Apps to power commerce
Combine ready-made building blocks into novel solutions
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Where you can build
A single app can integrate into a wide range of Shopify surfaces and domains
Shopify admin
Surface embedded pages and extension UI in the Shopify admin
Online store themes
Use your app to add dynamic functionality to merchants’ storefront themes
Checkout
Build custom functionality for checkout and customer accounts
Customer accounts
Extend the order status page and logged-in customer experience
Flow
Automate custom workflows by adding triggers and actions to Flow, Shopify’s workflow builder
POS
Extend Shopify’s Point-of-Sale software for physical retail shops
Web pixels
Add analytics pixels to track customer behavior and improve conversion rates
Backend functions
Extend or customize backend logic by adding Shopify Functions to your app
Data
Stay in sync with Shopify data or perform an action after a specific event occurs in a merchant’s store
Meeting merchant needs
Shopify itself meets about 80% of global merchant needs. For everything else, Shopify merchants turn to apps.
Successful apps solve merchant problems better than their competitors. Very successful apps solve problems that no one else has attempted.
Deployment and distribution
Deploy to the Shopify App Store to reach millions of merchants, or directly to a single organization for targeted impact.
Selling made easy

A deeper look at data
Optimize user experience and get real-time data by building data connections