If I have a Shopify app with API access to a store, can I make an API call to get the total number of orders over the lifetime of the store?
Yes, if you have a Shopify app with API access to a store, you can retrieve the total number of orders over the lifetime of the store by using the Shopify Admin API.

To get the total number of orders, you can utilize the `orders` endpoint. While there isn't a direct API call that returns just the count of all orders, you can fetch the orders and count them. However, this approach may require pagination if the store has a large number of orders.

Here's a general approach to get the total number of orders:

1. **Use the Orders API**: Make a GET request to the `/admin/api/{version}/orders.json` endpoint.
2. **Include Pagination**: Use the `limit` query parameter to specify how many orders to retrieve per request (the maximum is typically 250).
3. **Count Orders**: Keep fetching orders until you've retrieved all of them, and maintain a count of the total orders.

Here's an example of how you might implement this in a pseudo-code format:

```pseudo
total_orders = 0
page = 1
limit = 250

while true:
    response = GET /admin/api/{version}/orders.json?limit=limit&page=page
    orders = response.orders

    if orders is empty:
        break

    total_orders += len(orders)
    page += 1

print("Total number of orders: ", total_orders)
```

Alternatively, if you're only interested in the count and not
  Yes, you can make an API call to retrieve the total number of orders over the lifetime of a Shopify store using the Shopify API.

To do this, you will need to have API access to the store, which typically involves creating a Shopify app and obtaining an API token. Once you have the API token, you can use it to make API calls to the Shopify API to retrieve various data, including the total number of orders.

Here's an example of how you could make an API call to retrieve the total number of orders for a Shopify store:
```
// Replace `YOUR_STORE_NAME` with the name of the store you want to retrieve data for
// Replace `YOUR_API_TOKEN` with the API token for the store

https://YOUR_STORE_NAME.shopify.com/api/v2/orders.json?access_token=YOUR_API_TOKEN
```
In the above example, the `orders.json` endpoint retrieves the total number of orders for the store. The `access_token` parameter is required to authenticate your API request.

Once you have retrieved the total number of orders, you can use it in your app as needed. For example, you could display the total number of orders in a dashboard or use it to calculate other metrics,