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Zid MUI: build embedded-app screens that match the merchant dashboard
What Zid MUI is, how to install it with React or plain CSS, how its theme works, and which components to reach for when you build an embedded app.
Jinja in Zid themes: the templates, objects, filters and patterns you'll use every day
How Vitrin themes use Jinja: file layout, inheritance and includes, documented objects and helpers, product loops, translations, brands and the coupon-field setting.
Landing pages on Zid: from building a template to payouts and merchant support
How to create a landing page template in the Partner Dashboard, prepare it for review, manage it after publishing, get paid for it and support merchants.
Storefront events on Zid: track views, carts and purchases from your app scripts
Which storefront events Zid exposes, what each payload contains, how to add tracking scripts through Custom Snippets, and the zidTracking helpers for theme developers.
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The official docs and help centre — the source for every technical detail.
Build your first app
From creating the app in the partner dashboard to your first successful API call.
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API reference
Every merchant API, permission, response format and rate limit in one place.
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Theme development guide
How Zid themes are structured, the tooling, and publishing to the Theme Market.
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Partner help centre
Practical answers on payouts, review, support and development stores.
Open the guide →Latest features and improvements
What's new on the platform and in the docs.
Product Brands support in Vitrin themes
New brands.jinja and brand.jinja templates for brand pages, and product.brand in product.jinja.
Developer updates · Sep 8, 2026Zid AI Agent Skill is live
An open-source skill that helps AI coding agents build Zid integrations with the right OAuth and multi-tenant patterns.
Developer updates · Jul 22, 2026Blogs API: 41 endpoints for store blogs
Manage blog settings, categories, posts and tags, with bulk actions, import/export and scheduling.
Developer updates · Jun 28, 2026Webhook Health Tracking
Each webhook now reports healthy, degraded or broken, with APIs to list and recover broken webhooks.