E-Commerce
Shopify expanded its built-in shipping-label offering on October 16, 2026 so eligible merchants shipping from the Netherlands or Poland can buy DHL eCommerce labels in Shopify. The initial routes differ: merchants in the Netherlands can use eligible domestic services, while merchants in Poland can ship to eligible addresses in other EU countries. Buying and printing […]
Shopify added Royal Mail pickup points as a checkout option for eligible UK merchants on October 15, 2026. Customers can choose a Post Office branch or Royal Mail Customer Service Point from a map or list and review the location, address, opening hours, and price before committing. Pickup points can make delivery more convenient, but
Shopify Flow can now buy shipping labels automatically when an order matches conditions chosen by the merchant. The October 15, 2026 update lets a workflow select the carrier and service, package type, weight, and ship date. Orders can qualify through tags, products, item counts, or other order attributes. For an ecommerce team, the feature can
Shopify’s new batch-fulfillment workflow can help a growing ecommerce business process more orders together, but speed is only useful when the underlying order data, pick process, and exception handling remain accurate. Shopify announced on October 16, 2026 that merchants can group up to 250 fulfillments by criteria such as product type or destination, then pick,
A catalog integration can appear stable until a retirement date turns every request into a failure. Shopify has set a concrete deadline for apps that still use its deprecated Global Catalog REST endpoints. Shopify announced on October 9, 2026 that the Global Catalog REST API will stop serving traffic on November 2, 2026. Apps must
Point-of-sale problems are difficult to diagnose when support cannot tell which extension build a device is actually running. A deployment may be complete in the dashboard while a cached or offline device continues using an earlier bundle. Shopify announced on October 12, 2026 that shopify.extension.version can identify the published POS extension version currently running for
Checkout branding is part of the customer experience, but not every piece of checkout content belongs to the merchant. When teams assume a visibility setting controls the entire footer, previews and automated tests can report the wrong result. Shopify clarified on October 15, 2026 that checkout footer visibility applies only to merchant-configurable content. The setting
A webhook is a notification that something happened, not a complete business process. Shopify’s cart update behavior now reinforces that distinction: an API request that leaves the cart unchanged no longer produces the same event pattern as a real cart change. Shopify announced on October 12, 2026 that cart operations with no actual change no
Faster development does not reduce the business impact of a security mistake. A custom Shopify app may touch customer records, orders, discounts, inventory, webhooks, or internal operations. If authentication, tenant isolation, configuration, or a dependency is weak, the result can affect both merchant trust and daily work. On October 15, 2026, Shopify introduced the shopify
A headless storefront should solve a business problem, not merely replace a theme with a larger codebase. Merchants usually consider a custom storefront because they need a distinctive experience, complex content, specialized product discovery, or tighter integration with an existing application. The technical stack must still protect basic commerce behavior such as carts, prices, consent,
