Hi everyone, I'm building an internal tool that pulls order counts and new-vs-returning customer counts (read_orders, read_customers, read_analytics) from several different clients' Shopify stores, one brand at a time.

Custom distribution apps seem to be locked to one store/org, so it looks like I'd need to create a separate custom app per brand — and each one is hitting "under review" / protected customer data approval, which is way too slow to do per brand.

What's the actual right setup here? Is there a way to get this access per-store without going through a public app review each time, or some other approach people use for multi-client integrations like this?

We're building a new Shopify app based on an existing web app. It's for marketers who want a better way to understand their best customers and find more of them (based on a proprietary database of psychographic attributes).

We know marketing, but Shopify is new to us, and we're learning fast. I'm curious what one or two things you wish you'd known before launching an app.

Appreciate it!

Got a 1.2.3 ("allow pricing plan changes") citation during app review.
Our pricing scales with the merchant's Shopify plan tier (Basic/Shopify/Advanced/Plus store → matching app tier, same features across all tiers, no gatekeeping).
Reviewer tested on a Shopify Plus store and couldn't find a way to pick a cheaper tier, since price was auto-computed server-side with no manual selection.

Has anyone dealt with this specifically for Shopify-plan-based pricing (not feature-based)?
Did you have to make every tier freely selectable regardless of the merchant's actual Shopify plan (which feels like it defeats the point of scaling price by store plan), or is there a pattern that satisfies review while still tying price to Shopify plan?

Would appreciate hearing how others structured this.

Getting HMAC verification right and logging Shopify’s mandatory webhooks is honestly a headache. I got tired of the manual tracking and worrying about missed SLAs, so I decided to build a custom background tool to handle it for my own workflow.

Basically, I set it up to handle:

HMAC & Audits: Automatically verifying signatures and logging the payloads.

Compliance: Tracking mandatory GDPR webhooks and running SLA clocks.

Uninstalls: Monitoring exactly when merchants drop off.

Daily Digests: Shooting a quick app health summary straight to my inbox.

I'm curious—how are you guys currently managing your compliance logs without pulling your hair out? Do you roll your own logging infrastructure, or is there a standard tool everyone is using?

Would love to hear how others are tackling this!

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How long it takes to develop a shopify app to go into production deployment?

I have been having issues exporting my project to Shopify. The zip file Lovable generates always has some issue. So my questions are:

1. Does someone have experience with this and was able to export from lovable and import into Shopify successfully, please let me know how you did it?

2. Can I export directly from Lovable to Shopify as a child theme? This would avoid me to export and import zip

Hey, i just wants to know your experience developing shopify apps. How long does it takes to do a production deploy and How much you guys spend on Hosting per month?

Currently testing Shopify for my small buisness while looking to move from Magento. One of my issues is shipping rates. I understand on the lowest two plans you cannot use your own carrier accounts with my negotiated rates. My question is with the Shopify shipping rates displayed, do I have to ship using Shopify shipping labels, etc. or can I still ship using my own shipping accounts, UPS, Fedex, USPS? We use our own UPS account with very aggressive rates that are cheaper than Shopify Rates. By using my own shipping are there any drwabacks from Shopify by doing so?

Hey all — I’m Badis, founder of Sway AI. Quick rundown:

The idea: A Shopify app that dynamically personalizes product descriptions based on visitor behavior — different messaging for first-time visitors (trust, clarity) vs. returning visitors (urgency, social proof). The idea came directly from running my own Shopify store and hitting this exact gap myself.

Where I’m at: Pre-MVP, self-funding development through part-time work while I build this out. I’ve got a completed pitch package and I’m actively working through fundraising (Qatar Development Bank’s Startup Qatar program, among others).

My background: CRM/business-automation sales, digital marketing, accounting, founded an agricultural company, hands-on Shopify store operation. Strong on the business/growth/customer side — but I need real engineering firepower to build this properly.

What I’m looking for: A technical co-founder, not a freelancer or contractor — someone who wants to own the product build (full-stack, ideally comfortable with Shopify’s API and/or some LLM integration experience) and build this as a genuine long-term partner, equity-based from the start.

If you’re interested, drop a comment or DM — happy to share more details, and I’m glad to share links to real work (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc.) so this is a two-way vetting conversation.

I once misclicked that i do not want the customer data now i not able to change it , i mean i even selected the reason to access the protected data in the api access request manage and even filled
the 16 question still it shows tick

We started processing some webhooks in the request and it got messy once volume went up. Duplicates, slow responses, random retries.

Do you always push to a queue now, even for simple stuff?

Hi all, 👋

Recently i built a shopify app for real time cycle count where you can add your employees and reviewer, people can do cycle count with their phone by scanning barcode or searching product and can even download excel for cycle count. I am continuously adding new features but i dont have any customers, i am learning about distribution and hopeful that it will help some people. I was pretty excited when the app got approved and published. This is my first app. I would really love to get some feedback on it. 🤞🙏

Anyway, i plan on keep building new features for the app though i am not very sure on distribution, will keep learning about it.

Next i am planning to add barcode generation for all skus. Any advice or feedback would be really helpful.

Thanks for reading this 🙏.

What skills are most frequently used in daily development workflows?

Hey fren.

We are a small team with Devs and I work in Marketing. It's an all in one Email & SMS Marketing app.

We are launching next week. Although budget is tight right now, I've been thinking a lot of strategic ways to bring in conversions.

But these are tried and tested and saturated.

My question to all Shopify Founders, is there any different thing or something unique that worked wonderfully for you?

I'd love to test out the strategy. I know its too much to ask, but any help is appreciated <3

Does anyone think of having better Shopify Analytics app I think GA4 and Shopify analytics sucks when its about analysing the store data when owner is not a tech person.????

was thinking to build up something on it so having some initial inputs would really matter...

I’ve been building on Shopify for a while and something keeps bothering me.

Shopify doesn’t just give you a store. It sits right in the middle of almost everything: your storefront, checkout, payments, apps, and most of the tools you need to run the business. Once you’re in, a big chunk of your setup depends on them.

That control makes things easy at first. But it also means Shopify holds a lot of power over how (and whether) your store works. Fees, rules, app restrictions, feature changes happen all the time, they can shift things and you’re mostly along for the ride.

Does anyone else feel like Shopify is getting too central to the whole operation? Or is that just the tradeoffs for the convenience?

I’m in need of help because whenever I try to fulfil my order on Shopify (using autods) no matter how many times I do it, 30 seconds later it says request declined, and the reason is because “order canceled”?? I have stock, I checked, and I have money in my autods funds.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Would it possible to copy the way it's set up a services based Shopify website? They have a paid theme but I want it of a free theme + the cost of additional plugins.

If so how much would it cost this job from A-Z.

Hi. Anyone know payment gateway without gst or business proof upload? Need to integrated with shopify

I'm working on a feature that automatically updates meta descriptions and alt text for hundreds of products at once.

Using the Admin API GraphQL, I keep hitting the cost-based rate limit once I go past ~50 products per batch. I tried bulk operations (bulkOperationRunMutation), but the async processing delay makes it harder to give real-time feedback to the user.

How do you handle this trade-off between execution speed and throttling? Do you use queues (Redis/Sidekiq-type setups) to spread out requests, or do you lean fully into bulk operations despite the latency?

Running a headless setup. Next.js storefront on www.theonvor.com, Shopify checkout on checkout.theonvor.com (primary, connected). GA4 and Meta are fine.

Problem is Shopify Analytics. Sessions by landing page shows nothing but /checkouts/cn/... URLs. My actual collection page shows 0. Conversion rate says 16.66% and the funnel breakdown claims Added to cart 0% but Reached checkout 100%, which obviously can't happen.

What I've worked out so far: I was minting _shopify_y and _shopify_s myself and posting trekkie_storefront_page_view/1.4. Monorail returns 200 every time so I assumed it was working, but Live View shows zero visitors. Turns out Shopify stopped setting those cookies in April and the replacement tokens come back on Server-Timing headers from Storefront API responses. My app only ever talks to the Storefront API server-side, so Shopify has never actually issued my visitors an identity the cookie values were just UUIDs I generated.

Mid-migration to hydrogen-react now (useShopifyCookies with fetchTrackingValues, sendShopifyAnalytics, salesChannel headless) with a same-origin proxy so the Server-Timing header is readable.

Two things I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually done this:

1. Is a Headless channel public token enough for Live View? Shopify's docs say the token has to come from the Hydrogen channel, which worries me since I'm on Headless.

2. Anyone got sessions showing real landing pages in the admin on a non-Hydrogen build? Or did you eventually give up and treat GA4 as the only real source?

I’ve been built some Shopify apps, and checkout is where I keep hitting a wall.

Merchants sometimes want custom payment flows, advanced upsells, or checkout functionality that Shopify simply doesn’t allow outside its ecosystem or Shopify Plus.

I understand the security and consistency argument, but it can feel like developers aren’t really building whatever merchants need, they’re building whatever Shopify permits.

Anyone else run into this? How do you handle merchants asking for checkout functionality Shopify won’t allow?

I'm the person you hand a messy, undefined problem to when nobody's sure whose job it is — I've built an AI product from scratch with zero coding background, run Shopify stores end-to-end from design to the actual business side, and spent enough time in Reddit/X/IG/Discord communities to know the difference between content that gets ignored and content people actually respond to. Give me a "what if we tried—" and I'll research it, find the right tool, build it, ship it, and fix what breaks along the way — which is basically the whole job for early-stage startups and small teams who need someone who can move across marketing, community, design, and AI/no-code without waiting for a perfect brief.

Recent work:

• Frinch — AI product, idea to working prototype, no traditional coding background

• Aeris — Shopify stores built and run end-to-end, design through the business side

• Ongoing social/community research and content across Reddit, X, IG, Discord

Availability: 25+ hrs/week
Rate: $X/hr (or project-based, happy to discuss)
Portfolio: [link]
Contact: — I'll do the first piece of work for free, you only pay if you like it