What’s New at Shopify?

Introducing the new automated way to classify your products!

The new version (2.1.0) of Dawn includes various user interface improvements and bug fixes.

You can now purchase and print up to 50 shipping labels at once, increasing the limit from 20. This helps you work more efficiently, get orders out the door faster, and create a better experience for your customers. It's now available for merchants fulfilling orders from a US location and using Shopify Shipping with USPS, UPS and DHL carriers.

Learn more about Bulk order fulfillment from the Shopify Help Center.

The Store Importer app now supports Lightspeed migrations.

Are you worried about economic nexus? We’re making it easier to understand your sales tax liability in the United States.

The Shop channel is now available in the [following regions](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/shopify-payments/shopify-payments-requirements#supported-countries-and-regions) 🎉

Dawn is Shopify’s latest free theme. It includes an adaptable layout, site-wide cross-selling sections, and media-optimized product pages to boost sales. Easier to customize than ever, sections and blocks let you add, rearrange, and edit every page without any coding.

Notable Dawn features include custom liquid sections, facet filtering on collection pages, adaptable layouts across pages, predictive search, and upselling/cross selling sections. Dawn also has features to help you set up and get started more easily including a simplified color system and square image settings on product grids.

Preview Dawn today, and learn more about how to express your brand with our updated documentation.

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

You will now be able to accept all major payment methods however and wherever you want to, seamlessly integrated with Shopify POS.

Learn more about Shopify Payments and the WisePad 3 from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve redesigned inventory management on the Shopify Mobile app so you can easily view, manage and track your inventory from anywhere. The improved inventory features include:

• One centralized view of your inventory to help you manage your inventory from anywhere.
• Search, sort and inventory filtering so you can find what you’re looking for faster.
• Inventory workflows designed for mobile so you can get more done on the go.

Try the Shopify Mobile app and learn more about managing inventory in the Shopify Help Centre.

When a merchant fulfills an order and enters the tracking number for it, we can now identify the shipping carrier with relatively 30% better accuracy for supported carriers. We also improved the drop down by showing frequently used carriers at the top of the list. This helps save merchants time when fulfilling orders.

Learn more about manual fulfillment from the Help Center.

The Customer Privacy app is updated for California-based stores and stores that meet the following criteria:

• a gross annual revenue of $25 million a year in online sales
• buy, receive, or sell the personal information of 50,000 or more California residents, households, or devices
• derive 50% or more of their annual revenue from selling California residents’ personal information

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California buyers need to be given the choice to opt out of the sale of their personal information. The Customer Privacy app allows you to easily communicate how you track the sale of information, allowing buyers to choose if they want to share information.

If you have been using the existing version of the app, then you will need to download Customer Privacy app by November 1, 2021 in order to stay in compliance with the CCPA.

Starting on August 23rd 2021, we'll be providing USPS return labels through our direct integration with USPS. This update is an extension of our ePostage roll-out to all eligible USPS shipments, which launched in February 2021.

You can now choose ePostage return labels through Parcel Select Ground. The ePostage return labels have the same eligibility criteria and rates as fulfillment-direction for Parcel Select Ground.

Also, the ePostage return labels now look more like the ePostage fulfillment labels.

Learn more about ePostage shipping and return labels with USPS from the Shopify Help Center.

Merchants now have an improved bulk shipping label purchase flow.

Until now, the bulk shipping label purchase flow in Shopify has been a copy of the single label purchase flow, but with orders stacked vertically on one page. This layout made it more difficult to keep track of your progress and position on the page.

Now, the purchase flow uses an order navigation menu. This navigation makes it easier to find specific orders, for example when merchants need to change a package size, weight, or shipping service. The navigation also helps with seeing progress and identifying orders with errors or warnings. Further, order notes are now displayed in the shipping label flow.

Learn more about Fulfillment Detail Views - Shipping labels from the Shopify Help Center.

The new payment terms feature allows you to easily manage orders with deferred payments.

With payment terms, you can complete the following tasks:

• Add a payment due date to a draft order or to a pending order that was created through the online store.
• Choose between due on receipt, net terms (within 7, 15, 30, 60 or 90 days), or fixed date.
• Sort by overdue payment status for easier order management.
• Send an invoice to your buyer with their payment due date.

You can set payment terms by selecting Payment due later in the payment section of a draft order.

Learn more about payment terms.

Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN) is introducing a Merchant Peak Plan (MPP) to support merchant's shipping needs during Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM).

The MPP will help merchants prepare for peak demands during the BFCM season and ensure SFN can successfully meet merchant's shipping needs.

Learn more about Merchant Peak Plan.

Not everything is ready to ship right after checkout. When you need to organize your fulfillments according to what needs to be shipped separately, you can reflect that in Shopify by placing them on hold.

Learn more about fullfillment holds from the Shopify Help Center.

Suppliers now have different product information on the Handshake Marketplace compared to the main online store. Within Handshake, suppliers can create product descriptions available exclusively on Handshake, select which product variants they want to showcase on Handshake and manage product images.

Learn more about pricing and managing your products on Handshake in the Pricing and managing products on Handshake.

Retailers can now add products and suppliers to a designated list called Favorites. To add a product or a supplier to the Favorites list, retailers need to click a heart icon next to them.

All added products and suppliers appear on the** Favorites** page and can be accessed from the navigation bar.

Learn more about adding and viewing favorite products and suppliers.

Shopify Ping and Shopify Chat have relaunched as Shopify Inbox. Now you can set up messaging for your online store, manage your FAQs, automated messages, chat appearance, and more right from your admin.

You’ll still use the Shopify Inbox mobile and web apps (formerly Ping) to view and respond to your customer messages from anywhere, anytime.

With this update, it’s even easier to manage customer conversations and sell more over chat.

• New conversation metrics help you understand how many chats convert to sales so you can plan for growth
• Never miss an opportunity to connect with a customer - now you can always continue the conversation over email or SMS even after they’ve left the live chat
• Connect with more customers on more channels like Instagram (coming soon)

Learn more about Shopify Inbox in the Shopify Help Center.

Metafields are extra pieces of data that you can attach to products, customers, orders, and other objects in the Shopify ecosystem. Metafields are made for storing information that doesn’t otherwise have a home in your Shopify admin—think fabric care instructions, delivery time frames, and backorder dates. You can display metafield data anywhere in your store, such as your product pages and even the checkout.

You can use metafields for internal tracking and to display specialized information on your online store in a variety of ways.

Learn more in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve made enhancements to the theme editor to make it more intuitive to use.

Instead of needing to drill down into different sections, the editor sidebar now displays a tree view of all the content on a page. From the sidebar, merchants can hide most blocks, with the exception of the header and the footer. These changes allow you to easily update the hierarchy of a page.

Learn more in the Shopify Help Center.

Starting today, Shopify's Geolocation app will have the ability to only offer country and language recommendations as a center popup.

The Geolocation app helps ensures international customers can view a store in their local currency and language. After thorough research, the center popup increases the rate at which customers check out in the correct currency and language, and also increases a store's conversion rate with international customers.

If you are a Geolocation app user and aren't currently using the center pop up for recommendations, then there is no action required and this change will be made to your store today. You can find out more about Geolocation in the Shopify Help Center.

Suppliers can now offer discounts for retailers on Handshake. Discounts feature allows you to set up the following:

• Suppliers can create an unlimited amount of discounts.
• Suppliers can create automatic discounts without requiring a discount code.
• Discounts can be by percentage or fixed amounts.
• Discounts can have up to three tiers based on the order value.
• Discounts can be timeless or be effective during a scheduled time.
• Discounts apply only on products, they do not apply to shipping costs.

Learn more about managing discounts on Handshate in the Shopify Help Center.

On June 23rd, 2021, Shop rolled out new Merchant Guidelines which merchants must meet in order to operate on Shop. These guidelines are in place to ensure a consistent experience for everyone on the Shop app. To check your eligibility status, you can visit the Settings page in the Shop channel. For more information on Shop Merchant Guidelines, visit the Shopify Help Center.

Eligible merchants can also manage their brand presence and visibility on the Shop app with new Shopping and Discovery settings in the Shop channel. Learn more in the Shopify Help Center.

You can now visualize your store performance on a two-dimensional Live View map! 🗺️

The 2D Live View map displays all your online store traffic data in a single view, allowing you to easily identify the location of your store activity and sales. The map and globe rendering was also improved for faster loading.

Learn more about Live View.

The collection of subscription apps in the Shopify App Store now support Authorize.net.

This update allows merchants who use Authorize.net as their payment gateway the option to use subscription apps that are integrated with Shopify Checkout.

To use a subscription app with Authorize.net, choose a subscription app, and then make sure that Authorize.net is set up on your store.

Learn more about subscriptions in the Shopify Help Center.

You can now see the acquirer reference number (ARN) in your order timeline for refunds that were issued for Shopify Payments Visa/Mastercard transactions. You can use this information to facilitate conversations with customers who haven't received their refund.

Learn more about Refund transaction history

On Monday, June 21st 2021, we will release robots.txt.liquid to give you control over how crawlers discover content in your online store. This helps ensure important pages in your store are indexed and buyers can find them in search results.

Learn more about how to customize your robots.txt file from the Shopify Help Center.

To replace out-of-stock products in your unfulfilled orders, we've added the new Replace order item feature that’s available on all Oberlo plans . You can now replace a temporarily unavailable or out-of-stock products in unfulfilled orders directly from the Orders page in Oberlo.

You can learn more about the replate order item feature on Oberlo Help Center.

You can now use Discover and Diners Club cards for Shopify Payments.

As part of recent improvements to the Draft Order details page, the Product Picker now allows product variant search results to be filtered by barcode, SKU, variant ID or variant title. This feature brings back functionality of the previous product picker, with the added benefits in speed performance.

Learn more about creating draft orders from the Shopify Help Center.

On June 10, we will release Shop Pay Installments on the Shop App accounts tab. Shop Pay Installments enables customers to see and manage their active installments directly from their account settings in the Shop App.

To help you receive billing support for apps more quickly, app developers can now issue app refunds to Merchants directly without including Shopify Support in the process. You can expect faster turnaround for app refund requests.

Visit the Shopify App Store to find new tools and plugins to grow your business.

You can now connect disconnected Shopify products or map variants to Oberlo. Moreover, all unfulfilled Shopify orders containing these products will be synced to Oberlo.

Learn more about this in the Oberlo Help Center:
Reconnect your Shopify products and remap variants to Oberlo
Connect your Shopify product to Oberlo
Fix your orders that don’t show up in Oberlo

Starting today, you can use to Shopify mobile app to track and receive stock transfers between your suppliers and locations.

Using the Shopify mobile app to access transfer information lets you have the portability and control to easily view incoming products from your suppliers, and to move inventory between your locations and that places where you sell.

Once your inventory arrives, you can use the inventory scanner on the mobile app to count and receive your incoming products, so you’ll always have accurate inventory across your locations.

Steps:
1. On the Shopify mobile app select the Products tab.
2. Select Transfers.
3. When you’re ready to receive a transfer, select the transfer from the list.

Once you select Transfers:
* The transfers you’ve created or are expecting between locations are displayed.
* All of the products associated with a transfer are displayed.
* You'll receive items in bulk, or individually, to ensure inventory accuracy across your locations.

Learn more about stock transfers on the mobile app.

Rounding rules now apply to shipping costs when prices are converted to another currency. This provides a more consistent experience for your customers.

Learn more about rounding rules for shipping rates in the Shopify Help Center.

The new Theme Kit Access app makes it easier for merchants to give developer partners access to their theme. Instead of relying on a private app API password to authenticate, the Theme Kit Access app lets merchants:

• create as many Theme Kit passwords as they want
• share passwords that provide theme-only access without the need to create a staff account
• view and manage all Theme Kit passwords in one place
• revoke anyone’s theme access with one click
• share Theme Kit passwords over email using a secure link that expires in 7 days

Merchants can install the app through the Shopify App Store.

Learn more about the Theme Kit Access app here

You can now hide variants on your Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN) inventory list. This enables you to declutter your inventory list by hiding variants that you no longer want to fulfill.

You can make hidden variants visible again.

Learn more about hiding variants on you SFN inventory list [here].(https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shipping/shopify-fulfillment-network/inventory-management)

To help you find the right apps for your business more quickly and easily, we’ve updated and simplified our categories on the Shopify App Store. No more searching through a long list of app types to find what you need!

Check it out for yourself, by visiting the Shopify App Store.

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

You will now be able to accept all major payment methods however and wherever you want to, seamlessly integrated with Shopify POS.

Learn more about Shopify Payments and the WisePad 3 from the Shopify Help Center.

Starting today, your orders index page will display important metrics, such as contextual analytics.

Contextual analytics lets you efficiently check the health of your operations, from order entry to delivery. It also helps you identify areas of opportunity on the same screen you use to execute tasks.

These new metrics help you to spot trends, visualize new pockets of improvement, and confirm if changes are paying off. For more detailed information, every metric leads to a new detailed report.

Learn more about order analytics.

We’ve just released an improved draft order details page to our merchants. These changes help merchants enjoy a better order creation experience, and also presents a few visual changes that are easy on the eyes. Learn more about creating draft orders from the Shopify Help Center.

The draft order details page now has the following changes:

• An improved summary section in the order creation flow. Merchants can now view payment options helper-text in the draft order summary area. This helps to easily identify what actions need to be taken to be able to view and use invoice sending and payment options on the order. Disabled invoice send and payment options have been replaced with the help text; no more angry clicking on greyed out disabled buttons.
• Improved shipping rates message banner and shipping options list when adding shipping to draft orders.
• Improved order level discount modal dialog with explicit fields for discount type and value making it easier for merchants to identify what text needs to be added to the text input field.
• Improved item discount modal dialog with explicit fields for discount type and value making it easier for merchants to identify what text needs to be added to the text input field.
• Improved customer contact details display with the added bonus of giving merchants the ability to easily copy a customer’s email address and shipping address to the clipboard via the new copy icons that have been added.
• Improved shipping and billing address editing layout with better visual separation of fields and a country flag icon added beside the phone number field. Improved reserve items modal dialog with explicit date and time fields, and appropriate icons for clarity.
• Improved line items display with better item and associated unit price alignment, and better line totals display.
• Improved product browsing and adding experiences with a better display of helper text when items and variants have already been added to the order, a better display of the number of available items remaining, and the price of already added items remaining visible in the modal dialog.
• An information dense and easy to read draft order details print preview that does not include page elements like buttons, banners, icons, etc. Now merchants can use less paper when printing draft order details.

The collection of subscription apps in the Shopify App Store now support PayPal Express.

This update allows merchants who can't use Shopify Payments the option to use subscription apps integrated with Shopify Checkout for the first time.

To use a subscription app with PayPal Express, choose a subscription app, and then make sure PayPal is set up on your store.

Learn more about subscriptions in the Shopify Help Center.

Occasionally, third party shipping apps might experience downtime, during which time they won't respond within 10 seconds. This can lead to a loss of sales because your customer checkouts might fail, and customer's might not complete their order as a result. In these cases, backup shipping rates are displayed to customers so that they can complete their purchase.

You can add backup shipping rates from your Shipping and Delivery settings.

Learn more about backup shipping rates in the Shopify Help Center.

Merchants can now redirect customers between international domains based on their location. For example, if you use a .com domain to target the United States and a .ca domain to target Canada, then a Canadian visitor who lands on johns-apparel.com is automatically redirected to johns-apparel.ca. This helps your customers from different countries or regions get correctly localized when they land on a wrong domain.

You can enable automatic redirection for international domains in Online Store Preferences.

Learn more about international domains.

On May 12th, locations was automatically enabled on all stores that weren't already using the feature.

Locations makes it easier to track and manage your inventory across multiple locations. By using locations, you can also use other features such as local pick up and shipping profiles.

Learn more about locations.

Migrate store data from Square POS to Shopify quickly and reliably with the Store Importer app, available through the Shopify App Store. Using a CSV export, you can now migrate product, inventory, and customer records from Square to your Shopify store without having to manually edit or transform your data.

Save time and get to selling faster! Learn more about migrating from Square to Shopify in the Shopify Help Center.

The cost to ship to and within the United Kingdom after Brexit can vary depending on where you are shipping. Before, you could set only one shipping rate for all buyers across the UK. Now, when you set shipping rates for the UK, you can create a different rate for each of the following countries:

• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
• England
• British Forces

You can edit shipping rates, or add or remove each constituent country, in your Shipping and delivery settings.

Learn more about setting up shipping zones in the Shopify Help Center.

Merchants in the UK and Australia can now install the Shop channel 🎉

Up until now, the Shop channel has only been available to merchants in North America but from today, merchants in the UK and Australia can use the channel to customize their store on the Shop app, manage product listings and settings, and monitor key Shop app and Shop Pay performance metrics.

Merchants can install the app through the Shopify app store

Learn more about the Shop channel from the Shopify Help Center.

The variant mapping feature is now available on the Explorer Oberlo plan. If you're on this plan, then you can connect up to two supplier products into one Shopify product.

Learn more about mapping different product variants into one product in the Oberlo Help Center.

The Geolocation app recommendation modal has been redesigned. This helps more of your buyers discover the right currency, pricing, and language on your site if you sell to more than one country or region.

The new modal significantly increases the amount of cross-border customers checking out in their local currency, and can improve your store's overall conversion rate.

You can find out more about the Geolocation app in the Shopify Help Center.

The wholesale channel will be temporarily unavailable for approximately 2 hours at 8 pm EST on Saturday, May 8th as we refresh the database.

During this maintenance window, the wholesale channel will show up as "in maintenance" in the admin and your customers will not be able to place orders. Once service has been restored, the wholesale channel will work as expected.

We appreciate your cooperation through this process and apologize for any inconvenience.

Shop performance metrics are now available in the Shop channel. Understand the impact of Shop on your business with key metrics on sales, orders, follower count, tracking and impressions from the Shop app and Shop Pay. To access these metrics, you need to have the Shop sales channel installed.

To learn more about Shop performance metrics, visit the Shopify Help Center.

You can now access the original AliExpress product page from your Shopify admin. To do so, visit any product details page from your Shopify admin, and then click More actions > Open original product.

A new Select A Plan page has been released on April 21, 2021 that contains richer featural information. This will help you to have a fuller understanding of plan distinctions when you sign up and select the plan that's best suited for you.

Shopify Plus organizations that have verified ownership of their domain can now reset two-step authentication for users that have an email address that is associated with the verified domain. This process lets you restore access for locked out users quickly and securely, and without the assistance of Shopify Support.

Learn more about resetting two-step authentication in the Shopify Help Center.

PayPal Express Checkout now accepts payments in multiple currencies. When a customer pays for an order using PayPal, they will be able to complete checkout in their local currency, just like when they pay using a credit card. Any refunds issued through PayPal are also handled in the customer’s local currency.

Learn more about accepting multiple currencies with PayPal in the Shopify Help Center.

If you use Shopify Payments with multiple currencies enabled, you can now create draft order invoices in your customer's local currency.

This feature helps your customers see the total cost of their purchases in their local currency, including currency conversion fees.

Learn more about multi currency support for draft orders in the Shopify Help Center.

Debut version 17.12.0 includes native support for the Shop Pay Installments banner on product pages. Qualifying merchants who have Shop Pay Installments enabled will see a new banner displayed next to the product price on product pages, with a mention of the Shop Pay Installments payment option.

For the banner to display on a product page, the merchant must sell in the US and the product price must be between $50 and $1000. The merchant must also have Shop Pay enabled as a payment method.

Learn more about Shop Pay Installments in the Shopify Help Center.

The WisePad 3 card reader is now available to all retail merchants in the UK & Ireland. The WisePad 3 is integrated with Shopify POS and accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

With the WisePad 3 you get the power of all-new Shopify POS, integrated payments, and great hardware.

Learn more about the WisePad 3 in the Shopify Help Center.

You can now give staff the ability to receive billing emails with the new View billing and receive billing emails permission. Billing emails are sent when invoices are paid or require action.

Learn more about the View billing and receive billing emails permission in the Shopify Help Center.

The new Files section UI has the following improvements:

• The old File column has been replaced by a new File name column that includes the file's name and extension.
• The old URL column has been replaced by a new Link column making it easier to copy URLs.
• A new Date added column indicating when the file was created has been added.
• New default thumbnails have been added and capture more file types than before.

The improved creation process includes:

• An Upload Banner that indicates that files are being uploaded with a progress bar.
• A Processing Banner that indicates that files are being processed. You don't have to stay on the page for the processing to finish. It happens in the background.
• An Error Banner to indicate any errors that occurred during the uploading and processing stages.

Learn more about uploading files.

The retail cash tracking report, available from the Point of Sale channel in your Shopify admin, simplifies cash reconciliation for retail stores by giving your admin staff a centralized view of cash session activity across all of the registers at your POS Pro locations.

The report has three sections that make it easy to remotely audit, identify, and reconcile cash discrepancies at any POS Pro location:
* Discrepancy summary: Provides an overview of the expected cash amounts and what was actually counted for all the cash sessions that occured at a given location within a selected time range
* Cash payments summary: Displays the gross payments amount and refunds total for all cash sessions that occured at a given location within a selected time range
* Session list: Displays all the cash sessions that occured at a given location within a selected time range. This list can be filtered by register ID or register status (open or closed)

Session data from the report can also be exported into a CSV.

Learn more about the retail cash tracking report from the Shopify Help Center.

Filter your automated collections more easily by adding a condition to check whether or not a product has a compare at price.

Learn more about conditions for automated collections from the Shopify Help Center.

You can give staff permission to view billing details and add or remove other staff. Now you can delegate more, and give staff the information and access they need.

Staff that previously had full permissions are marked as limited unless you give them these new permissions.

Learn more about permissions in the Shopify Help Center.

We've revamped the Shopify Email editor with new features to make it easier to level up your email creativity—This includes product grids, button styling and a divider section.

Product Grids are a simple way for merchants to add multiple products in columns and rows to their email campaigns. You can customize the style of buttons and add a divider anywhere in the email.

Learn more about the new editing features from the Shopify Help Center.

Managing returns is an essential part of the customer experience. But just like any other order action, mistakes can happen or a buyer can change their mind about returning your product. That's why we’ve added the ability to cancel a return in Shopify. You can cancel a return after a return request has been initiated, giving you the flexibility to accommodate changes or restart the return if a mistake has been made.

To learn more about returns, visit the Shopify Help Center.

Buyers expect to select their region when buying internationally, not their currency. That's why the Geolocation app has been improved to offer your buyers intelligent country & region recommendations and selectors:

This is especially useful for stores that sell to to multiple regions that use the same currency (for example, within the Eurozone). If you set different prices for specific regions using international pricing, then the Geolocation app can now accurately guide your buyers to the right price for their region.

Learn more about the Geolocation app from the Shopify Help Center.

If you use Shopify Payments, then you can now control your prices by region using international pricing:
- On the Shopify plan or higher, you can use percentage price adjustments to increase or decrease prices across your entire store in certain countries or regions.
- On the Advanced and Shopify Plus plans, you can upload specific prices per product, per country using a csv file.

You can continue to use automatic or manual FX rates for different currencies and customize your business's rounding rules to control how the final prices appear in your online store.

Learn more about international pricing from the Shopify Help Center.

Store owners, or admin staff who have the permissions to initialize POS, can now generate and send QR codes that store staff can use to log in to POS devices quickly and securely at POS Pro locations. No sharing of passwords is necessary.

Through the Point of Sale channel of the Shopify admin, authorized admin staff can generate QR codes that correspond to Pro locations. Codes can be emailed to store staff who can use them to initialize or log in to POS devices at a particular location. If initalizing multiple devices, a new code must be generated for each device, and each code is valid for 8 hours.

Learn more about setting up QR code logins for Pro locations from the Shopify Help Center.

Minimize abusive bot traffic on your online store by enabling Google recaptcha for customer login, account, and password pages.

Learn more about enabling or disabling recaptcha from the Shopify Help Center.

Version 1.11.0 of Express is now available on the Shopify Theme Store.

Version 1.11.0 introduces the following features:

• New Banner section: Create visual impact in your store and highlight your brand. You can also use the new banner section to advertise a promotion, or feature a product or collection.
• New multi-column section: Add up to four columns of content in a single section on your home page.
• Pickup availability: Show customers whether a product in your online store is available for local pickup on your product pages.
• New collection display settings: Display a collection's image and description in your featured collections sections and your collection pages.
• New style settings: Pick between sharp and rounded edge styles for elements such as buttons, badges and cards.
• New announcement bar settings: Add a URL to the announcement bar in your header.

Learn more about these features in the Express theme manual.

Express version 1.11.0 is now available in the Shopify Theme Store. All merchants who are currently using Express and are eligible for an upgrade will be upgraded over the week of March 1.

Order management on mobile lets you process orders from the palm of your hand as you pick, pack and prepare orders for delivery. We've added four more bulk order actions to the mobile experience, so that you can fulfill orders more efficiently.

You can now use the following bulk order actions:
* Print packing slips
* Add tags
* Remove tags
* Take an action with a Shopify app

Learn more about bulk actions from the Shopify Help Center.

You can now add Vimeo-hosted videos to your products, giving you more options for displaying media on product pages. Using product media lets your customers see what your products look like and gives them a better idea of how they appear in real life.

Learn more about adding product media in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve updated the Shopify.Plus URL to a more meaningful format, making the URL easier to remember and share.

The new URL replaces the segment that contains the organization ID with a string generated from the organization’s name. The previous URL containing organization ID will redirect to the new URL format.

Learn more about the Shopify organization admin from the Shopify Help Center.

You can now use the Oberlo app in the same currency that's set in your Shopify admin. This means that you no longer need to manually convert product costs and prices from USD to your target currency – everything is now converted by Oberlo.

To learn more about selling in other than the USD currency, visit the Oberlo Help Center.

To ensure your HTTP requests are as secure as possible, we’ve added two liquid filters to be used in an HTTP action:

• You can now use | url_encode to any liquid variables in the path section of the HTTP action URL configuration field. The web server that receives the request must support decoding urls.
• Add either | url_encode or | json to each template variable that is used in the body section of the HTTP action body configuration field. The web server that receives the request must support decoding URLs or JSON decoding.

Learn more about using these filters to improve your HTTP request security and find examples from the Shopify Help Center.

Buyers browsing your products from the Shop app now enjoy an enhanced in-app experience thanks to more fully featured product pages in Shop. Additionally, a new Buy now button on products listed in Shop can reduce friction for buyers and potentially drive repeat purchases from your store. The new experience is available for buyers in the US, Canada, UK and Australia on select stores.

Learn more about your products in Shop from the Shopify Help Center.

You can now use Subscription Apps on Shopify Plus stores that utilize Shopify Scripts.

Learn more about Shopify Scripts from the Shopify Help Center.

Keeping your tax rates up to date and knowing how much tax to charge on sales can be time consuming, so we've streamlined the experience to make it faster and easier.

When you add information in your store's tax settings about your registrations in Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, or Norway, the tax rates that apply in the areas that you have registered for are automatically set - no more manually updating rates, no more deciding what rates to set based on your sales tax liability!

Learn more about setting up location-based taxes for your store from the Shopify Help Center.

Offer customers a consistent shopping experience, and bring speed and accuracy to your in-store checkout with automatic discounts, now available on Shopify POS with a POS Pro subscription.

For stores using POS Pro, you can offer automatic percentage, fixed amount, or buy X get Y discounts to retail customers by selecting Also offer on Point of Sale. When you select the option to share the automatic discount, it's available to all Pro retail locations.

Learn more about setting up automatic discounts for POS from the Shopify Help Center.

You can now pre-fill a draft order with the customer's address and contact information directly from the customer page. This makes creating orders for repeat customers even simpler.

Learn more about creating orders for customers from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve added a new trigger to Shopify Flow for when subscription contracts are created. The new trigger starts when a customer buys a subscription-based product.

Learn more about Shopify Flow from the Shopify Help Center.

POS analytics, available as a part of POS Pro, now include the following new reports to help you better understand store performance over time:

• Product report to see top selling products (by net sales or units sold) over time
• Product type report to see top selling product types (by net sales or units sold) over time
• Staff report to see top-performing staff by net sales over time
• Payments report to see net sales by payment type over time
• Gift cards report to see net sales by gift card over time

Learn more about Shopify POS analytics in the Shopify Help Center.

Stores with checkout.liquid enabled can now upgrade to a new version of Shopify Checkout, unlocking powerful new checkout features—like subscription apps and local pickup—while keeping their checkout.liquid customizations intact.

All checkout upgrades need to be completed by February 26, 2021. Stores that don’t complete the upgrade within the checkout upgrade window (January 25, 2021 to February 26, 2021) will be upgraded automatically, which might cause some customizations to break.

Find instructions for the checkout upgrade process in the Shopify help center.

Only stores with checkout.liquid enabled need to perform the upgrade.

Communicating shipping speeds at checkout to your customers can help improve cart conversion, and provide clarity and transparency so that your customers are more confident making purchases because they know when their packages will arrive.

When you add shipping speeds to your shipping rates in Shipping and Delivery Settings, your customers will see a range of days at checkout that will reflect the estimated transit time of their purchase. This will be automatically estimated without you having to do any manual calculations!

Learn about adding shipping speeds to your shipping rates from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve recently updated local delivery to give you more flexible options when it comes to setting your delivery zones and creating your pricing conditions.

Local-delivery now supports cross-states (or cross-regions). By default, local deliveries are restricted to the location state/region. Now, you can configure local delivery based on distance, so that you can enable this service for adjacent states and regions.

Multiple delivery zones are also now available for local delivery. You can create up to five delivery zones, allowing you to reach a wider base of local delivery customers. These zones can be created either using select postal codes or a delivery radius. Additionally, you can create one or more custom pricing conditions within each zone based on order value or delivery distance. The buyer will see the cheapest delivery fee that is relevant to them at checkout based on their location and cart price.

Learn more about local delivery from the Shopify Help Center.

Version 1.10.0 of Express is now available on the Shopify Theme Store.

This update introduces a new page section for the home page. The new section enables you to feature content from a page, like your About Us or Contact page, directly on the homepage.

This feature only surfaces the content that was added by using the rich text editor for that page.

A mass upgrade is planned to go out in a few days for stores using Express that can be automatically updated.

To learn more about the page section, visit the Shopify Help Center.

Order management on mobile lets you process orders from the palm of your hand as you pick, pack and prepare orders for delivery. Now available is the ability to use bulk actions for order and fulfillment tasks, so that you can bring more flexibility and speed to your fulfillment process and get products to customers faster.

Bulk order actions on mobile include:

• Mark as fulfilled
• Capture payment
• Archive products
• Unarchive products
• Create shipping labels (US, Canada, and Australia only)

Learn more about bulk actions in order fulfillment from the Shopify Help Center.

With the recent release of product statuses we've added a new trigger "Product status updated". Use this trigger to build automated workflows that begin when a product’s status changes to another state including draft, active, and archived.

Learn more about Shopify Flow from the Shopify Help Center.

You can now to create and print USPS SCAN forms using the Shipping Manifests app. With a SCAN form, multiple USPS shipping labels can be linked under a single barcode, making package drop-off or pickup quick and safe.

Learn more about Shipping Manifests from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve released a new font picker for the theme editor. The new font picker lets you choose system fonts for elements in your theme. Using system fonts in your theme avoids downloading extra resources to your customer’s computer, which can decrease the time your store takes to load.

Learn more about how fonts can improve performance in the Shopify Help Center.

For stores using Shopify Payments in Canada, Diners Club and Discover card payments are now accepted credit cards.

Learn more about Shopify Payments from the Shopify Help Center.

Product statuses help you manage and organize products as you're getting ready to sell them, or retiring the ones you no longer sell.

Use the draft product status to work on products at your own pace until you're ready to make them available. Once you've got all of the details down, set the product status as active, so your products can be made available to customers through selected sales channels and apps. Use archive for products that you no longer sell to keep your product lists organized and free from clutter without losing the information for these products.

Learn more about product status from the Shopify Help Center.

The next checkout upgrade will take place between January 25, 2021 to February 26, 2021.

On the Shopify Plus plan, you get exclusive access to the checkout.liquid file, enabling you to make flexible customizations to Shopify Checkout. However, you need to upgrade Shopify Checkout periodically in order to unlock new features while ensuring your checkout.liquid customizations remain in-tact.

Only shops with checkout.liquid enabled need to perform the upgrade.

Learn more about the checkout upgrade process and view a full list of the new Shopify Checkout features in the Shopify Help Center.

As of January 1, 2021 (GMT), the following changes apply to the movement of goods to and from the United Kingdom:

• Merchants shipping goods located outside of the UK at the point of sale into the UK are now required to collect and remit VAT on orders not exceeding £135 in value. Merchants who have an active tax registration for the UK in Shopify will now automatically collect VAT on all orders not exceeding £135. Orders over £135 will continue to exclude all taxes.
• VAT will no longer be automatically applied on orders shipped between the UK and European Union countries (and vice versa) if there is no tax registration added.

Learn more about this change and other changes related to Brexit in the Shopify Help Center.

To help you understand better the health of your business, we're introducing additional key performance indicator store metrics in the Overview analytics for Plus stores. If you have multiple stores, then you can see an overview of key metrics for all your stores in one central place.

Learn more about Overview analytics from the Shopify Help Center.

Merchants with prices inclusive of tax can now charge the correct price at checkout based on their tax obligations when shipping to buyers in different countries.

This is particularly useful for merchants who ship to different countries and have their shop configured to use tax inclusive pricing, who want to see prices at checkout correctly reflect the VAT/tax rate of their buyers.

Learn more about the change and how to enable it on the Shopify Help Centre.

Interac Chip & PIN can now be accepted by to Canadian stores using Shopify’s Tap & Chip Reader with Shopify POS.

You can now accept Interac payments for all transactions, regardless of dollar amount or tap limits, and at a cost of only $0.10 per transaction.

Learn more about the Tap & Chip Reader and Interac from the Shopify Help Center.

New Daily Sales tiles at the top of the POS Daily Sales report, available through POS Pro, make it easier to see whether your store is on pace to meet or exceed your sales targets.

You can now track each retail location's performance over time with new time-based views (Today, Yesterday, Week to Date, Month to Date, Quarter to Date, and Year to Date) for top-level metrics like Net sales, Average order value, and Items per order.

Learn more about the POS Daily Sales report and Daily Sales tiles in the Shopify Help Center.

Watch BFCM 2020 unfold in real-time with the BFCM Live Map. This year, the Live Map was completely rebuilt with a few major improvements to reflect the scale and shared success of more than 1 million independent businesses powered by Shopify.

Explore the Live Map to watch key milestones such as:

• Sales per minute
• Orders per minute
• 🆕 Carbon offsets made through our BFCM offset commitment

View the BFCM Live Map

We’ve improved the Live View to provide an immersive real time look at activity across your store so you can stay up to date on your store’s performance. No matter where you are, or when you need it, Live View will give you a visualization of key metrics so you can tailor your customer experience to be more efficient and enjoyable for BFCM and beyond.

Learn more about Live View from the Shopify Help Center or explore Live View in your Shopify Admin.

This year, Shopify is paying to offset all carbon emissions from the delivery of every single order placed on our platform during the BFCM weekend. No matter how many packages you ship or how far they're going—we'll offset the carbon emissions of each shipment at no cost to you.

This initiative ends after BFCM, but we are committed to sustainability year-round. Shopify always offsets the carbon emissions of all orders made with Shop Pay. You can also download the Offset app and opt-in to offset carbon emissions for all deliveries from your Shopify store.

Learn more about how and why we're offsetting shipping emissions this BFCM from the Shopify Blog.

Learn more about Offset from the Shopify Help Center, and carbon offsets for orders placed through Shop Pay from Shop Help.

Shopify-powered product recommendations in POS, now available through the POS Pro subscription, make it easy to leverage insights from your online store to optimize your in-store selling.

When products are added to the cart, use the instant suggestions are available in POS for items that your online customers commonly purchase together, so you can make smarter cross-sell recommendations in-store to increase order sizes and sales.

Learn more about product recommendations for POS from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve added even more actions and triggers to Flow allowing you to automate even more tasks!

New triggers:

• Draft order deleted
• Tender transaction created
• Inventory item created and deleted

New actions:

• Create or delete redirect URL
• Mark order as paid
• Set and remove metafields on these objects: Collection, Customer, Draft Order, Order, Product, Product Variant, and Shop. These can then be accessed on the storefront using Liquid.

Learn more about Shopify Flow triggers in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve introduced a new collection of post-purchase upsell apps in the Shopify App Store. Post-purchase upsells can boost average order value by presenting one-click offers to customers in Shopify checkout after payment is confirmed, without interrupting the customer experience.

Learn more about post-purchase upsells from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve introduced a new collection of subscription apps for your Shopify checkout in the Shopify App Store. These are the first apps built directly for Shopify checkout, which means they offer a smooth shopping experience for your customers and a better management experience for you.

Subscriptions can add predictable recurring revenue to your existing business, and by using apps that are built for Shopify, you can ensure that subscriptions are fully integrated with the rest of your business in Shopify. To use subscriptions, you must be using Shopify Payments as your primary payment gateway.

Learn more about subscriptions from the Shopify Help Center.

When selling in multiple currencies using Shopify Payments, fixed discount amounts are now converted from your shop currency into the buyer's currency according to the pricing rule you have set up for that currency; either manual or automatic FX rates.

Previously, all fixed discount amounts were converted using a live FX rate at checkout, even if you had a manual FX rate setup. This change ensures that the experience of getting a fixed discount is consistent across multiple buyer currencies at checkout.

You can read more about this in our help centre.

Shopify Ping is a free messaging solution that lets you manage all of your customer and team conversations from one place. Previously only on mobile devices, Shopify Ping is now available for desktop at shopifyping.com.

With Shopify Ping now available on desktop, you can more easily:

• Reply to customer conversations and help them make purchases with confidence
• Collaborate with your team to deliver improved shopping experiences through chat
• Integrate chat into your business workflows

Learn more about Shopify Ping on desktop from the Shopify Help Center.

Pickup availability complements the local pickup option at checkout to turn proximity into your most powerful selling feature.

Increase online order conversions by letting shoppers know when the items that they’re browsing are in stock and available for pickup at your nearby store locations directly from the product page on your online store.

Pickup availability for the product page is available for online stores using the latest version of the select themes. Learn more about showing pickup availability to your customers in the Shopify Help Center.

The product return process is an essential part of the customer experience. That's why you can now manage returns directly from the Orders page in Shopify, so you can fulfill, edit, refund, or return an order from one central location.

Follow a simple step-by-step workflow to create and manage the return process, including the following tasks:

• Create a return request
• Identify the reason for the return
• Set up and track the shipping details
• Communicate the instructions for the return to the customer in an email
• Restock the inventory to your store
• Issue the refund to the customer

Learn more about product returns from the Shopify Help Center.

Place or fulfill an order and collect payment at a later date more easily by managing deferred payments in Shopify.

With deferred payments, you can:

• Collect payment on any unpaid order directly in Shopify, to accommodate flexible payment agreements that enable your customers to purchase products and pay at a later date
• Easily follow up or resend an invoice on any unpaid orders
• Send invoices or charge credit cards directly for orders that have been edited, at any time

Learn more about deferred payments from the Shopify Help Center.

Speed up your fulfillment workflow by printing packing slips in bulk from the Orders page.

Select multiple orders from the orders list and then click Print packing slips under the More actions menu. Packing slips are created for each selected fulfillment.

Learn more about packing slips from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve made creating discount events in Shopify Launchpad easier!
After adding collections or products to your Launchpad event, apply bulk discount settings to these items at the same time. Three bulk discount settings are available:

• Percentage: Apply a discount percentage to selected collections and products
• New unit price: Set a new price for all of the selected products
• Fixed amount: Reduce the price of selected products by a fixed amount

Applying new bulk settings overwrites existing discounts in the event.

Learn more about creating Launchpad Events from the Shopify Help Center.

Now you can enable a 4-digit collaborator request code, an added layer of security designed to improve your control over collaborator requests sent by Shopify Partners. When enabled, only partners that you have shared your code with will be able to request access to your store.

Learn how to enable collaborator request codes

We’ve introduced the ability to track your speed score over time through the Online store speed report. Optimizing your online store speed can improve the shopping experience for customers, make your store more discoverable, and increase conversion.

We've also added visibility into when apps are installed and uninstalled to help you troubleshoot speed score changes. Many factors can influence your online store speed, but the speed report will help you determine what those factors may be.

Learn more about the changes to the report from the Shopify Help Center, or check out the new Compass Tutorial on Optimizing Store Speed.

With extended authorization periods for Shopify Payments, you now have more time to fulfill orders and manually capture credit card payments—from 7 days to up to 30 days for some payment types. This provides added flexibility when inventory delays and logistical issues occur due to the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 or the upcoming holiday rush.

Learn more about extended authorization periods in the Shopify Help Center.

This feature is only available on the Shopify Plus plan.

You may notice some changes to the look and feel of your Shopify admin, including updated colors, simplified illustrations, and a cleaner design. These improvements were inspired by feedback from merchants, and they appear across all store admins, including Plus stores.

The goal with these updates was to make the powerful tools and features across Shopify feel more approachable and accessible for everyone to use.

Starting October 15, UK merchants can enable customers to opt in to track orders on iOS and Android devices through the Shop app, by making the opt-in available on the order status page.

Learn more about enabling the track with Shop feature from the Shopify Help Center.

Customers in China, Italy, and South Korea will now see an additional field in the checkout to collect required info for customs, shipping labels, or invoices. This means that you can collect the required customer information specific to these regions without using customizations in your online store. For example, customers in China can now enter their Resident ID number at checkout.

Learn more about country-specific fields at checkout from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve added additional options when using the cancel order action in Shopify Flow!

You can now choose to refund items, refund shipping charges, restock items, and send a canceled order email notification to the customer when a cancelation is made in Shopify Flow.

Learn more about canceling orders with Shopify Flow in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve made setting up and customizing your store faster and more intuitive.
The theme editor now includes updated editing workflows, an optimized mobile editing experience, and improved theme loading times to help you make the changes you need faster. You’ll see the improvements to your theme editor start to roll out from the end of September through to the end of October 2020 .

Learn more about using the theme editor from the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve just released an improved product camera for Shopify Mobile. The latest enhancements allow you to do the following:

• Consistently take product photos at the right aspect ratio for your online store.
• Display grid lines to perfectly center the product in the frame.
• Quickly review all the photos in the drawer to make sure they display nicely together.
• Take short product videos using video mode.

To learn more, refer to our documentation in the Help Center.

Shopify Payments is now available for merchants in Belgium!

Accept credit cards, Bancontact, and iDEAL on your store through Shopify's integrated payments system. Use features like payout and chargeback management and accelerated checkouts such as Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. You can also sell in 133 currencies while getting paid in Euros.

You can now customize the internal store name and identifier for each store in your Shopify Plus organization admin navigation, making it easier—and faster—for your team to identify which stores are which.

Learn more about Store Identification in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve added more triggers to Shopify Flow to help you automate and get more done. With Flow you can now use the following events to trigger a workflow:

• Customer enabled or disabled
• Collection created or deleted
• Fulfillment event created
• Product variant deleted

Learn more about Shopify Flow triggers in the Shopify Help Center.

We’ve added a new inventory report to Shopify - ABC analysis by product. This report can be used to identify your best and worst performing inventory over the past 28 days.

A grade is your best performing inventory and represents the specific inventory that accounts for 80% of your revenue.

B grade is your middle of the road inventory and represents the specific inventory that accounts for the next 15% of your revenue.

C grade identifies your worst performing inventory and represents the specific inventory that accounts for the remaining 5% of your revenue.

This analysis is designed to help you optimize your investment in inventory by understanding which products to purchase and which products to avoid. With ABC analysis, you can continuously monitor the value of your stock, so you can make better decisions about your inventory.

The ABC analysis by product report is available to all merchants on the Shopify plan or above.

Learn more about the ABC analysis by product report from the Shopify Help Center.

We've made improvements to the rich text editor for Blogs posts, Pages, Products and Collections. You can now manually add RGB/HEX codes into the rich text editor with the new color picker, making it easier to precisely match text and background color to your brand and style.

Learn more about using the rich text editor from the Shopify Help Center.

If you’ve previously connected Shopify with an identity provider to securely authenticate your users, you can take this integration a step further with SCIM to seamlessly manage the addition and removal of users across your Shopify Plus organization.

Learn more about setting up SCIM in the Shopify Help Center.

Improve your customer experience by applying fixed or percentage discounts, to items that are added when you're editing an order. Increase your store’s average order value and improve customer retention by offering discounted item upgrades, complementary products, or free gifts added a customer's existing order.

Learn more about adding discounts in order editing from the Shopify Help Center.

All scheduled and new events in Launchpad will come with a brand new status panel. The status panel brings visibility into the execution of tasks during an event. You can monitor each phase of an event(starting, active, and completed) in one place, and get detailed information for each change to identify if a failure occurs so adjustments can be made.

Learn more about Launchpad event monitoring in the Help Center.

Custom date ranges are now available from the Overview page of the Shopify Plus Admin.

Now, you can display combined sales for all stores in your organization over a custom time period. Previously, the time periods were fixed to a preset number of options. Keep in mind when you have stores in different time zones within your organization that sales are shown in the time zone for each store.

Learn more about the Shopify Plus Admin from the Shopify Help Center.