Introducing the Summer ’24 Edition
Commerce is getting even more unified. Sell more, scale more, build more, and get more done—all in one place.
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Meet the most intuitive, most powerful, most unified Shopify yet
Commerce is getting even more unified. Sell more, scale more, build more, and get more done—all in one place.
Now you can more easily expand across B2B, retail, and regions, and tailor the customer experience for each, with the new Markets.
Give customers more clarity and choice at checkout by showing them when an order will be split into multiple shipments. They can choose the lowest price, the fastest delivery, or custom shipping options.
We’ve rebuilt our analytics tech stack to make it faster, more flexible, and more intuitive. Get deeper insights about your store's performance in real time. And soon, use ShopifyQL to query your data right inside a report.
Your full team can design, merchandise, and build headless stores with a shared view using the Hydrogen Visual Editor powered by Utopia. Your code remains the source of truth, and changes are synced to GitHub with small and straightforward diffs.
Include duties and taxes in regional prices, avoid selling restricted products, secure better shipping rates, and edit existing orders for a more international buyer-friendly experience with Managed Markets.
Give customers greater flexibility and convenience in how they receive their orders. Transfer online orders to their preferred store for pickup, or ship products directly from a store using Shopify POS.
Now you can more easily expand across B2B, retail, and regions, and tailor the customer experience for each, with the new Markets.
Get a complete picture of your business expansion. Access, manage and compare your markets, and preview customizations, all from one dashboard.
Tailor your customer experience for any market by customizing catalogs, themes, currencies, domains, and business entities with Markets.
Identify your customers sooner with custom avatars and secure, one-click passkeys that you can place anywhere on your store.
We’ve rebuilt our product taxonomy with 10K+ categories and 2K+ attributes to supercharge discovery across your store, search, and marketplaces using powerful AI.
Help customers more quickly find the right products by filtering based on logos, icons, or other images with the Search & Discovery app.
Showcase unique rich media galleries, descriptions, and URLs for multiple options of a product under one parent listing. Exclusive to Plus.
Issue store credit to customers directly in admin, view balances and transaction history, and enable customers to spend their credit at checkout.
Identify how changes you've made to your store impact its performance, such as app uninstalls, theme updates, and new code.
You can now add product bundles to your draft orders and on Shop, for more opportunities to increase your average order value.
Help customers quickly filter products with category filters in the Search & Discovery app if you use Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy.
Reorder the filter values on your collection and search result pages using Shopify Magic, or manually, in the Search & Discovery app.
Shopify and Advanced plans can now enable more intuitive search for customers in the Search & Discovery app.
Liquid and Hydrogen storefronts can access third-party CMS data with support for metaobjects, currently available in the Sanity Connect app.
Product import and export now supports product metafields, making it easier than ever to manage your product metafields in bulk.
Retail is more streamlined with easier staff attribution, digital receipts that can opt customers into your email list, and clearer in-store return rules on Shopify POS.
You can now require emails and other customer info during checkout, as well as the name of the employee who completed the sale.
All retailers can offer one-tap digital receipts that auto-suggest the customer’s email from Shop Pay, and give them the option to subscribe to marketing.
Unlock custom pricing and publishing for each of your retail markets, with regionalized checkout flows and translated product catalogs.
Streamline your in-store returns with rules. Staff can quickly determine whether or not a product can be returned, and customers can clearly know why.
Entice your retail customers with Buy X Get Y discount codes, which can be added directly to the POS smart grid for easy implementation.
Process multiple discounts in a single retail checkout. For example, you can offer customers product discounts alongside an order discount.
Track key inventory workflows with the new Stocky UI extensions for receiving purchase orders.
Retail staff can now easily edit orders that will ship to customers directly in the POS, without losing info or sales.
Retail employees can now create and manage draft orders in the POS, across multiple locations and devices.
Staff can more easily view details and workflows from the products, orders, and customers screens when completing in-store tasks.
Streamline end-of-day reporting by exporting register sessions from the admin and using APIs to sync cash tracking reports with your accounting software.
Increase connectivity and reliability by fully hardwiring your Android tablet, POS Terminal, barcode scanner, and more.
Pair any Android tablet to your POS Terminal and Countertop Kit for a fully connected countertop setup for Shopify POS.
POS Terminal and POS Go are now available in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the UK.
Create multiple B2B markets, each with their own unique catalogs and storefront theme customization—no coding required. Available soon, exclusive to Plus.
You can now require percentage-based deposits at checkout, configured for each B2B customer. Exclusive to Plus.
Shopify Collective now lets you charge accurate supplier shipping rates at checkout based on weight and location, rather than charging a flat rate.
Go live faster by importing, managing, and publishing thousands of supplier products at once, including syncing more product fields, with Shopify Collective.
Shopify Collective now instantly confirms inventory between stores to prevent lost sales and unfulfillable orders.
Instantly share, or receive, price lists when connecting on Shopify Collective, so your partnership can pay off sooner.
Create custom price lists more efficiently with Shopify Collective by selecting all products, or by using filters such as a product’s tag.
Send invoices for draft orders with payment terms so B2B customers can review and pay when due.
Create up to 10K ship-to locations per company for your largest, most complex B2B customers. Exclusive to Plus.
Offer B2B customers manual payment methods at checkout, such as bank transfers, checks, and international wires.
You can now use metafields to quickly filter company and company location indexes. Exclusive to Plus.
You can now build headless B2B storefronts using the Storefront API and Customer Account API. Exclusive to Plus.
Sync product prices in catalogs, B2B customers into companies, and more with an updated Shopify Connector app. Exclusive to Plus.
Include duties and taxes in regional prices, avoid selling restricted products, secure better shipping rates, and edit existing orders for a more international buyer-friendly experience with Managed Markets.
Avoid unexpected costs at checkout by including duties and taxes as part of the product price for international buyers.
Know which products are restricted from sale in certain regions, and why, with Managed Markets now offering clear notifications, publication statuses, and product index filtering.
Adjust the details of any order after it's placed, giving you more control of orders with Managed Markets.
Managed Markets unlocks UPS Worldwide Expedited®, and UPS® Standard to Canada and Mexico, with better rates and duties paid up front.
You can now run multiple Shopify Payments accounts tied to each of your business entities in one Shopify store. Exclusive to Plus.
It's now easier to expand into new regions with Markets. Simply make regional tweaks to any existing market you sell in, rather than creating new markets from scratch.
Quickly take action to unblock your Managed Markets payouts with better visibility into the order's status and timely alerts.
Managed Markets now accepts manual capture requests for orders on hold, so you can capture payments as soon as orders are accepted and before they are fulfilled.
Managed Markets now automatically enhances product descriptions shared with carriers, for faster clearance at customs.
Managed Markets automatically retries transactions with multiple gateways and entities to improve your payment success rate.
Shopify Payments can pay out in both US and Canadian dollars, saving you fees for currency conversion.
Build trust and make it easier for customers to give consent with cookie banners translated into their preferred language.
You can now pay for your Basic, Shopify, or Advanced plan using SEPA direct debit in DE, NL, DK, and CH.
Increase pricing transparency in the EU and Switzerland by displaying the price of a product by unit, for example price per kilo.
It's now easier to accept popular Japanese payment methods including Konbini and QR codes.
Pay for your Basic, Shopify, or Advanced plan in Japanese Yen for more pricing stability.
Get suggestions for the best local shipping apps to use when fulfilling orders in Japan.
Give customers more clarity and choice at checkout by showing them when an order will be split into multiple shipments. They can choose the lowest price, the fastest delivery, or custom shipping options.
Checkout Blocks is a free, easy way to customize checkouts with checkout extensions. No coding required. Exclusive to Plus.
All plans can now use apps to add functionality to the thank you & order status pages in a way that’s secure and upgrade-safe, from the checkout and accounts editor.
Automate payment capture when part of an order is fulfilled to meet customer preferences and reporting requirements. Exclusive to Plus.
The Shop Pay Component now allows customers to choose to buy online and pick up in store. Exclusive to Commerce Components.
Be better prepared for new payment card industry standards ahead of the April 2025 deadline by upgrading to Checkout Extensibility.
Build custom apps that connect to any third-party pickup point network of your choice. Exclusive to Plus.
Replace the native address autocomplete feature with a provider of your choice with Checkout Extensibility.
Checkout Extensibility now supports more address fields to capture region-specific details, such as neighborhoods in Brazil.
With Checkout Extensibility, you can expedite checkout and avoid errors with prefilled and one-time-use addresses.
Improve regional shipping in more countries using optional tax ID fields.
Customers can choose a shipping speed for their first subscription delivery, with recurring shipments defaulting to the cheapest option.
You can now allow customers to use discount codes when paying draft order invoices.
Help customers feel more confident at checkout by showing them if they are pre-qualified to buy now and pay later with Shop Pay Installments.
Shop Pay customers can now save a default address to breeze through checkout.
Shop Pay now supports the leading payment method in the Netherlands, giving customers more ways to pay.
Partners like TikTok can now use Checkout Sheet Protocol to offer customers a conversion-optimized checkout experience.
Sidekick is live on thousands of Shopify stores. We're unlocking AI media editing on mobile and across the admin. And you can easily answer customer questions with AI-suggested replies in Inbox.
Thousands of stores can now use Sidekick to tackle time-consuming tasks, jumpstart creativity, and make better business decisions with expert, tailored advice.
Eligible stores will soon be able to quickly answer customer questions in Shopify Inbox with AI-generated replies that understand your business.
Shopify Magic now translates the ShopifyQL code for a segment into a simple description that’s easier to understand.
Easily classify your products with AI-suggested categories, attributes, and values to make them more discoverable in your storefront and marketplaces.
Instantly transform ordinary photos into professional product images with the AI-powered media editor now on mobile, and coming soon to more places across the admin.
Convert more customers across more ad platforms, and make your ad spend go even further, with the power of Shop Campaigns and Shopify Audiences. Exclusive to Plus.
Increase your orders for every marketing dollar you spend on retargeting with custom Retargeting Boost lists, powered by ever-improving Shopify Audiences algorithms. Exclusive to Plus.
Expand your reach across Meta and Google with Shop Campaigns, and only pay when new customers convert. Exclusive to Plus.
You can now reach customers in Canada and the US with Shop Campaigns. Exclusive to Plus.
Get unbiased insights into your ad performance data right from Shopify. Sync campaign data from important channels, like Google and TikTok, to more easily compare metrics and decide how to improve.
Automate emails and more when customers join or leave a segment, and check if they're in a segment with a new action in Flow.
Set permissions for each custom pixel individually, ensuring you maximize data collection while respecting customer privacy preferences.
Advanced and Plus plans will soon be able to join the YouTube Shopping affiliates program. Sync your products and a network of verified YouTube creators can tag them in their videos. Available in the US.
Increase average order value and conversions on Shop with new Shop Minis, including Simple Bundles and Zoorix Bundle Kit & Cross Sell.
Manage your staff's access to customer data with better controls for creating, editing, and deleting customer records.
Track emails with more deliverability insights, and up level design with templates and editing features including embedded video in Shopify Email.
Redirect customers to a URL of your choice when they submit a form. And soon, see all form submissions in one place as metaobjects.
Import, export, and duplicate marketing automations from other stores or partners to use across all your stores.
Collect richer data on standard pixel events, including URL, domain, and checkout objects such as localization and payments.
Know when your pixels are working with the Shopify Pixel Helper, making it easier to create and debug pixels.
Give customers greater flexibility and convenience in how they receive their orders. Transfer online orders to their preferred store for pickup, or ship products directly from a store using Shopify POS.
Enable store transfers to easily transfer inventory to any retail location for pickup, so customers can choose to collect online orders from their most convenient store location.
Buy and print shipping labels in the POS and turn your retail locations into mini fulfillment centers.
Reduce failed deliveries on orders across all channels you manage on Shopify. See flagged address issues in the admin, with suggestions and context to fix.
Get suggested locations when changing where individual orders are fulfilled from, based on your delivery and order routing settings.
Reduce human error and manual costs with rules to automate workflows that can merge orders, mark them as fulfilled, and alter fulfillment locations in Flow.
Approved brands can now sell to millions of monthly visitors on target.com through a new partnership with Shopify Marketplace Connect.
Now all eligible US stores can increase conversions with the trusted Shop Promise badge.
Marketplace Connect now recommends product category and type to make it easier to list discoverable products on Amazon.
Print with a more intuitive interface and improved performance using the new Shopify Order Printer app.
Sort and filter your locations to more easily manage settings such as pickup in store, local delivery, POS, and more.
You can now use APIs to manage exchanges, including return shipping, restocking fees, triggers for new fulfillment orders, and more.
Customers in the UK and Spain can now get their order shipped to pickup points like parcel shops and post offices with Shopify Shipping. More regions coming soon.
We’ve rebuilt our analytics tech stack to make it faster, more flexible, and more intuitive. Get deeper insights about your store's performance in real time. And soon, use ShopifyQL to query your data right inside a report.
Soon all plans will be able to efficiently manage billing, staff access, and more for multiple stores by combining them all under a single organization.
Assign access to users based on role, or multiple roles. If you're on Shopify Plus, you can organize and manage users in bulk with groups.
Quickly create production or development stores with existing store data like products, variants, collections, and their associated metafields. Exclusive to Plus.
We've reimagined navigation, replacing traditional buttons and modals with a sleek, intuitive top bar that adapts seamlessly to the task at hand.
Find prioritized apps across the admin with new discovery entry points, embedded action cards, and contextualized guidance.
Flow can now access metafield values by namespace and key, so you can more easily automate workflows based on custom data.
You can now test and correct runtime errors in Flow by manually rerunning workflows to improve reliability and build faster.
Use the Send Admin API request to securely call almost any Admin API endpoint, even if Flow doesn’t have a dedicated action.
Your full team can design, merchandise, and build headless stores with a shared view using the Hydrogen Visual Editor powered by Utopia. Your code remains the source of truth, and changes are synced to GitHub with small and straightforward diffs.
Build Hydrogen storefronts faster with dozens of UX improvements shipped to the Hydrogen DX including a new optimistic cart, predictive search, Shopify Analytics, and more.
Speed customers through checkout by prefilling delivery address, preferred delivery method, and pickup location using the Storefront Cart API.
Liquid theme developers can now provide more layout flexibility to merchants with the new style settings, and build more opinionated sections with static blocks and block targeting. Now in developer preview.
Use the Storefront and Customer Account APIs to build a headless B2B store. Expedite your time to launch with the Hydrogen B2B example.
Write JSON for Liquid themes with smart completions, smart hover, trailing commas, comments, and more.
The Customer Account Extensibility developer preview now lets you group extensions into collections, configure them in the checkout and accounts editor, set default placements, and customize the pre-authenticated order status page regardless of a customer's logged-in status.
Help merchants easily print their branded invoices and packing slips with the new Admin Print extension, so they can fulfill faster.
POS extensions now ship through the UI extensions package, alongside admin and checkout UI extensions, improving performance with advanced script caching.
Use admin action and block extensions in more places across the admin to enable seamless workflows between your app and core pages.
Use UI extensions in your apps to enable merchants on all plans to customize the thank you and order status pages in the checkout and accounts editor.
The Checkout Branding API supports new color schemes, positions, and content dividers for the header, footer, and queue page.
Build custom apps that fetch pickup points from any network, with customized delivery information and location-based pricing.
Use our APIs to collect optional tax ID values in checkout to support regional shipping requirements for 14 additional countries.
Enable regional address fields in checkout, like neighborhood, to help merchants meet international shipping standards.
Set predefined addresses for gift and wedding registries to reduce shipping mistakes with the Admin API. Mark them as one-time use so they aren’t saved.
Shops upgraded to Checkout Extensibility can rely on Shopify’s architecture to make PCI DSS v4 compliance simple.
Embed action extensions on the order status screen in POS to launch apps or private UI extensions when the order is completed.
Customize your payment extensions with Checkout Extensibility, so merchants can offer unique, native payment experiences.
Build payment extensions that allow merchants to accept third-party gift cards and private label credit cards. Exclusive to Plus.
Partners with offsite payment methods can now check inventory availability before completing a transaction so merchants don’t oversell.
The Shop Minis SDK lets you integrate Shop Minis across more surfaces of the Shop app, and build new shopping widgets.
Replace the default address autocomplete experience with custom suggestions from third-party sources with the Address Autocomplete API.
Store and access customer data using the Customer Account API and allow logged-in customers to update information about themselves.
The GraphQL Admin API now supports fixed bundles at the product level.
Improve the exchange lifecycle and reporting by managing discounts, return shipping, restocking fees, and new fulfillment orders.
Custom discounts now work on POS, so you can develop apps to help merchants boost their promotional offerings.
Leverage our APIs to offer product bundles, edit line item details, and merge line items in draft orders.
Apply discount codes in draft orders with the input fields discountCodes and acceptAutomaticDiscounts, and enable them for paying draft order invoices.
You can now apply discounts on specific cart lines and not just on specific variants with the Product Discount Function API.
Hide or display payment gateways based on the purchase option with SellingPlan metafields in the Admin and Storefront API.
Allow customers to consent to certain types of tracking, and adjust pixels to respect their privacy with the Privacy Consent API.
Collect richer data on standard pixel events, including URL, domain, and checkout objects such as localization and payments.
Turn your app into a vehicle for connecting with climate-conscious customers with our carbon-neutral shipping program.
We've introduced new criteria for Built for Shopify apps, and unlocked exclusive search ad targeting based on a merchant’s Shopify plan.
It's now easier for merchants to find your Built for Shopify apps with a new, prominent search filter on the Shopify App Store.
New apps are now moving through review 30% faster with clearer prerequisites for approvals, personalized guidance, and transparent progress updates.
You can now easily set up, update, and manage your app pricing and billing from the partner dashboard, no coding required.
With a refreshed taxonomy and structured data on app features, your apps are now better matched and promoted to the right merchants.
The ads metrics dashboard now shows you data in real time so you can make quicker, data-driven adjustments.
GraphQL Admin APIs are near complete parity with REST. We’ve introduced more ways to build apps faster including the .dev assistant, more complete reference pages, and the new totalCount pattern.
If a GraphQL connection's search filters aren't formatted correctly, we'll validate the syntax and provide feedback in the response.
Write less code and reduce potential errors with Shopify-managed webhook subscriptions. More easily find and use topics with new references with sample payloads.
Reduce noise and get only the information your app needs by using Shopify webhook filters and payload modifications.
Build and debug Shopify Functions faster with function logs and replay now available in Shopify CLI.
We've reduced latency by 50% on batches of functions for Function APIs that execute in parallel.
You can now get merchants to share their Function logs to catch both successful and failed function runs for your app.
Update to the latest Shopify Function libraries in Rust, and soon JavaScript, for a smaller footprint and up to 40% faster Functions.
A single installation of Shopify CLI, with a consistent command structure, makes it easy to build across apps, themes, and Hydrogen storefronts.
Easily debug and troubleshoot your JavaScript in the Run Code action with console.log support.
Automate even more tasks by securely calling almost any Admin API endpoint with Send Admin API action in Flow.
Get insights into payment or billing failures with Admin API error codes and error code mapping for subscriptions.
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