To connect a new store,merchants must first install your app from the Shopify App Store

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

Issue: A developer is preparing to submit a Shopify app and was told by Shopify that the “new shop” button in their app must redirect to the app’s listing on the Shopify App Store so merchants install from there.

Constraint: The app has not been submitted or approved yet, so it does not have a live App Store listing to link to.

Request: Guidance on how to meet Shopify’s requirement before the app is listed, or alternative compliant approaches to enable installation for new stores.

Context: This concerns the required installation flow and app listing prerequisites on the Shopify App Store.

Status: No solution provided yet; the question remains open with no responses or concrete next steps shared.

Summarized with AI on December 26. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi respected Team,

We are trying to submit our app. The Shopify team requires that the new shop button in our app page needs to redirect to the Shopify App Store first. After that, merchants install the app from there, and it looks like the core if they allow us to install it. However, our app has not been submitted yet and the Shopify App Store has not found our app yet. How can we achieve this? Or is there any other way to solve this problem? If anyone can help us solve this problem, I would be very grateful, thank you.