How to Remove a Shopify App & Cancel Subscription Instantly

There are many reasons to cancel your subscription to a Shopify app, especially when the app is no longer relevant to your business growth.

You may also want to cancel a Shopify app subscription for the following reasons:

• The charges are more than you can afford to pay
• The app’s trial period is running out
• The app is not a good fit for your store
• You may be pausing your store for a few months
• You may be closing your Shopify store for good

Whatever the reason, it’s possible to cancel a Shopify app subscription easily. So, how do you cancel your subscription with that Shopify app that you do not need?

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How to remove a Shopify app & cancel the subscription

Step 1 – Log in to your Shopify account

Log in to your Shopify store and go to the “Apps” page.

Step 2 – Check if the app has left code in your theme

It’s good practice to check the app’s uninstallation policy. If they don’t have one, you can contact the app developer, and they will let you know.

Most Shopify apps don’t remove their code from your Shopify themes when you uninstall them.

Leaving code that doesn’t work inside your theme will cause your store page load time to slow down because the code has stopped working, and the browser cannot process the request.

It’s quite important you find out if they have left code in there, and see how you can remove it. Most Shopify app developers will tell you how to remove their code completely, or they can do it for you.

Step 3 – Uninstall the app or close your store

Just want to cancel the subscription

So the good news is that it’s very easy to cancel the subscription. All you need to do is uninstall the Shopify app from your store. This is a good safety measure with Shopify’s billing system. Once the app is uninstalled, the subscription will be stopped.

1. Go to your Shopify dashboard
2. Go to “Settings”
3. Go to “Apps and sales channels”
4. Click “Uninstall” on the app you want to remove

Be aware!

If you uninstall a Shopify app, the app needs to abide by Shopify’s rules and delete all of your data within 48 hours. All of your Shopify data will be permanently deleted as soon as Shopify sends the request to the app. This can take place anytime within 48 hours.

If you are closing a store

If you are closing your store and want the apps to keep all of your data in case you start up your store again, you can just close your store, and the app subscription will be put on hold until you sign back up again.

Literally, all you need to do is keep the apps installed and close your store. All payments will be paused, and you won’t be charged anything more.

How to uninstall the Downloadable Digital Assets app

DDA doesn’t place any code in your theme files apart from the customer account download links.

If you have added this code to your theme and want to remove it, you can do so by following the steps below:

1. Go to “Themes“
2. Go to “Actions” > “Edit code“
3. Search for the customers/order.liquid file and remove the line of code below:

<div id='digitalAssets'></div>

Once removed, there will be no code in your theme from Downloadable Digital Assets.

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Keep in mind

Shopify bills your store every 30 days; this bill usually includes charges for apps, the general subscription, and other charges to which you may be subscribed.

This means that even though you have cancelled an app subscription, you may still be charged for the app on your next bill because the charge may have been generated before the cancellation.

You should also keep in mind that you cannot cancel a Shopify app subscription if you have outstanding charges on the app.