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Apps to power commerce

Combine ready-made building blocks into novel solutions

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Where you can build

A single app can integrate into a wide range of Shopify surfaces and domains

Shopify admin

Surface embedded pages and extension UI in the Shopify admin

Online store themes

Use your app to add dynamic functionality to merchants’ storefront themes

Checkout

Build custom functionality for checkout and customer accounts

Customer accounts

Extend the order status page and logged-in customer experience

Flow

Automate custom workflows by adding triggers and actions to Flow, Shopify’s workflow builder

POS

Extend Shopify’s Point-of-Sale software for physical retail shops

Web pixels

Add analytics pixels to track customer behavior and improve conversion rates

Backend functions

Extend or customize backend logic by adding Shopify Functions to your app

Data

Stay in sync with Shopify data or perform an action after a specific event occurs in a merchant’s store

Meeting merchant needs

Shopify itself meets about 80% of global merchant needs. For everything else, Shopify merchants turn to apps.

Successful apps solve merchant problems better than their competitors. Very successful apps solve problems that no one else has attempted.

Best practices

Make your app more accessible, secure, and performant.

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Quality from the start

Keep Shopify App Store requirements in mind as you build.

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Deployment and distribution

Deploy to the Shopify App Store to reach millions of merchants, or directly to a single organization for targeted impact.

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Selling made easy

Put the Shopify App Store to work for you. With a trove of business intelligence, the platform sells your app to the right audience from among Shopify’s millions of merchants.
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A deeper look at data

Optimize user experience and get real-time data by building data connections

App configuration

Add data integrations as you architect your app

APIs for commerce

With Shopify APIs, your app can integrate data with Shopify in real time

Custom data

Boost performance by storing custom data on Shopify

Webhooks

Get notified about events on a store by subscribing to webhook topics

Apps and their extensions

An app’s centralized pages—the app home—and its backend are hosted externally. Meanwhile, an app’s extensions are hosted by Shopify and rendered with native technologies.
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