Apps → CJ Dropshipping when that entry is available in your workspace.
You need:
- a CJ Dropshipping account and its current API key;
- authority to connect it to the workspace; and
- a safe sample product for checking the connection before relying on it.
Keep the API key private and enter it only in Runner’s CJ connection dialog. Disconnecting removes supplier authorization from merchant-owned CJ imports until you reconnect.
CJ controls and results
| Control | Why it is useful | What happens next |
|---|---|---|
| Connect supplier | Opens the provider choices from Dropshipping. | Choose CJ Dropshipping to open API-key setup. |
| CJ card Connect | Opens CJ setup from Apps, when available. | Runner asks for CJ API Key. |
| CJ API Key | Connects your own supplier account. | The dialog accepts a non-empty key for submission. |
| Eye icon | Helps check a typing mistake. | Toggles key visibility. Hide it before sharing your screen. |
| Dialog Connect | Submits the key. | On success, Runner clears the field, closes the dialog, and marks CJ connected. |
| Cancel or close | Leaves without connecting. | Runner clears the key from the dialog. |
| Delete or Disconnect | Starts removal. | Runner opens a confirmation before removing the connection. |
| Confirmation Disconnect | Removes your key. | Future merchant-authorized CJ search, import, checkout, and supplier operations are blocked until a valid connection is restored. |
Connect your CJ account
- Open Project → Store Operations → Dropshipping.
- Select Connect supplier, then choose CJ Dropshipping. If your workspace shows the CJ card in Apps, you can start there instead.
- Copy the API key from the CJ account you intend Runner to use.
- Paste it into CJ API Key.
- Select Connect in the dialog.
- Wait for Runner to confirm the connection.
- Submit a safe search or open a sample CJ product in Dropshipping to verify that the connection can access the intended catalog.
Disconnect or replace the key
Read the disconnect confirmation carefully. Disconnecting removes your CJ API key. It does not transparently transfer merchant-owned imports to another CJ account.
After a disconnect, future CJ search and import require a connection. Checkout and order completion for affected merchant-owned imports fail closed when Runner cannot verify the live connection, product, variant, inventory, price, or freight. Reconnect the same CJ account and recheck the item. If its supplier identity or live data no longer matches, remove the affected product and import it again.
To replace the key, disconnect the current one, confirm that Runner no longer shows it as connected, then connect the replacement. Recheck existing CJ products before accepting new orders; changing accounts can make an existing import unavailable.
If CJ does not connect
- Copy the API key again from the intended CJ account; do not edit it by guesswork.
- Failed to connect CJ Dropshipping means Runner did not accept the provider connection. Check the key in CJ and retry.
- If the dialog closes without a connected state, refresh the current page before submitting again.
- If search or import fails after connecting, confirm that this CJ account can access that catalog operation.
- If disconnecting fails, assume the existing key and account context remain active until Runner confirms removal.
- If checkout stops after reconnecting, verify that the product and variants belong to the connected CJ account; re-import the item when they do not.