How to fetch a managed pricing plan ID from GraphQL?

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting
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Hello,

I have a script that checks the active plan of the user daily and changes it in the database.

I am currently making checks based on the plan name, but I realized this is not a reliable method because sometimes I receive a translated name. So it would be more secure to check the plan based on the plan ID instead.

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But I can’t find in a GraphQL a field that represents this plan ID. This is my query

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And this is my response.

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I think its in the Unstable API Version at the moment on the pricing details.

Or you can get it from the current version of webhooks

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2025-01 webhooks don’t include plan id. Unstable webhooks have it as well.

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Thanks for the info. Interesting why it doesn’t available in the current version.

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Who knows? :slightly_smiling_face: At least you have a solution, for this specific call you can use unstable as the version or wait two more days to use it as 2025-04.

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I misunderstood, if it will be available in the future version. It is great :pray:

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I was confused about what an unstable API version means, so I’m just leaving this here for others.

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As a developer or business owner, it’s a risk you choose to take or avoid. There are times we even use undocumented APIs. Some of them have been disabled after many years, like the transfers endpoint, for example: Transfers API Dead or Alive? - Shopify Community.

On the other hand, the variants/count.json endpoint is still working and remains undocumented: Solved: Rest api variants/count - Shopify Community. Based on my findings, it’s far more accurate than the newly released GraphQL version of it: productVariantsCount - GraphQL Admin.

I hope they include planId in the 2025-04 release because it’s an obvious must-have. However, if they don’t, it’s your decision whether to use unstable version, try to find an undocumented endpoint, implement something else, or switch back to standard pricing.

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So what’s the solution at the moment to identify which managed pricing a store has using the stable graphql api version? Should we use the display name in AppInstallation.activeSubscriptions.name? Isn’t there a better way of doing it?

I cant’ think they have released something like managed pricing without having a reliable way to check the current active plan (other than webhooks)

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Yeah you can use the name for display purposes. This is what I currently use

query getCurrentSubscription {
  currentAppInstallation {
    activeSubscriptions {
      id
      name
      currentPeriodEnd
      trialDays
      status
    }
  }
}

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Be careful about using name, you may receive translated name. Or in my case once I received “Starter-Plan” while my name is “Starter Plan”.

They now added handles so in future I would use that probably.

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I’m happy to be careful, but there doesn’t seem to be any alternative

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You can also use return_url. It will be the value you assigned so can be used as a unique key. Hacky way that I found for myself.

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