Building on Shopify's platform

Apps for the Shopify admin and online store

Build apps for over 325,000 Shopify merchants. The Embedded App SDK allows you to embed your app directly inside of the Shopify admin as well as manipulate the usability of online stores.

Apps for retail merchants

The Shopify POS App SDK allows you to embed your apps directly inside of Shopify POS. You can build custom solutions for different kinds of retail businesses.

Embed a Shopify store into mobile apps

You can use the iOS or Android Buy SDK to embed a Shopify store's products and checkout into your mobile apps. You get access to native mobile GUI elements powered by Shopify's commerce tools.

Add ecommerce to any website

Build an ecommerce storefront into any website with complete control over the interface and behavior using our JavaScript Buy SDK.

Add Shopify ecommerce to any marketplace

Shopify has already built integrations for selling on Facebook, Twitter, and other marketplaces. Use our Sales Channel SDK to build an app for our App Store, and help merchants sell online wherever their customers are.

Using Shopify's API

REST API Reference

Shopify has 35+ endpoints available for all the touch-points of commerce. If you're familiar with what you can build for Shopify and how to use Shopify's API, the API Reference will be your go-to resource.

Getting started

Learn where to get API credentials and begin building apps for Shopify's online stores and Shopify POS. Guides about app authentication and other things that are unique to Shopify's API live here.

Charging for your apps

You can charge the merchants who use your app through Shopify's Billing API which is made up of a few API endpoints. These endpoints integrate more easily than other payment solutions and help get you approved for the Shopify App Store.

Listing in the App Store

We review new app submissions every day. If you're building a public app, follow these guides to make sure your app is eligible for Shopify's App Store.

Tutorials

From fetching remote data to leveraging Shopify's Query Language, these tutorials put some of our API endpoints under the spotlight, showing you powerful ways to make use of them.

Join the community

From Shopify's developer forums, to Twitter, to StackOverflow, find and connect with other Partners in our burgeoning developer community.

This page was printed on 12 Jan 2017. For the latest version, please go to https://help.shopify.com/api/

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