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Shopify App Store review process

Shopify Developers Free Beginner

Shows the part founders underestimate about app stores: you are subject to someone else's review, pause and resubmission cycle, on their timeline, before a single customer sees you.

• An app moves Draft, Submitted, Reviewed, Published, and gets Paused if core requirements are not met.
• A reviewer is only assigned after core requirements pass, so a paused app never reaches a human.
• At Reviewed status the developer must reply for the review to continue; silence stops it.
• You can withdraw from review at any point and resubmit with Submit fixes after clearing a pause.