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Shopify announced on September 28, 2026 that store staff can run cycle and full stock counts directly in Shopify POS. Managers can plan a count in Admin, select the location and products, and send the task to POS. Staff scan barcodes or enter quantities, then submit the result for review. Importantly, submitting a count does […]
Shopify announced on September 28, 2026 that staff can create local delivery orders during checkout in Shopify POS. A shopper who cannot take an item home can arrange delivery in the same sale instead of being asked to place a separate online order. The feature uses configured delivery zones and rates, captures an address, phone
Shopify announced on September 28, 2026 that fields from referenced metaobjects can be used in Analytics reports. A store can group or filter results by structured details such as designer country, warranty term, or loyalty tier when the metaobject is attached to a product, variant, customer, or order through a metafield. This opens useful analysis
Twilio announced general availability of WhatsApp Embedded Signup Version 4 on September 30, 2026. The updated self-signup flow aligns with recent WhatsApp account changes, simplifies phone-number setup, and includes MM API Terms of Service acceptance inside the flow. Twilio also says the update is required because older versions are planned for deprecation. For a business
Twilio announced account-level rate limits for its Content API on September 30, 2026. Requests that exceed an endpoint limit can return HTTP 429, so a bulk job that worked in a quiet test may slow down or fail when several tools share the same account. For an SMB, the practical issue is not the status
Twilio announced on October 1, 2026 that Voice Insights now displays why a carrier blocked a call and how to contact that carrier for redress. The reason header appears with the last SIP response in Call Summary, the Voice Insights REST API, and Event Streams. For businesses that depend on callbacks and appointment follow-up, the
Twilio made Batch Transcription Configuration generally available on October 1, 2026. A reusable configuration can define the transcription engine, speech model, language, and destination for recorded calls, allowing later changes without modifying every call flow. Results can be delivered by webhook or stored downstream in Conversation Orchestrator. Centralized configuration simplifies operations, but businesses still need
Shopify added staff-created annotations to supported time-series reports on October 1, 2026. Teams can attach a title, description, date or range, and annotation type to events such as campaigns, creator mentions, supplier changes, promotions, and operating improvements. This keeps context next to the data, but useful annotations need naming rules, ownership, and disciplined interpretation. Primary
Shopify introduced Canvas on October 1, 2026 as a visual design surface that places store pages in one interactive workspace. Merchants can edit elements directly, ask Sidekick for changes, preview interactions, and review different products, collections, and screen sizes. Canvas can speed exploration, but production redesigns still require technical boundaries, app compatibility checks, analytics validation,
Shopify added discounts to Rollouts on October 2, 2026. Merchants can now schedule a discount alongside theme and checkout changes, expose an offer to a portion of online-store traffic, and compare it with an existing offer before expanding it. The feature creates a useful test surface, but a discount test still needs commercial logic, accurate
