What’s New at Shopify?

We’ve shipped improvements to the Shopify Theme Store that make it easier than ever to find the perfect theme for your business—and get launched faster.

Customers can now see manual payment methods such as cash, checks, wires, and bank transfers in their local currency on checkout and order confirmations.

This enhancement will improve email deliverability and performance, while reducing costs.

Merchants can offer manual payment methods such as bank transfers, checks, and international wires in B2B checkout.

Includes a clickable hero in the theme editor, new product card display settings, and improvements for accessibility, localization, image handling, cart updates, and overall theme editor performance.

Duties and taxes can now be configured for B2B Markets.

Live View, benchmarks and the customer cohort analysis report have been migrated to the new analytics experience and are now available.

Customers can checkout using Google Pay in your mobile app

Flow now uses version 2024-10 of the GraphQL Admin API, which includes changes to the products query, gift card endpoints, and more.

The Shopify Bundles app now shows key metrics to help you assess product bundle performance.

Accept USDC as a payment method in guest checkout and Shop Pay.

Form submission email notifications now contain the customer’s email as the reply-to address

Use ShopifyQL and the new query editor to get insight into your store's performance.

Analytics is now faster, flexible, more intuitive to use—and the new default for all stores.

A "duplicate" button is now available on menu detail pages in the Shopify admin that creates exact copies of menus with all links intact.

Shipments to Malta now require a postcode

Sell multiple versions of the same product with different customizations in a single transaction.

Standardized customer data erasure behavior for 3P apps, removing merchant ability to cancel app-initiated data erasures.

If a buyer is using your online store in a specific market, it now persists when they navigate directly to their account.

You can now create submarkets from existing Region markets, customize multiple markets for B2B, and preview buyer customizations.

Shopify Magic can now generate theme blocks tailored to your specific needs. Simply describe what you want, and the AI will create a customized theme block.

Now available on the Shopify Themes Store.

For each loops in Flow now support one level of nesting and multiple actions per loop.

150+ new features, good vibes

Shopify’s global catalog opens up new opportunities to connect merchants with buyers in popular AI platforms and shopping sites.

We’ve improved the recommendation algorithm for large merchants to better surface apps installed and liked by businesses of similar scale.

Get smarter loading indicators that appear only when needed in an admin that loads 1 to 2 seconds faster.

Easily navigate between pages with dynamic back buttons and breadcrumbs in the admin.

Available in select discount apps and the Discount Function API, apply a single discount across products, orders, and shipping to boost cart size and drive conversions.

New privacy features include a consent audit log and Canadian provincial settings, helping merchants improve consent management and compliance with evolving regulations.

It’s now possible to edit subscription and pre-order items before shipping an order.

Quickly find marketing automation templates that meet your business’ needs, from a library of Shopify- and partner-created options.

Merchants who sell through select sales channels are now eligible for Shopify Tax automated filing.

Remind customers of their store credit balances using Liquid.

When issuing a refund, select ‘store credit’ as the refund method.

Surface store credit in the Shop App and at checkout with Shop Pay authentication.

Shop has added support for subscriptions and PDP swatches.

Target customers near any location by typing a plain language address when creating segments. No more hunting for latitude and longitude coordinates.

Shopify Flow has an improved Send HTTP request action that supports a broader range of integrations with external services by securely storing secrets and returning data to subsequent workflow steps.

View sample data when building workflows in Shopify Flow to see real data values and choose the right variables.

Print pick lists directly from your Shopify admin via the Shopify Order Printer app

Manage and analyze marketing campaigns across different channels directly in your Shopify admin to understand and optimize your marketing performance.

Both third-party and Shopify cookie consent banners will now be displayed on customer account pages, as needed.

You can now customize the names of your sections and blocks to better organize your store’s design elements.

Copy and paste actions are now available when editing your online store.

When you configure a custom domain for your customer accounts, your login page will now automatically use that same domain, creating a more consistent, branded experience for your customers.

In version 10.2+ of Shopify POS app, we've added support for store credit, allowing customers to pay with store credit, staff to process returns to store credit and manage customer balances in POS.

Manage your POS payment settings centrally from POS Channel, with more control over payment options and the flexibility to customize settings per device.

New granular permissions let you control exactly which staff can create, edit, or delete customer information, while giving all staff access to view customers and add them to cart.

Return items can now be removed from all returns, regardless of when it was created. Previously this was only available for returns created after Exchanges was introduced in March 2024.

Merchants offering subscription purchase options and using Shopify Payments can now accept Apple Pay in all Shopify Payments countries.

Offer Apple Pay as a payment method to expand your customer payment options while supporting your customizations.

Your customers will now be charged a single flat shipping rate when orders are fulfilled from multiple locations within the same location group.

Shopify Capital is officially expanding to EMEA with its first country launch in Germany.

Manage your inventory with better accuracy and efficiency with enhanced transfers—featuring multi-shipment tracking, customizable views, barcode scanning, bulk importing, and complete 3P visibility.

Returns now only affect your financial reporting after you decide to process it, giving you more control and precise sales figures.

Sidekick now enables merchants to generate images from a few keywords in the Shopify Admin, and save them to Files for use across their stores.

VAT numbers added to company locations and customers are now automatically validated for merchants on Shopify Tax. If valid, reverse charge is automatically applied.

You can turn the Buy again button on or off from the checkout and accounts editor.

Minimize surprise fees at checkout for international customers with duty-inclusive pricing

Collect duties and import taxes accurately with Shopify by including the country of origin for each of your products.

Merchants exclusively using AvaTax to collect U.S. sales tax have been migrated to Shopify Tax.

Shopify labels for orders traveling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland can not be purchase in your Shopify admin.

`event.data.checkout.subtotalPrice.amount` on the new `/thank-you` now sums line item prices after product and order discounts, aligning with the legacy `/thank_you` page.

Cash transactions on Point of Sale are now automatically rounded to the nearest available denomination for some countries where small coins are not in use.

Checkout Blocks now lets Shopify Plus merchants set minimum and maximum order value limits.

Shopify Email now offers greater design flexibility with section padding controls and a redesigned footer section.

Shopify POS 10 is here - A fresh new design, smarter search, faster navigation, and custom branding tools help you work faster, stay on-brand, and streamline every in-store checkout.

Now you can customize the appearance of the Idle Screen on your buyer facing display by uploading a logo and background media via the Display Editor in your Shopify Admin.

Now you can select brand theme colors for checkout screens on POS Terminal and the Android Customer View app

When customers purchase multiple units of a product and there isn't enough inventory to fulfill the order from a single location, the order is split across multiple fulfillment locations.

The European Union Reverse Charge customer exemption now also applies to the UK, where applicable. The exemption has been renamed accordingly: Reverse Charge (EU/UK).

Deprecation of dark mode in POS Terminal and Customer View app on April 14, 2025

We've extended the Shopify Scripts deprecation deadline to June 30, 2026 to give you more time to migrate your custom checkout logic to Shopify Functions.

You can create new or enable existing discount codes by selecting 'Shop' under 'Sales Channel Access' during your discount setup.

Collective retailers can now view personalized recommendations on Collective

The new Add-to-cart Limit will protect your stores inventory information

POS staff can now create a ship and carry out order in a single transaction.

We've refined the design on POS Terminal and Android Customer View app

Increasing the speed, accuracy and flexibility of search performance when searching for products in POS.

Create domain-specific SEO crawling rules using the request.host object in the robots.txt.liquid template. Ideal for merchants using multiple domains to target different audiences in Shopify Markets.

Draft orders created on or after April 1, 2025, will be automatically removed after one year of inactivity.

Checkpoint challenge are now mandatory on all schedules

Shopify Payments has arrived in Poland, Lithuania, Norway, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Gibraltar.

We've moved the Blogs section from the Online Store app to the Content section of the admin.

We’ve improved the user experience for order editing. The page is easier to use and the design more closely matches other pages in the admin.

To help accelerate customer logins, the Sign in with Shop button will now be visible from the customer login page

The actions to update and remove metafields in Flow now offer an improved experience for finding or creating metafields.

Retailers can now search for suppliers by name using the Collective discovery tool

You can now include products from a category and its sub-categories when creating smart collections by simply checking a box when creating or editing your collection conditions

The JS Buy SDK has been deprecated and Shopify will no longer support or maintain this library.

Default preferences for email and SMS marketing can now be set in the admin checkout settings

Apply and save all admin-create discounts to draft orders in Shopify POS.

Flow now has more actions to fetch data about gift cards, locations, and cash tracking sessions from your Shopify store for use in workflows.

We've made managing settings easier by adding dedicated search within Shopify settings, on both desktop and in the Shopify app.

When merchants edit custom metafields they have created, all validations will update on any forms using the metafield.

Our new AI store setup tool creates custom-designed themes for your business with just a simple description, making your website launch-ready in no time!

It's now possible to selectively enable Managed Markets on a subset of international markets.

Shopify Plus merchants can now control when gift cards and wallet payments appear during checkout based on specific cart and customer conditions.

Merchants in Mexico can now use Shopify Payments to accept payments and receive payouts

Shop app and Shop web are available in French, German, and Spanish

To provide you with more comprehensive search results in the Shopify admin, and to enhance context-aware suggestions in Sidekick, we’ve added more commerce objects to Search and Sidekick.

Merchants can now monitor fulfillment performance and stay up-to-date on low inventory, orders on hold, and transfers in-progress.

Now you can accept SMS marketing opt-ins from customers at checkout.

Maximize email signups while maintaining regional compliance with the ability to pre-select email consent for your customers based on country.

Deprecation of Inbox in the Shop App on February 19, 2025.

Merchants using Shopify’s cookie banner can let customers update their consent preferences anytime, and display the banner on checkout. Additionally, data sale opt-out now includes more US states.

Starting February 20, the option to automatically add products in checkbox upsell blocks will be disabled.

Retailers and suppliers can now use basic search and sort tools to navigate their growing lists of connections

Meta Pay is no longer available as an accelerated checkout option.

To help merchant manage tariffs, all Shopify plans will have access to Shopify duties and import tax estimations and collection at checkout

We've adjusted the default sort orders for several key index tables to prioritize the most relevant information.

Merchants can now use a personalized report to accelerate migration from Shopify Scripts to Functions for payment, shipping, and discount customizations.

Better search and troubleshoot your automations with more data in Flow run logs.

Flow now offers new actions — Get metaobject entries and Get metaobject entry — that provide more tools for working with metaobjects in workflows.

The unified file picker is now available on the variant detail page in the admin

Improve customer satisfaction and conversion by displaying multiple shipping rates and transit times at checkout.

Headless storefronts created through the Headless sales channel can now be used as publishing targets and orders will be attributed to them by their given names.

Customers can now be automatically logged into checkout from the Storefront API using a customerAccessToken.

We updated the Checkout Blocks app so that it no longer acts as a sales channel.

You can now buy domestic shipping labels from Purolator in your Shopify admin.

Shopify now taxes shipping proportionally in Canada. Proportional shipping tax applies if you do not use overrides, your products are categorized, and you’re using registration-based taxes.

You can configure where customers are directed after they log in to their account on the online store with a new liquid route

Collect tax ID information from customers for orders shipping to Mexico starting January 1, 2025

For international orders fulfilled using Managed Markets, customer tax IDs will be added to commercial invoices for countries where they are required, including Brazil, China, and South Korea.

From Dec 14, 2024 to Feb 15, 2025, Shopify will automatically handle zero-rating for eligible products under Canada's GST/HST tax break. Just ensure your products are properly categorized.

Now all eligible merchants can acquire and convert customers on Shop, Meta and Google with risk-free campaigns. Set your cost and only pay when customers convert.

Custom metafields can now inform order routing rules, offering a more dynamic and scalable way to define where orders are fulfilled from.

Merchants can now link any product metafields that reference list type metaobjects to product options.

150+ product updates

A new report is now available to view store credit transactions across all customers. In addition, you can view the event type and order details associated with store credit transactions.

You can now create customer segments to target your marketing to customers with store credit accounts.

Install apps and add functionality to the customer account without code. Enable customers to manage subscriptions, engage with loyalty programs, and more in one seamless, branded experience.

The new admin extension for the Shopify Subscriptions app allows you to add, remove, and edit your subscription products directly from the product page within Shopify admin.

Now you can customize the way your Category filter values are displayed on your storefront using the Shopify Search & Discovery app.

All merchants can customize Thank You and Order Status Pages with dynamic and static content blocks in Checkout Blocks.

With the introduction of smart collection support for metaobject reference metafields, taxonomy attributes can now be used in smart collection conditions.

Merchants can now create automated collections based on various metafield types for enhanced product grouping.

Offer single sign-on across your websites, apps, online store, checkout, and new customer accounts.

You can now capture all of the reasons that a fulfillment is being held with a separate hold for each reason.

The Bundles report in the new Shopify analytics allows merchants to assess product bundle performance with detailed metrics such as Total Sales by Bundle and Bundle Component.

Product bundles have been updated to more clearly and consistently represent bundles and its components in a grouped view.

The Shopify Subscriptions app now alerts merchants of billing failures due to inventory shortages, showing affected products and suggesting actions to minimize subscription disruptions.

Home metrics customizations are now reflected in the Shopify app for merchants on new Shopify Analytics. Merchants can also change metrics from the app via a long press interaction

Boost brand awareness and improve engagement on mobile with brand-rich recommendations in the Shop home feed.

You can now group stores into one organization for streamlined management of users, stores, and billing.

Sync products and custom data across multiple systems and shops with custom ids and upsert APIs

Now manage fulfillment holds with greater flexibility directly from your mobile device.

Role-based access controls (RBAC) are now rolling out, so you can easily and securely give staff access by assigning them one or multiple roles.

You can have the ability to customize the customer account menu with any type of link, including full-page extensions, specific products, collections, pages, or external URLs.

We've made searching in Shopify a consistent experience across desktop and the Shopify app

Indicating that a location fulfills online orders will no longer add the location to the shop's default shipping profile.

Give buyers more reason to subscribe with a Buy X Get Y promotion such as offering a free product with a subscription.

Merchants using Managed Markets and fulfillable inventory can now show accurate inventory status prior to checkout.

Easily access metaobjects, like featured reviews and brand ambassadors, across your entire theme using the dynamic source picker in the theme editor.

Self-serve returns are now available for B2B orders, allowing customers to initiate return requests through customer accounts.

Delivery and payment method customizations and checkout rules work on draft orders and customer invoices.

Merchants can now lock the prices of items in draft orders to ensure they remain unchanged.

Retailers can now set custom policies offering the flexibility to fine-tune how they work with each supplier.

Retailers can now simplify the returns process and eliminate manual intervention with automated returns

Retailers can automatically import new products and update content from suppliers

Classic and New Customer Accounts are changing their names to Legacy and Customer Accounts, respectively.

Retailer stores now display the supplier's online inventory levels as the available quantity to sell, excluding POS inventory.

Style the line items in Checkout and Customer Accounts order summary to reflect your brand using the Branding API settings for quantity badges and product thumbnails.

Invite customers who have only shopped online to visit your retail locations.

The Existing Customers Plus audience lets you exclude more customers from ads compared to standard ad platform lists. Retargeting Boost audiences achieve up to 50% better performance compared to v2.3.

Bank references are available on all Shopify Payments payouts

The Checkout Blocks app documentation has moved to Shopify's Help Center for easier access and multi-language support.

Managed Markets now provides an address correction service for all labels. This is a new service to help increase address accuracy, and ultimately decrease returned packages.

Search and browse apps based on a specific category or feature in the Shopify App Store. See what features an app offers in the Categories section of the app listing.

Update: Managed Markets orders fulfilled with DHL eCommerce labels now pay out at first label scan

You can now create customer segments with location-based filters. Add a local lens to any customer segment and drive unique in-person experiences for your customers.

Multi-currency payouts is now available in Australia, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany and Austria.

You can now configure up to a total of 25 automatic discounts per shop using discount apps.

The Companies, Customers, Draft Orders, and Shipping Labels pages now validate addresses to help merchants avoid delayed or failed deliveries.

Shopify Web and Mobile have been updated to show more information about fulfillment holds.

All marketing automation templates are now available in the Flow app, creating a unified surface to explore all templates powered by Flow.

You can now create fields on Shopify Forms that let you edit, manage and save data to submissions stored in metaobjects, without requiring the creation of a customer metafield.

Shopify Admin now shows 180 days of adjustment history for a product or variant at a location. Previously the maximum length was up to 90 days and we’ve now doubled that to 180 days!

A new "Cancel order" action that cancels an order and voids the authorization will replace a previous action, relabeled “Cancel order (deprecated)”, that uses a different API with different options.

We're excited to announce that Shopify Tax now offers automated filing for sales tax management. Merchants can streamline compliance, ensuring accuracy and flexibility for U.S. tax returns. 🚀

Shopify has a user verification experience for sensitive actions in Admin, like deleting staff accounts to protect your business without interrupting your work.

Shopify Shipping now uses live rates when you purchase UPS labels in the United States, offering deeper discounts on small packages.

Shopify’s Standard Product Taxonomy has been updated to include additional categories, attributes and values. These additions enhance the accuracy with how you can represent your products.

Shopify Tax now handles VAT compliance in the EU and UK, with new features and upgrades built specifically for these regions, including VAT invoices, liability tracking, and more precise calculations.

Merchants using the Combined Listings app can now customize how their combined listings appear in search and product recommendations.

Use the new Apps tab in the checkout and accounts editor to add, remove, preview, and configure app blocks, organized by collections.

Manage your Shopify Balance, Capital, Credit, Payouts, Tax, and Bill Pay on the go via the Shopify app.

Shipping insurance up to $200 is now included for Managed Markets labels purchased from the Shopify admin, with the option to purchase additional insurance up to $5000.

Branding for checkout and customer accounts now applies to the login page, too.

Shopify Flow now has a Metaobject entry created trigger to start a workflow when a new entry is created for a specific metaobject definition.

The customer winback marketing automation template is now powered by customer segmentation, so it can extend longer than 60 days

Retailers can now use automations such as Shopify Flow to cancel or hold high fraud risk orders before they reach the supplier.

Hydrogen storefronts created through the Hydrogen sales channel can now be used as publishing targets and orders will be attributed to them by their given names.

Now you can configure your return policy to allow retail staff to offer a return to gift cards without the customer presenting a receipt, or having an order number.

Brand colors from admin settings can now apply to your POS terminal and customer-facing displays

Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to POS users in Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Accept contactless payments in person with just an Android smartphone and Shopify POS.

Shopify POS on Android now supports wired USB connectivity for Tap & Chip, WisePad, or Chipper readers.

Shopify POS on Android now supports wired USB connectivity for Tap & Chip, WisePad, or Chipper readers.

When a buyer views the order summary at the top of the one-page mobile checkout, they can now see any app blocks that appear above or below the discount code field.

Merchants can now filter by attributes of active/inactive as well as POS Pro and POS Lite. Address autocomplete and validation is also built in.

On the Shipping labels page, select Buy labels for X orders to quickly start buying labels for up to 100 orders in bulk.

Merchants can now use the new files user permission to grant staff members explicit capabilities in a shop's underlying file system. These permissions will be enforced across all admin.

We’ve optimized the POS app layout to display more information and actions across each screen in the app.

We've enhanced the POS Terminal customer experience with a refreshed design and new customizations.

YouTube Shorts can now be added in the file picker, available on products and across admin, with the "add from URL" field.

Power your storefront filters using category metafields in the Shopify Search & Discovery app.

The Run code action in Flow has an improved and more helpful experience, with modern code editing features including autocomplete and details on hover.

Customer Metafields pinned in Shopify Admin are now available on all POS Pro locations, allowing retail staff to view and capture unique customer information.

Shipping amounts shown in the financial summary of the order details page now account for refunds. We’ve also streamlined the UX on the refund page when refunding shipping.

Easily promote your products with Shopify Email app extensions

Reduce checkout surprises with duty inclusive pricing.

The workflow run list has been improved with clearer status indicators, faster loading times, and detailed error tracking for more efficient troubleshooting.

Semantic Search now supports multiple languages, so shoppers worldwide can search using everyday language and find relevant results.

Pickup in store now supports Store Transfers, enabling customers to buy items online and have them shipped to your store for pickup. We've also enhanced the display of pickup locations at checkout.

Create automations that respond to the customer data that matters most to your business

Bundles created by the Shopify Bundles app can now be published to and sold on Shopify POS

4 new staff permissions give merchants more granular control over actions staff members can take on Gift cards.

We've introduced a new layout for Company and Company location details for a better distinction between information and customizations.

Submit shipping claims directly in admin from the order details page.

B2B merchants can apply "Don't collect tax" to a Company Location.

To enable you to use data created or changed by the Send Admin API request action, you can now return data from the action for use in subsequent workflow steps.

Split shipping in checkout can be accessed for merchants that have more than 1 location or more than 1 shipping profile in their setups.

Buyers from Belgium can now pay using BanContact on shops using Managed Markets.

A new, unified Shopify Collective shipping profile can now fetch and display suppliers’ shipping rates to customers live on your checkout.

Managed Markets stopped supporting Turkiye as a result of Turkish authorities lowering the maximum value of goods that can be imported into Turkey with a simplified clearance procedure to 30 euros.

Suppliers have the flexibility to set shipping rates at the price list level giving them more flexibility to accurately charge retailers.

All eligible US Shopify Plus and Advanced merchants can now join the YouTube Shopping affiliate program through the Google & YouTube app so YouTube creators can tag your products in their videos.

Now view all your financial products, like Capital, Credit, Balance, or Payouts, in one place by going to Finance. They're organized similarly so you can stay on top of your finances more easily.

From today, retailers can live-fetch suppliers' shipping rates directly on their checkout, powered by a new, unified Shopify Collective shipping profile.

Flow now has more tools for workflows that manage orders involving returns. These include triggers for different return statuses, an action for cancelling returns, and templates for common use cases.

You can easily see which purchased shipping labels have required customs forms and whether they have been printed.

After Collective suppliers add products to a price list, they can select all and filter to remove some or all products.

We've added error messages to the Shopify Pixel Helper so that you can more easily debug your custom pixels.

Receive AI-powered suggestions to customer questions in Shopify Inbox.

A single, unified file editor is now available across the admin.

You can now easily view all product variants within an order while purchasing labels in bulk.

We have started the next phase of the rollout to our security measures that implements hCAPTCHA rather than reCAPTCHA on Storefronts.

You can now accept JCB cards on Shopify POS in Australia and New Zealand.

You can now accept UnionPay and JCB cards on Shopify POS in Canada and the United States.

Newly created shops now have customer accounts turned on in the New Customer Accounts mode.

We're shipping Credit Notes and a new refunding mechanism (Shopify Account Credits) for refunds from totally or partially cancelled invoices.

View all submissions from Shopify Forms within the admin

You can now use automation to set up and keep your privacy policy, cookie banner, and data sales opt-out features up to date with Shopify’s latest recommendations. 


We have started a rollout to our security measures that implements hCAPTCHA rather than reCAPTCHA on Storefronts.

Apps that have updated to the latest version of UI extensions can now run for buyers in draft order invoice checkouts.

Investigate Flow automations by searching workflow runs from the Admin “More actions” menu on orders, draft orders, customers, products, product variants, and collections.

Cash tracking information can now be viewed across all retail locations with continued access to detailed information available per-location.