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Action neededShopify · Changelog· Yesterday

Custom apps built for your store need a security setting before New Year

What they said

“Leaked tokens can be used from any network location.”

In plain English

If an agency or freelancer built a custom app for your store, it now needs an IP allowlist: a list of the only networks allowed to use it to reach your store's data. New installs need one from 20 November 2026, and existing apps from 1 January 2027.

For founders, developers
51 days leftWhy it matters
What to do
  1. 1List your custom apps
  2. 2Ask whoever built them to set an allowlist
  3. 3Get existing apps done before 1 January 2027
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AI agents can look up a store's policies and FAQs (delivery, returns and so on) through a Shopify tool. That tool is being replaced by a new one called ask_business, which gives back a written answer. The old one stops being supported after 15 January 2027.

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