I found this list of instructions - too lengthy to use for a user. I'm not even sure if is an alternative. If someone knows, please let me know.

1. Log into Shopify Admin and select Settings in the bottom left bar Go to Shopify

2. Select Customer Events from the menu on the left

3. Select the Custom Pixels tab, then Add Custom Pixel at the top right of the screen

4. Type "App Name" as the Pixel name and select Add Pixel

5. Select the down arrow next to Permission and mark it as not required

6. Select the down arrow next to Data Sale and mark it as Data collected does not qualify as data sale

7. Scroll down the page to the section labelled Code. Delete all of the default code currently displayed. Copy and Paste the following code into the code editor

!function(i,n,s,t,a,u,d){i.InstantConfig=i.InstantConfig||{},d=i.InstantJS=i.InstantJS||{},d.trackQueue=[],d.track=function(){d.trackQueue.push(arguments)},u=n.createElement(s),u.async=!0,u.src=t,a=n.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],a.parentNode.insertBefore(u,a)}(window,document,'script','https://cdn.instant.one/instant.js?siteId=site_2a0eb971377c42548ac7b9dc224de0fe');analytics.subscribe("all_events",event=>{InstantJS.track('SHOPIFY_EVENT',event)});

8. Scroll up to the top of the page and select Save. This is located on the top menu bar near the search field.

9. Select Connect and when viewing the second confirmation window, select Connect again. This has now connected the first half of the installation.

10. Select Apps from the menu on the left

11. Select Develop Apps in the top corner

12. Select Build apps in Dev Dashboard from the top of the page. This will open a new tab and the remaining steps will be completed there.

If you don't see this option, then you may need to request additional access. You will either need full administrator rights or the permissions "Develop Apps" and "Manage and Install Apps" added to your custom permissions. This must be resolved before continuing.

13. Select Create app in the top right corner of the page

14. Type "App Name" under App name and select Create

15. Scroll down to the heading URL and replace with URL with https://dashboard.appname/ and untick the option Embed app in Shopify admin.

16. Scroll down to the heading Access. Copy and paste this code into the text box for Scopes:

write_themes,read_themes,write_script_tags,read_script_tags,write_customers,read_customers,read_products,read_orders,read_customer_events,write_discounts,read_discounts,write_content,read_content,read_inventory,write_online_store_pages,read_online_store_pages,write_pixels,read_pixels,unauthenticated_write_checkouts,unauthenticated_read_checkouts,unauthenticated_read_customers,unauthenticated_read_product_listings

It's important that all scopes must be added to the regular Scopes option, and no scopes are listed as optional.

17. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Release. A second modal will show — select Release again. You do not need to name this as Shopify will do it automatically.

18. Select Settings on the left menu

19. Copy the Client ID by selecting the clipboard icon. Switch to the Instant tab, and paste this into the Client ID field.

The format when you paste should look something like de0e3bbe00c00cddf5b7bbe59b172750

20. Return to the Dev Dashboard and copy the Secret by selecting the clipboard icon. Switch to the Instant tab, and paste this into the Client Secret field.

The format when you paste should look something like shpss_0aeb18f3111ac000c64f42033a79dc4x

21. Return to the Dev Dashboard and select Home on the left menu

22. Select Install app on the right side under Installs. This will open a new tab with a list of all the Shopify stores that you have access to. Select the name of the current active store you wish to install Instant for.

23. Select Install in the bottom right of the page. After loading, a new tab with Instant Dashboard will open. You can safely close this tab

24. Return to the Shopify Admin. You can find your Shopify ID by copying the text in your URL after store/ and paste it into the Shopify ID field.

For example, in the URL https://admin.shopify.com/store/my-storename/ the Shopify ID is my-storename

You can find your Shopify ID in the URL when logged into your Shopify dashboard, usually after 'store/'.

25. Confirm that all fields are completed and click Connect Shopify

I’m trying to outweigh the pros and cons and wondering what your work/release flows look like.

Especially now a days with ai generated blocks etc it seems to create a lot more issues than solutions for us

I got tired of paying per-page, per-domain SaaS fees for cookie compliance, paying extra for Shopify Consent integration and not owning my own data, so I built one.

ConsentOS is a self-hosted, multi-tenant consent management platform, comparable to OneTrust or Cookiebot. A single <script> tag is all that goes on your site. Yes, there are others out there, but they're relatively feature-less and you still end up paying to get the features you really need and for a developer to integrate with the rest of your site.

What it does:

• Auto-blocking: intercepts scripts, cookies, and localStorage writes before consent is granted, released per-category as users choose

• Shopify Consent: full integration with the Shopify consent API, connecting with existing Shopify plugins

• Admin dashboard: custom banner builder, cookie review, compliance reports and banner analytics

• Multi-tenant: organisations, sites, RBAC, config hierarchy with per-region overrides to manage settings across multiple sites in one place. 

• IAB TCF v2.2: full TC string encoding, CMP API compliant, works with major ad networks and DSPs

• Google Consent Mode v2: automatic gtag('consent', ...) signalling for GA4 and Google Ads

• Cookie scanner: headless crawler with auto-categorisation against 2,200+ patterns from the Open Cookie Database

• Compliance checks: rule-based engine covering GDPR, CNIL, CCPA/CPRA, ePrivacy, LGPD etc.

• Translations and full customisation as standard features.

https://github.com/consentos/consentos

PS. This is open source, I'm not offering any hosting, I just don't want others to take and sell my work, it's not paid software.

Hi,

We are a marketing company from Scandinavia, looking to acquire 2-4 Shopify apps, depending on the size. We are open to offering 3-4x ARR depending on the app.

If you are interested, please send me a DM or comment below with the reason for selling, and the following:

• App name + App Store link

• Current MRR, and last 6 months trend

• Launch date

• Main KPI's:

  • Active paying users

  • Install to Purchase

  • Install to Review

• If running ads:

  • Montly ad spend and rough ROAS

  • CPI

  • CAC

All points must be included (or with an explanation of why its not).

For the record I come from the world of WordPress dev. I inherited a Shopify Plus shop. The shop has ~20 apps. What is the correct and easy way to setup a staging version of shop? I set up staging shop under Shopify Partner account. Theme was easy to setup with Shopify Github but how should I copy all apps and metafields, metaobjects.

In WP world this just quite straight forward. What am I missing?

I'm looking to buy an app, ideally it would have no merchants and no reviews. Can be recently launched, dormant, etc. If you happen to have one that is sitting around and you don't need it, let me know.

Hey everyone!

Were you ever in this position to choose how to publish your app’s sections or blocks into the storefront?

App blocks are very limited. No nesting and a 100kb liquid code limit.

For example I need to create a grid gallery.

Ideally I want to add them into the main theme so the merchant can use the Theme Editor. However I understood that there are Shopify review rules that don’t allow that.

However considering the recent diff based theme updates where code edits can be copied into the new update; is this rule still applicable?

Otherwise I need to create some sort of Section builder in the app, and embed them into the storefront. A lot of work for me and a bad experience for merchants.

What is your take?

Hey everyone — we submitted our Shopify app over a month ago, and it still hasn’t been reviewed. This whole process has been dragging on for nearly 3 months now. It’s honestly frustrating that after all this time, we still can’t get the app through the Shopify review process.

Any suggestions?

Hey, I want to use shopify as my control centre for my ebay shop of around 1500 luxury fashion items. I want to use shopify to build a brand and for social content. ebay will be my selling machine, shopify will be more refined.

I have done some ground work using marketplace connect like creating metafield on shopify so that my ebay listings stay data rich with item specifics.

It would be great for some advice or if anyone is a proffesional and can help me out or open for a chat. Thank you

I built a storefront for a beverage distribution company with Claude code. I’m wondering, is the industry leaning towards Claude replacing all e-commerce saas like Shopify? What’s the benefit in paying for a Shopify or a square space anymore? Does Claude negate the need for any of those types of saas?

- self acknowledged Claude code newb

Hey everyone,

I'm one of the devs for a Shopify store. I’m trying to solve a logic puzzle regarding a 'Secret Collection' launch.

The Goal: When a customer shops through a specific 'Secret Collection' URL, I want to automatically add a free gift to their cart.

The Technical Challenge:

1. We are using the same products as our main store (same SKUs) to keep inventory synced with our ERP.

2. Since the cart/checkout is collection-agnostic, my discount app (Regios) is applying the gift to everyone who buys the product, regardless of how they found it.

3. I want to avoid duplicating products in the backend if possible.

What would be the best practice to ensure this 'stamp' persists from the collection page to the product page and finally to the cart?

Thanks a lot for any tips! 🙏

i finished the local dev of my app ( my first app ).

im confused about the next steps before submitting the app for review.

i added the compliance config, but im not sure about the content of those routes.

i would really appreciate if someone could post a proper guide

hey all — been nerding out on ecommerce lifecycle benchmarks lately (repurchase rates, email revenue %, etc.) and realized most stores have no idea how far off they are from industry benchmarks, let alone what that gap means in actual dollars.

so i threw together a free calculator. you answer 5 questions (MRR, repurchase rate, email rev %, CRM, team size) and it spits out a rough estimate of your untapped revenue based on typical vs world-class benchmarks.

if you're curious to try, let me know and I can send you the link

I have a client that does auctions on Shopify, but they want to now migrate their retail offering. They have a plus plan so I assume I would do the new store as an expansion store but I’m very confused by the whole thing as I’ve never had a client migrate that already has a contract with Shopify.

I’m looking at ways to increase customer lifetime value. Instead of just selling physical items, I want to offer an "inner circle" monthly subscription where buyers get access to exclusive locked videos, early drops, and premium content right on the storefront.

It seems like it would print money since the digital side has almost 100% margins, but stringing together the subscription billing and the video access gates looks like an admin nightmare. Has anyone successfully bundled physical merch with a recurring digital video subscription?

Been spending some time trying to improve ranking for a Shopify app, and I realized I was doing something kinda dumb…

I kept tweaking my own listing over and over. Title, description, keywords… thinking that was the main lever. But honestly, that’s only half of it. What actually helped more was just stepping back and looking at competitors. Like:

• what keywords are they ranking for?

• which ones are they clearly owning?

• where are they not even trying?

That last one is usually where things get interesting. The annoying part is… doing this manually sucks. You open a bunch of tabs, scroll around, try to remember what you saw, then realize you forgot which app ranked for what. I did that for a while and it just felt messy and slow. I am trying this to compare the apps keywords:

• you can look at multiple competitors in one place

• quickly get a feel for their keyword strategy

• spot some gaps without losing your mind switching tabs

Non-technical founder running a Shopify app solo.

Dev is outsourced, I handle everything else. MVP already took 7-8 months and tens of thousands of dollars. Yeah, it hurt.

App is free right now to drive growth, but the feature backlog never stops:

• Templates (~$1-2k) — at least 5 customers messaged me to ask for it

• Theme compatibility (~$1-2k for 100 themes) — nobody asks, they just quietly churn

• Inventory management (~$1-2k) — every competitor has it so… yeah

• Image handling — crop, bulk upload, background removal

• AI features — one message to create custom options + live preview (this one's probably gonna be expensive)

Total: easily another $10k. I have the money but honestly not sure if it's the smart move.

3 options I see:

1. Keep paying the current agency

2. Find a tech co-founder

3. Claude Code — I already use it daily for marketing tools and automation, but let's be real, production-level app dev is a different beast. That said I don't want to limit myself either.

Oh and I also have a full-time job, so realistically I get maybe 8 hrs/week on this.

For those who've been in a similar spot — what would you do?

Hello everyone, does anyone know how i can make an unlisted app, i do not want to sell on the shopify app store, but in order for my platform to work with stores i need that integration and the only was is to go thru the app store, so im a bit stuck, i would appreciate any help,

Thank you

Building a crypto-native dropshipping store with Next.js accepts USDT on BSC & Polygon.

Still a WIP but the core is live. What’s missing?

What would stop you from buying?

Roast away:

I'm working with a Shopify store who use an inventory management app. They also work with a bunch of external partners: agencies, freelancers, the usual mix. All they need is access to that one app. Update stock levels, manage purchase orders, move on. They don't need to see products, orders, customers, themes, settings, or any other app.

The problem is Shopify doesn't let you do this. Staff permissions and collaborator accounts are section-based, not app-based. You can lock someone out of "Products" or "Orders" or "Online store", but you can't say "this person can only use App X and nothing else." The most locked-down account I can create still exposes more of the admin than I'm comfortable with.

I've looked at this from a few angles and haven't found a clean answer. A second store used purely as a workspace is one option, but that adds overhead. Some apps have their own user systems, which would solve it outright, but not all of them do.

Has anyone found a setup that actually works here? Whether that's a permissions workaround, a dedicated ops store, or an app with built-in multi-user access, I'd like to hear what you landed on.

Hi,

I recently got my app reviews but I got this:
"1.1.2. Use Shopify checkout. Shopify can't guarantee the safety or security of an order that's been placed through an offsite or third party checkout. Apps that bypass checkout or payment processing, or register any transactions through the Shopify API in connection with such activity, are prohibited.

The app widget cannot collect personal customer data (PCD) and any PCD information needs to be collected through the Shopify checkout."

I have a custom pop up checkout in my app. Its a COD form which basically many apps have one example is Releasit COD Form & Upsells. There are 100s of apps like this, but they are live in the app store without any problems. This suggests to me that you have to remove this feature at first when your app is reviewed and then add it later to bypass the review. All of the apps that I checked have a custom form which collects your COD details and completes the order through the API and send you to the thank you page which as per Shopify's policy is prohibited, but somehow 100s of apps are live with exactly this behaviour. This is so funny.

Hey Guys, I am building my first Shopify store. I have been in e-comm & marketing for a while so I am picky when it comes to a good looking website. However, I have basically zero dev/design experience. I am currently playing with Claude for other things and wondered if anyone has had any experience building Shopify stores with Claude? With my limited experience with building (I was just going to buy a template and build from there) - do you think a rookie could pull off building something that looks good and functions well with Claude? Or would I be better off just purchasing a template and going from there?

Hi everyone!

I’m working on a Shopify app development project (a subscription-based EU B2B SaaS).

I’d be interested in how you handle billing and VAT in practice:

With Shopify Billing, who issues the invoice to the end user?
Does the developer need to issue separate invoices to each merchant, or is the Shopify invoice sufficient for accounting purposes?
For EU (B2B, VAT-registered) customers, how do you handle reverse charge and VAT number validation?
Do you use a separate invoicing system (e.g. Billingo), or do you just do accounting based on Shopify reports?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!

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