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David’s Bridal plans to spin off its AI-powered Pearl platform

In 2025, David’s Bridal’s Shopify transition paved the way for an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) reimagining of its Pearl wedding planner — and now, the company has plans to spin off Pearl as its own entity. K&F Growth Acquisition Cor

Discover a merchant's retail stores with UCP location search and lookup

Shopify storefronts now support the UCP location capability, dev.ucp.common.location.search and dev.ucp.common.location.lookup, starting with UCP 2026-08-25. When you negotiate these capabilities over the storefront MCP endpoint, your agent

POS UI extensions 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list with custom row templates

POS UI extensions API version 2026-10 adds s-pos-list, a virtualized list component for Polaris web components. You pass rows as plain data and lay out each kind of row with a template built from web components. s-pos-list is now available

POS UI extensions now support reactive storage access

The new shopify.storage.current API lets POS UI extension developers respond automatically when stored values change across extension targets on the same POS device. It’s now available in API version 2026-10. No changes are required for exi

Polaris 2.0 is now stable

Polaris 2.0 is now stable Polaris Web Components 2.0 is now available on the stable Polaris CDN channels. It's the first major release under the CDN's semantic versioning model. Polaris 2.0 matches the redesigned Shopify admin, which has a

We gave AI agents a mobile dev environment

We built Remote Dev so AI agents can build and test apps in parallel, without maxing out developers’ laptops.

Refreshed payment method design in checkout

This tiled layout appears when the payment methods meet certain display criteria, including offering four or fewer payment methods. For other configurations, the standard list view continues to display.

Checkout footer visibility now applies to merchant-configurable content

The visibility fields on CheckoutBrandingFooterContent and CheckoutAndAccountsConfigurationBrandingFooterContent now control only merchant-configurable footer content. Checkout can display Shopify-provided transaction information in the foo

Set product categories on custom line items in draft orders and order edits

Starting with GraphQL Admin API version 2027-01, you can assign a category from Shopify's Standard Product Taxonomy to custom line items in draft orders and order edits. The category controls the item's tax treatment in the same way it does

New protection against unexpected redirects

Your online store now asks customers to confirm before it sends them to a website outside your store. This helps protect customers from unexpected redirects. Customers see a short message with the website's address, and they can continue to

How Shopify turns open models into task experts

Sidekick’s frontier model hands its most token-heavy work to open models that Shopify post-trains and serves itself. Here’s the loop we use to build them, and where NVIDIA’s models, software, and GPUs make each turn faster and cheaper.

Create, manage and review stock counts in Shopify admin

Stock counts give you a structured way to verify inventory in Shopify admin. Create a count, have staff record what’s on the shelf using barcode scanning or manual entry, then review results before stock levels change. If you currently coun

Metaobject analytics queryable capability available in the Admin API

Starting with GraphQL Admin API version 2027-01, you can read and configure the analyticsQueryable capability on metaobject definitions. This applies to apps that create, update, or inspect metaobject definitions. No action is required unle

Securing your app, together

Merchants install your app because they trust it, and because they trust the Shopify App Store. There are bad actors out there who are motivated to exploit that trust. Alongside the rest of the industry, we are seeing the number of attacks

Enable the analytics queryable capability on metafield and metaobject definitions from your app's TOML

You can now enable the analytics_queryable capability on metafield and metaobject definitions that you declare in shopify.app.toml. Merchants can then use those metafields and metaobjects as dimensions and filters in Shopify Analytics and S

Shopify, Vercel Arm Stores for AI Agents

The collaboration allows humans and external AI agents alike to shop a store. The post Shopify, Vercel Arm Stores for AI Agents appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

Cross-store product clustering across millions of stores

How we group product listings across millions of stores using tiered matching models, graph partitioning, and learned cluster merge decisions.

Building Overexposed: understanding application exposure

Our first scanner read config files and missed what was running. We rebuilt it with the cloud inventory, a careful probe, and honest results.

Exclusive > timestamp filters exclude the full second

As of API version 2026-10, an exclusive lower bound (>) on a timestamp filter in the GraphQL Admin API search syntax excludes the full second. For example, created_at:>'2026-09-15T12:00:02Z' no longer returns an order created at 12:00:02.50

Bonobos launches Shopify-powered site with omnichannel fit and profile capabilities

Menswear brand Bonobos announced the relaunch of its website on Shopify in October. The company cited numerous benefits that it will seek to realize. Examples include faster checkout and new “My Fit” profiles that sync sizing between Bonobo

Cross-border E-commerce Weekly: Shopify Fully Embraces AI Shopping Agents; SHEIN Continues to Tighten Logistics Controls

Checkout MCP and Cart MCP now support UCP buyer consent

Checkout MCP and Cart MCP now support the UCP buyer consent extension (dev.ucp.shopping.buyer_consent) starting with UCP 2026-08-25. Buyers can now make the same privacy and marketing choices in your agent that they'd make in a shop's own c

Buy shipping labels on Shopify, now in the Netherlands and Poland

Merchants who ship from the Netherlands or Poland can now buy DHL eCommerce shipping labels on Shopify. Rates are discounted, and there's no fee on top of your Shopify plan. Where you can ship depends on where you ship from: *From the Nethe

Fulfill orders in batches

You can now fulfill orders together in batches. Group up to 250 fulfillments by criteria such as product type or shipping destination, then pick, buy labels, print documents, and pack them together. Each batch follows a workflow you can cus