Dev Platform Updates

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In September, we launched our next‑gen Dev Platform and migrated existing partner apps and dev stores. Our goal with the platform is to unify development across all developers whether you’re a merchant or a partner, to simplify the experience so you can get your work done efficiently, and to accelerate the pace at which Shopify delivers features. Since then, we’ve shipped new features, fixed bugs, and tightened the experience. We’ve been humbled by the feedback about how we’re making app development better as well as the tips on how we can continue to improve. Thank you for the steady feedback and please keep it coming!

Here’s a summary of what’s changed, what’s coming soon, and what’s on the horizon.

What changed since launch

  • You can now delete apps in the Dev Dashboard
  • Clearer dev store names so it’s clear which to use: dev stores for building and testing apps and themes; client transfer stores for building stores that you plan to transfer to merchants
  • Fixed 401/403 errors some properly permissioned users saw
  • Added a Dev Dashboard link in the admin’s organization switcher (top‑right menu)
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  • The CLI now shows organization IDs to disambiguate organizations with the same name
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Coming soon

We’re actively working on these:

  • Fixing how partners add staff to dev stores that are created with a Plus plan
  • Adding more app information and preview management to the Dev Console
  • Letting you cancel dev stores
  • Showing local timestamps and relative time alongside UTC

On the horizon

Arriving a bit later:

  • Updates to how partner organizations manage users and permissions
  • Letting all developers—merchants, not just partners—create and manage CLI tokens
  • Ensure that the Dev Dashboard has everything needed to build apps including admin performance metrics and API access requests.

Thanks again for your feedback, patience, and passion. We’ll keep shipping. Please keep the feedback coming here in this thread.

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:new_button: Logs are now updated to show local, UTC, and relative time. The local time is shown by default. Hover over the time to also see UTC and relative time.

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It seems that all new dev stores are created in the US data center. Previously, if I created a development store, the store would be created in EU data center as expected.

Additionally, the currency & market were USD/US by default. Previously it would have been DKK/DK when creating from partner 650897

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Would love to see a way to clone data & settings from production stores into dev stores. If you could choose things like products, customers, companies, orders, inventory, locations, shipping setup, metaobjects/fields, etc. etc. that would be a game changer for the dev experience.