Submitting your app

After you’ve tested your app and ensured that it's production-ready, you can submit it for approval.

Before you submit your app, check the following things:

  • Make sure that the app meets our requirements. This helps to speed up your app’s review.
  • Make sure that your app is appropriately documented, keeping in mind that many of your users might not be digitally literate. Try to create a guide that caters to all levels of experience. If your app requires the setup of an external service to function, then include this within your documentation.
  • If your app requires test credentials to function, then include them in Part I of the app listing form.

To submit your app for approval:

  1. Log in to your Partner Dashboard.
  2. Click Apps.
  3. Click the name of your app.
  4. Click Distribution.
  5. If you haven't selected a distribution method yet, then select Public distribution, and click Confirm.
  6. Click Create listing or Manage listing.
  7. Select an existing listing, or click Add translated listing.
  8. Fill out all the required fields, making sure to follow our listing guidelines.
  9. Click Preview listing to see what your listing will look like when it's live. Make sure that the content, formatting, and images appear as expected.
  10. Click Save.
  11. At the top of the form, click the back button ← to return to the app listing page.
  12. Click Submit app.
  13. Check the checkbox to acknowledge that your app meets the submission requirements, then click Submit for review.

To make sure you receive your review updates and communications, add app-submissions@shopify.com and noreply@shopify.com to your allowed senders list in your email service provider’s settings.