We recently made some updates to the Shopify Partner Program Agreement (PPA) and the Shopify API License and Terms of Use (API Terms). These changes encourage the best possible merchant experience within our developer and partner ecosystem and protect the integrity of the Shopify platform. Please r…

Regarding: ‘Developers cannot create multiple applications that offer substantially the same services.’ We have a software platform that powers fulfillment applications. Though our applications have the same service in that they support drop shipping each application is managed by a separate busine…

@Shayne Are you saying that in this case custom checkout would be okay until you provide more tools to achieve the desired functionality? What should I (as a developer) and the merchant do in this case to receive a written authorization? Should we provide an explanation why this is necessary fo…

It looks like Shopify has issued an update to the API Terms so that section 3.2.18 (checkouts outside of Shopify Checkout) no longer apply to private applications. @KarlOffenberger , @leteyski , @sharie , @Nesters - might apply to you. Thanks for listening Shopify :slight_smile:

@donny Thank you! That’s the answer we were looking for. We are good to go.

Thanks for the heads up @donny ! Also, respect to the Shopify team for the quick update and additional documentation. However, my initial question still remains: Given the fact that we already operate a solution that violates this policy, who can we contact to discuss a potential authorization by…

@Irene and @Shayne Thanks for responding with updated documentation and clarification on many concerns raised here. I am no lawyer so all this legal lingo is a little beyond me, but could you also be more explicit about You’re a partner that works with individual merchants on custom checkout need…

Thanks for all the feedback everyone. As @donny mentioned, we’ve updated the terms for clarity. The intention was never to remove the ability for partners to provide bespoke solutions for their clients. The merchant owns their data, and their API credentials are there so that they can access it. W…

Good point @leteyski . I was wondering what would happen to those vendors you mention. The fact they already released statements that they will not be affected does suggest they knew upfront.

No worries Karl, better safe than sorry. Private apps, new or old, are not affected.

Awesome, thanks once more @Shayne !

We’ve updated our API ToU and Partner Program Agreement

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lucascastellani September 28, 2019, 7:38am 31

These restrictions don’t apply for private apps. I hope Shopify continue to reinforce this.

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We’ve updated our API ToU and Partner Program Agreement

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