Recent updates

A note is now displayed on the permissions screen when you install an app that is not in the Shopify App Store.

You can now upload animated .gif files for product images, theme images, and more. 🎉

Japanese customers who are checking out will now provide a prefecture as part of their address.

We added a button that you can use to void a shipping label after an order has been cancelled.

When creating your store you can now include emoji in your shop name. 👯

Shopify Payments is now available for merchants in New Zealand. 🇳🇿

Shopify Payments merchants now have a more powerful system for handling credit card disputes. ✊ Learn more

We’ve made it easier for you to set up flat-rate USPS packages within Shopify Shipping. You can also now use USPS regional rate boxes. Learn more

Merchants using the Messenger channel can now choose new styles and colors for the Message Us button.

A new style has been released for Brooklyn, one of our most popular themes. 🌇

We redecorated! Shopify has a fresh look to power your business. Learn more. 💜

Shopify Pay lets your customers save their information so they can check out faster on return visits. Learn more. 💵

Shopify Plus merchants can now use Google reCAPTCHA to block automated checkouts.

The rich text settings in your online store’s theme editor now lets you quickly create links to your store’s products, collections, pages, and blogs posts. 🔗

You can now display currencies using spaces or apostrophes for the thousands separators. Learn more.

The “product” liquid drop now includes a “has_only_default_variant” attribute, making it easier to determine whether to show a variant selector. Learn more.

You can now choose whether or not you want to add Saturday delivery options for FedEx. 🙌

In addition to the settings permission, staff accounts will need the permission related to the area of Shopify that the webhook is interacting with. For example, webhooks that call products will need the products permission, webhooks for orders will need the orders permission, etc. ↩️

Now when you’re logged in to Shopify and viewing the theme store, we’ll make recommendations based on the themes selected by stores similar to your own. 🗣

When creating discounts, you can now select multiple collections or products, combine eligibility conditions, and set a minimum purchase amount. This is possible for all discount types, including the free shipping discount. Learn more. 🔖

Shopify Plus stores using Avalara to calculate taxes will now use Avalara on draft orders created or updated through Shopify or the API.

We are improving the look and feel of the resources picker in the theme editor. The new picker introduces infinite scroll, better accessibility, faster performance, and is more flexible, allowing us to build on it in the future. 👍

A “range” input setting has been added that lets theme developers add a slider that selects from a range of values in a theme’s settings. Learn more. 🍔

Draft orders can now be exported to a CSV file. 📝

Order CSV export now includes a Phone column that outputs your customers’ phone number.

You can now duplicate an order or draft order from any order details page.

Limited staff accounts that don’t have the overviews permission will no longer see the reports feature. Previously the feature was visible but not accessible for accounts without permission.

Narrative is a theme for your online store that puts your brand and products first. The new theme was designed by Shopify and is free to add to your store. Learn more.

In the Theme store, you can now search by a theme’s features, price, name, or designer. 🔬

The “image” Liquid drop now includes “height”, “width”, and “aspect_ratio”, enabling responsive images in themes. 💧 Learn more. 💧

In the Apps tab, the “View private apps” button has been renamed “Manage private apps” to better describe the link. 🔐

The product carousel in the Messenger channel has been redesigned so that the product price is clear, customizable, and nested in the subtitle area. It now shows the product as “Starting from” the lowest price for variants that have separate pricing. 💬

Messenger channel now detects where a new visitor comes from when they start a chat with you. You can tailor a greeting specifically for your online store visitors, or craft a more general message to visitors from Facebook. 💬

When buying a label, there’s now an option to choose your printing format above the “Buy label” button. Previously this option was only accessible from the shipping settings page. 📬

The “product.optionswithvalues” Liquid drop now includes “product_option.position” to let you know where the option shows up in the array. 💧

The theme editor for sectioned themes has been reorganized to display content above the section settings, which better follows the work flow. 🔨

Home will now alert you when there are new or updated message customizations available in the Messenger channel. ⚠️

A “Learn more” link now appears on the carrier calculated rates section of Shopify Shipping to help you better understand how your plan supports the feature. 🚐

The “clothing and accessories” category was updated in the Amazon channel to match Amazon’s recent updates to categories. 👚

US merchants can now print test labels to make sure a printer is set up properly. 🖨

USPS shipping labels are now provided in PDF format to allow for a standard experience as we add additional carriers and printing formats down the road. 🏷

Stores on the Advanced or Shopify Plus plans can now use their own Canada Post account to calculate shipping rates for your customers when they check out. Learn more. 🚢

The online store theme editor has been redesigned to be easier on the eyes and add more focus to the content and tabs on the main sidebar. 👓

Staff accounts that do not have the “Applications” permission will see the “Sales channels” link as a greyed-out button and will not have access to add new channels. 🛑

Reports now show you the opening and closing balance of your outstanding gift cards and allow you to view the balance and details of every gift card that you’ve issued. 💳

A bug that was causing some weird formatting when you printed orders, draft orders, and product pages has been fixed. 🔨

Staff accounts that do not have the “Home” permission will now see a friendly message explaining that they don't have the permission required to view the dashboard on Home.

The Draft Orders API is now available to all merchants and partners. Learn more. 📝

Inventory is no longer reserved in the initial checkout stages. Instead, products in a checkout are reserved from inventory after your customer successfully makes payment. This ensures that inventory is available for potential customers when someone enters checkout but does not convert to a sale.

Sales channels and top apps are now discoverable through the search in the admin. The top apps are discoverable, with the goal of expanding the apps search coverage in the near future. 🔍

G-Suite (Google Apps) staff account creation limited staff permissions, causing issues for new staff members. Going forward, Google Apps login will be available for existing staff accounts only.

Reports filtered by sales channel now also include apps and draft orders. 📊

JavaScript features in Internet Explorer 9 and older versions are not supported in the checkout, but customers using older versions are still able to complete a checkout.

The Order Updates card on the Order Status page shows your customers where they can expect to receive updates on their order. This could include SMS messages, Facebook Messenger, etc. ⬆️ 📆

An application credit is applied to your account when you downgrade to a less expensive recurring app plan in the middle of a billing cycle. 💸

Discounts created by Shopify Scripts are included in an Orders CSV export. 📝

Japanese customers see a local address form when checking out from your store. 🇯🇵

An email notification is sent to the new account owner when account ownership is transferred. 🙏

A password confirmation is required when attempting to transfer account ownership. 🤝

The “Signature confirmation” option is available when purchasing shipping labels for Canada Post. Learn More. 📝

The additional shipping methods that are available to your customer are shown in the shipping method review block on the checkout confirmation page. 📬

Product details show up in Reports as they are titled at the time of sale. If a product is edited, the new details will appear as a second line item in a report. 📊

Multiple images can be displayed when embedding products with the Buy Button sales channel. 🎉

Tags can be added to draft orders in bulk using the Bulk actions menu on the Draft orders page. 🏷

Tags on draft orders are carried over when a draft is converted to an order. 🏷

The “Preview” button has changed to “View” in the titlebar of pages like Products, Collections, Articles, etc. and will show under the ellipsis “…” button when there are multiple secondary action options.

Japanese shipping carriers Sagawa and Yamato support tracking numbers when fulfilling an order. 🚛

Collaborator accounts that don’t count towards your shop’s staff limit are available for developers, designers, marketers, etc. Learn more. 💾

There was a bug fixed in the Checkout Language settings that was causing your “Discount label” to show in place of “Discount placeholder” causing the “Discount placeholder” to be left out.

Carrier calculated shipping for Canada Post and USPS is offered on all plan types. Learn more. 🚢

We detect most common providers when you’re adding domains so that we can give provider-specific help. 🍾

The tax rate for an area is automatically set when adding a new country or region to a shipping zone. Previously these rates would default to 0. 🗺

Additional payment buttons like PayPal Express & Apple Pay are hidden when a cart or checkout is empty as these payment options do not support free checkouts.

Shipping Scripts are available to all Shopify Plus merchants in the Script Editor app. Learn more.

Customers need to enter an email address and billing address when checking out from a draft order invoice. 📧

Draft Orders API is available for beta use. Apps can create, update, and send invoices for orders where shipping, taxes, and all total amounts are calculated through the API. Learn more! 📃

Customers submitting a contact form or signing up for a mailing list more than once in a 24 hour period need to complete a captcha to verify that they’re human. 🤖

A customer’s phone number can be added and edited from the “edit” window in the customer details page. 📇

Twitter sales channel has been removed from Shopify. We look forward to exploring other selling options with Twitter in the future. 😊

Switch between a theme’s different styles while demoing it in the theme store without needing to return back to the main page. 🔜

PayPal order states are synced across Shopify and PayPal. If you capture payments or refund orders in Shopify, your changes will reflect in your PayPal dashboard. The same actions in PayPal are reflected in Shopify. 🎉

Options to “Undo” and “Redo” have replaced the “Clear” button in the Theme editor. 👓

A limit of 100 transactions per order has been set for third-party API clients. The limit is not set for API clients approved to use the Sales Channel SDK. ✋

A “Signature confirmation” option is available when purchasing shipping labels for USPS. Learn more. 📝

The Amazon channel is available if you sell in USD. Start selling on Amazon today. Learn more.

Choose the shipping date that appears on your USPS shipping labels and delay the customer’s shipping notification until the day of shipment. Learn more. 🚚

Fraud detection error messaging is more clear when referring to a billing or shipping address. 👓

Shopify Capital cash advance transactions can be exported using the “Export” button on the transactions page. 💰

A Google icon will appear beside any staff account that is enabled for authentication through Google in the Account Settings page.

Purchasing international shipping labels on orders valued over $2500 will not be available in the US until support for AES/ITN codes is added. Stay tuned.

The Shipping fulfillments customs form has been updated to be more clear. 👓

A new Customer report gives you insight into who your customers are, and the reporting index is updated to provide better visibility of your store’s data. Learn more. 📊

Shopkey sends product photos and links on messaging apps like iMessage, Messenger, Snapchat, and more. Your products are a tap way from sharing on your iOS devices. Learn more. 👉📱

A customer’s eligibility for PayPal Seller Protection is shown in the Risk card on the Order details page. Learn more.

Connect your GoDaddy domain to your Online store with GoDaddy Connect. Learn more. 😎🎩

The risk analysis pop-up better communicates why a risk decision was made. 👔

The last login date of a staff member is easier to read on the Accounts page. 👓

Browse a selection of free themes directly from the Online store sales channel by clicking “Explore free themes” on the Themes page. Learn more. 🌏

The new homepage on the theme store lets you browse theme collections organized by your store’s style and needs. Learn more. 🎉🛍

A new access token that lets you match a user’s permission level when making a request is available through the API. This will let embedded apps and channels provide different experiences based on the permissions a staff member has. Learn more.

The high-risk card has been temporarily removed from Home. The card will start appearing again once the new risk analysis architecture is ready.

Staff accounts can be temporarily deactivated and reactivated. Learn more. 👥

The accuracy of our Order Risk Analysis software has increased significantly. Learn more. 🤓 💾

The Moneris IPP320 terminal can be used in Canada with Shopify POS to accept debit, credit, Apple Pay, and Android pay. Learn more. 🇨🇦

The Messenger channel is available in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Let your customers browse and buy your products directly from your Facebook Messenger chat. Learn more. 🛍📱

The Buy Button channel overview includes the “Top products”, “Top viewed products”, and “Top embed link views“ metrics.

Bring your t-shirt design ideas to life in virtual reality with Thread Studio. Learn more. 👕👚👔

Setting staff permissions and limiting access on the Account Settings page is more clear. 👓

The new Shopify mobile app for iOS and Android allows you to do everything you need to run and grow your business on the go. Learn more. 🚀📱

Buy and print discounted Canada Post shipping labels with Shopify Shipping. Learn more. 🇨🇦

Apple Pay is available for your store’s checkout. Your customers can buy with a single touch on mobile Safari browsers. Activate Apple Pay.

The staff invite email has an option to decline the staff account invitation, because no one likes unanswered invitations. 💌

You can add tags to draft orders, making it easier to filter and search for draft orders. ⏭

The number of items in an inventory transfer creation receipt is a total of all quantities rather than the total number of line items. This is a more accurate way of calculating the number of physical items in a transfer. 😅

We’re automatically redirecting your old blog URLs when you update the SEO information of a blog post. 👍

A bug was fixed that was stopping users with the ‘Applications’ permission from viewing the app store when they clicked through from the apps page. 🔨

You can use spaces in your account passwords. 🔐

Fulfillment cards on the Order details page make it easier for you to see the status of items that have been fulfilled. It’s also a quick way to add tracking to a fulfillment or print a shipping label. 🖨

If you can’t find what you're looking for, try typing it into the search box in the top left corner. 🔬

The title “Staff accounts” has replaced similar titles like “Staff members”, “Users”, and “User accounts”.

Shopify Payments payouts in the UK have been reduced to 4 day cycles from the previous 7 day cycles. 💸

Sell your products in the UK using the Shopify Payments Tap, Chip, and Swipe Reader. Learn more. 🇬🇧

The “Today’s summary” section on Home has been improved to help speed up loading times. ⚡️

An “attempted delivery” status can be displayed by shipping carriers when tracking orders from the Order Status page.

You can subscribe to webhooks for theme create, update, and delete events. Learn more.

Themes in the Theme Store have a “more themes with similar features” section to help you narrow down your search. 🔍

Shipping carriers can send a description of up to 100 characters when sending shipping rates through the API.

Reports have been updated to show “Top product searches with no results from your store”, and “Top product searches (with results) from your store”.

Home has been improved and loads much faster. ⚡️

A bug was fixed that was stopping Staff accounts with access to the Domains page from purchasing new domains. ✅

The new Apps page layout makes it easier to manage the apps that you use and find the the apps that you need.

A bug was fixed that was causing the Refund Notification email template to treat refunds and pending payments as accepted payments in the subtotal line.

Mobile Buy SDK 2.0 is here. The update lets your customers access their accounts from your app, and adds Android Pay. Learn more. 📲

A bug was fixed that was causing an order’s total weight to display incorrectly when purchasing shipping labels. 🕷🙅🏻

The statement descriptor for Shopify Payments and Shopify.com says “Shopify” across all four regions where it’s available (Australia, Canada, US, and the UK).

A bug was fixed that was causing issues when sorting manual collections on mobile. Sorry about that. 🤗

Shopify POS for Android can accept discount codes at the checkout, add customers, and turn tax rates on and off from the cart. Learn more.

JPG images with a size parameter in the URL are 20-60% smaller in file size. This mean faster online stores, especially on mobile. ⚡️

“Total sales” replaced “Gross sales” in the Home sidebar overview for Plus shops.

Performance matters - We’ve been working on making sure that Shopify loads fast all of the time. 🚀

The button to log out staff accounts reads “Log Out Staff” instead of “Expire User Sessions”. 👥

With “Goals”, Kit wants to help you build your presence on Facebook, find the right audience for your ads, and get you your first sale. Learn more. 💸

The product list is scrollable when there are more than four products being purchased in order to always show customers the discounts and order total fields.

Staff need to have full permissions to create, access, or modify private apps.

Our img_tag helper can customize image sizes and specify crop parameters to match required dimensions. Learn more.

The Shopify Stockroom is open. Follow Jane’s journey as she overcomes challenges to build her own successful Shopify store.

The delete button on the Staff profile page has been moved to avoid deleting people by accident. 😶

The Flea and Farmer’s Market search is here to help you find new ways for you to sell your products in your area. Learn more. 🐓

JavaScript features in Internet Explorer 8 and older versions are no long supported in the checkout, but customers using these older versions will still able to complete a checkout.

Creating zones, adding countries, and adding rates has been combined to a single page in Shipping settings.

Your customers can store your shop’s gift cards in their iPhones using Apple Wallet Passes. Learn more. 📱

Add new sales channels from the left navigation menu by clicking the (+) button beside “Sales channels”.

Mobile Buy SDK supports iOS smart banners and universal links. iOS users visiting your website can be redirected to your installed app when on mobile. Learn more.

Sales channel overview data is accessible from the sidebar on Home. Check on each channel’s performance without switching between pages. 📉 🤓

All of the buttons within the Reports and Finance pages are accessible.

Customer email templates have a new responsive layout and a mobile-friendly email template editor. The new editor lets you change the accent color and logo used in your templates. 📧

You can edit the URL of your blog posts. New blog posts will no longer contain the blog ID in the URL.

Set up Apple Pay and get your checkout ready for the launch this fall. Learn more. 📱

The Houzz sales channel is available when selling in USD. List your products on the Houzz marketplace. Learn more. 🏡

The Shopify for Wix app was removed from the Wix App Market. Continue to sell on your Wix website using the Buy Button.

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