Developing extensions for Shopify Flow

As a developer, you can integrate your app with Flow by building triggers, actions, and templates using the Shopify CLI.

Building for Flow can help you to increase the value of your app by allowing merchants to automate their business processes. For example, suppose that you have a review app. After a review is created, merchants might want to send a notification (using email, Slack, or SMS), award loyalty points, and more. If you build a Review created trigger, Flow allows merchants to do any of those actions with your app. By integrating with Flow, you can:

  • Improve integrations between your app, Shopify, and other apps: Any task you build can be used with the triggers and actions that Flow already provides, which immediately connects your app to thousands of new features.
  • Save development time: Rather than building and maintaining direct integrations with many other apps, you can integrate with Flow and provide similar value to your merchants.
  • Improve visibility: Merchants can discover your templates or tasks in Flow.
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