Frustrating: No Shareable Preview Links for Theme Rollouts

Online Store and Theme Development
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Short description of issue

Theme Rollouts do not provide a shareable preview URL, making it impossible to collect stakeholder feedback before publishing.

Reproduction steps

Reproduction steps

  1. Create a Theme Rollout with changes to the live theme.
  2. Save the rollout without publishing.
  3. Attempt to generate a shareable preview link for the rollout.
  4. Try using ?treatment=<rollout_id> on the storefront URL.
  5. Observe that there is no supported way to share the rollout preview outside of the Theme Editor.

Additional info

Theme Rollouts are a great addition to Shopify, but they’re missing one key feature: a way to share a preview before publishing.

Today, the only way to preview a rollout is from within the Theme Editor. That makes it difficult to share changes with teammates and gather feedback before going live.

We initially tried using ?treatment=<rollout_id>, but Shopify Plus Support confirmed that there isn’t currently a supported way to generate a shareable preview URL for Theme Rollouts.

It would be great if Theme Rollouts supported preview links similar to draft themes, allowing merchants to:

  • Share a preview of the rollout before publishing.
  • Gather feedback and approvals before changes go live.
  • Review the storefront experience without requiring access to the Theme Editor.

This would make Theme Rollouts much more useful as part of a typical review and QA process.

What type of topic is this

Feature request

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Thanks @Carlos_Galdamez, I went through our Rollouts documentation and confirmed there’s no supported way to generate a shareable preview URL for a rollout.

I’ve submitted a feature request on your behalf, highlighting the stakeholder review and QA use case you described.