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Buy shipping labels automatically with Shopify Flow

Merchants can now buy shipping labels with a Shopify Flow action. Set the conditions for which orders qualify, and Flow buys the labels as orders come in. Choose the carrier and service, package type, weight, and ship date to use. You can t

Offer Royal Mail pickup points at checkout

Royal Mail is now available as a pickup point provider across the UK. At checkout, customers choose a location from a map or a list and see its name, address, opening hours, and price before they commit. To turn it on: * Go to Settings > Sh

Build with confidence: Shopify AI Toolkit's security check

Shopify AI Toolkit now includes shopify app security check, a security command that checks your app for common vulnerabilities before you ship. You can run it before you submit an app, and on every release, to find problems in your own code

Hydrogen 2026-10 is now available

The new Hydrogen is generally available today. Since the developer preview started in June, we've shipped seven releases based on feedback from developers using it. The big deal about the new Hydrogen is that it isn't a big deal: Hydrogen n

Your Store Is ‘Agent-Ready’ By Default, We Tested 122 Shopify Stores To See What That Actually Means via @sejournal, @billhunt

A store can look agent-ready by default and still fail the moment a buyer asks about shipping, pickup, or cancellation. Here's what to verify. The post Your Store Is ‘Agent-Ready’ By Default, We Tested 122 Shopify Stores To See What That Ac

Shopify report suggests AI is becoming a major retail discovery channel

AI-driven product discovery is delivering significantly stronger conversion rates than traditional search, according to new data from Shopify. The post Shopify report suggests AI is becoming a major retail discovery channel appeared first o

Shopify releases ecosystem operating data: annual economic activity exceeds 1.2 trillion, AI conversion rate 80% higher

Is it time to migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce? Your guide to costs, control, and flexibility

If you're considering migrating from Shopify to WooCommerce, here's what to know about costs, control, and flexibility.

Add shopping and Shop Pay checkout to any agent with Shop MCP

Shop MCP lets your agent or app search Shopify Catalog, build carts, and complete Shop Pay checkout through a single MCP connection. It works with over 1 billion products in Shopify Catalog and doesn't require an API key for search. Nothing

A faster Shopify app with a refreshed look

We're rolling out an updated Shopify app for iOS and Android. Faster app launch, faster screens, smoother transitions. The updated app has a mobile-first look and feel while matching the color, type and icons of the recent Shopify admin upd

Customize checkout and accounts configurations with Sidekick

Sidekick can now help you customize checkout and customer accounts. Get answers and guidance right where you work, without searching the docs or contacting support. In the checkout and accounts editor: Sidekick is now available in the deskt

AI traffic conversion rate 80% higher than search says Shopify

Entrepreneurs are an economic force, and their influence is growing, as new Shopify data shows its merchant and partner ecosystem generated more than $1.2 trillion in global economic activity in the past year, increasing 110% from 2022. Sho

Identify the published version running in a POS extension

What changed shopify.extension.version returns the version of the extension that is running. It’s the same name shown on the Versions page in the Dev Dashboard and chosen when running shopify app deploy. The value is an opaque name, not a v

Detect when a POS extension screen finishes navigating

What changed The POS Navigation API adds the navigatesuccess event. It fires after the destination screen finishes its native transition, and its callback receives a standard Event. currententrychange can fire before the screen finishes app

Cart updates that result in no changes to the cart no longer trigger carts/update webhooks

Cart operations that leave the cart unchanged, for example, resubmitting the same values a cart already has, no longer trigger a carts/update webhook. Shopify sends a webhook every time a cart's contents or properties change. Previously, ev

Smart grid tiles suggestions

Shopify can now suggest smart grid tiles based on the products and discounts your staff use most. Suggestions are based entirely on your store’s own catalogue, orders, and POS activity, helping you put frequently used actions within easier

Translate & Adapt EU Update: Auto-sync translations for up to 8 languages

For EU merchants in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, we've added automatic translation updates to Translate & Adapt. Until now,

Compare-at prices now shared to agentic channels

Shopify now shares your compare-at price with AI shopping agents through Shopify Catalog, so AI agents can see when a product is marked down. Previously, AI agents reading Catalog only saw the current price and markdown prices displayed in

Global Catalog REST API stops serving traffic on November 2, 2026

The Global Catalog REST API, which was deprecated in April 2026, stops serving traffic on November 2, 2026. If your app still calls it, you need to migrate to Global Catalog MCP, which implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), befor

Catalog API now returns compare-at prices as `list_price`

The Catalog API now returns a merchant’s compare-at price as list_price on each product variant. Your app or agent can use list_price to tell when a product is marked down and by how much. The price field doesn’t change. No action is requir

Hydrogen developer preview update: October 8, 2026

The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Predictive search in the React Router template: Product suggestions appear as shoppers type. Currency on prod

New `owner_type` field for metafield declarations in Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions, required in 2027-01

Starting with API version 2026-10, Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions can specify an owner_type for each metafield declaration in shopify.extension.toml. Starting with API version 2027-01, owner_type is required for every metafield

Shopify Flow: Flow Trigger Lifecycle Callback extensions now support relative url paths

What's changed Flow Trigger Lifecycle Callback extensions now support relative URLs in addition to absolute HTTPS URLs. This works similarly to relative URLs with Flow action extensions. Running app dev resolves your relative URL against yo

Automatically generated policies help you launch faster

You can now automate your return and refund, contact information, terms of service, shipping, and legal notice policies to help you launch your store faster and expand into new markets. Your automated policies stay up to date as your store