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Shopify apps
Shopify's app store can fill your store with subscriptions before it fills it with results. The guides in this topic treat apps as a budget line: which jobs are worth covering first on a new store, when a free plan is enough, what to check before connecting any app to your store data, and how to audit the monthly bill your app stack quietly builds. The aim is a stack you can explain line by line — and prune without drama when something stops earning its place.
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32 guides N°001 Shopify apps Shopify Scripts → Functions: A Migration Horror Story The practical implications for Shopify merchants. Read → N°002 Shopify apps The Scripts Sunset: What Shopify Did Not Tell Merchants What this means for your store. Read → N°003 Shopify apps Web Pixels vs Script Tags: What Actually Changes Here is what you need to know. Read → N°004 Shopify apps Scripts vs Functions: What Actually Changed My experience and what I learned. Read → N°005 Shopify apps Shopify Editions Summer 2026: The Everywhere Edition Explained A breakdown of what changed and why it matters. Read → N°006 Shopify apps Warning Signs Your Store Still Had Active Scripts A breakdown of what changed and why it matters. Read → N°007 Shopify apps A Developer Explains Why Shopify Scripts Had to Die Here is what you need to know. Read → N°008 Shopify apps B2B Features Are Now Available on Basic Plans A breakdown of what changed and why it matters. Read → N°009 Shopify apps Sidekick Gets Smarter: 15+ App Integrations Now Live Here is what you need to know. Read → N°010 Shopify apps Why Your Checkout Feels Different After June 30 What this means for your store. Read → N°011 Shopify apps August 31: Another Shopify Deadline You Might Have Missed The practical implications for Shopify merchants. Read → N°012 Shopify apps My Custom Discount Rules Stopped Working Overnight The practical implications for Shopify merchants. Read → N°013 Shopify apps Shopify Dropped 150+ Features. Here Are the 5 That Matter. Here is what you need to know. Read → N°014 Shopify apps Shopify Editions: What Small Stores Should Actually Care About My experience and what I learned. Read → N°015 Shopify apps Shopify Scripts Died June 30 — Is Your Store Affected? Here is what you need to know. Read → N°016 Shopify apps Merchants Are Still Discovering Broken Checkouts from Scripts Sunset Here is what you need to know. Read → N°017 Shopify apps Why Shopify Is Killing Client-Side Address Blocking My experience and what I learned. Read → N°018 Shopify apps I Missed the Scripts Migration Deadline. Here Is What Broke. Here is what you need to know. Read → N°019 Shopify apps Native A/B Testing on Shopify — No App Needed A breakdown of what changed and why it matters. Read → N°020 Shopify apps Partner API Takes Over App Subscription Management The practical implications for Shopify merchants. Read → N°021 Shopify apps Your PO Box Blocker Will Stop Working on August 31 A breakdown of what changed and why it matters. Read → N°022 Shopify apps Checkout Rules Replace Address Blockers — Migration Guide What this means for your store. Read → N°023 Shopify apps Legacy Address Validation Apps Are Being Shut Down Here is what you need to know. Read → N°024 Shopify apps My Store Went White Screen at 2 AM — How I Fixed It in 10 Minutes Phone buzzed at 2:14 AM. A customer DM'd: "Your website is just white." Here's the exact debugging sequence I ran, the culprit I found, and the checklist I now Read → N°025 Shopify apps I Cut 5 Unused Shopify Apps, Saved $180/Month — Here's What I Removed A 45-minute audit of my app list found 5 subscriptions I didn't need. Annual savings: $2,160. Page speed improvement: 12 points on mobile. Here's exactly what I Read → N°026 Shopify apps 4 Shopify Operation Mistakes That Wasted 10 Hours a Week of My Time I was spending 10+ hours a week on ops that should take 2. Here are the four bottlenecks I fixed — manual order processing, broken inventory sync, scattered sup Read → N°027 Shopify apps I Installed Two Review Apps and My Checkout Died It took 4 hours, 3 customer complaints, and a lot of frustration to figure out the apps were fighting over the same button. Here's exactly what happened — and h Read → N°028 Shopify apps My Store Went Down for 8 Hours and I Had No Idea A theme update broke my checkout at 11 PM. I found out at 7 AM — from a customer's angry tweet. Here's what I do now so it never happens again. Read → N°029 Shopify apps EU GPSR 2026: What Shopify Sellers Must Fix Now EU customs started detaining non-compliant shipments in March 2026. GPSR is now a shipping blocker, not a paperwork footnote. Here's the checklist. Read → N°030 Shopify apps New Store, First Apps: The Shopify App Stack Worth Setting Up A new store doesn't collect apps — it covers jobs. The five jobs worth covering in your first 90 days, and four filters for when an app deserves money. Read → N°031 Shopify apps How to See What Apps a Shopify Store Uses (Free Methods) You can't see a store's app list from the outside — the admin is private. But most apps load scripts on the storefront. Here's how to see them, free. Read → N°032 Shopify apps Shopify App Detector: Every Free Way to Find Apps on Any Store You can't see a store's app list (that's admin-only), but you can see the evidence — apps announce themselves through the scripts they load. Here's how. Read →
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