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The Account API: moving off GET v1/managers/profile
Zid is retiring GET v1/managers/profile, with migration due 30 September 2026. Here are the new Account API endpoints, their scopes and a migration checklist.
Partner MCP: run your Zid partnership from Claude, Cursor or VS Code
Connect your AI tools to your Zid partner account and manage apps, plans, analytics, webhooks and payouts in plain language, with confirmation before every sensitive action.
Developer updates roundup: what's new on Zid for partners
New Wallet and Blogs APIs, webhook health tracking, a Sept 30 deadline for profile and webhook changes, more pricing plans, and new AI tools for building on Zid.
Embedded apps on Zid: build inside the merchant dashboard
How embedded apps load inside the Zid merchant dashboard, the six-step auth flow, and the tools that help: Zid MUI, the Zid SDKs and storefront events.
Webhooks on Zid: subscribe, monitor health and recover broken endpoints
Subscribe to store events, keep your endpoints healthy, and bring a broken webhook back to life with Zid's health tracking and recovery APIs.
Connecting to Zid with OAuth 2.0: tokens, headers and the activation policy
How Zid's authorization code flow works, which token goes in which header, when tokens expire, and what the activation policy expects from your app.
Your first Zid app: from partner account to a tested install
Create your partner account, set up a draft app, grab your credentials and test the full install flow on a development store before you submit.
Getting your app through App Market review: a pre-submission checklist
What Zid's reviewers check, how to prepare your listing, support channels and activation flow, and the issues that most often send apps back.
Build your first Theme Market theme: from structure to publishing
A practical walkthrough: how Zid themes are structured, local development and preview with Vitrin CLI, testing on a development store, submission and support.
Pricing your app on the App Market: plans, trials and private plans
The subscription models Zid supports, how to set up free trials and private plans, and what happens to a merchant's subscription on renewal and upgrade.