Different Types of Shopify Apps - Whichone you preferred to build?

In today’s technology-driven era, you need a solid, smooth tech fix toimprove the functionality of your Shopify store.

Today several developers have created a huge selection of apps so that youcan easily manage content, social media, merchandise, customers, & reportsmore automatically.

You need to know what type of application is right for your store and whichtasks you want an application to perform for you.

If you wander around the Shopify forums looking for reviews and advice, it’seasy to get tangled up in the terminology.

Getting familiar with the application such as public, private, & unlisted canhelp you evaluate which kinds of applications will integrate best with yourShopify store & give you the required flexibility & performance.

Here’s a reference guide to the kinds of apps you’ll find on the Shopify siteand how they function.

Quick note on official apps

Generally, the applications listed in the Shopify App store uses the sameofficial APIs provided by Shopify. Here you don’t need to figure out ifsomeone’s using Python, or Ruby, you can simply focus on the featuresinstead of the architecture.

As you’ll see later, outside of the App Store things are a bit different. Theystill use official Shopify APIs, but with a few differences.

App Store applicationApp store can easily be recognized by most of the Shopify merchants.Generally, these apps are known as third-party applications, because itmade by an outside developer, not Shopify developer. You can find it in theShopify App store & use standard authentication methods for access. Theremight be a difference in the cost as per the frequency of billing. These appsare also known as public apps.

Can you trust them?Well, these apps are submitted by a developer, here the Shopify team maygive them a cursory evaluation for basic functions, but they are not 100%guaranteed for safety or Shopify don’t provide the security to your app.

Who has access to them?Anyone can access them & they are made to work with multiple stores, butonce they are posted to the Shopify App store, anyone can use them.

Beta appsIn the Beta version, Shopify allows developers to post applications that arestill in the testing phase so they can get feedback on different featuresbefore they offer them to a wider audience. These apps are known as betaapplications.

Can you trust them?Beta application is App store apps that go through a live testing phase. Youcan use its benefit by giving specific feedback for the developer that couldsolve a nagging problem for you.

Who has access to them?In a regular App store, the Beta application is available to everyone. But theyare marked with a button that says “Testing” to indicate that they’re stillbeing refined.

Store owners can even sign up to hear about new beta apps that have hitthe App Store, which is great for people who love seeing the newest app.

Unlisted appsUnlisted apps are App store apps, but they don’t appear in the App storelistings. Unlisted Apps are designed to work with all of Shopify APIs forseveral stories such as for your main store, development store, & wholesalestore. These all can share the same application instead of separate ones foreach store.

They also have a message bar that says "Unsupported", though that justmeans you need to contact the developer for instead support.

Can you trust them?Unlisted apps are just as reliable as App Store apps.

Who has access to them?You won’t find unlisted apps by browsing in the App Store, but somecompanies will link to their app’s Shopify page directly from their companywebsite or as part of a huge software suite.

Partner appsIt is created through the Shopify partner portal. Here, if you want to createan app, you can sign up free of charge to become a Shopify partner. In itsaccount, you will get a template for your app settings.

Private appNow, private applications belong to a different category from public, beta, &unlisted applications. They are custom projects that are designed for onlyone store.

While they use the same APIs as Shopify, they use a different authenticationAPI, which means that there’s another step in the authentication processbetween the private app and Shopify. That’s why private apps can only workwith one store at a time.

Private apps additionally cannot use the embedded SDK APIs, which meansyou can’t embed a private app into the Shopify admin area.

A private app can streamline your store’s functionality and automateprocesses specific to your particular needs and systems, so it’s a great ideafor many stores, especially those which have multiple apps supporting yourbusiness.

Can you trust them?Private apps are built to your specifications by a developer you choose, so ifyou have a quality developer you can have full faith in them.

Who has access to them?Besides you, only the person that made them or commissioned them. Theseare one-of-a-kind apps, and they are connected to Shopify via your store’sPrivate App area in the admin panel.

Public or Private Apps – Does It Matter?When you’re setting up an app to work with Shopify, does it make adifference whether it is a public app or a private app? The answer is yes.Aside from the obvious differences of having a customized app (private) oran off-the-shelf app, it’s good to remember that because public apps use adifferent authentication API (called Oath), authentication doesn’t happenautomatically. This will impact how you set up and manage shopauthentication.

Generally, if you want to embed things into the Shopify admin panel orfrontend, you cannot use a private app because they don’t support theembedded SDK.

Knowing about these differences can help you avoid becoming one of themerchants on the forum who is trying to figure out why their app isn’tcommunicating properly with Shopify.

Another issue is that once you commit to having a private or public app, itcan be difficult to switch to the other format because of the differentauthentication codes needed. And data might need to be converted forcompatibility to be complete. It can be done, but it’s better to pick the rightformat in the beginning.

Conclusion:-Unless you have a strong reason to do otherwise, it’s better to work with aShopify partner or creating a partner account and creating public or unlisted

apps. Even if you only want to use it for your one store, having access to thefull set of Shopify APIs including the Embedded SDK is worth the extra work.Whether you’re a merchant trying to find the right app features for yourstore or a developer wanting to get a Shopify specialist for your contact, Feelfree to visit Cartcoders to talk about supporting your business needs.

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