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# Read the multi-store group's settings

> The replication and publish-sync toggles of `merchant_id`'s group. A group that never changed a toggle answers the defaults (auto-replicate off, publish-sync on, recommendations off), and those are the values in effect, not a guess: fan-out and replication read the same defaults. A merchant in no group gets 400 NOT_IN_GROUP rather than defaults. Read-only.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi/lite.json get /multi-store/group-settings/{merchant_id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Search & Merchandising API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    REST API behind Depict: Search & Merchandising, the native Shopify app:
    onboarding, collections, boost & bury, dashboards, A/B testing and
    multi-store management. Endpoints are served under the /api/lite prefix and
    are authenticated with the Shopify session token that App Bridge issues to
    the embedded app.
servers:
  - url: /api/lite
security:
  - ShopifySessionToken: []
paths:
  /multi-store/group-settings/{merchant_id}:
    get:
      summary: Read the multi-store group's settings
      description: >-
        The replication and publish-sync toggles of `merchant_id`'s group. A
        group that never changed a toggle answers the defaults (auto-replicate
        off, publish-sync on, recommendations off), and those are the values in
        effect, not a guess: fan-out and replication read the same defaults. A
        merchant in no group gets 400 NOT_IN_GROUP rather than defaults.
        Read-only.
      operationId: multiStoreGroupSettings
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            description: Lite merchant id, e.g. `shopify-<shop id>`.
          required: true
          description: Lite merchant id, e.g. `shopify-<shop id>`.
          name: merchant_id
          in: path
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The group's settings.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LiteMultiStoreGroupSettingsDto'
        '400':
          description: '`error_code: NOT_IN_GROUP`: the merchant is in no multi-store group.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  detail:
                    type: string
                  error_code:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                      - NOT_IN_GROUP
                required:
                  - detail
        '401':
          description: Not authenticated.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '403':
          description: Authenticated, but this identity may not call the API.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '404':
          description: Merchant not found for this caller.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
        '500':
          description: Internal error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Detail'
components:
  schemas:
    LiteMultiStoreGroupSettingsDto:
      type: object
      properties:
        auto_replicate_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            New cross-store collection links are stamped to replicate from the
            source store.
        auto_replicate_source_merchant_id:
          type:
            - string
            - 'null'
          description: The store auto-replication copies from; null until set.
        sync_publish_status:
          type: boolean
          description: >-
            Publishing or unpublishing a source collection fans out to its
            replicas.
        replicate_recommendations:
          type: boolean
      required:
        - auto_replicate_enabled
        - auto_replicate_source_merchant_id
        - sync_publish_status
        - replicate_recommendations
    Detail:
      type: object
      properties:
        detail:
          type: string
      required:
        - detail
      description: 'Every 4xx/5xx body: `{detail}`.'
  securitySchemes:
    ShopifySessionToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        Shopify App Bridge session token of the embedded Depict: Search &
        Merchandising app. The shop in the token determines the merchant;
        merchant_id parameters must belong to that shop.

````