Shopify always prefer to develop Shopify Custom App instead of opening api for your store using Shopify Private Apps. Shopify private apps are created for extra functionalities to get access to your store from third party services.įor an example, if you want to integrate a fulfillment service with your Shopify Store, you can create Shopify Private App and provide the API details which will be added to their server to communicate with your store data. Unlike the Shopify Custom App, this have very limited control. Shopify Private Apps are the apps created from the shopify merchants store account.

Unlike Shopify Public Apps, they are not publicly available or dont want to get any approval from Shopify evaluation team. These apps are created only for a single store and installed to single store. Shopify Custom Apps are created for a single shopify store by the Shopify Partners from their partners account. Here comes the Shopify Custom and Shopify Private App. You can find them in the following link:īut what if you cannot find a Shopify App for your specific requirement? There are thousands of public shopify apps available from Shopify App Store. But, If you want to have extra features you need to use Shopify Apps or Shopify Plugins by shopify app developers.

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