We’re noticing that:
https://www.example-store.com/admin/settings/checkout/editor
Redirects to
https://admin.shopify.com/stores/example-store/settings/checkout/editor
This is great, as it will help us deep link our on boarding customers into parts of the Shopify Admin UI where we need them to make changes to use our product.
Question: Will these deep link redirects remain supported in perpetuity?
Love that this redirect helps your onboarding flow.
We can’t guarantee the exact URLs/redirect mappings will exist forever, but the intent is to preserve the outcome: merchants can still reliably get to the right area of Admin, even if the underlying routing/URL shapes evolve over time.
For context: this behavior is tied to Unified Admin (released several years ago), which consolidated Admin routing under the admin.shopify.com domain. That’s what’s driving the redirect you’re seeing (from example-store.com/admin to admin.shopify.com/stores/example-store), and it’s not related to Admin Extensions.
Thanks. It kind of sounds like a no, if I understand correctly. As in, the objective will remain, but we can’t trust that we can programmatically rely on the paths.
Would Shopify consider offering 301 redirects, were the path structures to change?
We could test for the HTTP response status on them (see if they redirect to something other than the login flow) and adjust as needed.