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Shopify unveils new AI and commerce tools in Autumn ’26 Edition

Shopify has unveiled its Autumn ’26 Edition, Exponential – the tenth showcase of its latest innovations. As commerce becomes more complex, businesses need to adapt faster in often unclear ways. The Fall ’26 Edition showcases how Shopify tur

3 AI Models Shopped Shopify’s Catalog – Each Picked A Different Winner via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Google rankings are a black box a store can still watch. The AI shopping decision layer is a black box with nothing to monitor. The post 3 AI Models Shopped Shopify’s Catalog – Each Picked A Different Winner appeared first on Search Engine

currententrychange now returns the previous page in event.from for customer account full-page extensions

Starting in API version 2027-01, in customer account full-page extensions the Navigation API currententrychange event sets event.from to the page the customer navigated away from, instead of the page they navigated to. This is a breaking ch

Shopify CEO: Peer Ratings On AI Use ‘Didn’t Matter’ via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Shopify's performance reviews asked how staff used AI. Its CEO says the answers didn't matter, and the question can give a company a reputation. The post Shopify CEO: Peer Ratings On AI Use ‘Didn’t Matter’ appeared first on Search Engine Jo

UI extensions now support a larger number of locales

UI extensions no longer have a 256 KB limit on the combined size of their locale files. As of October 30, 2026, you can add more languages to an extension without hitting a combined size limit at deploy. This applies to all apps with UI ext

Gift Card line_item_id will become read-only in REST Admin API version 2027-01

In REST Admin API version 2027-01 and later, the line_item_id property on the Gift Card resource is read-only. Shopify ignores the property in create and update requests. Remove it from those requests before you upgrade. What changed In RES

New trusted vault origin signal in Payments Apps API

The Payments Apps API 2027-01 release candidate adds payment_method.data.trusted_vault_origin to credit card payment and verification requests. Payment app developers can use this optional Boolean to handle missing CVV for cards from a vaul

Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Shopify’s catalog returns a commission next to each promoted product’s price and reviews. What an AI agent does with that number depends on its developer. The post Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent appear

Variants are now managed on the product page

Variant management now lives in the product page and introduces other improvements across the page. Highlights include: Edit variants directly on the product page. The rest of your product details stay in view while you edit variants. No mo

Shopify Embraces Visa and Mastercard Agentic Payment Tech

Shopify has embedded agentic payment technology developed by Visa, Mastercard and American Express into its checkout feature, Shop Pay. “I’m excited to share that we’re working with Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover to enable

Waive outstanding order balances

New release: You can now waive an order’s payable balance directly from the payment card on the order page when you choose not to collect it. You can also remove an existing waived amount from this page. Automatic adjustments: Shopify adjus

Admin supports GTIN suggestions and autocomplete.

A GTIN is the globally unique number behind most retail barcodes, and sales channels like Google use it to match your listings to the right product. Shopify now checks your barcodes against the GS1 registry, the organization that issues GTI

Landmark Global Shopify App makes international shipping easier

The Landmark Shopify App has landed in the Shopify App Store and is designed for merchants using Shopify Basic and Shopify Plus. The solution makes it easier to sell internationally by bringing essential shipping tools together in one place

Shop SDK lead capture now supports Rich Authorization Requests

You can now request the specific profile data your app needs during Shop SDK lead capture, including details that aren't saved on the user's Shop profile. Use Rich Authorization Requests (RAR) to select which fields are required and which o

Create WhatsApp marketing automations in Shopify Messaging

Now you can automatically engage your customers with well-timed WhatsApp messages. Start with pre-built templates for abandoned browse, abandoned cart, and abandoned checkout, or add WhatsApp to your own automations. Set up your WhatsApp ma

Start Sidekick conversations from your app

Embedded apps can now launch Sidekick with a pre-filled prompt using the Sidekick Launch API, so merchants can get contextual help without leaving your app. From within the Shopify admin, your app can start a Sidekick conversation on the me

Identify more in-store customers with POS

Shopify POS now recognizes eligible in-store shoppers who have previously checked out at a store powered by Shopify Payments, a network of hundreds of millions of buyers. When a buyer chooses to receive a digital receipt to their Shop app,

Editions: Fall 2026

Cart and checkout permalinks now support UCP at /buy

Shopify storefronts now support the UCP dev.ucp.shopping.permalink capability starting with UCP 2026-08-25 on a new /buy route. You can use a single /buy link to add items to a cart, prefill checkout details, and take the buyer to checkout,

Add selling plans to draft order line items with the Admin GraphQL API

Admin GraphQL API version 2027-01 adds selling plan support to draft orders. You can now apply a selling plan to a draft order line item and read back the applied plan. These fields are additive, so no action is required to keep your app wo

First sign-ins to customer accounts now set Customer.state and send customers/enable webhooks

A customer's first sign-in to customer accounts now sets Customer.state to ENABLED and sends the customers/enable and customers/update webhooks. This matches how account activation works in legacy customer accounts. What's changing When a c

Managed mode for Shopify Tax

Shopify Tax managed mode helps Shopify apply the correct tax behavior for US sales by managing some store settings and API behavior directly. To keep those settings consistent, some Admin API writes now validate against the requirements of

Shopify Flow: manage automations through AI Toolkit

You can now use an external agent to manage your Shopify Flow workflows through AI Toolkit. This release is for managing your own store's workflows via AI toolkit; third-party apps are prevented from using the underlying APIs directly. What

App Events: Send events from Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions

Starting with API version 2027-01, Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions can send App Events to Shopify with shopify.appEvents.emit(). Extensions don't need network access or an app backend to send events. This is a new, optional API,