Get started with Vunda

Getting started with Vunda is three moves: install it from the Shopify App Store, open it embedded in your Shopify admin, and build and preview your first app in the visual builder. There is no "connect your store" button to hunt for. The install links your store for you, so once Vunda opens, your catalogue is already there.

What you will need

• A Shopify store you can sign in to as the owner or a staff member.
• Nothing else to start. Your own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts are only needed later, when you publish.

Step 1: install Vunda from the Shopify App Store

This step happens inside the Shopify App Store, not in Vunda, so the exact screens are owned by Shopify. Verify against their current guide before you rely on it.

Browse or search the Shopify App Store at apps.shopify.com for Vunda and open the listing. Search for it by name rather than typing a fixed listing URL, because the listing address can change. On the Vunda website the install button is the official Shopify badge labelled Find it on the Shopify App Store, which opens that same listing. On the listing, click Install. Shopify then shows an install screen that lists the data the app can access and links the developer's privacy policy. Review it, then confirm the install to authorize the app. After installing, the app appears on the Apps page in your Shopify admin, where you open it. (Source: Shopify - install and set up apps, and the Shopify App Store.)

The install you just approved is the only authorization step. There is no second "connect my store" action waiting for you inside Vunda.

Step 2: open Vunda in your Shopify admin

From the Apps page in your Shopify admin, open Vunda. It loads embedded inside the admin, not as a separate website. In the app's left-hand navigation you will see App Builder, which is your single entry into the builder workspace.

Because Vunda installed through Shopify, your store is already linked. Products, collections and checkout come along automatically. You do not paste an API key or connect a storefront; the catalogue your app shows is your live Shopify catalogue.

Choose a plan to start

The first time you enter the builder, Vunda checks that you are on a plan. If you are not, it sends you to Shopify's hosted pricing page to pick one. Choose the free plan to get into the builder; it covers building and previewing. This plan-selection and pricing screen is hosted by Shopify, not by Vunda, so its exact wording is owned by Shopify and may differ from what is described here; the free plan carries no charge, and Shopify is the one that handles plan selection and any charge approval. (Source: Shopify - app charges on your Shopify bills.)

Step 3: build and preview your first app

Open App Builder. The builder opens on your home screen with an editor on the left and a live phone preview on the right. When the home screen is empty, Vunda prompts you with Click Add to get started, which opens the categorized menu of sections you can add (a hero, a collection carousel, featured collections, and more).

Add a section, set its options in the editor, and watch the phone preview on the right update as you go. That preview is the real mobile app rendering your content, so what you see is what your customers will get. From the same workspace you can also build the bottom-tab menu, custom pages, and product templates.

After you build

Your first app exists and you have previewed it for free. From here you can brand it with your colours, logo and fonts, connect integrations like push notifications, analytics and reviews, and finally publish to the App Store and Google Play under your own Apple and Google developer accounts. Publishing is the paid plan, and each of those steps has its own guide in this help centre.