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Vitrin CLI in depth: from login to preview, push and troubleshooting
The core Vitrin CLI commands: install, login, creating a theme, previewing on a development store, install and activate, build and push, and fixing common errors.
Rate limits and errors on the Zid API: pace your requests, handle 429s and read error responses
How the 60-requests-per-minute limit works, how to back off on 429s, what error responses look like, and how pagination, caching and webhooks keep you under the limit.
Reducing app uninstalls: read the reasons in the Partner Dashboard and fix the first run
Where to find uninstall reasons and subscription data in the Partner Dashboard, how to capture subscription events, and what to improve in activation, trials and renewals.
Before you submit to the Theme Market: a complete checklist and a manual merchants can follow
What Zid reviews in a public theme, the technical and listing checks to run before submitting, required template updates, and how to write a clear theme manual.
Official references to build on
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.