We found a development store that has “unlimited” as its plan_name. How can a development store have “unlimited” as the plan_name when its plan_display_name is “Advanced App Development”?
Shopify quietly adds or updates its plan names, and we often see new ones each time we check. What is the best practice to follow when relying on these parameters in our apps:
(1) plan_display_name and
(2) plan_name
Hey @Hitesh_Apps 
- out of curiosity, what is your use case for checking plan names (feature gating, etc.)? For most. shops, the valid plan names are (you may see some others for internal Shopify test shops, though):
Advanced, Basic, Development, Grow, Inactive, Lite, Other, Paused, Plus, Plus Trial, Retail, Shop Component, Shopify Finance, Staff Business, Starter, and Trial.
There’s a bit more info here, but plan_name as a field is deprecated with public_display_name being the recommended field to check. Hope this helps!
@Alan_G Thank you for your response. Yes, we determine whether a store is a dev store based on the plan_name, and we do not ask for payment in our Shopify app. Thank you for providing the list of valid plan names, It will help me perform better checks on the Shopify store type.
I have the same issue. A development store has a plan name of ‘Grow app development’. The store shows “Grow” in the dev dashboard.
We should use the partnerDevelopment field instead of the plan name to check a development store: ShopPlan - GraphQL Admin
Thank you @Benny_Chan for your response. I will surely look into this.
Good call out @Benny_Chan , yeah specifically if you need to check if a shop is a partner dev shop, that’s the best way to go! For other plans, the public display name should be accurate, but since Partner Dev shops can “impersonate” the the levels of feature access for different shops, that’s why you’re seeing them appear as “Grow”, etc.
Hope this helps!
