E-Commerce
Shopify announced on October 5, 2026 that Shop can verify participating shoppers while they browse a store, allowing carts to sync across devices and between the Shop app and storefront. Shop users can also receive faster sign-in, a prefilled Shop Pay button, and built-in abandoned-cart recovery. For an ecommerce business, cross-device continuity can reduce friction. […]
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
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
Revenue can look healthy while fulfillment costs quietly reduce profitability. On September 23, 2026, Shopify announced more complete and timely shipping-cost and duty data in Analytics, including cases where both apply to an order and orders use different currencies. Merchants may see changes in reports such as average profit margin by market and profit margin
Store changes rarely affect only design. A new theme section can alter page speed, a checkout adjustment can change conversion tracking, and a customer-account update can disrupt support instructions. Shopify announced a redesigned Rollouts setup on September 22, 2026, with clearer launch, temporary-event, and experiment intent, traffic controls, combined changes, audience visibility, and earlier conflict
Product attributes such as material, color, fit, fabric, size, and activity often influence merchandising decisions, yet many stores keep those details trapped in product records or spreadsheets. On September 28, 2026, Shopify announced that category metafields are now available as dimensions and filters in Analytics, Reports, Explore, and the query editor. For categorized products, the
