Hello Team, We have encountered an issue during the app submission process. When a user clicks Install App, our app correctly receives the OAuth callback URL and completes the Shopify OAuth authentication process. However, we recently received a notification stating: “During an automated check, …

Hey @Varshika_Dadhich , Just looking over the requirements here , it mentions this after the merchant approves your scopes: Your app must redirect merchants to the user interface (UI) after they accept permissions access on the OAuth grant page. Is your app an embedded app? The reason I ask is …

[image] KyleG-Shopify: dmin could b No we do not have an embedded app. It has a sapreate website on which user will redirect after installing the app in their store. The user journey is working fine but in app requirements it’s showing the expected url is different from the received url. plea…

Hey! Just checking to see if the app grant documentation helped here?

Thanks, Kyle. I really appreciate your help. This document was very helpful—I realized I had missed registering the install API in the App URL section of my Shopify app configuration.

Oh great! Glad I could help unblock you there. Best of luck through the rest of your review :slight_smile:

Hello, We’re also running into an issue here on the same automated check for our standalone app: Expected URL: https://admin.shopify.com/store/uvszh1-m5/app/grant Actual URL: {our_app_url}/shopify/begin?hmac=<hmac>&host=<host>&shop=uvszh1-m5.myshopify.com&timestamp=<timestamp> I’ve already added …

Hey Luke, are you building an embedded app? The reason I ask is the issue may be the way you have implemented the redirect as it needs to escape the iframe. We have a guide on that here: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/authentication-authorization/access-tokens/authorization-code-grant#check-fo…

Hey Kyle, Thanks for the quick reply. We are not building an embedded app…

Thanks for clarifying that. Taking another look at your URL, I can see that the Actual URL shown doesn’t align with the expected URL: If you aren’t using a library, then do the following: Build a URL using the following format and parameters: https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/oauth/authorize?…

The URL with format https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/oauth/authorize?client_id={client_id}&scope={scopes}&redirect_uri={redirect_uri}&state={nonce}&grant_options[]={access_mode} is where the user is redirected to after visiting /shopify/begin on our site. To be specific, the frontend captures…

Issue with App Submission - Unexpected URL Redirect During OAuth Process

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KyleG-Shopify June 5, 2025, 6:23pm 4

Have you implemented the app grant as explained here: Implement authorization code grant manually

Automated check for common error stuck: Immediately redirects to app UI after authentication

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Issue with App Submission - Unexpected URL Redirect During OAuth Process

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