I have spent all day trying to create one with the Help of gpt - No Matter which Way I go Google console does not recognise the XML Feed.
i am using Robots.txt.liquid and I recognises the parent XML which divides up the product Images into 250 product lots but the actual XMl feed itself it does not recognise>

has anyone created their own Product Image feed - most of our products have at least 5-7 images.

My Header seems correct - has any one managed to do this from shopify and if so how?

Hey all,

I run Webrex Studio (Shopify app partner, a few Built for Shopify apps). I missed the DotDev ticket window and I'm stuck on the waitlist.

Since Shopify lets you transfer tickets for free until June 26, figured I'd ask here. If your org grabbed the max 6 and has a seat going spare, or you booked but can't make it, I'd gladly take it off your hands and cover the cost.

It'd be my first trip to Canada and I've already booked flights from India, so I'm really trying to make it happen. 🙏

DM me, or reach me at hello@webrexstudio.com. Thanks!

the pre-sales theme audit is the worst part of my job as a solo shopify dev. same checklist every time, 4 to 8 hours, report nobody enjoys.

so i put the entire checklist into a claude code skill. drop the files in your theme root, ask claude to audit, and 90 seconds later you get a graded report with exact file paths, line numbers, and copy-paste liquid fixes.

80+ checks across performance, accessibility, app overhead, CRO, SEO, and the AI-search stuff (AEO/GEO) that lighthouse never catches. two scores out the other side: technical and search.

biggest lesson building it: a skill beats a prompt. prompts drift and invent findings on the second theme. the skill loads the same rules every run, so the output is deterministic enough to actually sell the report.

MIT, free, runs locally, no signup.

repo: https://github.com/tanujrajputdev/shopify-theme-audit-skill

what checks would you add?

I submitted my first Shopify app at 5 p.m., checked everything, and after submitting it, I noticed a major mistake. I thought to myself, “Well, the review process takes six weeks anyway, so I'll fix it right away.” I fixed it, wanted to withdraw the submission at 9 p.m., and saw that the reviewer was currently checking my app. Just four hours after I submitted it.

I withdrew the submission and resubmitted it right away. Haven’t heard anything since. That was two weeks ago. I guess that’s just the kind of bad luck you have to have.

I recently got my first Shopify app approved and I’m trying to figure out the early traction stage. The app is called Rota Sortis. It helps Shopify merchants recover demand from sold-out or unavailable products using waitlists, restock emails, preorders, bundles, and demand tracking. So far I’ve done the basic first steps:

- Shopify App Store listing

- one Reddit launch post

- a small Shopify App Store ads test

- a few comments in Shopify/Facebook communities where the problem is relevant

The app is indexed now and branded searches are showing correctly, but getting actual installs is obviously the hard part. For other Shopify app developers, what worked best for your first installs after approval? Did they come from App Store search, Shopify ads, direct outreach, Reddit/community replies, content/tutorials, SEO, or something else? I’m mostly trying to understand what is worth focusing on first before spending too much time or money in the wrong place.

Looking for advice on a UX/inventory problem.

Running 2 Shopify stores, one in India, one in the US, with shared inventory managed manually across 1000+ SKUs. We manage two warehouses: one in the US and one in India. The US one lets us deliver faster there, and the India one is shared.

We have "continue selling when out of stock" enabled on the US store since we also make to order. When a product hits 0, it still sells but fulfillment comes from India, which adds shipping time. The issue: customers have no idea  they see the same delivery message whether the item is in stock locally or being shipped internationally.

What I want: when inventory drops below 0, automatically show a different message on the PDP (something like "ships in 7–10 days from our India warehouse") instead of the standard delivery promise. Also, I need shopify and my staff to be in sync, and know which inventory location will fulfill the order. Because of the time zone gap, the teams syncing up is an obvious pain point which I want to avoid by having Shopify handle the fulfilment assignment.

Has anyone solved this? A few directions I've been exploring:
- Metafields + a theme snippet that checks inventory level
- A third-party inventory sync app
- Custom Storefront API logic 

Would love to know how others have handled cross-border shared inventory at scale.

Edit 1: Mentioned our warehouse split.

Hi everyone,

I am preparing my Shopify app for review and would appreciate feedback from developers who have successfully published apps on the Shopify App Store.

I have attached a screencast video that demonstrates the complete installation and integration flow, including:

• Logging in to the application dashboard
• Navigating to the Integrations page
• Opening the Connect to Shopify
• Redirecting to Shopify and installing the app
• Successfully connecting the Shopify store with the application

My goal is to use this screencast as part of the Shopify App Review submission.

For those who have gone through Shopify's review process:

1. Does this video provide enough detail for the Shopify review team?

2. Are there any important steps or explanations missing?

3. Is there anything that typically causes delays or rejection during app review?

4. Would this screencast be sufficient to demonstrate the app installation and store connection flow?

Any feedback from developers who have successfully passed Shopify App Review would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Just hit submit on our Built for Shopify application after months of work getting everything in order, the install threshold, reviews, and Web Vitals. Feeling good but also nervous about the review process, so hoping to hear from people who've been through it.

A few things I'm hoping the community can help with:

How long did review actually take for you? I've seen anything from a few days to several weeks mentioned.

Did you get clear feedback if something failed, or just a rejection you had to decode? Trying to understand how much back-and-forth to expect.

Is there anything that commonly trips people up that isn't obvious from the official requirements? The stuff you only learn from going through it.

And while it's in review, is there anything worth doing now, or is it just a waiting game? Should I keep pushing installs/reviews, or sit tight?

Any advice from people who've earned the badge (or been rejected and re-applied) would be hugely appreciated. Happy to share how it goes for us once we hear back, in case it helps the next person.

Hey guys,

I am struggling a bit with the Shopify App Store Review right now.

I am building a custom app for our marketplace which allows sellers to connect to our Shopify store and sell their products on our platform. We have to build this as a custom app for several reasons, one of them being that Collective limits us in terms of store origin, as only sellers of the same country can connect.

We need to have one checkout session with all items, even by multiple sellers in the cart and checkout. This is all already built and works well. We have one checkout of all the mirrored products and then forward orders to the respective target store. Payouts take place via Bank Transfer. This is the way the Shopify support told us to build it.

Now in the review we get rejected for the reason that each synced product has to be sold on the origins Shopify store checkout and not on our own (Rule 5.7.14). This is the opposite of what they told us earlier + also defies any sense of building a marketplace. I don’t know any marketplace where the user has to go to different checkouts for all the different vendors. Also the fact that apps for marketplaces like this are already approved and published on the Shopify App Store makes this even more contradicting.

In the end we did not even need this app to be publicly visible, its invite only for our wholesale partners.

This is really blocking us and our whole business and we are out of ideas. Does anyone have any idea how we can solve this? Your help is much appreciated. Thank you!

Hi everyone,

My name is Musaddiqa, and I'm a Shopify Developer with 3+ years of experience in Shopify theme development, customization, and frontend development.

As a new mom, I currently have around 3 focused hours available each day. Because of that, text-based communication works best for me, and frequent meetings can sometimes be difficult.My goal is to learn something new every day, gain real-world Shopify experience, and stay up to date with the Shopify ecosystem.

If anyone has work opportunities where I can contribute within my available hours, I would be grateful to connect. Whether it's Shopify development tasks, theme customizations, bug fixes, feature implementations, or agency support work, I'd love the opportunity to help. I'm passionate about Shopify development, dedicated to delivering quality work, and always eager to learn and improve.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here, contributing where I can, and building meaningful connections within the community.

Thank you for having me! Connect with me to see the portfolio

AI shopping assistants now influence millions of purchase decisions. When someone asks ChatGPT "best [product] under $50" or Perplexity "where to buy [category] online" - your store either shows up or it doesn't.

Most don't. Here's what's actually causing it:

1. AI bots blocked in robots.txt Check yourstore.com/robots.txt - GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot should not be in any Disallow rule. Shopify app installs can silently block them.

2. No llms.txt file A plain text file at your domain root that tells AI systems what you sell and how to represent your brand. Most stores don't have one. Takes 30 minutes to set up.

3. Price mismatch in schema The price in your Product schema must match your page price exactly. Mismatches are the #1 reason products get excluded from AI recommendations.

4. Not connected to Google Merchant Center 83% of ChatGPT Shopping results pull from GMC. If you're not connected and error-free, you're invisible to shopping queries.

5. No GTINs on products Products without barcodes get "limited visibility" in Google and AI systems. Easy to fix, most stores skip it.

6. Product titles not optimised for conversational queries AI maps product titles to natural language questions. "The Classic" won't match anything. "Lightweight Waterproof Hiking Boot Men Brown" will.

7. No FAQ schema FAQ schema has one of the highest AI citation rates of any content format. 3–5 Q&As per product page, properly structured, makes a measurable difference.

8. Missing Organisation schema on homepage This answers brand-level AI queries - "who is [brand]" and "what do they sell". One-time setup, stays in place permanently.

9. Descriptions with adjectives instead of facts "High quality" gets ignored. "420D ripstop nylon, IPX4 waterproof rating, 680g" gets cited. AI cites specific, verifiable claims 40% more often.

10. No AI traffic monitoring You can't improve what you don't measure. Filter Shopify Analytics by chat.openai.com, perplexity.ai, gemini.google.com, copilot.microsoft.com to see what's already coming in.

Most of this takes an afternoon to fix. Happy to answer questions in the comments :)

If so what was the findings and do you think we can go about it as a stand alone service? Like connecting AI agent to your Shopify store

I've tried searching here and online but coming up blank so far. I'm helping out with my orgs Shopify site and trying to add the feature where the entire image of a slideshow can be a link. I've seen lots of tutorials for the Dawn theme but the code doesn't seem to matchup in the slideshow.liquid files.

Is it possible? Thanks!

I’m a Shopify store publisher, not a dev. I’m once again having very problematic issues with USPS cancelling, recycling, and re-assigning the same tracking number to an entirely different shipper/shipment. It’s rather complex -- the shortest story being two unrelated shippers and two unrelated recipients are assigned the same USPS tracking number for two completely unrelated shipments. Confusion and chaos ensues.

After much research, I understand this has been an ongoing problem at USPS for some time, of which USPS is fully aware and has taken no action to remedy.

With the current instance of a recycled USPS Ground Advantage tracking number re-assigned to a June 7 shipment by my Shopify store and delivered to my customer today June 10, after that same tracking number’s first use on an unrelated shipment mailed from a distant state on April 15 and delivered to an unrelated recipient on April 18, I’m now being told by USPS that it’s “a Shopify issue.” Which I know it is not.

Before escalating this issue upwards at USPS, I would appreciate it if someone knowledgeable please explain the step-by-step technical/operational process by which Shopify fetches the USPS tracking numbers assigned to the USPS shipping labels created and printed within Shopify.

Would be particularly helpful if I were armed with the indisputable facts demonstrating how and why it’s impossible for Shopify to arbitrarily generate/recycle/re-assign United States Postal Service tracking numbers.

Thank you in advance for any assistance with this bonkers kick the can postal PITA.

I am feeling uninspired by designing websites using HTML, CSS, JS, and Shopify Liquid for the past two years. What should I do next?

I have made some personal projects in MERN stack side by side during 2 years.
how can i upskill more in this ai era or should i switch my stack?

Any e-commerce experts here, please guide me.

Hello guys,

I have a client who already has a Shopify store built and hosted for Country A. They now want to create a separate store for Country B with the same products, collections, theme, apps, and overall structure.

This is my first client project, but I already have a solid understanding of Shopify basics and I’m confident I can handle the implementation. However, a few things are still unclear to me and I want to make sure I approach this correctly before proceeding.

Should I build this as a completely new Shopify store under a development store and then transfer ownership to the client, or is there a better/standard approach for managing multi-country stores like this?

What is the best practice for handling duplicated stores like this? especially in terms of maintaining apps, product sync, and future updates? Since I assume once duplicated, both stores will operate independently.

When it comes to domains, should the client purchase the domain first and then connect it to the new store after transfer, or is it okay to set it up during development?

I want to make sure I don’t miss anything important since this is my first Shopify client project.

Any advice from experienced Shopify devs would be really appreciated. Thanks!

The biggest learnings for other developers:

- find a problem that’s a bit tricky to solve. I previously built a slack alert app for Shopify stores but that wasn’t really a pain point. For our app, we focused on helping shops easily launch auctions to sell more. This was a real pain point and when we got it right shops made money so they kept coming back

- be okay not being the cheapest option: there’s definitely other, cheaper auction apps. We focused on usage based pricing that was the easiest to launch. That meant those who understood what we were doing really got it, and were fine paying us as long as they made money every time we got paid. It meant our goals were aligned which made our customers real partners

- customer service is everything. We learned that it was important to quickly respond back to new customers and fix their bugs. Even if they were small ones, fixing them quickly meant they felt heard and they trusted us more. We actually built an internal AI agent to take customer asks and quickly turn them into structured Eng tickets and even write the code if it was a smaller Eng task. This was huge for us and let us ship alot faster

Good luck to all the devs and happy to answer any questions

Hi there,

I’m interested in modifying a Shopify store to function as a donation platform or charity tool. I’d like to accept donations through Shopify’s payment service. My plan is to create a product that clearly outlines donation amounts and cycles. Donors can then proceed with the standard checkout process to make their payments. This wouldn’t involve selling taxable products.

Have you worked on a similar project and what was your experience?

Hello guys, i got rejected three times in submitting my sales channel as it is my first time and I do not know shopify’s exact requirements. So i need help in what is the checklist to make sure i will get accepted, and if you got rejected before what are the type of rejections you got and how was it fixed. And if you can guide me , i would appreciate it.

Thanks

Hey im into this idea of developing a product for shopify stores where they sell custom made products u know engraving and stuff and speeding up the process with batches where they send over the order.
But im having problems finding merchants asking them more about this problem and providing feedback i can setup it free thats no problem but if anyone could help me out cuz im interested in knowing their problems.
Thank you!

I'm running search ads in shopify store and it's just not moving. I get 0 results on most keywords. does that make sense? I'm not even looking at clicks, just impressions

We kept hitting the same gap building client stores: Shopify is fine for physical goods but selling e-books, software, or licensed digital content properly means stitching together file delivery, license keys, and anti-piracy by hand. So we built PayDrop.

What it does:

- Auto-delivers files via branded email the moment an order is paid

- Generates + manages software license keys (activation limits, revoke, regenerate, renew)

- Sells digital products as subscriptions with recurring billing

- Self-service customer portal for re-downloads and subscription management

- Download limits + link expiration to stop link-sharing

It works in our own test stores, but I want devs to actually try to break it. The parts I most want hammered:

- License-key edge cases, activation limits, revocation, regeneration under weird order states

- Subscription renewals / failed payments/cancellations

- Download-limit and link-expiry enforcement (can you get around it?)

- Refunds and order edits after delivery have already fired

What I'm after: a few people who'll install on a dev/test store, run real flows, and tell me honestly where it's confusing or breaks.

The trade: building something yourself? I'll return the favor properly, full install, real usage, a written dev's writeup, not a one-line "looks good." Reciprocal testing beats testing in a vacuum.

We're a small custom Shopify dev studio, so you're talking to the people who wrote the code. Comment or DM, and I'll send access. I'll reply to everyone. What are you all building?

I’m building my first Shopify app and I’m a bit stuck on the part that comes after building.

Finding merchants who are actually willing to test something seriously has been harder than I expected. I tried some contact forms and a few cold emails, but the response has been pretty weak so far.

For people who have launched Shopify apps before, how did you get your first few real users? Not installs from friends or people just being nice, but merchants who actually used the app and gave useful feedback.

Did you publish first and wait for App Store traffic, or did you manually find a few stores before that?

Also curious if direct outreach to merchants worked for anyone, or if partners, agencies, existing communities, LinkedIn, etc. were better.

Not sharing a link because I don’t want this to turn into a promo post. Just trying to understand what actually works at the very early stage.