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Articles and guides for app and theme developers to help you build on Zid, improve the merchant experience, and grow your business.
APIs & integration
OAuth, the APIs, webhooks and embedded apps.
8 articles
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.
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.
The Zid ERP integration guide: what to build, in what order
A new 53-page partner guide: what an ERP, accounting or WMS integration needs from a Zid store — push vs pull, OAuth, money, returns and a go-live checklist.
Securing your Zid app: webhook auth, token protection, minimal scopes and TLS
Verify every webhook with Basic Auth, keep tokens and secrets on your server, request only the scopes you use, and pass Zid's TLS checks before review.
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.