Shopify has shut down its own Fraud Filter app. The free tool that let merchants write simple rules to flag or block risky orders was retired in early 2025, and its App Store listing now says it is no longer available. If you built blocklists inside Fraud Filter, they did not all move with you, so the job now is to rebuild that protection with the tools Shopify points you to and the fraud apps other stores have already switched to.

Shopify’s official path is to recreate your blocking rules inside Shopify Flow and the newer Fraud Control app, and to lean on the order risk analysis that already runs on every Shopify Payments store. For plenty of merchants that is enough. For others, a dedicated app does the blocking, real-time scoring or chargeback recovery that the built-in tools do not, and it pairs well with a payment app, an RMA app or an offline payment app.

Below is what changed, the free Shopify tools to set up first, and the fraud apps we see live Shopify stores actually running, grouped by the job they do.

Key Takeaways
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Shopify retired its own first-party Fraud Filter app, and the rules you built there did not fully carry over.
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Your first move is free: Shopify’s built-in order risk analysis, the Fraud Control app’s checkout rules, and Shopify Flow now cover most of what Fraud Filter did.
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A dedicated fraud app is worth paying for when you need stronger blocking, real-time risk scoring, or a chargeback guarantee.
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Because we scan live stores, this list is ordered by what merchants use, not by who pays the most.

What Happened to Shopify’s Fraud Filter App

Fraud Filter was Shopify’s own free app for writing custom fraud rules. You could flag or block orders that matched conditions you set, such as an email, an address or an IP address, and build a permanent blocklist over time. Shopify retired it in early 2025, and the listing now shows it is no longer available.

Shopify moved rules that had been used in the last twelve months into Shopify Flow, but the migration was thin. Older rules, inactive rules and long blocklists were often left behind, and many store owners found that almost none of their entries carried across. If you relied on Fraud Filter, treat the switch as a rebuild rather than a simple move, and check what actually landed in Flow before you trust it.

Start With What Shopify Already Gives You

Before you install anything, set up the tools Shopify now provides, because two of them are free and cover the basics.

  • Built-in fraud analysis. Every store on Shopify Payments gets an order risk level of low, medium or high, with the signals behind it. It does not block orders on its own, but it tells you which ones to hold.
  • Fraud Control app. Shopify’s own free app adds checkout rules that block flagged orders before they become orders, plus a dashboard for chargebacks and high-risk rates. Checkout rules need Shopify Payments.
  • Shopify Flow. Free on paid plans, and the place your old Fraud Filter rules were migrated to. Use it to automatically hold or cancel orders that match your criteria after checkout. You can also block or blacklist a customer by hand.
  • Shopify Protect. Free chargeback protection on eligible orders paid with Shop Pay. It reimburses you for covered fraud chargebacks, but it is not a filter and only applies to qualifying Shop Pay orders.

Many merchants find the built-in tools blunt, which is why they add one of the apps below. Match the app to the gap the free tools leave.

The Fraud Apps Shopify Stores Actually Use

Because we scan live Shopify stores, we can see which fraud apps merchants keep installed instead of guessing. The most installed of them is Blockify Fraud Filter, which rebuilds the IP, country and rule-based blocking that Fraud Filter did, and our Blockify review covers how it fits. From there the picks split into three jobs: blocking unwanted visitors and orders, scoring orders for risk in real time, and recovering chargebacks after the fact.

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