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title: "Shoplist Data Methodology"
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# Shoplist Data Methodology

> Shoplist maps public and productized Shopify ecosystem signals so GTM teams can discover, qualify, monitor, and export useful account and app intelligence. Coverage and freshness vary by source and signal type.

## What Shoplist tracks
- Shopify brands and store-level signals where available.
- Shopify apps, app-store metadata, reviews, pricing signals, app developers, and app listing changes.
- Detected app-stack, install, uninstall, reinstall, launch, and category movement where Shoplist has reliable evidence.
- Experts, agencies, portfolio signals, and public relationship context.
- Social, people, and contact data only where available and appropriate for the product surface and plan.

## Freshness and verification
- Different datasets refresh on different cadences; do not assume every field is real time.
- App-store metadata, pricing, reviews, listing changes, and detected usage signals can change between crawls.
- Shoplist pages and exports should be treated as intelligence inputs, not guaranteed complete records of the Shopify ecosystem.
- When precision matters, users should verify the underlying public source or contact Shoplist for data-access scoping.

## Known limits
- No crawler sees every Shopify store, app install, or uninstall event.
- Some pages intentionally hide private, internal, contact, people, crawl-provenance, or unstable operational fields.
- Category, pricing, review, and relationship data may be incomplete when upstream sources are missing, ambiguous, or recently changed.
- Public API, MCP, SDK, and OpenAPI surfaces are not stable public contracts until explicitly published.

## Related pages
- [Shoplist overview](https://shoplist.co/index.md)
- [Pricing and access limits](https://shoplist.co/pricing.md)
- [Shopify apps directory](https://shoplist.co/shopify-apps)
- [Contact Shoplist](https://shoplist.co/contact)