We still use the RecurringApplicationCharges REST API (yes, we know – we plan on migrating soon) but I just wanted to flag that all of our development apps broke during the migration to the new Dev platform. In particular it seems any attempt at creating a charge returns the following error: “base…

Hey @ascherkus , I can confirm that the solution here is to set your development apps to public distribution as noted in that other thread. If you still have issues after that, let us know!

Hey @ascherkus , I’m moving this over to the dev platform board as what you are seeing seems less like an issue with the billing API. For your development apps that are returning that error, are they listed as public distribution in the dev dashboard? When you open your app in the dev dashboard, yo…

Found another report here where distribution was the issue: [image] Billing API suddenly throwing "this application is currently owned by a Shop" error after Dev Dashboard migration - worked fine yesterday Shopify App Store Yeah had the same issue. Was stumped …

RecurringApplicationCharges: application is currently owned by a Shop errors

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KyleG-Shopify September 23, 2025, 8:31pm 3

Found another report here where distribution was the issue:

Topic		Replies	Views
Billing API suddenly throwing "this application is currently owned by a Shop" error after Dev Dashboard migration - worked fine yesterday Shopify App Store billing-api	2	148	September 23, 2025
Error: It appears that this application is currently owned by a Shop Shopify App Store billing-api	4	348	December 3, 2025
I can no longer test our app a test store Shopify App Store app-store	7	181	October 1, 2025
Public app recurring_application_charges 403 forbidden Shopify App Store billing-api	7	504	December 27, 2024
Early access: Unified Development Stores Changelog	5	166	June 4, 2025

RecurringApplicationCharges: application is currently owned by a Shop errors

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