Hi everyone,
I’m setting up the ShapeDiver Shopify app on a Partner development store before going live, and I’ve hit a wall I can’t get past.
When I get to the subscription step in the app setup, Shopify won’t let me approve it. It shows the plans ($199/mo or $1,990/yr) and then a red banner:
“Development stores cannot approve paid managed pricing subscriptions or subscriptions with usage charges.”
The help docs say Partners can use the app for free on development stores, but I think this stopped working once the app moved to Shopify managed pricing — Shopify now seems to block the approval on dev stores entirely instead of setting the charge to $0. There’s also no payment method on file, which makes sense for a dev store.
Has anyone managed to install and test the app on a development store recently? A few things I’m wondering:
- Is there a workaround to complete the setup on a dev store, or did the free-on-dev-store path get removed?
- Did anyone get a manual exemption from the ShapeDiver team for this?
- Is the recommended approach now to test on a paid/trial store instead, or to embed App Builder directly via the SDK and skip the app for dev work?
For context, I’m building a jewelry configurator (several product types) and plan to roll this out across multiple brands if it works well, so I’d love to get a clean dev workflow sorted from the start.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!