Guides

Shopify app revenue, without the payout guesswork.

Practical notes on Partner API revenue: what a payout leaves out, how MRR is calculated, and how trials differ from shops that pay.

Each guide is about the numbers Shopify already stores for apps you publish. A payout is one cash transfer. MRR is the monthly value of active subscription charges, with annual prices divided by 12. A trial, in these guides and in AppDeck, means a priced plan with no AppSubscriptionSale since activation, still inside a 7-day window. That is separate from the trial length on the app listing and from AppDeck's own 3-day billing trial.

Read them in order if you are setting this up for the first time. Start with why the payout and the subscription book disagree, then how a charge becomes a monthly amount, then how a trial is kept out of paying MRR. The token guide is the setup step: Dev Dashboard, organization settings, a Partner API client, View financials, Manage apps, and the organization id from partners.shopify.com. The guides describe the same rules the product uses, so the screen and the explanation match.

They will not tell you how to rank in the Shopify App Store, how to scrape reviews, or how to price a brand-new category. They assume you already publish apps and you need the revenue side to be readable. When you want those rules applied to your own portfolio, connect the apps in AppDeck. The dashboard is €5 a month or €50 a year, with a 3-day trial that starts when you add a card.

• Shopify Partner payouts vs per-app MRR

  A Partner payout is one cash transfer. MRR is the monthly value of active subscriptions, split by app. Here is why those numbers disagree.

• How to calculate Shopify app MRR from the Partner API

  MRR from the Partner API is active subscription charges, turned into a monthly amount. Annual plans count as price divided by 12.

• Trial MRR vs paying MRR for a Shopify app

  Trial MRR is the price of subscriptions that have not been billed yet. Paying MRR is subscriptions with a real subscription sale. Mixing them hides churn and fake growth.

• How to create a Shopify Partner API token

  Create a Partner API client in the Dev Dashboard, copy the token once, and use the id from partners.shopify.com. Not the Dev Dashboard id, and not an app API key.

AppDeck calculates this for every app you connect. See how it works or view pricing.