Unable to test Shopify Managed App Pricing on development store – “This feature isn’t currently available for your store”

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I have implemented Shopify App Managed Pricing for my app using the Partner Dashboard.

From the app side:

  • Managed plans and pricing are fully configured in the Partner Dashboard

  • The app correctly redirects merchants to Shopify’s plan selection / approval screen

  • Billing logic and feature gating are implemented based on the active subscription

My goal is to test the complete end-to-end billing flow before releasing the app, including:

  • Selecting a plan

  • Approving the subscription

  • Receiving the active subscription status in the app

  • Validating feature access per plan

Issue

When testing this flow on a development store, after redirecting to the plan selection page and selects plan, Shopify shows the following message:

“This feature isn’t currently available for your store”

Because of this, I’m unable to approve or activate any plan on the dev store, which blocks full end-to-end testing of managed pricing.

My questions:

  1. Is Shopify App Managed Pricing supported on development stores for testing?

  2. Is there a specific store type, setting, or requirement needed to enable testing of managed plans?

  3. Is this flow only testable after the app is submitted for review or published?

  4. What is the recommended testing workflow to validate managed pricing before going live?

as I want to ensure everything works correctly before releasing the app.

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Development stores is enough for testing Shopify App Managed Pricing. No need to submit the app.

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I need to test end to end but i can’t able to do that in dev store

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  1. Yes, it most certainly is supported in development stores.
  2. No, there is not a specific store type.
  3. No, it is testable prior to submission and is a requirement that it works properly before you are able to submit.
  4. If you have managed pricing implemented properly, you’ll be able to call the managed pricing endpoint which will ask the user which plan they wish to subscribe to. At that point, they will be asked to confirm the selection and when confirmed they will be charged (it’s not a real charge in development stores and it indicates this as well). You will receive an email once the process completes.

Be sure you have your pricing tiers setup properly in your app submission (as you are preparing it and before you actually submit it). Also, be sure your features follow your pricing tiers as I’ve read this is one of the reasons to be denied. Finally, make sure you have a pricing page on your web site such that your potential users can reference that as well.

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Hi @SUDHAGAR_G , @Doug_P , and @Eric_Han,

It is expected that you are able to test Shopify Managed App Pricing on Development Stores, as mentioned in the Shopify.dev documentation.

However, there is an issue right now that our developers are aware of with Plus Development Stores created on Partner Accounts in the Dev Dashboard, where they are receiving the "This feature isn’t currently available for your store” error message unexpectedly.

As mentioned this is something our developers are aware of and are working on a fix further at this time, and we are currently monitoring and discussing this issue in the following thread:

I will be closing this thread as it is a duplicate of this existing issue, and any further questions can be asked in the thread linked above, and any updates to this issue will be posted there as soon as they are available.

That said, in the meantime, this error is specifically only occurring with Plus Development Stores created by a Partner Account in the Dev Dashboard, so you can work around this issue with the following:

  • Create the Development Store via your Partner account and select any Shopify plan other than Plus for the development store features, and test charges should work
  • OR, create the Development Store via a Merchant account, and select Plus or any other Shopify plan, and test charges should work
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