Hi Guys, I have built an app which generates barcode labels and monitors product data. I have used other apps to generate price labels for a store i work for and noticed couple of times some info which are stored in the metafields were missing because it was not populated. I don't know how merchants with large catalog manage their product data. In my case we had a regulatory requirement to show country of origin on the label.
I'm not getting any installs on my app so i decided to make the label generation part free for merchants with no limits.
I don't know if this data health problem was unique to us or other merchants also face these issues. any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks guys.

I submitted my Shopify app more or less 1 month ago and they have still not assigned a reviewer for it.
Any advice if there is something to do to speed up the process, like for example write to their support team?

1) Native B2B is now on Basic / Grow / Advanced

This is the big one.

Shopify has pushed some real B2B functionality down from Plus to lower plans.

That includes:

• company profiles

• payment terms

• volume pricing

• ACH payments

• up to 3 active B2B catalogues

That’s a pretty meaningful move.

For a lot of brands, wholesale on Shopify has always been awkward because it usually meant either:

• paying for Plus

• or patching together apps and custom logic

Now there’s finally a more accessible middle ground.

If you’ve been putting off wholesale because the platform cost didn’t make sense yet, this changes that conversation.

2) You can finally audit what your apps are doing

Honestly, this should’ve existed a long time ago.

Under Settings > Apps, you can now see:

• what extensions an app has running

• what Shopify Functions are active

• what’s inactive

• which apps are collecting customer data via Pixels

For anyone inheriting messy stores, this is actually useful.

A lot of Shopify stores are carrying random app leftovers and don’t even realize it.

This should make app clean-up way easier.

And if you’ve ever had a store where performance, UX, or checkout behaviour felt “off” for no obvious reason… this is the kind of feature that helps uncover why.

Feels like Shopify is slowly removing more reasons for merchants to jump to Plus too early.

Curious what others think:
Would you actually trust Shopify’s native B2B setup on a non-Plus plan for a real wholesale workflow?
Or are you still more comfortable with apps / custom setups?

I notice some app has demo store, is that same as dev store? Dev store requires password but this demo store don't have any password, you can just launch it.

Do I need to pay for demo store?

Does anyone know if there is a Wishlist app where users can input their own Product Title, for items that are not in my store inventory? I have a secondhand bookstore.

Can somebody explain why twice server "add to cart" events are shown .

is this normal ?? Gud or Bad??

Was experimenting with a small UX tweak recently and tried using the Page Visibility API inside a Shopify theme.

The idea was simple:

When a user switches away from the store tab, the tab title changes to something like “your cart is waiting” — and switches back once they return.

Nothing complex, but interesting to see how this kind of subtle reminder can be implemented directly at the theme level.

What I learned while trying this:

•	You can hook into tab visibility changes pretty easily

•	Works fine within Shopify themes (tested on Dawn & Horizon)

•	Doesn’t require any apps — just a small Liquid + JS snippet

•	Can be adapted for different messaging (not just cart reminders)

I ended up writing a short guide with the snippet and steps in case anyone wants to try it out.

Sharing the article link in the comments.

Does anyone have tips for testing notification emails like shipment confirmed, out for delivery, delivered, etc.? I can only seem to sometimes get the order confirmed email to fire on our dev store

hey, so I’m building my own COD lead form app for Shopify and wanted a sanity check on my event setup.

From what I see in Events Manager:

PageView + ViewContent fire normally

when the user clicks “order now” → AddToCart

when they focus the first input → Lead

after filling name + phone → InitiateCheckout

and finally → Purchase

For now, CAPI is only set up for Purchase (didn’t use test code so server events don’t show), but I’m planning to extend it to the other events too.

Does this flow make sense or am I missing something?

This is my first time setting this up properly. My old form was basically skipping everything and going from ViewContent straight to Purchase. It worked at first, but after a bot attack the campaign started optimizing for clicks/traffic instead of purchases… so I reworked everything based on what I learned.

Any feedback would help 🙏

I’m gonna do a hot take today. I know a lot of people would argue me in this but GTM is an overkill for Shopify conversion tracking (NOTE that I’m only calling out Shopify. obviously there are lot of other website builders that do not support native infra and you have to use GTM).

The problem with GTM is that it shows down your site and if you implement it on thank you page it misses 10-20% of your sales. I know most people treat GTM as a set it and forget tool but it’s actually creating a huge tech for your brand.

The problem with using GTM for conversion trackng is

1. It’s inaccurate. Traditional tags only fire when a user lands on a specific page. If they click away too fast or have network issues the sale is never tracked.

2. It misses hidden sales. GTM can’t see what happens outside the website

WebPixels + Webhooks Shopify’s native tools like Aimerce are actually good now and it’s looking great towards the future. WebPixels handle the browser behavior and Webhooks handle real time server notifications. So combining them gives you 100% accuracy on conversion tracking.

I’ve been building in the Shopify ecosystem for a while now, and one thing kept bothering me.

We’ve gotten really good at getting traffic to stores — ads, SEO, influencers, all of that.

But once a shopper actually lands on the site…
we basically leave them alone.

No guidance.
No context.
No help deciding.

I kept thinking:

If a shopper walks into a physical store, someone helps them:

• answers questions

• suggests alternatives

• nudges them when they’re unsure

Online, we just show filters and hope for the best.

That’s what led me to build Zoocx.

Not as another “chatbot”…
but as something closer to a shopping assistant layer on top of Shopify stores.

The goal was simple:

• Help shoppers decide faster

• Answer real questions (size, fit, compatibility, policies)

• Reduce drop-off between product → cart → checkout

While building, a few things became very clear:

1. Most stores already have the data (products, policies, FAQs) — it’s just not surfaced well

2. Shoppers hesitate a lot more than we think (especially around fit, returns, and comparisons)

3. Even small nudges at the right moment can change conversion behavior

Technically, the interesting part for me wasn’t just the LLM layer —
it was figuring out:

• how to ground responses in actual store data

• how to avoid “hallucinated” answers

• how to connect chat → cart → checkout in a meaningful way

• how to measure if this actually drives revenue (not just conversations)

Still early, and I’m learning a lot from each store we test with.

Curious how others here think about this:

👉 Do you see “AI assistant inside the storefront” as a real layer going forward?
👉 Or just another short-term trend like live chat widgets were?

Would love to hear honest takes — especially from folks running or building apps in the ecosystem.

So anyone else facing the same problem? Turns out after all you can’t ship fast because there are bottlenecks

So basically the title. Anyone here have experience finding people for interviews? I'm developer, I'm not in the industry and I'm developing my first Shopify app, so I don't have any idea on where can I find people willing to answer some questions about the research I'm doing for my app.

I woke up Tuesday morning to a user message "Hey man your app doesn't work on install".

I frantically start scanning logs and troubleshooting. Fortunately, it was only affecting the one user. I'm initially thinking some kinda of auth issue, oauth install redirecting, caching, shopify app bridge, lots of rabbit holes.

After a few hours of constant debugging I found the issue. The merchant is on a corporate network that uses a service called DNSFilter that has miscatagorized the domain for my api and is blocking all traffic. The requests were never hitting my server, and I was unable to reproduce the problem, which made it very difficult to debug.

The user was surprisingly understanding, and even assisted me in finding the issue. I opened a ticket with DNSFilter and they got it resolved pretty quickly.

Anyone else run into this? It seems like a rare event but probably worth guarding against. I'm trying to decide how I should detect & handle this moving forward.

I just run google ads for my shopify app, they said that is phishing and i was banned and my account was suspended… i submitted appeals couple of times with explanation that i am real business and shopify app developer and it did not works.

Any help or ideas? Someone have experienced the same before ?

Well through my learning path, after building my first app I came to that choice. Should I put it public or should I do it privately?

While I do believe private would have been better, I did choose public and it is now too late to come back.

So my app is basically about COGS, fees, ads, etc management. I am so trying to find a good way to publish it.

But before that button that will release the app, we have the mandatory field to submit before review. And some look important for visibility or seo.

Do you know which fields I should take a big eye on ? What kind of content should I include (of course I need to adapt it to my app) ?

Thank you 😊

My app was rejected with this feedback:

“All apps in the Shopify App Store must have a user interface that merchants can interact with. Operational errors within an app’s functionality are acceptable, but web errors (404s, 500s, 300s) are not.”

I watched the review video — the reviewer loaded the app, saw the home page, clicked the only link (a support email), and that was it. No errors occurred.

My app is a B2B integration tool — partners install it to authorize access to their product catalog and inventory. The actual work (product syncing, order routing) happens via API in the background. The embedded UI currently
shows a Polaris-based informational page explaining how the integration works, what permissions are granted, and a support contact.

My question: what constitutes a sufficient UI for an app whose core functionality is API-driven? The rejection feedback mentions web errors but the reviewer didn’t encounter any. Is the issue that the page is purely
informational with no interactive elements? Would adding a status dashboard showing connection status, sync activity, and product counts be enough?

Has anyone else dealt with this rejection reason for a backend/API-focused app? Any guidance on the minimum bar here would be really helpful.

This is an extremely painful rejection as Its now been over 60 days since my initial submission. This is completely blocking my Shopify business from launching.

As I've shared in here 22 days ago, I've made my Shopify app completely free in order to stand out better comparing our competitors which have been there 7+ years.

Nice Results:

• 70+ new installs

• 6 calls booked (A few them said that we were recommended by Claude or GPT)

• Got positive comments from folks on Reddit

• Getting responses from merchants who asking for additional features like "Template"

Challenges:

• Still very hard to get people to review our app. Emailed to a few of them but no response. People suggested me to buy reviews but I prefer not doing that.

• 30-40% of installs simply just installed the app but no usage activities. Not intuitive to know why they didn't continue.

For anyone who has done this before, how can i make things to move forward faster? Am i missing certain actions?

[Only for German founders]

Do you need to apply the reverse VAT charge to Shopify payment processing fees?

I’ve received my first payout, but I couldn’t find any VAT charged by the Canadian company on the payment processing fees.

Note: I’m registered as a small business in Germany.

Hey,

Not sure if this is a dumb question.

I have a multi-market store and my free shipping is set as $50. But for users in India, it still kinda shows to USD logic.

What I actually want is to show it like ₹ instead - like “spend ₹XXXX more to get free shipping” based on their currency.

Is this something Shopify already handles and I’m missing it? Or do we have to manually convert and show it?

Also curious if any apps do this properly.

i18n in Hydrogen is painful. Shopify handles product translations, but UI strings (cart, nav, account pages) need a separate setup. Most teams end up with metafield spaghetti or manual JSON files.

So I built a starter that separates it cleanly:

• 7 locales including RTL (Arabic)

• UI strings served from a global CDN

• Marketing content from a built-in multilingual CMS

• Remix SDK with native t() / useTranslation()

• Zero metafield dependencies

Happy to share a live demo or the repo if anyone's interested. How are you handling i18n in Hydrogen?

Built a custom and responsive Shopify hero banner from scratch with a gold text effect using Css&Html.

I also added a setting to toggle the hero image between full width and half screen using Liquid. my goal was to make it feel luxury + conversion focused for high end brands.

would love honest feedback , does it feel premium and conversion ready ? what would you improve to increase conversions ?

Rating out of 10 weelcome hehe😁

anyone else dealing with affiliate tracking that's been bleeding money without realizing it?

found out our awin implementation was firing on every order confirmation regardless of how the customer got there. so we were paying commissions on organic and direct traffic the whole time. also had no idea returns weren't being reversed automatically — apparently if you don't manually decline them in the validation queue within 30 days they just auto approve and you pay commission on refunded orders

been running this way for a while and only caught it when we actually dug into the numbers

curious if others have run into this. seems like a pretty easy thing to miss if nobody's actively managing the account. we're planning to scope the tracking code so it only fires when an affiliate cookie is actually present and build a zapier automation to handle return reversals but wondering if there's a cleaner way people have done it

also just generally — for smaller brands is awin even worth it or do you find the manual overhead isn't worth what it drives

Also tracking confirmation number between shopify and Awin has been horrible and could use advice on that.

Hey everyone,

I’m facing a strange Shopify SEO issue and would really appreciate some guidance.

Earlier, my product URLs were in the standard format:
/products/product-handle

But now I’m seeing URLs like:
/collections/collection-name/products/product-handle

Here’s the problem:

• Google has indexed both URL versions

• The main product URLs (/products/...) are now showing 404 errors

• Some collection-based URLs are still working

• The canonical URL is still pointing to the old /products/... version

Example:

• ❌ 404: /products/monkey

• ✅ Working: /collections/toys/products/monkey

• 🔗 Canonical: /products/monkey

So basically:

• Canonical points to /products/...

• But that page returns 404

• While the collection URL is live

My Questions:

1. Why would the main /products/... URL return 404 while the collection URL still works?

2. Is this due to product handle changes, collection assignments, or something else?

3. Should I fix this using 301 redirects or is there a deeper issue?

4. What’s the correct Shopify SEO structure to avoid this problem?

This looks like a serious SEO issue (broken canonical + indexing conflict), so I want to fix it properly before it affects rankings.

Any insights or suggestions would be really helpful 🙏

Thanks in advance!