Shopify Academy closes on October 29, 2026

Keep learning Shopify development. Write real code from lesson 1.

Shopify Academy is closing. Here you learn by doing: you get a task, write the code in your browser, and your code is checked. Module 1 is free.

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Free. No card. The first 3 lessons need no account.

Lesson 1 in the browser: the task email on the left, the Liquid editor in the middle with the exercise complete, and the Northwind Coffee storefront updating on the right.

Lesson 1: the task, your code and the store, side by side.

Dates, refunds, badges

What happens to your Academy account

In Shopify's words, from the Academy FAQ on the Help Center.

October 29, 2026: Shopify Academy is sunset.
By October 31, 2026: Every Academy purchase is refunded to the original payment method. No action is needed from you.
Partner tiers: Certifications are no longer a tier requirement. Partner tiers are unaffected.
Until January 1, 2028: Credentials stay valid, and badges stay visible through the end of 2027. After that, credential links stop working.

Shopify points learners to the Dev Docs, the Partner Help Center and the Dev Community forums. Keep those open while you learn. This course adds a clear order of lessons and checks on every task. More details are in our post on the closure. To learn it all from free resources, follow the free 6-week plan.

How it works

You write the code. Every task is checked.

You write the code

You work as the new developer at a made-up coffee company. Each lesson is a task from the team. You write Liquid and the store changes next to your code.

<p class="price" style="color: red">
  {{ product.price }}
</p>

2 changes requested

Pipe the price through the money filter: {{ product.price | money }}. Otherwise it renders as 1899 instead of $18.99.
Avoid inline style="..." attributes: production themes use CSS classes so styles stay overridable and themeable.

Your code is checked

Not only "does it work". The checks also catch inline styles, prices without the money filter and other things a senior developer would send back.

sections/featured-products.liquidWritten by AI

1<div class="featured">2  <h2>Featured Products</h2>13  <div class="grid">4    {% for product in collection.products limit: 4 %}5      <a href="/collections/all" class="card">26        <img src="{{ product.featured_image | image_url: width: 300 }}">37        <h3>{{ product.title }}</h3>8        <p class="price">${{ product.price }}</p>49      </a>10    {% endfor %}11  </div>12</div>

You learn to review AI code

Some lessons give you code an AI wrote and ask: is it good enough to use? Clients pay developers to check this.

What you can learn

Two paths, 211 lessons

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Professional Shopify development

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Certificate of Completion

This certifies that

Your name here

has completed every lesson in

Module 1: Liquid Fundamentals

20 hands-on lessons, built in a live storefront environment

Demonstrated

Boot the Shopify CLI and run a local dev preview of any theme
Render Shopify data into templates with output expressions and filters
Branch templates on truthiness, presence, and substring contains
Iterate arrays with bounded {% for %} loops

Issued

October 19, 2026

Bas Lefeber

Bas Lefeber · Founder, learnshopify.dev

VERIFIED CREDENTIAL

Verify at learnshopify.dev/certificate

Sample certificate. Each one has a public link anyone can check.

5 modules, 168 lessons

Theme development

Start with your first line of Liquid. End by building the features clients ask for, like a cart drawer and product filters. Each module you finish gives you a certificate with a link anyone can check.

Module 1 is free.

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bundle-app

$ npx @learnshopifydev/cli check manage-your-bundles

Looking at your Bundles page, its delete and your home page  manage-your-bundles
✓ Your Bundles page lists the bundles your app logged
Your app reads its logged bundles back from BundleLog.✕ Your app can delete a bundle: the product on the store and its row in the log
Your app deletes the row in BundleLog, and never deletes the bundle's product on the store.
expected  the product is deleted on the store
found     only the BundleLog row is deleted✓ Your app's home page shows this store's bundles
app/routes/app._index.tsx shows data from its loader, and your app reads this store's bundles from BundleLog.✓ Your app builds
npm run build succeeded.
Not there yet. Fix what is listed above and run this again.

43 lessons

Shopify app development

Build one real app with an AI coding agent, on your own free development store. Your code and your store are checked at every step. At the end, the app is live on a second store of yours.

The first 15 lessons are free.

See the app path

Pro opens everything for $29 a month or $290 a year. You can get a refund within 14 days. See pricing.

For Academy learners, until November 30, 2026

30% off your first Pro payment

Enter ACADEMY30 in the promo code field at checkout. Pro yearly is $203 for your first year instead of $290. On monthly, your first month is $20.30 instead of $29. After that Pro renews at the normal price and you can cancel any time.

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FAQ

Questions from Academy learners

When does Shopify Academy close?

Shopify says Academy will be sunset on October 29, 2026. Purchases are refunded to the original payment method on a rolling basis from October 1, all completed by October 31, 2026. For paid exams no action is needed from you.

What happens to my Academy badges and credentials?

Earned badges stay visible through the end of 2027, and credentials stay valid until January 1, 2028. After that the credential links on your profiles stop working. Certifications are no longer a Partner Program tier requirement, and Partner tiers are unaffected.

Is learnshopify.dev part of Shopify?

No. learnshopify.dev is an independent course, not affiliated with Shopify Inc. Its module certificates are its own record that you did the work, not a Shopify credential.

What is free?

Module 1 of the theme course is free. The first 3 lessons need no account. The rest of Module 1 needs a free account, no card. The first 15 lessons of the app path are free too. Pro opens everything for $29 a month or $290 a year, and you can get a refund within 14 days.

Do I need to install anything?

Not for the theme course. You write the code in your browser and the store updates next to it. The app path runs on your own computer, with the Shopify CLI and a free development store, because that is where apps are built.

Your first task is waiting.

Two bugs on a product page. Fix them in the browser and watch the store change.

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