Topic
The GraphQL Admin API from an integrator's seat — custom distribution and the organization boundary that decides whether an app can install at all, non-expiring offline tokens, and modelling line item properties across several storefronts.
2 guides, written from real builds.
Shopify API
Your Shopify app installs fine on your own store, then returns a bare HTTP 500 on a client's. The cause is that apps created in a merchant Dev Dashboard organization can only install inside that organization — and the fix, custom distribution from a Partner org, quietly means one app per store. Here is the full failure sequence, the dead ends, and what it does to your schema.
Shopify API
Connecting to the Shopify Admin API changed twice in 2026, and most guides still describe the removed route. Here is the whole process as it works now — Partner organization, app, scopes, custom distribution, install link, first GraphQL call — plus the two limits that decide what you can actually pull.
Shahzeb Khan runs Databaaba, a one-person studio that builds shopify api integrations for sellers, agencies, and software teams. Every guide here came out of a real client build.