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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 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
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
A custom Shopify app can appear healthy while a business process quietly breaks. An API request may succeed but return incomplete data, a webhook may arrive late, or an embedded page may load slowly enough that staff abandon the task. On September 25, 2026, Shopify announced new Developer Dashboard health metrics and a filterable log
WordPress’s September 2026 developer update says WordPress 7.2 Beta 1 is scheduled for October 20–22, with final release planned for December 8–10. The update also points developers toward testing WordPress trunk and current Gutenberg releases in a staging environment or WordPress Playground. For a business website, early preparation should focus on customer journeys, not only
Shopify announced on September 29, 2026 that apps using the Billing API can move existing subscriptions to Shopify App Pricing through the Partner Dashboard or Shopify CLI. Moved subscriptions transition at the start of their next billing cycle, and merchants do not need to reapprove charges. That simplifies continuity, but it does not remove the
Twilio announced Expo support in version 1.8 of its Voice React Native SDK on September 25, 2026. Expo apps can enable voice calling through app configuration without maintaining separate native Android and iOS setup, while bare React Native apps remain supported. Easier integration reduces one engineering barrier, but a dependable Expo voice app workflow still
Shopify API version 2026-10 becomes stable on October 1, 2026. The release includes changes across orders, taxes, discounts, metafield filtering, customer accounts, shipping, inventory, analytics, and the Storefront API. Some changes require code updates. A successful Shopify API 2026-10 upgrade should protect orders, product data, pricing, customer communication, and reporting—not merely eliminate deprecation warnings. This
Shopify updated its offline-token migration behavior on September 29, 2026. When an eligible migration response is lost before it is stored, an app can retry the same exchange with the original token and client credentials for up to seven days and receive the same access-token and refresh-token pair. The recovery window makes Shopify token migration