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15 October 2026

Shopify App Review Feedback: The Two Items That Held Up SellRank, and How We Fixed Them

Shopify's review came back with two items: a listing link to our own pricing page, and a screencast that didn't show the Google Analytics import working. What each meant, what we changed, and the bugs we found while proving the fixes.

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15 October 2026

Shopify Merchant Updates for October 2026: Sidekick in Checkout, Shop Recognition While Browsing, Purchase Order Reports and More

Shopify merchant updates for October 2026, checked against Shopify's changelog: Sidekick for checkout, Shop recognising shoppers while browsing, purchase order reports, and what each means for your store.

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15 October 2026

Shopify Developer Changes in October 2026: Customer Account API Limits, Scope Downgrades and the 2027-01 To-Do List for Custom Apps

The Shopify developer changes in October 2026 that matter for stores with custom apps: a per-customer Customer Account API limit, appDowngradeAccessScopes, Next Gen Events and five 2027-01 deadlines.

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3 October 2026

Shopify Canvas, the AI Store Builder: What It Means for Merchants and Custom Builds

Shopify Canvas, the AI store builder launched on 1 October 2026, lets merchants design a store by chatting with Sidekick. What it does, what it can't do yet, and where engineering and apps still matter.

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2 October 2026

The Shopify Thank You Page Deadline Has Passed: A Tracking Check to Run Before BFCM

The Shopify Thank you page deadline for non-Plus stores was 26 August 2026. If your conversion pixels or upsells lived in additional scripts, here is how to audit your tracking before BFCM.

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1 October 2026

Shopify Shipping Changes for Peak Season 2026: Market-Driven Shipping, Return Rules and the US Return Tax

Shopify shipping changes for peak season 2026: market-driven shipping from 1 October, return window overrides, and tax on US return shipping from 23 October. What applies to Indian stores, and what to check.

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28 September 2026

Shopify's New Collections Model (2026): Multi-Source, Variant and Sub-Collections Explained

Shopify's new collections model replaces the old smart vs manual split with sources, variant targeting and sub-collections. What changed in 2026, the limits, what it means for your apps, and how to use it well.

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28 September 2026

Submitting a Shopify App for Review in 2026: The Checklist We Used for SellRank

We submitted SellRank to the Shopify App Store on September 25, 2026. The checklist we worked through, from the AI self-review and the no-shop-domain rule to protected customer data, privacy webhooks, the screencast and the listing, and what each review status means while you wait.

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28 September 2026

Expiring Offline Tokens on Shopify: The January 2027 Deadline, and the Webhook Failures We Hit

Public Shopify apps must use expiring offline access tokens for the GraphQL Admin API by January 1, 2027. How the tokens work, what the app template does for you, and a failure we met first-hand: uninstall and privacy webhooks returning 500 when a token can't be refreshed.

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28 September 2026

Shopify API Version 2026-10: What Stores With Custom Apps Should Check Before October 16

Shopify releases API version 2026-10 on October 1, 2026, and version 2025-10 stops being accessible on October 16. What falling forward means for custom apps and integrations, what changes in 2026-10, and a check to finish before your holiday code freeze.

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28 September 2026

Shopify Is Retiring Script Tags: What Changes on October 1, 2026 and March 1, 2027

From October 1, 2026, no app can create or update a Shopify script tag, and from March 1, 2027, Shopify stops loading them on storefronts. What that means for your store, how to find the apps it touches, and what to ask their developers.

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26 September 2026

Top Shopify App Development Companies in India (2026): How to Rank Them

How to rank the top Shopify app development companies in India in 2026: four kinds of firm, a published weighted scorecard, and why we, who wrote it, put product-led studios first for most growing stores.

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25 September 2026

How to Hire the Best Shopify Developer in Mumbai: A 2026 Guide

A 2026 guide to hiring the best Shopify developer in Mumbai: local vs remote, how rates really compare, a portfolio-verification checklist that catches borrowed work, and where LeelaRam Technologies fits.

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23 September 2026

How a Solo Founder Keeps Learning Without Falling Behind

There is no senior engineer down the hall and no training budget approval to wait for. What replaces them is a system: read narrow, build to understand, keep a written record of what surprised you.

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20 September 2026

Theme Debt: Why Shopify Stores Get Slower Every Year

No single change makes a storefront slow. It is the accumulated residue of three years of campaigns, trials and quick fixes — and unlike most debt, nobody sends you a statement.

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19 September 2026

Moving COD Customers to Prepaid Without Losing the Order

Every rupee that shifts from cash on delivery to prepaid improves cash flow, cuts RTO risk and shortens the cash cycle. The trick is doing it without simply losing the customers who wanted COD.

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18 September 2026

Your Shopify App Stack Costs More Than the Subscriptions

Most stores can name what each app costs per month. Far fewer can name what it costs in page weight, duplicated data and the mornings lost to figuring out which app broke something. Here is how to audit a stack properly.

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17 September 2026

Headless Shopify with Next.js: When It's Worth It, and When It's Expensive Theatre

Headless Shopify with Next.js is the right call for a few stores and an expensive mistake for most. The real reasons, the costs nobody lists, a checklist, and a hybrid that gets the best of both.

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14 September 2026

How to Choose a Shopify App Development Partner in India: The Questions That Reveal Everything

An evaluation checklist for choosing a Shopify app development partner in India: criteria, first-call questions, red flags, contract and IP points, and what a proper handover looks like.

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11 September 2026

Sumit Chavda on Building LeelaRam Technologies: From a Live Jewellery Store to a Shopify App

The founder of LeelaRam Technologies spent years inside a working e-commerce business before writing a line of the product. Here is how that shaped SellRank, and the way the company builds software.

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3 September 2026

WhatsApp Commerce for Indian D2C Brands: From Broadcasts to Checkout Without Annoying Customers

A practical guide to WhatsApp commerce for Indian D2C brands: opt-in, message types, catalogue, order updates, support, what to automate, and the mistakes that get a number blocked.

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31 August 2026

First-Party Data After Cookies: A Practical Measurement Stack for a Shopify Store

A first-party data measurement stack for Shopify: own the events, forward to ad platforms, respect consent, track what merchandising needs, and build reports that lead to decisions.

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31 August 2026

Custom Shopify App vs Off-the-Shelf: A Cost and Timeline Guide for Growing Stores

When is a public Shopify app enough and when does a custom Shopify app pay off? A guide to the decision, the build phases, realistic timelines, running costs, ownership and data.

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26 August 2026

Shopify Store Speed in 2026: The Handful of Changes That Actually Move Core Web Vitals

Most Shopify speed advice is noise. This guide covers what actually moves Core Web Vitals in 2026: app scripts, image sizing, fonts, third-party pixels, theme bloat, and what to ignore.

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12 August 2026

Why Merchandising Data Should Come From a First-Party Pixel, Not Google Analytics

If an app sorts your products using Google Analytics, it inherits every gap in your GA setup. Here is what a first-party engagement pixel measures differently, and when GA4 is still worth connecting.

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5 August 2026

Hiring a Shopify App Development Company: Seven Questions That Separate Engineering From a Demo

Anything demos well for ten minutes. These are the questions that reveal whether a team can keep software working on a production store two years from now.

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