Jan

@yeramianm That's crazy 😳

lol 😳

@malisauskasLT @matthewsmith Now it would be great if Shopify looked into these stories and found out which apps they actually reviewed. :)

This Shopify app was clearly buying fake 5-star reviews and then didn't pay someone, so they got spammed with 1-star reviews instead which tanked their rating to 2.9 🤣 I have no idea how it passed through Shopify review approval system and got published. Anyone else feeling the new review purge coming? 🤣

@jayant_oxify @malisauskasLT 😅😂

Shopify Avengers Civil War 🤣😭 I support @malisauskasLT 💪

@matthewsmith @malisauskasLT Fair point - are you saying I should add branding everywhere and put a banner in the apps to remove it? :D

@jan_shopifyapps @malisauskasLT I guess the lesson here is that reviews are easy to get if you offer something free in exchange.

Update - all of their apps got delisted right after my post. Less than 48 hours after they're all back on App Store with the banner removed. All of their reviews and Built for Shopify badges are still there though 🤷🏻‍♂️ Just like I said in my initial post, scamming now gets you a huge possible upside, while the only downside is a temporary delisting. From new developer's perspective it just make sense taking such risk. And it's a huge headache for Shopify with no easy solution. Thousands of Shopify merchants are already using these apps on their stores, so Shopify can't just get rid of them because it would impact all these merchants as well. No communication from Shopify yet but I hope they're trying to find a solution for this because it's clearly a pattern everyone sees 😔

Ou yee, new events are now available in the unstable API. Triggering events based on a specific field 👌 Great feature!! #shopify #shopifydevs

@faridmovsumov @liam_at_shopify Hey liam, this issue still persist for a few days. Do you have some news about it?

I am sure something is broken about Shopify Ads, but I can't prove it. I see everywhere ads for the same set of apps. Either there is a serious bug, or they are just bidding super high everywhere.

Cool, one of the main things that has been missing so far.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 👌

@Philo01 Awesome, great ideat 👌

Shopify is pushing developers to use Polaris web components instead of React. Which is fine, but they no longer provide versioned releases, causing things to break at random when they release a new version and you have no clue when something changed. So I'm launching this little unofficial changelog website where AI tries to figure out what changed. Link below 😄

Before the annual review we dropped about 10 places in the app rankings, and after the review we jumped back up again. Is there any connection? Does getting the Built for Shopify 2026 approval carry more weight than 2025? 🤔😀

@patjakubik I completely agree with you, I have exactly the same feeling. Completely overlooked from the perspective of an EU merchant. That didn’t go very well. I wonder if they consulted anyone from the EU on this, or if they just did it without any research.

Hate to be this guy, but... I waited for this for years and I don't get how this got shipped. Can't access VAT Number via API, can't see it in email notification, can't see it on OSP... and it sees my local VAT Number (without country prefix) as invalid.

This year’s annual app review was surprisingly fast - every review after our updates came back within 24 hours. No more long waiting 🙌 Kudos to the Shopify review team! 🎉 #Shopify #ShopifyPartners

Wondering how focused Shopify actually is on Europe 🤔 There are still so many blockers that push merchants toward local platforms like Shoptet instead. EU is a specific market and a lot of features are missing or half-done: 📦 Pickup points are the #1 shipping method in Europe - yet the selection appears after checkout. Merchants and customers are constantly confused and it needs a lot of explaining. 🧾 Invoices were added, but you can’t customize them or include basic stuff like VAT number or company number. 🏢 B2B merchants can’t add VAT/company number in checkout (only in cart - confusing). And even where VAT fields exist, they’re not properly finished - can’t pull VAT via API, company number missing entirely. 🙏Would be awesome if Shopify worked with one person/agency per EU country - they’d identify the biggest local blockers and feed it directly to a Shopify account manager. That’s how you actually make Shopify the go-to platform in Europe. The potential is huge. The details just need to catch up. 🇪🇺 #Shopify #Ecommerce @Shopify @ShopifyDevs @ShopifyEng @ShopifyRebels

@geongeorgek I'm really looking forward to seeing it :)

@jan_shopifyapps Thanks, I have not heard about this. Would love your feedback on relay! release soon!

Intercom is great. Crisp is solid. But neither works if you run multiple Shopify apps. We tried both. We hacked around them. We suffered. Eventually we rebuilt our entire support stack from scratch. Meet Superrelay.

I’ve tested countless support systems for managing multiple Shopify apps, and @GleapApp is the clear winner. 🏆 It handles multi-app chats and helpdesk effortlessly. Highlights: • Unified inbox • Public roadmaps & feature requests gleap.cello.so/QYCVl5mg0yj

Great decision, thanks for the opportunity to discuss it and for not rejecting it outright :)

@malisauskasLT 😳😳That's scary 😃 How many installations do you have in total?

Goodbye, seasonal dropshippers. See you next Q4! 😅

@matthewsmith You’re absolutely right, the lack of communication is the worst part. They promised direct contact would be available last year. Now I’m waiting for the annual review, so we’ll see how it goes​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 😬

The BFS process is still very frustrating. The review team doesn't take the time to understand the app. There is no way to contact them. And, there are too many arbitrary rules. If your metrics are good, the shop owners love the app, and you are using Shopify's design tools, you should get BFS. Period.