What’s New at Shopify?

Increase conversion rates with 3D and AR previews right from your product detail pages.

Shopify Audiences is an app built by Shopify to help you find new buyers who have a strong interest in purchasing your products.

Provide transparency and build trust with your buyers by showcasing the expected delivery date on your checkout in a few clicks by enabling our new Processing Time feature.

Group customers using your customer metafields.

Search for specific customers using the Customers page search bar.

GeoIP automatically changes a visitors currency based on their location. It was a feature for Shopify Plus which is being deprecated.

Subscription apps in the Shopify App Store collection now support Google Pay for merchants who use Shopify Payments.

Merchants can now download their original image file, rather than the optimized image file, from their product media and Settings/Files page.

Use Inbox to manage your Instagram direct messages so you can spend less time switching apps and close sales fast.

You can now add up to 25 sections per template and 50 blocks per section in your online store.

We’re introducing a new inventory state called ‘committed’ to provide a more accurate foundation to your inventory management and inventory adjustments on the go.

Additional product details are now available in Shopify POS for Android by viewing metafields within the product description of an item.

You can now print shipping labels, packing slips, and customs forms on a single print job. Documents are also organized by order when printing documents in bulk.

Shopify’s latest free themes have industry-inspired layouts to help you get started quickly. In addition, an extensive suite of global theme style settings are included to support your unique brand.

Metafield lists allow you to store multiple values in a single metafield.

Edit more products at once, customize your columns, and manage inventory across locations more in one place with the inventory bulk editor

Shopify Flow is now available to merchants on the Advanced Plan.

Grow sales through new product cards with rich previews and options that encourage customers to add products to their cart and checkout.

Predictive spend tier is a segment filter with our new customer segmentation tool.

Customer Segmentation enables you to organize your customers together based on their unique behaviours.

You can now automate your email campaigns all within Shopify.

You can send 10,000 free emails per month with Shopify Email.

When a buyer signs up for newsletters or accounts in the online store, Shopify will attempt to populate the country of the newly created customer.

We updated the logic to automatically archive orders by including partially refunded, fulfilled, and zero balance orders, helping you manage orders more efficiently.

Save time and money on shipping. Buy and print DPD labels right from your Shopify account—without external apps or extra fees.

You can now use a Wait step in Shopify Flow to force a workflow to wait for up to 30 days (an increase from 7 days).

We've added a new feature to [Shopify Inbox](https://shopifyinbox.com/) mobile allowing you to be able to set a notification reminder to follow up later.

Use Shopify Flow to automatically create draft shipping labels for new orders, so all you need to do is review and buy.

Merchants can now bulk edit more products more seamlessly.

We’re introducing a new inventory state called ‘committed’ to provide a more accurate foundation to your inventory management.

Spend less time creating products and more time selling them.

SMS notifications sent through Shopify will default to a standard template.

Shopify’s new free themes, Taste and Studio, have industry-specific layouts and an extensive suite of global theme style settings to help you get started and support your unique brand.

Reduce the time spent fulfilling orders by creating presets with your preferred shipping options, applying them to multiple shipments at once, and saving them for next time.

3D Secure orders are no longer categorized automatically as low-risk because of updates to Visa's chargeback monitoring programs.

Merchants on Shopify, Advanced, or Plus plans can now track subscription purchases in select reports.

Create meaningful experiences for your buyers all over the world from a single store with Shopify Markets.

Easily update your themes in admin to stay up-to-date with the latest version of your theme, including new new features, design enhancements and bug fixes.

The collection of subscription apps in the Shopify App Store now supports Apple Pay for merchants who use Shopify Payments.

You can now use a Wait step in Shopify Flow to force a workflow to wait for a set amount of time (from 1s to 7 days).

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

Product classification is now available under standardized product types in your product admin.

Want to run a Flow automation directly on a list of Orders, Customers, or Products? Using “Automate with Flow” you can choose orders, one or more workflows, and then run the automation right there.

All of Shopify’s latest free themes have industry-specific layouts to help you get started and an extensive suite of global theme style settings to support your unique brand.

Dawn’s latest release introduces new customization options that bring you significantly more flexibility to achieve your desired look and feel.

We've added inventory adjustment reasons to allow you to better track changes in your inventory.

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

Introducing a new experience for creating, configuring and building custom apps in the Shopify admin.

The location card no longer displays the phone number in the shipping settings, and the `manage` button in location settings is removed. To manage the location, simply click on the Location card.

Introducing new inventory metrics, accessible right within your products admin, to help you make better supply chain and stocking decisions based on data.

An all-new Shopify Flow app is now generally available for merchants on Shopify Plus. The new Flow has many improvements, including a new editor, allowing you to build many new types of automations.

Shopify Payments for POS now available in Belgium

Making more sales in Canada? With sales tax liability insights it’s easy to understand when you are required to collect taxes from your customers.

Adding metafield definitions to Orders, Collections and Customers.

The information in Store details will now show as a summary by default to prevent unintentional changes. Clicking `Edit` opens the form to be edited.

We've added subscription support for dynamic and accelerated checkout methods for PayPal Express on some stores.

Set your most frequently used package as default when buying labels with Shopify Shipping, right from the label purchasing page, saving you time and money the next time you fulfill orders.

Adding a .usdz 3D model to a product is now supported. 3D models can now also be up to 500MB in size with large models automatically compressed on storefront for improved performance.

In a Flow Condition, you can now check if more than one condition matches for a single item in a list. This enables you to check metafield values and inventory at specific locations and much more.

Buyers can now authenticate with both text message codes and email codes when logging into Shop Pay in checkout.

Live View is now updated with new reports including top locations, top products and customer behaviour to give you a bird’s eye view of your store performance in real time.

Shopify now provides a warning for products and variants that have SKUs that are already being used in your store.

We've released a new Active Subscriptions page in admin, making it easier to find and understand your paid subscriptions.

You can now show, hide, and reorder columns in your orders tab, as well as customize and save all default order views.

We're introducing a refreshed Settings design. This new experience makes it easier to navigate to, from, and within settings; saving time & getting merchants back to the work they were doing before.

We've made it possible to add, edit and delete options and values directly on the product page.

Review and update details for multiple shipping labels in bulk, all in one centralized view.

We've added new email sections and templates in time for the holidays — this includes BFCM templates and email sections in the editor.

Embed a Handshake ordering widget on your store to get more wholesale orders. Retailers placing first-time orders using your widget get free shipping, and $50 off when they spend $200 or more.

The Overview tab in your SFN app now surfaces the most important information: inventory levels across the network, products with low stock, and pending issues that need your attention.

Your Shopify Reports are now available in dark mode.

Shopify Payments for POS now available in The Netherlands

Delegate effectively and securely with new per-app and app charge permissions.

Facebook Pay is available as the newest wallet and accelerated checkout to US merchants with Shopify Payments.

Add personalized text to your email campaigns!

Enable SMS consent collection at checkout!

Introducing the new automated way to classify your products!

You can now share Products and Discounts, and manage conversations on Shopify Inbox when you're working from your web browser.

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.