Since Shopify’s July 18th change of totally hiding unpublished apps (no more apps.shopify.com/myapp for unpublished apps), what is the process for beta testing in-development apps in real stores other than those under our own partner account? We need a way forward on this, because right now it seem…

I’m having the same issue, is there an alternative approach?

Hey, Alex. Brendan here from the Shopify Support team. The recent change to the Shopify app store unpublished app pages has been made as an effort to ensure all apps available for direct install have been approved by the Shopify Apps team. This means that in order to provide access to an unpublish…

The Shopify App Store simply sends a GET request to your application, appending the shop name as a URL parameter. ( https://mycoolapp.herokuapp.com/?shop=some-shop.myshopify.com ) Since you already know your own app URL, you simply just need the shop name to initiate an install.

Does the removal from the app store effect usage of the Billing API at all for setting up recurring charges?

Does this process still work (of using the link app_server.com/?shop={ store.myshopify.com })? I attempt to do this and it redirects to my app but then redirects back to the shopify admin (for the store passed in the shop parameter) and I get an error saying the page you are looking for cannot be foun…

I figured out what was wrong in case others come across this with a similar issue. I was using the url listed in the app setup https://unlisted-app-url.com/ and passing the shop param like so https://unlistedappurl.com/?shop=dev-shop-url.com . This wasn’t working, it would redirect to my app but th…

I’ve been testing my public unlisted, unapproved app using myappname.myhosting.com?shop= {my shop name} and it was working fine with my development stores in terms of generating the permission URL and passing OAuth. It then came as a surprise to me that I wasn’t able to send this link to actual merch…

I’m wondering if something changed here, since I was using the process outlined for a previous app which worked, started development on a new app and now I can’t install it in one of my live stores which I want to do for beta. I don’t want to make it a “private app” since i plan on releasing. It ins…

@Adam_Hurlburt this might be relevant: https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/shopify-public-apps

Hi, @Jamie_D_1 How are you? now I am facing the same issue. But I can’t install dev public app to real store in your way. (enabled on only dev store). When I tried to install dev public app to real store, I was provided the below error. “This app needs to be reviewed by Shopify before it can be …

Beta process for unpublished (in-development) apps in real stores?

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Beta process for unpublished (in-development) apps in real stores?

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