What’s New at Shopify?

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Set up return rules to determine when customers are able to request a return from your online store

Businesses based in Canada on the Advanced Shopify or Plus plans can now connect two bank accounts to receive payouts in CAD and USD currencies with Shopify Payments

POS Go, Shopify's all-in-one mobile POS device, is now available in Canada.

Shopify previously created subfolders for newly created, single-country markets by default. Subfolders now need to be manually created by merchants where desired.

Customize POS printed receipts with a different logo printed on POS receipts at each store location

Sales attribution can now be added or edited after an order has been placed.

Merchants selling with Markets Pro can now accept orders from customers using Shop Pay.

Allow your wholesale customers to pay for their orders using PayPal for greater payment flexibility.

We've added color schemes, groups of colors that are applied throughout the theme, to the theme editor. We’ve also added a visual preview that makes it easier to preview changes.

Merchants using Shopify Email can now save their own templates for emails and automations.

Merchants using Shopify Email can now send their emails at a recommended time using Shopify Magic.

Merchants using Shopify Email can now create subject lines using Shopify Magic.

Merchants using Shopify Collabs can now limit order discounts to only new customers and further incentivize creators with higher commissions for referring sales from new vs returning customers.

Bringing in third party data into ShopifyQL Notebooks for analysis is not only possible but simple. Merchants can now add Python code blocks into notebooks for more holistic data analysis.

Starting today, in Flow you can access and use any Union and Interface field in Shopify’s GraphQL Admin API, including PurchasingEntity, DiscountApplications, and much more.

The code editor identifies and warns you about potential issues in your theme now.

We have updated the number of dynamic sources that can be used in a template. Everything that was limited to 50 is now 100 and everything limited to 20 is now 50.

Introduce new subscribers to your brand and incentivize purchases with a discount using two new marketing automation templates.

In the coming weeks we’ll start serving some assets directly from the store’s domain. This means that URLs may look like either "cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/…” or "shop.example.com/cdn/shop/…"

A redesigned staff permissions selector allows merchants to easily search for and find specific permissions, and bulk select all permissions by category.

Today, we're launching unified media across files and products! Now, all product media will be available within the file section in admin. There are a few key features being added as well!

Business customers can add new or use existing vaulted credit cards when submitting draft orders at checkout or when paying for an invoice, for a seamless payment experience.

For merchants using automatic currency conversion with Shopify Markets the FX conversion fee will no longer be added to a buyer's price point when their currency matches your shop's payout currency.

You can now create and manage purchase orders directly within Shopify.

Merchants who use Markets or Markets Pro are now able to calculate duties and import taxes on draft orders.

We're introducing benchmark data to compare performance of key metrics like store conversion rate, average order value, retention rate and others against Shopify stores similar to yours.

Klarna is now available for Shopify Markets Pro merchants selling to buyers based in Canada.

Shopify Collabs users can now opt into sharing their products and profiles with all verified Collabs creators by sharing an instant commission offer.

Getting started on Shopify Collabs is now even easier. A new onboarding flow, updated brand profile editor, and new editable application page are now live.

Automatic Payments helps you save time and resources by offering a reliable payment processing system for commissions earned by creators - all through your trusted Shopify bill.

We've released an improvement to how we handle checkouts when only some items in the cart are deliverable to the customer.

URL redirects will now apply to the primary domain as well as any country or language subfolders that are set up through Shopify Markets.

Reduced friction in provisioning POS access from the Plus admin.

Staff can now refund a purchase to an existing physical or digital gift card.

Attribute an entire cart to a single staff member or attribute each item in the cart to a different staff member from a single place.

We’ve made several improvements to the Product details page to make gathering information faster and easily discoverable by staff.

Merchants using POS Go can now view all active and offline POS Go devices in their Shopify Admin. To see this view, simply go to the “Devices” tab under the Point of Sale channel in admin.

New checkout improvements will now display the closest pickup locations for shoppers.

Three new staff permissions have been added for more access control. "Edit code" gates access to the theme code editor. The "Taxes and duties" and "Policies" pages now have their own permissions.

On Shopify Collabs, personalized affiliate links for creators now work seamlessly with headless storefronts that are built using Hydrogen.

Sign in with Shop is now enabled for all eligible merchants on classic customer accounts. Sign in with Shop allows your customers to quickly sign into your online store with their Shop credentials.

Generate and revise product descriptions in seconds with Shopify Magic.

Update your customer privacy compliance with the new and improved Shopify Privacy & Compliance app, previously known as Customer Privacy app.

Merchants using Shopify Tax can now export a combined CSV report for easier analysis and filing.

You can now calculate duties and import taxes for draft international orders.

We've made improvements to checkout's default look and feel to make checking out more streamlined and usable.

Use Shopify Collabs to let influencers sell your subscription products, now compatible with a wide range of subscription apps.

Merchants activating Markets Pro will now be notified, during the activation, if they have any incompatible configurations with Markets Pro that need to be changed.

Merchants activating Markets Pro are now automatically and immediately enabled to sell in all 150+ supported countries.

Streamline accounting and order tracking for you and your business customers with support for PO numbers at checkout.

Merchants that use dropshipping apps, print-on-demand apps, custom fulfillment services, or any solution that leverages app locations will now be eligible for Shopify Markets Pro.

Merchants using Markets Pro can now use calculated shipping rates at checkout on international orders.

Sign in with Shop is now enabled for all eligible merchants on new customer accounts. Sign in with Shop allows your customers to quickly sign into your online store with their Shop credentials.

With our newly launched Catalogs section of the admin, you can create minimum, maximum, and increment quantity rules for product purchasing, and personalized product visibility for business customers.

Shopify Collabs users can now automate their most repetitive affiliate marketing tasks with a new Shopify Flow integration.

Australian retail merchants can now accept all eftpos payments in their retail stores with Shopify Payments.

Merchants using Dawn 9.x can now sell gift cards that customers can send directly to the recipient with a personalized message.

Dynamic sources can now be used on the blog and article resources in the online store editor!

Images can now be replaced in the files admin!

Today, we released a new version of the file picker in the online store editor. This new file picker uses the same features as the content section in Shopify admin.

Ship to Customer Orders in POS now require a customer email address to submit the order.

Taxes and duties associated with orders will no longer appear as a fee in payouts from Shopify Markets Pro

Use the bulk editor tool to manage product recommendations and search boosts.

We’ve added a tipping option to Shop Pay checkout.

Taxes and duties associated with orders that are refunded to a buyer before fulfillment will no longer be withheld from Shopify Markets Pro payouts.

When bank account details are changed in Shopify Payments they will be automatically updated in Shopify Markets Pro.

We've made changes to the way we count distinct checkout session in Live View.

The Shop sales channel is now available for all eligible merchants in the Shopify admin. This allows you to easily manage your native mobile brand presence, connect with customers, and grow sales.

Merchants can now connect their Balance account with QuickBooks.

Quickly access, apply, and view discounts in POS with the latest discount display improvements.

Tap into the new home for the POS Menu bar.

Extending support for API version 2022-04 to June 30, 2023 (previously March 31, 2023). All apps using API resources that are no longer supported in API version 2022-07 will stop working as intended.

Removed default value from ProductInput.redirectNewHandle field.

Google Analytics 4 is replacing Universal Analytics, which will stop processing data on July 1, 2023. Upgrade as soon as possible to ensure continuity in your Google Analytics measurement.

Allow your wholesale customers to securely store credit cards on file for a seamless payment experience, and charge their credit card directly from the admin as payments become due.

As of March 1, 2023, all online store data in your marketing reports will include cross-device data.

We’ve introduced changes to the Shop Promise limited guarantee claims flow to make it easier for customers to receive their Shop Cash for a delayed delivery.

Shopify Payments available in Romania.

Countries and regions must now belong to a Market before being added to a shipping zone.

We've updated the rich text setting within the online store editor to allow configuring headings and creating ordered lists.

Retrieve the name of the service responsible for holding a fulfillment order.

The newly redesigned variant list display improves the speed and discoverability of variant configured products and inventory lookup.

Beginning March 1st you must include HS codes and country of origin when shipping internationally. This change helps you comply with new regulations related to shipping to or through the EU.

Customize POS printed receipts with a custom QR code in the receipt footer

Complete POS checkouts with cash when connectivity issues are detected.

When you want to send customers directly to the right experience for their country or region, but that country or region doesn't have its own URL, you can now use deep links.

Plus merchants can assign and update roles for users in Shopify from one of the supported Identity Provider (IdP) systems, using the updated Shopify SCIM integrations.

Support for Shopify Scripts will end on August 13, 2024. Merchants that leverage Shopify Scripts will need to migrate to apps powered by Shopify Functions before this date.

Checkout.liquid customizations will no longer work for the Information, Shipping, and Payment pages starting August 13, 2024. Shops using checkout.liquid need to upgrade to checkout extensibility.

Easily communicate reliable and fast delivery to customers across your online store and the Shop app.

Use the new Settings feature in the Shopify Search & Discovery App to customize search and predictive search results.

Shopify POS now displays On Hand and Unavailable quantities via Product details view or Checkout.

Allow your customers to sign into your online store with their Shop credentials. Customers signed in with Shop speed through checkout with billing and shipping information automatically filled in.

Visit Shopify Editions to explore 100+ new product updates to help every business build for the long-term.

Take control over what products you sell globally with the ability to publish or unpublish products per market.

10 new staff permissions give merchants more granular control over what product data and information staff members can access.

New marketing reports on channel performance and attribution that help you get more insights out of your session and conversion data.

ShopifyQL Notebooks now offers a new inventory dataset to allow merchants to track stock levels by variant across locations and better understand their inventory.

Use metafield conditions to create automated collections.

Easily add custom CSS to your online store theme without editing any theme files. Merchants have more control and can preview changes. Bonus: themes are eligible for seamless theme version updates.

Merchants can now edit their Collection and Customer metafields with definitions in bulk on Shopify.

Shopify increased Admin API rate limits for Shopify Plus by 10x over standard limits.

Have a real-time, accurate view of On hand and Unavailable quantities across your locations within Shopify to minimize lost sales, misplaced stock, and reduce excess ordering.

Our new flexible shipping address setting allows you to choose whether your wholesale customers can enter a new one-time shipping address at checkout, so they can better self-serve their own orders.

Customers can now request a return through your online store

ShopifyQL Notebooks now offer the ability for merchants to create references, reorder blocks, and retain previous executions of code blocks to allow for quick access and stable data stories.

Give your customers the power to review and manage orders with a customer account that doesn’t make them memorize another password.

We’re making it easier for wholesale customers to self-serve their own account with easy reordering. Customers will now see the option to “Buy Again” on past orders within new customer accounts.

Shopify Collabs brand users can now send invites directly to creators to join their community. Invited creators will be able to bypass the application process, making community management easier!

Merchants utilizing Markets and Markets Pro can now easily utilize Shopify Collabs in the store Admin, so creator commissions across all your regions stores are tracked in one place.

Starting January 28th, Shopify is only sending Order Confirmation SMS on behalf of merchants whose billing address is in one of 13 countries.

Stores on the Shopify Plus plan can customize their checkout with checkout extensibility—a faster way to make customizations in a way that’s app-based, upgrade-safe, and integrated with Shop Pay.

More ways to customize printed receipts, better suited for large, complex retailers

Added a new oversell warning to notify staff when an item is not available to sell.

This update introduces two new views in POS where Staff who have been attributed on completed orders are visible.

Get paid on-time, every time. With payment reminders, you can now automatically send emails to your wholesale customers to remind them of payments as they become due or overdue.

Merchants are now able to add and manage 1,000 locations on Shopify

You can now use Shopify Audiences for your Pinterest advertising campaigns.

Improved backup shipping rates will be added to your checkout

All private apps will be automatically be converted to custom apps. Custom apps support all the functionality that private apps did, and provide better security.

A smoother, faster Shopify admin experience.

Visualize where your customers are coming from and which areas are driving the most sales.

Merchants using payment terms or company locations will now see these variables included in customer-facing email templates.

We’ve improved Gift Cards and now when a Shopify Gift Card is refunded we will auto disable it for you.

Monitor your store admin activity with the Audit Events webhook

You can now run workflows on a schedule, get data from your shop, and run actions for each list item in Shopify Flow. These features together make many new use cases possible in Shopify Flow.

In order to better match with the way merchants run their business, we’ve updated how the Average Order Value (AOV) metric is calculated within Shopify Analytics.

Your Customer Cohort Analysis is now updated with new metrics and more powerful drill down capabilities to help you get a better view of your customers.

The Balance Rewards page has a fresh new look with new cashback insights enabling you to better take advantage of Balance Rewards and Partner Offers that will help your business succeed!

This connection has been deprecated since 2021-04, and the lineItems connection should be used instead.

Track Tap to Pay on iPhone transactions in POS to monitor usage that may result in additional fees.

Webhook topics have been introduced that will be sent out whenever a location is activated or deactivated.

Redesigned filters for all index pages.

We’ve released enhancements to the current inventory transfers feature including draft mode, support for transfers with thousands of line items, and performance improvements to bulk receiving actions.

Use new standard metafields to edit discovery features from outside the Search & Discovery app.

You can now duplicate sections and blocks

Cater to your international audience by uploading different images and videos for different languages and markets.

You can now add static unordered lists to your rich text fields in the Online Store editor or connect them to text-based Metafield lists.

Over the coming weeks, eligible Shopify Plus merchants, who are not leveraging checkout.liquid customizations, will start getting access to Shopify Functions.

The 2022 summary for Black Friday Cyber Monday is now available for Plus merchants in the ShopifyQL Notebooks app. You can compare your performance in 2021 and benchmark against merchants like you.

Merchants based in Kuwait can now add governorates to their shipping zones.

Live View has been updated with a fresh style and layout in time for Black Friday Cyber Monday 2022.

Use data to improve your stores search and discovery experience

Quickly and easily create on-brand email capture forms for your store, directly in Shopify.

Merchants can now create selling plan specific shipping rates (for subscriptions) so that the names from those rates surface in checkout.

New search bar capability makes it easier to attribute staff on orders.

Merchants can now edit their Product metafields with definitions in bulk on Shopify.

Use Shopify to manage discounts on different sales channels.

Available to all Plus merchants ShopifyQL Notebooks lets you explore, visualize, and analyze shop data to make better decisions.

“Due on Fulfillment” is now a payment term option for B2B orders. Include this payment term on orders automatically by assigning it on the company location profile, or add it one-time on draft orders.

The new improvements to date picker allow quick and easy access to pre-canned date ranges and makes comparison between time periods faster.

Build brand loyalty and awareness with consistent checkout branding in new customer accounts pages.

Get a snapshot of your customer retention rate over a period of time with the new cohort analysis report. You can also compare your average retention rate to a previous period for deeper insights.

Create segments based on customer engagement with products that have a specific product tag.

We've added a new feature that will allow merchants to easily transfer money into Balance from external Bank Accounts

Automate emails to re-engage customers who browsed products, abandoned a cart, or abandoned a checkout

Shopify is bringing new features to merchants selling within the United States to help them collect the right amount of sales tax at the right time, and stay on top of state-level tax requirements.

Never miss another important alert from Shopify

Tap to Pay on iPhone now available for US merchants using Shopify Payments and Shopify POS

Maintain an accurate view of your customers by merging duplicate profiles.

Use our new order confirmation setting to select for each company location whether B2B orders are automatically approved for a streamlined order process or submitted as drafts for additional review.

More granular staff permissions, better suited for large, complex retailers

Sell Subscriptions with Shipping, Local Delivery or Pickup.

Pixels power your marketing and analytics with secure, accurate, privacy-conscious customer behavior data.

Visit the Marketing section in the Shop channel to apply for early access.

Compare-at prices not explicitly defined for a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) are now hidden for EEA markets by default. You can show them if you are in compliance with the directive.

As of API 2022-10, two new metafield definition types are available (`collection_reference` and `list.collection_reference`)

Shopify Payments now available in Portugal

Create customer lists based on engagement with your emails.

Shopify Payments is now available for retail merchants in Finland, along with the fully integrated WisePad 3 card reader.

Shopify Payments now available in Switzerland

Check out the new look of the Shopify reports index. The new list view with categorizations will help you get to the data you’re looking for faster and with fewer clicks.

Increase cart size by surfacing complementary products on the product detail pages.

Shopify Payments available in Czechia

Merchants can now send invoice emails to multiple recipients using a CC field.

Setting product prices per market is now available to all subscription plans. Shopify Payments is still required to use local currencies.

Improved gift card management settings offer flexibility to choose a gift card type for selling and refunds.

In addition to showing Available inventory, Shopify POS will also display Incoming and Committed inventory for a store location, just like you see in Shopify Admin.

A new metafield content type to track money related data.

Shopify's Translate & Adapt app automatically translates store content and helps tailor content for all markets.

Improve email performance and create a sense of urgency for your next product release with express checkout in email.

Sofort is now available for Shopify Payments merchants in the Netherlands.

Buy and print Poste Italiane labels right from your Shopify account—without external apps or extra fees. And manage it all from the same place you fulfill and track orders.

Chat with 100+ million shoppers in the Shop app by adding the free messaging app, Shopify Inbox.

Shopify now supports automatically optimizing images using AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) to improve storefront performance.

When creating international shipping rates, you can now use the local currency that you’ve chosen in Shopify Markets. This applies to the prices themselves and to cart price conditions.

In your taxes report, the "Filed by Channel" column displays. In this column you can find improved context, and an educational tooltip.

Shopify Payments available in Finland

As of August 16, 2022, Dovetale and all of its features are embedded right into your Shopify admin becoming the new and improved Shopify Collabs, giving merchants a new channel to reach consumers.

Increase sales by customizing your search and discovery experience.

A new permission to control staff access to initiating order refunds.

In fields that allow Liquid in Flow, you can now make full use of the tags assign and capture to set variables. You can use the map filter to create an array of values from another array.

Shopify reports now come with enhanced capabilities to compare performance against different time periods. You can add custom date ranges and view these comparisons in a graph or table.

Merchants can now copy a draft order checkout link that accesses the checkout directly.

Draft orders now only allow shipping fees to be added to orders containing at least some physical items. Orders containing no physical items can't have shipping charges added to them.

Create and save unique Custom Fee tiles on smart grid for common line-item fees that can be added to a cart with one tap.

Get more customization options for receipts in Shopify POS, from SKUs to logos.

Check balances and manage gift cards details from your customer's profile within Shopify POS.

Shopify Inbox now displays customer profiles, notes, and orders along with the conversation.

Enhancements to Shopify Inbox conversation analytics freshness and filtering

Admins can now remotely authorize Shopify POS logins by scanning a QR Code or an 8 digit code. Learn more in the [help center](https://help.shopify.com/manual/sell-in-person/shopify-pos/login).

Pin products next to your videos so followers can like, subscribe, and buy.

Shopify Payments is now available for retail merchants in Singapore, along with the fully integrated WisePad 3 card reader.

The new Roku X Shopify marketing channel enables Shopify merchants who have stores located in the United States to easily build, buy, and measure TV streaming advertising campaigns directly on Roku.

Buy and print Colissimo and Chronopost labels right from your Shopify account—without external apps or extra fees. And manage it all from the same place you fulfill and track orders.

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a local payment method in India that merchants can use to pay their invoices. To use UPI, the store must be located in India with billing currency set to INR.

Shipping notifications will only be sent to customers on the contact method used during checkout, which can be either SMS or email.

Shopify Payments is now available for retail merchants in Italy, along with the fully integrated WisePad 3 card reader.

B2B on Shopify integrates essential wholesale features right into the core of Shopify. Run both sides of your business from one store.

If you are using the Shopify plan, you can now use Shopify Flow to customize your store through automation.

The Twitter sales channel integration allows merchants to easily manage and sell their products on Twitter.

Find new ways to sell with pre-orders and try before you buy

Shopify Payments is now available for merchants in France.

You can now create up to 200 metafield definitions per store.

Improvements to the exchanges workflow now allows multiple returns or exchanges on previously exchanged orders.

Shopify Protect will protect eligible Shop Pay orders from fraudulent chargebacks.

The files page now supports longer videos. These videos have improved integrations with metafields and Liquid.

Shopify Balance merchants can now get notified when their account balance drops below a preset value.

You can now assign permissions to staff and partners that were previously only available to the store owner. These include managing GDPR requests, collaborator requests, and editing billing payments.

Planet lets you offer carbon-neutral shipping and fund some of the most promising carbon removal technologies on earth, while also making it easy to share your commitment with buyers.

We're launching INR billing with local plan pricing via cards in India, and reducing friction for paying your Shopify bills.

Merchants using international pricing can now use dynamic checkout buttons on their product pages.