Install Rabbot

Before you start

You need a Shopify store and permission to install apps on it. Nothing else. Rabbot is free forever, no card required, so you can install it, see what it finds, and decide about a paid plan afterwards.

Install the app

1. Open Rabbot on the Shopify App Store and install it on your store.
2. Approve the access Shopify asks you to approve. Rabbot reads your storefront and your product data. It does not change anything in your store.
3. Shopify returns you to your admin with Rabbot open on its dashboard.

What happens on day one

Rabbot builds the list of pages it watches. On Free, it starts you with a smart pick of your 20 most important pages (homepage, top collections, best sellers) and you can swap any of them at any time in the app’s URL settings. On a paid plan, automatic discovery does the finding instead, up to your plan’s cap, and there is nothing to pick. The Monitored URLs screen fills as this happens, and the URLs guarded tile on the dashboard counts what is covered against your cap.

Rabbot also runs one feed cross-check on install day, whatever plan you are on. It is a one-time check as your store is set up. On Free that single check is your taste of feed checking; on a paid plan the daily feed sweep takes over from there.

Your first check runs the same day. When it finishes, the top of the dashboard shows a status word, a score, and a meta line telling you how many URLs are guarded, how often they get checked, and when the last full check ran.

Below that sits one card per problem Rabbot found. Each card names the change, carries a severity chip (critical, warning, or info), says how many pages are affected, and explains in plain words what it means for your sales.

Tell Rabbot where to reach you

Open Settings. The first card is Notifications. Put in the address that should receive catches and the weekly digest, then choose Save email. That one field is the difference between finding a problem yourself weeks later and being told about it the day it starts.

If your team lives in Slack, the Slack card takes an incoming webhook URL. Slack alerts start on Starter, so on Free your catches arrive by email. The Notifications section of these docs walks through making a webhook.

Take one pass through the first list

Skim the finding cards once. Some of what Rabbot flags on day one will be deliberate: a page you meant to keep out of search, a heading you rewrote yourself. Choose Show affected pages on the card, then Dismiss as intentional on those rows. Rabbot stops alerting on them and keeps watching them. Anything blocking a sale refuses to be dismissed, by design, with two documented exceptions that can be intentional: a deliberate password gate or a custom purchase flow. Nothing else that stops a shopper buying can be muted.