Building a mobile app for your Shopify store
Anchor to How it worksHow it works
Shopify provides a suite of libraries that enable developers to deliver best-in-class, mobile app commerce experiences for buyers: build custom storefront and product discovery flows, integrate identity with sign-in and account management, and accelerate buyers through a contextual and personalized checkout process.
Anchor to StorefrontStorefront
Shopify’s Mobile Buy SDK’s enable you to create and embed custom storefront and product discovery experiences within your mobile app. The SDK’s interface with the GraphQL Storefront API to fetch information about products and collections, and to assemble a personalized buyer cart with contextual buyer information.
Create custom storefronts and assemble carts within an iOS app.
Create custom storefronts and assemble carts within an Android app.
Anchor to Buyer identityBuyer identity
The best shopping experiences are buyer and context aware, enabling relevant personalization of product, payment, and other preferences in product discovery, checkout, and post-purchase workflows. Shopify provides support for built-in identity solutions, integrations with third-party identity providers, and cart-driven workflows for optimizing guest and new buyer checkout journeys.
Authenticate buyers with a secure one-time code sent to an email address, with built-in support for Shop sign-in. Integrate into your app using the Customer Account API.
Authenticate buyers with legacy customer account via username and password. Integrate via Storefront API or Buy SDK.
Authenticate buyers with third-party identity and authentication system via Multipass protocol.
Associate known identity and buyer preferences via cart to prefill and accelerate checkout.
Anchor to Checkout KitCheckout Kit
Shopify’s Checkout Kit enables you to provide the world’s highest converting, customizable, one-page checkout directly within the native app. The experience is a fully-featured checkout that preserves all of the store customizations—e.g. branding settings, UI extensions, Functions, and more. It also provides platform idiomatic defaults such as support for light and dark mode, and developer APIs to embed, customize, and follow the lifecycle of the checkout experience.
