How do I sell a digital subscription that unlocks access to a mobile app?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A user wants to sell subscription memberships through Shopify that grant access to a custom mobile app. They need to solve two key technical challenges:

Primary Questions:

  • How to enable customers to use accounts created during Shopify checkout to log into the mobile app
  • How to verify a user’s active subscription status within the mobile app

Current Status:

  • The discussion remains open with no solutions provided yet
  • Another user confirms experiencing the same integration challenges
  • No viable solutions have been identified so far

This appears to be a common integration problem between Shopify’s subscription system and custom mobile applications, requiring authentication and subscription verification mechanisms.

Summarized with AI on November 12. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

My goal is to sell a subscription membership service on Shopify.

The membership gives users access to content on a custom mobile app.

The user creates an account during checkout.

  1. How do I use the account made during checkout to login to a custom mobile app?

  2. How can I check a user’s subscription status in the mobile app? (is subscription still active?)

Thanks

2

I am currently experiencing this same pain point and i have yet been able to find a viable solution.