It looks like the dev dashboard is being updated! The new homepage with revenue stats is a really nice addition. I'm seeing a few display glitches here and there, but I assume that's just because the rollout is still in progress?
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Axel Hardy
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Axel Hardy
@fraxool
Solo Shopify app developer 🇫🇷 Building Shopify Apps for merchants since 2020 Dev, support & product - all by myself Sharing the journey here ⬇️
Annecy, Haute-Savoie Katılım Eylül 2013
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Is it normal that in today's email about expiring tokens, some apps are still listed as having expiring tokens pending migration even though they should already be fully migrated? The warning has also disappeared from the Partner Dashboard for those apps. 🧐
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Ok, so it just requires session tokens. We were able to get Sidekick extensions cooking without managed installs.
Wade Sonenberg 🐬@SkinnyWaterApps
Can someone help me understand why managed installs are a requirement for Sidekick app extensions? Or does it just require session tokens? shopify.dev/docs/apps/buil…
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The related dev forum topic : community.shopify.dev/t/migrating-fr…
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It would be great to postpone the non-expiring token update until the end of Q1 2027. Many developers are asking for this. Q4 is already packed, and rolling out risky migrations during BFCM is stressful. I migrated 3 apps, but my 2 biggest ones deserve a calmer timeline 😅
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Topic posted here on the dev community forum : community.shopify.dev/t/embedded-app…
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New App Bridge issue here: embedded app navigation breaks after using window.location.href to trigger a file download. ui-nav-menu clicks stop navigating until a page refresh in all my apps. Fixed with a workaround, but still...
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Is it just me, or is the Shopify Partners dashboard really slow today... or not loading at all? 👀
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@TalktoHenryJ @JordanFinners @gilgNYC @userlist I use Klaviyo for email flows, but I’m not very happy with their pricing. For transactional emails, I use SendGrid and Postmark. Never had an issue with Postmark. I got blocked once by SendGrid because of a false positive without any warning, but apart from that, both work well
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On my end, this year has really been the year of maintenance and catching up. I've spent months dealing with things that don't directly grow the business: migrating to expiring tokens, working toward Built for Shopify on my most popular app, making my invoicing app compliant with new EU regulations, keeping up with API and stack upgrades... the list goes on.
The frustrating part is that AI has made building features dramatically faster, but it also means I spend almost all my time... building. Marketing, content, and MRR growth have taken a back seat since the beginning of the year.
Ironically, my apps have never been better, yet my MRR has grown less (even negatively) than before.
Hopefully, once all these foundations are in place, next year I can get back to what actually grows the business: marketing, distribution, and shipping things people notice.
Prakhar 🦊@PrakharS96
Building in-house analytics and replacing Mantle. There are so many new changes coming with nothing enough time and good planning! - Expiring Access Tokens: Offline Access Tokens will now be expired and need to be super careful when used by multiple internal services. There's no contingency if the token gets lost on refresh. - Historical Events: Partner API is being enriched with a lot of data but sadly, the data is not backfilled even for last 3 years. We have very less time to migrate but hard to test without data. - Shopify App Pricing: Partner APIs are being designed by keeping new app pricing in mind. Billing API is now legacy. - Mantle Shutting Down: Increases a lot of the workload but not enough data, not enough time to migrate and so many changes happening at once. I have no idea why so many things are being pushed so aggressively on app devs. It was not easy to keep up with API version changes but not so many breaking changes are being released without proper migrations in place. First time I am saying this - Not a great time to be a Shopify app dev right now! 😓
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@kirplatonov I do remember a couple of cases a few years ago where entire partner accounts were banned over fake reviews. One of them was even publicly documented by Shopify on their community forum at the time...
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@fraxool Probably because in reality banning entire partner accounts is not that common. At least I didn't hear of public cases.
I have a big vendor in my niche who've been fixing fake bug in exchange for review for about a year. They really not afraid of any consequences.
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What I don't understand about these bad actors is how much they're willing to risk. Shopify could permanently ban their developer account, effectively ending their business. Yet even after being called out and reported once, they keep doing it. Crazy.
Erikas Mališauskas@malisauskasLT
Shopify is still not punishing bad actors. Just look at this case. This developer (Hoppy apps) removed their banner after getting called out. Their reviews growth flattened out. Then they readded the banner again but this time they outsmarted Shopify compliance by hiding the banner for the development stores and collaborator accounts. One community forum member (Ollie_autoblogger) noticed this and reported to Shopify again with all the evidence. And guess what, all of their apps are still active and ranking high, with all of their reviews intact. All they had to do is remove the banner again. Until they find a new way to trick the system, I guess. I'm afraid ignorance from Shopify could lead to app developers taking action themselves which would turn into fake 1-star review wars and App Store losing its' credibility. We deeply care about App Store and the current state of it is very unsettling, I know a lot of folks in the community feel this way as well. cc @liam_at_shopify @atleeclark @eytanseidman
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@heysandy801 I love all the new stats and logs we now have for monitoring webhooks, API calls, etc. But having to switch between two different places to manage things, along with the collaborator access thing you mentioned makes the overall experience feel more frustrating than before…
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maybe 🌶️ take: i miss partner dashboard. it certainly felt a lot easier to find the thing i wanted there.
example: collaborator access is now a multi-click thing, everything feels a touch slower to respond, numbers aren't formatted, no store search bar at the top.
i'm sure they'll fix it all up, but this in-between is annoying to go through.
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@faridmovsumov Thanks for flagging this, @faridmovsumov. I think your post helped a lot of app developers, including some who weren’t even aware the issue existed 😉
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Strange that very few people noticed this bug, but it was real and fixed now.
Farid@faridmovsumov
Is anyone else getting random 404 errors on new app installs? The problem started happening out of nowhere, not sure what changed.
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Crazy. Definitely didn’t see that coming. They had no real competitors, but I have to admit I’ve been a bit disappointed by dashboard performance lately, along with the occasional API timeouts. Despite that, I was a happy user. Wishing all the best to the team for the future.
Mantle@heymantle
After a lot of thought, we've made the difficult decision to wind down Mantle over the coming months. We know this affects real work you've built on top of us. Learn what's changing, the dates that matter, and more: docs.heymantle.com/migrating-off-….
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I’m still not confident enough to migrate my biggest apps. Between reports like this and the occasional Shopify API outages, the risk feels too high. Jan 1st sounds far away, but with BFCM ahead, the practical deadline is closer to October than January… 🫤
Farid@faridmovsumov
We just experienced our first production bug after the expiring access token migration. I just reported it in the dev community cc: @liam_at_shopify
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Just like last time, the Shopify API seems extremely slow and is timing out. It might be related to Cloudflare. I'll probably postpone the expiring token migration I planned for today, as a failure mid-process could leave some users with broken tokens.
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