Can I hide Shopify from my website URL through API?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user wants to hide Shopify branding from their website URL, specifically avoiding the default “myshopify.com” domain.

Solution Provided:

  • Purchase a custom domain (e.g., www.MHSales.com)
  • Connect it to the Shopify store through the admin panel’s domain settings
  • The custom domain will replace the myshopify.com URL for customers
  • The myshopify domain will only remain visible in the admin area

Resources:
Community members referenced Shopify’s official help documentation for manual domain connection and verification steps. Support also recommended contacting Shopify customer service for assistance with the setup process.

Status: Question resolved - custom domains are fully supported without requiring API modifications.

Summarized with AI on November 20. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi,

I would like the launch a website. But I want to hide that its shopify I use in the URL. So the url dosent say myshopify. Is this possible? Maybe through API?

2

Buy your own domain and connect it with your shopify store then it will shopify domain in your admin only

3

Hi @MarkusHanna

I hope you are doing good and welcome to the Shopify Community!
I am San from MS Web Designer.

Yes, it is possible to add another URL instead of myshopify.com URL, before connect the URL you should purchase the URL and then connect to shopify store inside the domain tab, you can talk help from shopify customer support or follow this URL-
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/domains/add-a-domain/connecting-domains/connect-domain-manual#:~:text=From%20your%20Shopify%20admin%2C%20go,Shopify%20store%2C%20click%20Verify%20connection.

Regards,

San

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So its possible to have like shopify connection and the url says for example

www.MHSales.com

And not www.MHsales.myshopify.com