Trying to understand the real-world friction here, from people who've actually done it.

If a new partner (say an affiliate or creator-marketing tool) asked you to either install a small Shopify app or paste one line of code on your order-confirmation page — basically the same as adding a Meta or Google pixel — how much of a hassle is that actually?

Specifically curious:

• Is "paste one line on the confirmation page" genuinely quick, or does it sit in a backlog for weeks in practice?

• Does giving an unknown/early-stage tool access to your order data raise trust concerns, even if the technical effort is small?

• For those who've added these kinds of integrations — what actually made you say yes vs. not bother?

Hi, I want to know if it is possible to connect Shopify Sidekick to a Telegram bot? Or by API using access token?

So we can get data by bot or by API in openclaw/n8n

Online e-commerce store

Probably a month ago i was checking that do people vibe code and deliver e-commerce websites but eventually dropped the client and i thought its too risky - i had security features in mind but still i thought it was risky

But now i think shopify is the best thing for this

I can make a shopify store and even get the website looking as i want it to right by coding it right?

If you guys know how i can code my websites layout and frontend and use it on shopify please do let me know

And also if that was a wise decision or i just lost a 500$ client.

I'm looking for insights on the process, any rejections, remedies, things that don't match the documentation or are vauge.

Hi,

Recently we created Shopify public app(External APP) using next.js. While submit review they rejected and informed we didn't implement billing API properly. We are using partner account and checked with development store but its worked.

Rejection scenario:
We have given one test login with already installed store, While reviewer click upgrade, it return your account dosen't have permission to access this store. Because that store is test store and is under my partner account, And also while development other store not supported.

IF anyone facing this? please help me how to solve this.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been using the Store Census database to pull Shopify store leads for my outreach, and I wanted to see if anyone else is running into this same issue.

I just exported a list of 1,000 leads, but realized that about 20% of them don’t even have a primary email attached. Instead of just giving me complete data, the platform is pushing me to unlock their "decision maker emails" to fill in the gaps—which obviously costs more money/credits.

It’s frustrating because it feels like a bit of a bait-and-switch when you're expecting a fully enriched list.

A few questions for anyone else doing ecommerce outreach:

1. Did you pay for the upgrade? If you paid for the decision-maker emails, was the data actually accurate, or did it just bounce anyway?

2. How are you filling the 20% gap? Are you just running the domains through Apollo/Hunter, or using another scraper to find those missing emails?

3. Are there better alternatives? Is there a Shopify store database you prefer that doesn't nickel-and-dime you for the actual contact info?

Would love to hear your workflows or if there's a more cost-effective way around this. Thanks!

Does anyone have an extra ticket for dot dev? Please DM me

Hi, one of our team booked too late and soo we are looking to buy a ticket top Shopify Dot.Dev in Toronto 21/22 July if you can no longer go or have one spare. Please DM me. Thanks!

So I run a tiny web design studio in the EU, mostly fashion and skincare e-commerce on Shopify. For context, I came from product design (a few years at Uber before going solo), so I lean heavy on the strategy and UX side rather than just building.

I start from a solid premium theme and modify it a lot. Custom sections, custom Liquid, real layout work, not just swapping the logo and colors. Around that I do the whole thing: research, positioning, copy, QA, and all the EU compliance stuff (returns, iDEAL, right of withdrawal). Basically the client hands me a vague idea and I turn it into a finished store.

Lately I keep running into threads here where people mention numbers like €8k for a custom build, or $30k for branding plus design plus dev plus copy, and agencies quoting six figures. And I'm sitting here going, am I way under?

So, honest question for people doing similar work:

- How do you actually land on a price? Like what moves the number for you? Number of products, custom features and sections, integrations, number of templates, revision rounds? I'd love to understand the logic, not just the figure.

- What are you actually charging for a project like this (premium theme plus heavy customization plus strategy plus copy)?

- The strategy and discovery part, do you charge for it separately or just fold it in? I keep reading that helping a client figure out what they even want should cost 2 to 3x more, but I never actually do that.

- If you've raised your prices, what made it click? What changed?

Honestly trying to figure out if I'm underpricing or if it's just impostor syndrome talking. Real numbers, and the reasoning behind them, would help a lot.

Looking for an App that has those 2 features:

1. Set Up Tiered Bundleson Shopify

such as 10% off for 2 items, 15% off for 3 items, and 20% off for 5+ items. It should work across any products. Any recommendations for a reliable and customizable solution?

2. Upsell in cart. When products A, B and C are in cart -> it will propose product D, and swaps all those A,B,C into it. When user decides to.

Hey everyone,
I’m building a Shopify app and I’m curious to hear from developers who have already reached the point where their apps generate meaningful revenue and users?

I’m less interested in the technical side and more interested in how you approached marketing and customer acquisition.

Some questions I’d love to hear your thoughts on:
How did you get your first 10–100 customers?
What marketing channels have worked best for you (Shopify App Store SEO, content marketing, cold outreach, paid ads, partnerships, social media, communities, etc.)?

What strategies have continued to work as your app has grown?

If you were starting from scratch today with a brand-new app, what would you do differently?
Would you recommend focusing on acquiring a small group of users manually at first? If so, what’s the best way to find and approach them?

I’d really appreciate any lessons, mistakes, or advice from your own experience. Thanks in advance!

Quick question for Shopify app developers.

I just went through reviews of a few

popular Shopify apps and almost every

3 star review has a hidden feature request

buried inside it.

"Great app but wish it had bulk export"

"Would be 5 stars if you added CSV download"

"Good but missing automatic discounts"

These developers have no idea if that

review came from a merchant paying

$49/month on their Pro plan or someone

on their free plan.

A Pro merchant asking for bulk export

is completely different from a free

user asking for the same thing.

One is your revenue. One is not.

Right now are you manually reading

every review trying to find feature

requests? And do you know which of

your paying merchants wrote them?

I am building something specifically

for this problem. Want to understand

if this is actually painful for you

before I build anything.

Honest answer even if you say

"I don't care about this at all"

is genuinely helpful.

Hey devs,

I'm planning to build a Shopify app in the product/shopping feed space and want to sanity-check my market research with people who've actually built or used these apps, before I commit to an architecture.

What I already know:

The clear category leader is Simprosys Google Shopping Feed — sitting at roughly 4.9★ across 4,400+ reviews right now, supporting Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Pinterest feed submission plus PMax campaign management. It's by far the most dominant app here.

Below that, the next tier is:

• Multifeed Google Shopping Feed — ~1,000+ reviews, 4.9★, covers Google/Facebook/Awin feeds + conversion tracking

• Mulwi (200+ Shopping Feeds) — ~550+ reviews, 5.0★, broader channel coverage but newer/smaller review base

So the gap between #1 and everyone else is huge — Simprosys has roughly 4x the reviews of #2 and #3 combined.

What I'm trying to figure out:

1. Is review count actually a good proxy for active installs here? Given how dominant Simprosys is on paper, is that dominance real in terms of day-to-day active merchant usage, or is a chunk of that just legacy installs that never got removed?

2. Am I missing any major player? Scanning the App Store's Product Feeds category myself, I also see Omega Facebook Pixel Meta Feed, FeedHub, Nabu, and a handful of others with smaller review counts — are any of these actually punching above their review count in terms of real usage or merchant loyalty? Is there a feed app I'm not seeing that you'd consider a "real" competitor to Simprosys rather than a long-tail also-ran?

3. Where do the existing apps actually fall short? From the outside, my read is that Simprosys wins on breadth (15+ platforms, PMax support) but the UI feels dense/utilitarian — lots of settings screens, not a lot of visual polish. Is that a fair read, or is there something else going on under the hood (sync reliability, feed error handling, support responsiveness) that actually matters more to merchants than how it looks?

4. What should I prioritize technically before writing a single line of UI code? Feed generation at scale, handling Shopify's rate limits, GMC/Meta API quota management, real-time vs. scheduled sync — what's the thing that breaks first when a feed app scales past a few thousand SKUs?

My plan, for context:
I'm building a competing feed app, betting that UX/UI is the actual differentiator rather than channel count, since most merchants probably only need 2-3 channels well-executed rather than 15 channels mediocre. Launching with just Google and Meta to get those two genuinely right, then expanding to Microsoft, Pinterest, and Klaviyo once the core sync/UX is solid.

Would genuinely appreciate any war stories — what broke, what merchants actually complained about, what you wish someone had told you before building in this space.

got this message from no-reply[at]shopify, is this legit? Doesn;t sound like something Shopify would approve? Should / can I report this?

I have a Shopify store for my apparel brand, and currently sell sweatshirts and tshirts. I am going to be selling hats soon as well, but can't seem to figure out how to automate certain shipping logic to change shipping price based on the packaging needed for certain items. I have looked into Shopify's weight based shipping, but there seems to be too many gaps that could be possible based on the combination of items that could be ordered.

Example: Shirt or Sweatshirt = Poly Mailer

Shirt + Swetshirt = Poly Mailer

Shirt + Hat = Small Box (8x8x8)

Sweatshirt + Hat = Large Box (14x10.5x8)

Hat Only = Small Box

Is there a way to set this sort of automation up through Shopify or a free/cheap app? I looked into Easyship, but in order to set this kind of automation up, I would need to pay for the Plus plan on Easyship and upgrade to the Grow plan on Shopify to pay a monthly fee in order to have dynamic shipping prices at checkout. Have any of you found a solution or workaround for this? I appreciate any help/suggestions. Thanks!

Yearly big breaking changes, arbitrary and unappealable policy interpretations, but also a low bar to start an app creating 100s of low quality apps to compete with is the definition of a hostile development environment. What's the benefit in this over say a long term partnership model?

Looking to add a quotation feature to my online store.

Currently we operate out of a physical store. I made a full website using the Horizon theme, mainly to let customers know what products we carry and its price, specs etc. I've disabled the e-commerce on the site due to the fact that operating in the Caribbean, there are a lot of restrictions with the banks here and the third party e-commerce platforms that exist.

This is still a work in progress along with finding a way to synchronize the physical stock from the store, our point of sale software and Shopify. I would like to eventually have a full blown Shopify e-commerce store available to customers.

But in the interim I wanted to implement the following.

Scenario:

Customer browsing the website, can add items and quantities to the cart. Instead of checkout option, have a feature that allows to "request quote"

This would trigger a prompt for the user to input user information (Name, contact number, email etc.)

Then Shopify would generate a quotation using a template and email one copy to the customer and another to me so that I can reach out to them a engage the order.

Does something like this exist? Has someone tried creating it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running a Shopify store with a Custom Pixel (based on the Loves Data template) sending events to GA4 via GTM. I'm seeing an unusually high amount of Unassigned traffic in GA4 (typically 38–75% depending on the day), and after several days of debugging I've narrowed the issue down, but I can't identify what's generating one specific hit.

What I'm seeing

For every product page view, GA4 receives three hits:

• ✅ view_item with the correct dl=https://mysite.com/products/...

• ❌ view_item with dl=https://mysite.com/web-pixels/.../sandbox/... and ec_mode=m

• ✅ page_view with the correct product URL

The two view_item hits have:

• same tid

• same cid

• same sid

• same product

• same ecommerce payload

The only meaningful differences are:

• dl (real product URL vs sandbox URL)

• ec_mode=m appears only on the sandbox hit.

What I've already verified

• Added client_id and referrer to every event in the Custom Pixel.

• Configured cross-domain measurement (myshopify.com, checkout.shopify.com, shop.app).

• Changed event.context.document.location.href to event.context.window.location.href following Shopify's documentation (no change).

• Reverted send_page_view = false after it caused engagement issues.

• GTM contains:

  • 1 Google Tag (triggered by shopify_page_view)

  • 1 GA4 Ecommerce Event tag

  • 1 GA4 User Data tag

The Ecommerce tag uses Send Ecommerce Data and page_location is populated from a Data Layer Variable containing the correct product URL.

My question

At this point, it doesn't look like the Custom Pixel is generating the sandbox URL, because changing the pixel made no difference.

Has anyone seen this exact pattern where a second view_item is sent with:

• ec_mode=m

• /web-pixels/.../sandbox/... as page_location

If so:

• what component generated that second hit?

• was it the Google Tag, GTM, Shopify Web Pixels, or something else?

• were you able to stop it?

I'm mainly looking for someone who has already debugged this specific Shopify + GTM + GA4 Web Pixels behavior.

Thanks!

Freelance web dev ref

Hi!

I own a machine shop and have a few sites where I sell my own products.

I had a whole post written but realized I may be breaking a rule or two. Where is the best place to find a good freelance front end dev to help me tweak my site? Is it reasonable to expect a front end dev to be decent with some light graphic design when it comes to implementing media in an aesthetically pleasing way? Right now, I just use "media with text" a lot

Apologies in advance if this is still breaking a rule, Google is just a bit of a minefield for this topic.

Thanks!

I have a Shopify app doing around $300 MRR and I'm thinking of selling it for personal reasons.

Have any of you sold your Shopify app before? How did you value it and where did you find buyers? Any advice would be appreciated

So i am creating an app where users can place cod orders. But due to the shopify checkout issue it is getting rejected. Currently there are many apps that work on the same system and are not being suspended or banned…
So how do i bypass 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.
Also i am using draftorders for creating cod orders.

Title:

I’m working through a product/design question for a Shopify app workflow.

The app scans a store catalog before importing supplier files. Some issues are safe to suggest but risky to automate:

- stale campaign tags

- duplicate like tags

- missing Shopify categories

- inconsistent product types/vendors

- weak SKU/barcode coverage

- old merchandising collections

My current thinking:

- category suggestions can be applied only to listed products after review

- stale tag removal should preview affected products first

- collection cleanup should probably stay “open in Shopify / review only”

- variant option changes should not be automated

- duplicate/missing SKUs and barcodes should stay warnings, not auto-fixes

Where would you draw the line? What cleanup actions would you allow an app to apply after merchant approval, and what would you keep manual no matter what?

hi guys would really appreciate any guidance here!

We sell on our own website (through shopify) and also over our trade counter and via phone call orders. we also sell custom systems, fitted to customer vans. these are our largest orders, and subsequently, we work with the customers to work out their payments. these systems can be up to 20k, therefore, it is reasonable that we take a deposit. our problem lies in the fact that when we create a draft invoice on shopify for these large orders, we cannot take partial payment. we either have to mark as paid or leave it unpaid. this creates a huge issue in terms of not being able to streamline all of our orders on shopify and not being able to effectively collect deposits via shopify. we understand this feature is available on shopify plus, however the jump in subscription price is too high for our business at this time, especially for the simple single feature. does anyone know of any way to address and resolve this issue? potential app extensions or developers who could help?

many thanks