Apps that primarily function to share or provide merchant data to third parties

[bradleyboreas]

Hello,

We are looking to build an application on the Shopify App Marketplace that will allow Merchants to send their order data to a business intelligence tool. The Merchant can then have this data included in their reporting dashboards without having to manually integrate the data.

When reading over the requirements for apps in the Shopify App Store (https://shopify.dev/apps/store/requirements) the 10th item in the prohibited and restricted app configurations list states:

"Apps that primarily function to share or provide merchant data to one or more third parties must have prior written consent from Shopify and must comply with our API Terms. Otherwise, they aren't eligible to be listed on the Shopify App Store. Each third party that receives merchant data using the app must agree to Shopify’s API Terms."

Wondering if this use would fall under this classification and will require written consent from Shopify?

I've seen various other apps that do the same thing (dataddo, Power BI, etc.) so I'm confident this is possible just curious if should get consent so I don't get in trouble.