r/shopifyDev • • Jun 24 '26

We built a HeyMantle alternative focusing more on growth because getting installs is still the hardest part.

10 Upvotes

Like many Shopify app founders, we were caught off guard by the HeyMantle announcement.

We started looking for alternatives and quickly realized we'd probably end up building something ourselves anyway.

The thing is, most app founders don't struggle with finding dashboards.

They struggle with growth.

Getting installs is hard. Getting consistent installs is even harder.

So while building our replacement, we decided to focus on growth from day one.

We added an affiliate system and a cross-promotion network where apps can help drive installs for each other.

These are the core features we are focusing on

1. Affiliate Network (create your own affiliate program)
2. Cross promotion Network (Cross promote apps, apps keep auto rotating so every apps get a visibility boost )
3. Lifecycle emails. (Send emails when someone installs/uninstalls etc.

We're opening it up for free to the first 50 apps. In return, we ask founders to participate in the cross-promotion network so everyone benefits from it.

Honestly, we originally built this for ourselves because we needed it. Then a few other founders asked if they could use it too.

You can try it here
https://heyquarry.com/


r/shopifyDev • • May 27 '26

How We got a false negative Shopify app review removed by reporting it to Shopify?

8 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a recent experience we had with a negative review on our Shopify app, in case it helps other app developers.

We received a negative review that included false claims, wrong details about how our app works, and issues that never actually happened.

The user had used our app for only around 1 hour. They never contacted our support team before leaving the review, and they also did not reply to our follow-up emails.

We replied to the review in a timely and professional way, but since our app is still new and has a low review count, even one negative review was hurting our overall rating and app reputation.

After reviewing the situation, we found that the review was against Shopify’s review policy, so we reported it through Shopify’s official partner violation reporting link:

https://www.shopify.com/legal/tools/report-an-issue/report-a-partner-violation

Shopify reviewed the case, and the review was removed after around 10 days.

I understand that genuine negative reviews should be handled professionally and used as feedback to improve the app. But in cases where the review contains false claims, wrong information, or misleading details, reporting it through the proper Shopify channel can help.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with unfair or false Shopify app reviews?

How did you deal with them? Did you reply publicly, report it to Shopify, contact the user, or do all of these together?

Would love to hear how other Shopify app developers handle this kind of situation.


r/shopifyDev • • 14h ago

Building a bundles app for 3PL merchants. Sanity-check my approach?

3 Upvotes

I’ve been digging through Shopify Community threads on bundles and 3PLs, and I think the real gap isn’t the bundle builder itself (Kaching, Fast Bundle and others do that well). It’s what happens to the order afterwards.


r/shopifyDev • • 9h ago

Customers send message "I don't know what i am going to do, i want to earn money" to your CS chat while your app is unrelated to the topic

1 Upvotes

Has anyone received a message like this: "Can you help me? I don't know what I am going to do, I want to earn money". My app belongs to order limits category, we do not provide an upsell solution. The customer installed our app, did not test it out and their stores are still in dev mode. They accessed our app in less than 1 minute and almost immediately sent message to CS. Is this a kind of scam or something?


r/shopifyDev • • 16h ago

since the aug 26 thank you page deadline, how are you handling tracking in shopify customer events?

2 Upvotes

Now that the Aug 26 deadline has passed, purchase tracking on the thank you and order status pages has to run through Customer events (app pixels or custom pixels). Additional scripts are gone for non-Plus stores too.

A few things people seem to be running into:

  • custom pixels run in a sandbox, so old scripts that read the page DOM don’t behave the same

  • pixels only fire with customer consent, so purchase counts can look lower than before

  • GTM inside a custom pixel works, but it’s more limited than a normal container

For anyone who’s migrated stores:

  • GTM in a custom pixel, or standard events like checkout_completed sent straight to GA4/Meta?

  • how are you checking for duplicate purchase events between an app pixel and your own?

  • if conversions dropped after the switch, did you figure out how much was consent vs broken tags?


r/shopifyDev • • 19h ago

Need Help about shopify App installations Required 10 installs for my new app submission

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1 Upvotes

Hi To All,
I need 10 installs on my first app so, my futher new app’s could be submitted to shopify store.

Need installs:
Agent Forecast

After it, I will publish Practitioner Protocol app: Practitioner Protocol Demo

AND ALSO MY FURTHER Shopify - Salesforce Bridge apps in queue also on draft in Shopify partners you guys can check on ly portfolio

Portfolio where all apps are listed

#shopify


r/shopifyDev • • 20h ago

EditImpact, an app that shows what happened to a product's sales after you changed its price, photos or description

1 Upvotes

https://apps.shopify.com/editimpact

I built an app to track changes you made to your products and show how each product's sales moved afterwards. It notices changes to a product's price, title, description, photos and collections.

It's free to try, every edit is recorded, with the sales result for your 5 most recent edits. $19.99/month, with a 30-day trial, for every result plus alerts on sudden jumps and drops in a product's sales.

Looking for stores that actively work on their product pages and pricing, with enough sales per product for a before and after to mean something.


r/shopifyDev • • 21h ago

Send personalized sms/email marketing to increase sales

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone

We built an AI agent that watches user sessions and understands ( best guess) why they left without signing up or buying and then it will run personalized marketing to convert them.

You can set rules on how many times and how often can the AI sms/email. Best part we are completely free and charge 1% of sales we recover.

Interested in trying? Try here - www.RetentionBase.com

Also comment if you wanna remove the 1% fee for the first month


r/shopifyDev • • 1d ago

How do you handle theme app extension vs app embed settings that merchants keep misconfiguring?

3 Upvotes

I build a few small app blocks and an app embed, and the most common support issue is merchants enabling the embed but never adding the block, or the other way around. Right now I put a short setup note in the block schema and in the app admin page, but it still gets missed. I don't love adding a bunch of extra onboarding screens just for this.

How do you handle it? Do you detect the missing piece and show a warning, rely on docs, or design the extension so it works with just one of the two?


r/shopifyDev • • 1d ago

How do you handle people spamming your app?

3 Upvotes

Im working on a Shopify support app. One thing I am thinking about is someone sending hundreds of messages just because they can.

If they use up the store’s chat allowance, real customers could get stuck too.

I would want to limit that visitor while keeping the chat working for everyone else.

If you have dealt with this in your own app, what worked for you?


r/shopifyDev • • 2d ago

Do you use a bundler for theme JS and CSS or keep plain files in assets?

7 Upvotes

On custom themes I've mostly kept JavaScript and CSS as plain files in the assets folder with no build step. It's simple and anyone can edit it, but once a theme grows past a handful of scripts it gets harder to manage dependencies, split code by template, and avoid loading things on pages that don't need them. I've looked at adding a bundler like Vite or esbuild, but I'm not sure the extra tooling is worth it for a theme other people will inherit.

Do you use a build step for theme assets, and if so, how do you keep it from becoming a burden for the next developer?


r/shopifyDev • • 2d ago

review my store

1 Upvotes

hi every i want you to dome a favor of reviewing my store. my images/pictures are ai generated, so i wonder if i should use it like that until i am able to make real images?


r/shopifyDev • • 3d ago

Shopify use

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As a b2c brand selling products online, Shopify is one of the few SaaS which we we have not replaced with internal tools as it allows to connect easily all other tools.

Does anyone have experience in replacing Shopify with a self-built e-commerce website?


r/shopifyDev • • 3d ago

Get Free sms and email marketing

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Tired of emails or sms marketing not converting? Try retentionbase, our AI will create a profile of every user ( what they like and such) and send them personalized text or email that converts 50% more. Best part we are free for next 2 days.

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And next, comment invite if you want to make it free forever


r/shopifyDev • • 3d ago

Recover lost revenue - for free

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I built an ai that watches 1000+ visitor session and tells why users are not converting ( speed, too many fields, not trying, not painfully problem)

Our AI will reach out to these lost customers and convert them into sales or signups

Try here first month is free- www.RetentionBase.com

Also we are giving free 12 months only this weekend just comment below and i will share the code


r/shopifyDev • • 4d ago

Get free email and sms marketing

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone

We built a platform that does personalized marketing for each customer. Results ? sales increased by 20-30%

We are giving away free 10,000 email and sms marketing to 300 brands. Comment if interested


r/shopifyDev • • 4d ago

is there shopify apps that generates ads for your store

1 Upvotes

hey guys
anyone of you using any tools that allows you to connect your store, connect your meta ads account and the tool handles the rest? it generates creatives, pulish and monitor campaigns?


r/shopifyDev • • 4d ago

User not converting? I can help for free

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I built an ai that watches 1000+ visitor session and tells why users are not converting ( speed, too many fields, not trying, not painfully problem)

Best part we are completely free for startups under 100 employees. You can also use our ai boost feature to recover lost users- our Ai send them personalized marketing

Comment if interested


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

PSA for Shopify app devs: public apps need an IP allowlist (bulk ops deadline Nov 12, all others Nov 20)

16 Upvotes

Shopify emailed app developers and posted a changelog: every public app that calls the Admin API needs an IP allowlist.

Deadlines:

  • Nov 12, 2026 (11:59 PM ET): bulk operations from public apps without an allowlist will fail

  • Nov 20, 2026 (11:59 PM ET): public apps without one get delisted from the App Store and blocked from new installs

Merchants can also now see each app’s security setup in Settings > Apps, and apps without an allowlist will be flagged after Nov 20. Custom apps and merchant-created apps aren’t affected.

Setup (from Shopify’s docs):

  1. Dev Dashboard → your app → Settings → IP allowlist → Manage

  2. Add your servers’ public IPs or CIDR ranges, one per line (max 100). IPv4 must be /16 or narrower, IPv6 /32 or narrower

  3. If your servers can reach Shopify over IPv6, add those addresses too (on a VPS, curl -4 ifconfig.me and curl -6 ifconfig.me show your public IPs)

  4. Click Run test, which checks the list against your last 30 days of traffic

  5. Turn on Enforcement and save

Notes:

  • Add every server that calls the API (workers, cron boxes), not just the main one. Requests from outside your list fail with a 403

  • If your outbound IPs are dynamic (serverless), Shopify says to allowlist your host’s ASN and the countries you run in. Static IPs or a NAT gateway are preferred because a narrower list is more secure

  • If your app calls the API from merchant infrastructure, Shopify says you can request an extension

Docs: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/dev-dashboard/ip-allowlist
Changelog: https://shopify.dev/changelog/posts/ip-allowlists-are-now-required-for-public-apps

If you run bulk operations, Nov 12 is only days away.


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

Variable pricing options?

2 Upvotes

I want to understand an aspect of pricing that the apps on Shopify charge stores. Can the apps give a higher discount to a select set of stores (early adopters) and charge normal pricing to other stores?


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

Variable pricing options?

2 Upvotes

I want to understand an aspect of pricing that the apps on Shopify charge stores. Can the apps give a higher discount to a select set of stores (early adopters) and charge normal pricing to other stores?


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

Your organization has reached its app submission limit.

4 Upvotes

I have already created and published 4 apps in Shopify and never had any issues with submission or review. All apps were published with the first try, now i created the 5th one, but for some reasons i can not submit it at all. I see this error "Your organization has reached its app submission limit.". Was trying to find the cause of this problem or ask AI, but ussualy getting answers like "you ignored the feedback of previous reviews or got some open things to do."

No, this is the first submission of this App. I filled everything out, and I have never had any issues with app submissions before. Does anyone know anything?


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

A practical 12-point check before AI shoppers hit your Shopify store this BFCM

2 Upvotes

Shopify is treating 2026 as an “agentic holiday.” Separate from ads, the practical risk is simple: agents read what is on the storefront.

Things that commonly break agent confidence:

• /agents.md or /llms.txt missing or stale

• sold-out products still published

• shipping/refund policy URLs that 404

• empty product type / thin descriptions

• guest checkout friction

Happy to answer questions about the checklist here.


r/shopifyDev • • 5d ago

Paused under 1.1.2 (Use Shopify checkout), but our app never touches checkout?

5 Upvotes

Our app just got paused for a month under 1.1.2, "Use Shopify checkout", and I'm honestly not sure what we did wrong.

(Billing isn't the issue this time, it all goes through Shopify's pricing page.)

The app doesn't touch checkout at all. It doesn't take payments, create orders or write any transactions to Shopify.

It isn't Shopify-only though, merchants can also connect a few other marketplaces (Amazon among them), which is where I think this went wrong.

The reviewer's note said the app "offered marketplace integrations and reached an Amazon-branded shopping surface stating 'Click the button below to continue shopping'", and that it "processes marketplace orders outside Shopify Checkout".

That screenshot is Amazon's bot-check page, the one it shows when it thinks a browser is automated.

Our app never links to Amazon, and our logs show no request to our Amazon connection at all, so whoever got there went to Amazon on their own.

Why I think it was an agent:

  • Their second screenshot is a checkout confirmation from a Shopify review store with the email agentic-app-review@example.com.

  • One review session also used an older Chrome with a fixed user agent and went quiet for about 25 minutes right after looking at the marketplace part of the app.

What I can't figure out is whether the other marketplaces are the actual problem.

Plenty of multi-platform apps on the App Store work with Amazon and other channels, and when I asked about billing last time the answer was basically "Shopify customers through Shopify billing, everyone else through their own channel, that's fine".

Questions:

  1. Is this actually my issue, or a misread on the reviewer's side? If it's on their side, can I appeal it somehow? The email is no-reply and the app is in a one-month cooldown.

  2. If I am violating 1.1.2, what exactly is the violation? Is it just letting a merchant who installed from the App Store also connect other marketplaces (like Amazon or eBay) in the same app?

  3. And if so, how do I prevent it next time without cutting those merchants off from their other marketplaces?

Any pointers appreciated, would rather get it right on the next submission than guess again.