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I post this thread on HN. I honestly can't understand why they would deprecate the Unpublished App option. Was a win win for everyone. Using their Billing API makes sense when you building a business on top of theirs... but it's not our case.

Any other people affected by this here?

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+1 - we're going through the exact same thing.

We offer an integration with Shopify for a subset of our users (~5%) and while they love the integration, it's not relevant to the other 95% of users... which means it would make no sense maintaining separate Billing code for a small subset of our users that see the integration with Shopify as one feature of our SaaS.

It seems like we're only left with the option to deprecate. Which is a lose-lose-lose: We lose customers. Shopify loses an integration. And the customers lose this utility.

Agreed, we are doing the same and building a private app with custom auth.

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