Developers·11 min read
Build a Custom Shopify App for Your Own Store
Create a custom Shopify app in your admin, get a scoped Admin API token, and automate order tagging, inventory sync, and exports without public apps.
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ARTICLES
Developers·11 min read
Shopify App Billing API: Subscriptions and Usage (2026)
Implement Shopify app billing with GraphQL: appSubscriptionCreate, usage records, free trials, test charges, and proration, with working mutations.
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Developers·11 min read
Shopify App Tech Stack 2026: Framework, Hosting, DB
Choosing a Shopify app tech stack in 2026: Remix vs Next.js vs Rails, hosting on Fly.io, Render, or Vercel, database options, and honest picks by scenario.
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Developers·12 min read
Shopify Checkout UI Extensions: Build One (Tutorial)
Step-by-step Shopify checkout UI extensions tutorial: scaffold with the CLI, build a trust banner in Preact, add merchant settings, and deploy.
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Developers·11 min read
Shopify Discount Function Tutorial: Custom Logic (2026)
Build a Shopify discount function in JavaScript: scaffold with the CLI, write tiered volume discount logic, test locally, and activate it via GraphQL.
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Developers·11 min read
Shopify Webhooks: Reliability Guide for App Developers
Shopify webhooks are at-least-once, unordered, and removed after repeated failures. Build HMAC checks, dedupe, and reconciliation that survive it.
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Developers·8 min read
Build a Headless Shopify Catalog Browser in Next.js
Build a browsable headless catalog on the Shopify Storefront API: fetch products and collections, render a grid, add search, and wire a variant picker.
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Developers·8 min read
Build a Shopify Feed-Readiness Checker
Build a script that pulls your Shopify catalog and scores every product on ad and AI feed readiness: titles, GTIN, images, and structured data.
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Developers·7 min read
Bulk-Write Large Catalogs to Shopify Without Throttling
Write thousands of Shopify products at once with bulkOperationRunMutation: the staged JSONL upload flow, throttle-safe throughput, and cost monitoring.
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Developers·8 min read
Shopify GraphQL Rate Limits & Error Handling Reference
A copy-paste reference for Shopify Admin GraphQL API rate limits and errors: the cost-based bucket, throttleStatus, error codes, and backoff patterns.
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Developers·7 min read
Sync a Shopify Feed in Real Time with Webhooks
React to Shopify catalog changes as they happen: subscribe to product and inventory webhooks, verify the HMAC, stay idempotent, and keep a feed in sync.
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Developers·7 min read
Add Metafields & Metaobjects to Shopify via the API
Write richer, AI-readable product data with Shopify's Admin API: typed metafield definitions, metafieldsSet, metaobjects, and better feed quality.
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Developers·6 min read
Fetch Your Entire Shopify Catalog with GraphQL
Pull every product and variant from Shopify at scale: cursor pagination vs the Bulk Operations API, rate-limit math, JSONL parsing, and retry-safe code.
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Developers·7 min read
Manage Shopify Product Publications Across Sales Channels
Control where a product appears with publishablePublish and publishableUnpublish: list current publications, target the Online Store, and fix feed gaps.
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Developers·8 min read
The Shopify Product Data Model: A Field Reference
A field-level reference for Shopify's product data model — Product, ProductVariant, options, media, inventory, and metafields — with relationships.
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Developers·7 min read
Generate Channel Feeds with Shopify ProductFeed API
Build channel product feeds with Shopify's ProductFeed API: productFeedCreate, productFullSync, incremental sync, and the bridge to ad channels.
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Developers·8 min read
Sync Your Shopify Catalog at Scale with productSet
Use Shopify's productSet mutation to declaratively upsert products, variants, options, and media at scale, with async polling and userErrors handling.
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Developers·8 min read
Read the Shopify Catalog with the Storefront API
Read products, collections, variants, and market-specific prices from the Shopify Storefront API for headless and custom front ends.
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Developers·6 min read
Shopify Admin API vs Storefront API (2026)
Shopify Admin API vs Storefront API for product catalog data: when to use each, how auth and rate limits differ, and GraphQL examples for both.
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Developers·7 min read
Build an AI-Ready Shopify Product Feed (2026)
A developer tutorial for building an AI-ready Shopify product feed so AI shopping agents can find, understand, and recommend your products with accurate.
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Developers·7 min read
Sync Shopify Catalog to Google Merchant Center
Developer tutorial to sync a Shopify catalog to Google Merchant Center: pull products via GraphQL, map attributes, push with the Content API, stay fresh.
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Developers·5 min read
Shopify Catalog GraphQL Query Cookbook (2026)
Copy-paste Shopify Admin GraphQL queries & mutations for the product catalog: reads, productSet writes, bulk exports, product feeds, price lists, and.
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Developers·7 min read
Sync Shopify Catalog to Meta Product Catalog
A developer tutorial to sync your Shopify product catalog to a Meta product catalog for Advantage+ catalog ads, with Admin GraphQL and items_batch code.
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Developers·7 min read
Shopify GraphQL vs REST API (2026)
Shopify GraphQL vs REST API compared for catalog work: data fetching, rate limits, versioning, and why GraphQL is the path forward for new builds.
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Developers·7 min read
Shopify Product Catalog API Guide (2026)
How to read, write, and sync your Shopify product catalog with the Admin GraphQL API, productSet, the Product Feed API, and Catalog API — with copy-paste.
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Developers·7 min read
Shopify Product Feed API vs CSV Feeds (2026)
Shopify Product Feed API vs manual CSV/XML feeds: which gets catalog data into Google Shopping, Meta, and AI channels reliably?
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Developers·7 min read
productSet vs productCreate in Shopify (2026)
productSet vs productCreate in Shopify's GraphQL Admin API: when to use declarative bulk upsert vs imperative create/update, with copy-paste mutation.
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Developers·7 min read
15 Things to Build With Shopify's Catalog API
15 concrete app and tool ideas for the Shopify product catalog API — feed syncs, AI shopping feeds, B2B price lists, audits, and more for developers.
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