Building Shopify Apps for Shopify Plus Merchants
summary
Shopify Plus merchants run at scale: 75th-percentile stores average 82 orders/day (vs 2), 512/week (vs 4), ~1,686 products (vs 130) and ~27 installed apps (vs 7); top outliers hit ~15,000 orders/day. Build for the five essentials: support (24/7 SLAs, phone line, disaster plan), seamlessness (use the embedded app SDK and Polaris, polished UI), sophistication (clone-store support, APIs/extensibility, avoid destructive inventory writes), security (minimal scopes, publish security posture) and scale (load test, handle hundreds of thousands of API calls). Examples: Avalara Avatax latency ~0.065s, 2,800 calcs/sec; Sweet Tooth >2,200 reviews.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction to Shopify Plus apps
- 4:51Establishing trust with Plus merchants
- 10:30Five essentials for Plus apps
- 19:10Next steps and summary
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