Shopify + PixelPanda API

Background Removal API for Shopify

Complete guide to automating product photo cleanup for your Shopify store. Process your entire catalog, auto-remove on upload, or build it into a custom app.

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Why

Why Shopify stores need background removal

Consistent product listings

Supplier photos come with random backgrounds — tables, floors, wrinkled sheets. Clean white backgrounds make your store look professional and trustworthy. Customers buy from stores that look legit.

Marketplace compliance

Selling on Amazon, eBay, or Google Shopping through Shopify? They require or strongly prefer white backgrounds. Process images once through the API and use them everywhere.

Scale without photoshoots

A product photoshoot costs $50-200 per SKU. At $0.029/image, you can process 8,000 product photos for the cost of one photoshoot. New supplier sends 500 product images? Process them all in 30 minutes.

The API call

One API call — that's it

Send your Shopify product image to the API. Get a transparent PNG back. Upload it to your store. Done.

curl -X POST https://pixelpanda.ai/api/v1/remove-background   -H "Authorization: Bearer pk_live_your_api_key"   -F "file=@product.jpg"

# Response:
# {
#   "success": true,
#   "image_url": "https://pub-xxx.r2.dev/results/abc123.png",
#   "credits_remaining": 199
# }

Works from any language — Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go. See full code examples in your language.

Cost

What it costs for your store

Catalog size	Cost	Time
50 products	$1.25	~3 minutes
200 products	$10.00 (starter pack)	~12 minutes
500 products	$12.50	~30 minutes
1,000 products	$25.00	~1 hour
5,000 products	$125.00	~5 hours

Prices at $0.029/image (1 credit each). Processing time assumes 2-4 seconds per image with a 0.5s delay between requests. Credits never expire.

FAQ

Common questions

Yes. Set up a Shopify webhook for 'products/create' that calls your server. Your server downloads the product image, sends it to the PixelPanda API, gets back the transparent PNG, and updates the product image via the Shopify Admin API. It's one API call per image.

Pricing depends on your plan. The $7.99/week subscription includes 280 credits/week (~$0.029/image). Subscribers can also buy larger top-ups: 1,000 credits for $40 ($0.04/image) or 5,000 credits for $175 ($0.035/image). Most small Shopify stores fit within the weekly subscription. Credits never expire.

Yes, PixelPanda has a native Shopify app. But you can also use the API directly if you want more control or are building your own app.

Yes. Export your product images (or use the Shopify Admin API to list them), run through a script that calls the PixelPanda API for each image, and update the products. A 500-product catalog takes about 30 minutes.

The API processes any image you send it. Loop through product variants and their images the same way you would the main product image. Same endpoint, same cost.

The API returns transparent PNGs. To get white backgrounds: download the transparent PNG, composite it onto a white canvas using Pillow (Python) or Sharp (Node.js), and save as JPEG. Two extra lines of code.

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Code examples

Automate background removal for Shopify

280 credits/week for $7.99. Production-ready in minutes.

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