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Shopify API

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.

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Why Your Shopify Custom App Won't Install on a Client's Store

Shopify API

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Why Your Shopify Custom App Won't Install on a Client's Store

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.

Updated Aug 2026 Read guide

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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.

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