# Share, retain, and verify receipt integrity

Verify artifact integrity without implying that a digest verifies the receipt’s result.

## Use this when

Use this before sharing or retaining receipt evidence.

## Before you start

Choose the customer-safe artifact and check its visibility, immutable revision, issuance time, and receipt-availability window.

## Steps

- Download or copy the bounded artifact from the product.

- Retain it within your plan’s availability window or in your own controlled evidence store.

- Recompute the documented artifact digest to verify bytes and detect alteration.

- Review the evidence and proof-boundary text separately; digest validity does not validate the result.

## Success looks like

The artifact bytes match their digest and the reviewer can identify what was observed, modeled, and not established.

## If it fails

If the receipt is no longer fetchable, use a previously retained artifact. Never infer a result from an id or digest alone. Practice receipts do not prove future demand or full Shopify parity.

## Next action

Use [Configured Receipt Gate and automation](/help/gate-and-automation.html#gate-and-automation) only after selecting the receipt facts your policy needs.