Build an app just for your own stores
A development app lives on the dev channel. You can install it on stores you own and test it with your real data, and no other merchant can install it.
New development app
Development app created · Test install
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In short
A development app is created in the partner centre with New development app, from an App ID, a name, a version and the AppProvider class of your app package. It is created on the dev channel, can only be installed on stores the developer owns, and is tried there with Test install.
The problem it solves
Every business has one workflow no public app covers. Building it as a public listing means waiting for a review you never needed; building it outside the platform means no access to your own orders and stock.
How it works
4 steps, start to finish
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Create a development app
In the partner centre, choose New development app and enter the App ID, App name, AppProvider class and Version.
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Build against your store
It is installable only on stores you own, so you test with your real data.
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Test install
Install it on your own store and use it like any other app.
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Stay on your own stores
Viewing a store you do not own, the partner centre asks you to switch to one of yours before a test install.
In detail
What custom apps does for you
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Yours only
The platform refuses to install a development app on a store its developer does not own.
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Dev channel
Development apps sit on their own channel, apart from marketplace listings.
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The same platform
The same GraphQL API, webhooks, schedules and screens as a public app.
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Off the marketplace
Other merchants cannot install it; a switch to a store you do not own says so.
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No. A development app can only be installed on a profile the developer owns.
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In your app package. The development app points at its AppProvider class, which describes the app to the platform.
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It is built on the same app platform as a public app: an app manifest with scopes, the GraphQL API, webhooks and screens in the admin.
Works together with
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