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Custom line items are useful for deposits, special services, bespoke products, manual adjustments, and order edits. They also create a tax-data problem when the integration knows only whether an item is taxable—not what the item actually is. Shopify’s October 21 update adds product categories for custom line items in GraphQL Admin API version 2027-01. The […]
“Edge AI” is often presented as a hardware trend, but the useful business question is simpler: which parts of an AI workflow should run near the device, and which should remain in the cloud? The answer affects speed, privacy, reliability, maintenance, and cost. Google’s October 20 announcement about an open standard for Coral NPU edge
Small-business knowledge is rarely stored in one neat text database. Product details may live in PDFs, installation photos, training videos, call recordings, spreadsheets, code snippets, and website pages. Traditional keyword search can miss useful material when the employee or customer describes it differently from the file. Google’s October developer guide for EmbeddingGemma 2 describes multimodal
Small-business automations often depend on long-lived access to email, calendars, CRM records, and customer-response tools. OAuth refresh tokens make that continuity possible, but a stolen token can also let an attacker request new access tokens without stealing the user’s password. On October 15, Google announced Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession support for Google OAuth. DPoP can bind a
A phone number is useful for callbacks, appointment updates, and account recovery, but possession of the number should not automatically prove identity. Twilio published a new implementation guide on October 19, 2026 showing how developers can retrieve SIM-swap data through its Lookup API. The guide also emphasizes that legitimate events—such as replacing a lost phone,
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
A webhook can create a lead, update a CRM, trigger a message, request an appointment, or move a customer to a new workflow state. The receiving URL therefore needs more than a valid address. It needs an explicit authentication and delivery policy that matches the action behind it. On October 15, 2026, Twilio announced that
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