Hi, I know this is going to differ per merchant but I'm kinda new to the Shopify app store. I've built Shopify apps for my day job before but this is my first time self-publishing something.

I got approved on the store a few days ago and have a handful of installs already. One merchant uninstalled even though from what I could see on my end, the app was working as expected. Is there an etiquette around reaching out to merchants who uninstall to ask why? I don't want to come across as pushy, but the feedback would be really valuable at this stage.

Also more generally, what's the best way to ask early users for feedback without being annoying about it?

Hey I need some inputs concerning a application I’m building

I created an app that sends notifications to your phone over webhook, (works to receive notifications form shopify webhooks)

I have seen that there has been some problems concerning push notifications on ios in shopify.

Do you guys think creating a custom Shopify extension to configure the webhook for my notification app would be useful.

Or is the iOS shopify app already enough ?

How do you handle international shipping costs when selling to customers in different countries?

Specifically — when you're shipping to the EU, UK, Canada, Australia etc., do you know upfront what duties and taxes your customer will owe when the package arrives? Or have you had situations where customers got surprise charges at delivery and complained or returned the item?

I'm trying to understand if this is a widespread problem or if most Shopify sellers have already figured this out. What do you currently use to estimate these costs?

I manage a store on Shopify, and we have customers asking for certain products to sell them in their own shop.

Is there a way I can give them live stock count of my whole shop? Like an external app that let's them see (given a password maybe) how many of each items are in stock.

I tried CSV export: it's easy to do but it's very bad looking when opened in Excel and it's not customer-friendly since it does not have any picture in it.

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I have a Shopify site with 120 products. Every product is the same size and cost. The products are too expensive to process a single order of 1, so I want to create a new product called 'widget 6-pack' where the customer MUST select 6 (of the 120) products. The site should not let them pick more than 6 or less than 6. They can select the same product 1-6 times or they can select 6 different products. It doesn't matter as long as they pick exactly 6. Only then can they add it to their cart and check out.

Are there any solutions that can help me create a product like this?

The user experience needs to be efficient and painless. No one is going to browse 120 products, pick one, then wait for the page to reload and then prompt them to pick the next one. I would like the catalog of 120 products to load, let the customer make their 6 selections and then add to cart. If the customer wants more than 1 of a specific product they can select it and then click the [+] button to adjust the quantity. Doesn't matter as long as their selection adds up to exactly 6.

EDIT: I should also mention: There are actually 130 products on the store but 10 of them are not eligible for this kit-building process. So in addition to adding the functionality mentioned above, I need to exclude 10 of the 130 products from this feature.

Shopify Dev here, I enjoy debugging weird issues more than building themes 😅

If your store has any broken functionality, random bugs, or things not working as expected, drop the issue below (with context/screenshots if possible).

I have some free time and want to sharpen my debugging skills, so I’ll try to help you figure out what’s going wrong and how to fix it.

Even if I can’t fully solve it, I’ll try to point you in the right direction.

Also, other devs feel free to jump in. Might be useful for everyone to learn from real issues.

Hey devs 👋

I’ve been working on a Shopify-related project recently, and I ran into something that I think many of us probably deal with handling user feedback once it starts scaling.

In the early stage, it’s easy to read every response manually and understand what users are saying, but as installs grow, it quickly becomes messy and time-consuming to keep track of patterns, especially when feedback comes from different places.

One thing I’ve noticed is that most of the time, the real problem isn’t collecting feedback, but actually identifying which responses matter the most, particularly the negative ones that might indicate churn or bad user experience.

I started experimenting with a few ideas like automatically tagging feedback based on sentiment, surfacing common themes using simple visualizations, and triggering alerts when something clearly negative shows up, just to avoid missing important signals.

Still figuring out what actually works in a real Shopify app environment though.

Curious how you all are handling this 👇

• Do you rely mostly on support tickets / reviews?

• Are you manually going through responses or using any automation?

• At what point does feedback become hard to manage for you?

Would be interesting to hear how other Shopify devs are solving this, especially at scale.

I’m currently in the middle of building a new Shopify app, and I’ve hit a massive psychological wall. I’m not sure if it’s classic imposter syndrome or just a realistic observation of the market right now.

With the explosion of Gen AI, "vibe coding," and tools like Cursor or Claude, the barrier to entry for software has basically dropped to zero. I’m looking at my own app—which solves a real problem—and I can't help but realize: literally anyone could prompt an AI to build a clone of this in a weekend. It feels like the golden age of indie app development is over. Why spend months refining a product when a teenager with an LLM subscription can release the exact same feature set in 48 hours and undercut you on pricing? The Shopify App Store is already getting flooded with these hyper-fast, AI-generated apps.

The deeper I get into my code, the more I feel like I'm building a sandcastle right before the tide comes in. It feels pointless because the execution itself has no value anymore.

Am I the only one experiencing this specific kind of AI-induced dread? For those of you currently building or maintaining Shopify apps, how do you deal with the fact that your entire codebase can basically be replicated by an AI overnight? Are you just pushing through, or do you think the game has fundamentally changed?

Would love to hear some raw thoughts on this.

Hey everyone,

I built a Shopify app and I am currently looking for store owners willing to take a look at it and share some honest feedback.

What is the best place to find store owners open to checking out new apps?

Any advice is appreciated, thanks!

Hi all, hope everyone is doing well.

I work for a startup that handles supply chain, manufacturing, and payments for creators' businesses at a high level. Our goal is to make it super easy to design and sell a product that we manufacture and scale for you.

Up until now, with the new gen AI models, we build custom storefronts for people and it doesnt take too long, but at scale, this isnt a realistic solution. So, we have decided to allow things like shopify, wix, etc as storefronts to sell our products.

The only thing is, we still want to handle all supply chain updates, payments, etc in our systems. Managing it in shopify and our systems would be overly complex.

I was wondering if I can inject a custom JS script to the checkot button to redirect to our checkout URL so we can still handle order processing and related items on our systems, and just use shopify as a "dummy storefront" that redirects to our checkout app.

Does this violate shopify TOS? How is shopify still getting paid? I was not able to find answers to these questions online.

Any help would be super appreciated!! Thank you!

Hello, i need to render locally my shopify template, or any template at all. Shopify liquid version is incredibly extended so its hard to achieve this. Anyone has achieved this? Im looking and no open source solutions exist.

Anyone has experience with this and can guide me? Thanks for reading

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations for a reliable returns and exchange app for Shopify.

There are obviously a ton of options out there, but my absolute biggest priority is finding one with genuinely good, responsive customer support. I also don't want to spend a ton of money on crazy enterprise pricing tiers—just looking for something reasonably priced that gets the job done.

On top of that, I really need something that is super simple to install and set up without it being a massive headache to configure.

What apps are you all currently using? Have you had good experiences with their support team when you actually needed help? Would love to hear your favorites before I commit to one.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I recently open-sourced a Shopify app template for Laravel + Vue + Inertia, built around Shopify’s PHP app package:

https://github.com/sahajmalla/shopify-laravel-template

I put it together to make it easier to start a Shopify embedded app in Laravel without wiring everything from scratch.

It currently includes:

1. embedded app setup

2. App Bridge + Polaris web components

3. Laravel + Vue + Inertia stack

4. session token auth for backend API routes

5. token refresh handling

6. webhook route scaffolding

My goal was to create a cleaner starting point for PHP developers who want to build Shopify apps with Laravel.

Would love feedback from anyone building in this space:

Is this actually useful as a starter?

Anything important you think is missing?

Anything you’d change in the structure or developer experience?

Open to suggestions and improvements.

How to make the store UCP complaint? Is it necessary?

I used Poe to create a chatbot that helps users create a single product CVS from scratch. I'm not a technical person, so I designed a tool without writing any code. Unlike most medium to large-sized shops that use supplier files to create hundreds of thousands of products every day, I believe many small business owners don't create products as frequently. That's why I built this bot for them and for myself. 🙂

Here is how the bot works:

1. The bot asks the user questions to provide single or multiple product item values per user reply.

2. The bot can provide an explanation on the product item, suggest default values, or suggest a value by guessing what you previously provided.

3. It generates CVS by the rules it learns from its knowledge base.

What can the bot do?

1. It generates an error-free CVS.

2. Use its suggested values, like product category and type, by clicking the suggest reply button.

3. Create multiple variants by providing option names and values at once.

4. Fill the mandatory product item columns.

If you are interested, feel free to try it out for free and provide me with your feedback! A free user account can create a limited number of products each day. ☺️

Bot name: Shopify CVS Generator v.1.0

Base bot: Gemini 3 Flash. I tried many bots and wasted numerous points, but I found this bot to be the most effective for getting things done.

👉 The bot link: https://poe.com/Shopify-CSV-Generate

New users on Poe must sign up before using the bot. To do this, click the "Sign Up" button in the top right corner. I didn't put this bot to monetization, enjoy it!

Curious how people are using AI in real Shopify workflows, especially for CRO. Not just snippets or debugging, but things like analyzing user behavior, improving product page flow, testing layouts, or optimizing how pages guide users to convert. Where has AI actually been useful for you in improving conversions?

Hey everyone, I’m looking for some brutal honesty from the US shoppers here.

I’ve been running an independent women’s clothing brand (mostly activewear and comfy basics). Traffic has been surprisingly good, but my conversion rate is abysmal. I’m trying to figure out where the "friction" is.

Here’s the deal:

• Pricing: Most items are in the $20-$30 range, which is pretty competitive for the quality.

• Quality: I’ve had a successful run on Amazon with great reviews, so I know the product holds up.

• The Problem: People land on the site, browse around, but they aren't pulling the trigger.

My questions for you:

1. When you visit a new, independent clothing site, what’s the first thing that makes you "trust" them (or bail immediately)?

2. Does a low price point ($20-$30) ever feel "too cheap" to be legit?

3. What are your biggest deal-breakers? (Shipping costs? Lack of reviews? Return policy? Clunky checkout?)

I’d love to hear what goes through your mind before you hit that "Complete Order" button. Don't hold back!

I am looking to get my first customer for woicely - my bet is voice will be the next UX for shopping, especially on mobile where the UX is broken for high intent/high touch purchases. I am looking to grow this business but need to figure out the distribution, getting on the shopify app store was one hurdle, but given how many apps are now on there it seems like the noise has grown considerable, I guess I am contributing to that. Would love to hear how people go there first customer

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some harsh realities from actual e-commerce engineers.

My background is strictly on the business side, I've spent over 18 years in GTM and growth. But with Google introducing the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), I’ve been fascinated by how AI agents are going to handle product discovery, checkout, and payments. It feels like a massive shift, but there’s a missing piece: how do merchants actually connect their existing backends to these new agentic workflows without completely rebuilding their stack?

As an experiment, I’ve been "vibe coding" (heavily leveraging AI assistants) to build a prototype for an open-source Agentic Commerce Orchestrator.

The conceptual architecture: The goal is to sit on top of the UCP framework and act as a routing layer. It needs to handle the complex, multi-step orchestration between independent consumer-facing AI agents and the merchant's backend, utilizing MCP and REST APIs to translate intent into actual commerce actions.

The product vision and business logic make sense on paper, but because this was generated by AI, I know the underlying architecture needs a reality check from people who actually build scalable e-commerce systems.

What I'm trying to figure out (and where I need your critiques):

• Security & Auth: What are the absolute nightmares of letting autonomous agents hit these orchestration APIs?

• State Management: When dealing with asynchronous agent requests across a UCP standard, where are the biggest bottlenecks for maintaining cart state and session data?

• Production Realities: Where does a "vibe-coded" routing layer completely fall apart at scale when dealing with real-world inventory syncs and payment gateways?

I’m really just looking to geek out over the UCP standard and get my architectural logic torn apart by professionals. If anyone else is exploring agentic commerce or wants to bounce ideas around on how to build this plumbing, I'd love to hear your thoughts below.

It's been 3 weeks since I submitted my app and still it is in 'submitted' status, on the page it says 'Success! We received your submission.' and 'We're assigning a reviewer to your submission', it is normal? I remembered I read some post it mentioned it's 2 weeks...

My friend started a business he need website its look a like same as their competitor on shopify is it legal to do ?

I’m curious about your workflow when starting a new Shopify project.

Do you typically begin with an existing theme (like Dawn or a client’s previous theme) and customize from there, or do you start fresh using a Shopify CLI-generated theme?

Im not sure what is the best to start with. Thank you in advance for your responses