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A weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify.

2.16.2024
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read
onshopify logo
17

A weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify.

Welcome to Superco: On Shopify, a weekly bulletin to keep you up to date with Shopify Plus news and updates. 

Recently, we gave an expert-led overview of the product updates announced by Glen Coates during his insightful walkthrough of Shopify Editions Winter '24. 

Now, we're zooming in on those enhancements with more detail. January 31st marked a significant day for the platform, launching the longest list of new features we’ve ever seen in one go — and they’re all aimed at fueling your growth 💥

If you have a specific question related to Shopify, get in touch with the team at tm@superco.io — we’re always happy to chat.

Events not to miss

💥Untangling the Complexity of eCommerce Growth in 2024 is the theme of our next exclusive eCommerce Leaders Roundtable, in partnership with Reload Digital, powered by s360. 

Join us for brunch on Wednesday 20th March with the likes of ICONIC London, Neal's Yard Remedies, Victoria Beckham, Molton Brown, Daisy London, and The INKEY List to discuss growth drivers, international markets, and platform boom and bust. 

We’re offering On Shopify readers the opportunity to attend for free, please drop rachel@superco.io ASAP if you’re interested, there are limited spaces left!

💥We’re also inviting all brands platformed on Magento to a VIP Dinner on Thursday 21st March in partnership with Shopify. This exclusive event will be hosted at The River Cafe from 6pm and we’d love to see you there.

Shopping service suggestions are now available when purchasing Shopify Shipping Labels (Jan 26)

Shopify has improved how shipping services are pre-selected when buying shipping labels. A suggested shipping service will be pre-selected based on similar orders in your store, rather than always pre-selecting the last used service. This will increase the accuracy and speed of buying shipping labels.

If your customer selected a specific shipping service at checkout, that will automatically be pre-selected when buying a shipping label, if available.

Updated Order Details experience in the Shopify Mobile App (Jan 29)

Improvements made to the Order Details page in the Shopify Mobile Admin app include:

  • The page received an overall UX refresh
  • Contact icons in the customer card have been updated
  • The subtotal amount in the payment card now accurately reflects pre-tax values
  • The refund button is now found in the overflow menu of the payment card
  • An Add Customer action has been added to the customer card if the order does not have a Customer
  • An Add Shipping Details action has been added to the customer card if an order does not have a shipping address

Shopify Flow - New Run code action (Jan 31)

You can now use a “Run code” action in Flow to write JavaScript code to solve your automation needs.The Run code action makes it possible to do many things that were not possible before. Common use cases include:

  • Counting the number of certain types of items in a list
  • Computing the value for complex metafields like lists
  • Transforming data like dates and numbers so that they can be used in conditions

For more information about how it works, limitations, and upcoming improvements, follow this link

Shopify Scripts and product bundles (Jan 31)

Now, merchants using Shopify Scripts can use Shopify's bundle offering to increase their average order value.

Retarget twice as many potential buyers with Shopify Audiences v2.2 (Jan 31)

Shopify Audiences helps Shopify Plus merchants find more customers on top ad platforms, cut their customer acquisition costs by up to 50%, and get more out of their ad spend with custom audience lists (powered by millions of commerce insights).

The release of Shopify Audiences v2.2 means improved retargeting boost lists, new benchmarks data, and their best performing algorithms yet!

Improved visibility of retailer cancellation requests for Collective Suppliers (Jan 31)

On their orders landing page, suppliers will now notice a badge displayed next to the order number, indicating an order cancellation request and identifying the retailer who initiated the request. This badge ensures suppliers have immediate visibility into cancellation requests, enabling them to take necessary actions promptly and efficiently.

The badge will read as "Retailer Name has requested to cancel this order. Reason for cancellation." The reason for cancellation will also be visible within the order timeline and notes section on the orders page.

Collective Suppliers gain quick visibility into the status of product sharing (Jan 31)

Suppliers can quickly and efficiently view which retailer connections are awaiting the sharing of a price list through a new sticker on their retailers page.

AI-powered search suggestions for retailers in Shopify Collective Discovery (Jan 31)

Collective retailers can now expect even stronger and more relevant results when searching for different terms in Discovery.

More ways to discount in draft orders (Jan 31)

Shopify has launched more support for discounts in draft orders, helping you drive more sales and boost customer loyalty. 

Within draft orders, now you’ll be able to combine multiple discounts and use discount codes and automatic discounts. 

New predictive spend metrics in Cohort Analysis (Jan 31)

You can now see the predicted average amount spent per customer of your cohorts in the Customer Cohort Analysis report. 

Having greater insight into both historical and predicted customer spend will help you optimise the retention and lifetime value of your cohorts.

This feature is available on Advanced plans and above, and requires a minimum of 24 months of historical sales data.

Support for up to 30 products in a bundle (Jan 31)

The maximum number of products you can offer in a fixed bundle has increased from 10 to 30. Offer larger bundles using the Shopify Bundles app or any fixed bundle created using the Admin API.

Media Versioning (Jan 31)

A new "Revert to original" button has been added to the product media editor so you can revert image edits after saving. It’s no longer required to reupload the original product image to revert any changes. 

Improve accuracy of in-stock products in different markets with fulfillable inventory (Jan 31)

Also newly released is fulfillable inventory to help merchants who sell products across multiple shipping zones by ensuring their customers can only purchase items that can be shipped to their location. 

This helps improve inventory accuracy, reduce overselling, and increases efficiency by avoiding unnecessary order cancellations. This feature is only available to select merchants.

New Shopify features and developer tools now available on Hydrogen (Jan 31)

Headless development on Shopify is now easier than ever, with more Shopify features available on Hydrogen, and new developer tools that make the path to production seamless. Get in touch with our experts for more details.

New DOM events in pixels (Jan 31)

Shopify has added support for select DOM events to app and custom pixels, including input_changed, input_blurred, input_focused, form_submitted, and clicked. You can subscribe to these events with a custom pixel from the Customer Events page in your admin. This gives you more insight to better understand how visitors are engaging with your online store.

Introducing Customer Privacy settings in Shopify admin (Jan 31)

Manage privacy settings centrally with the new Customer Privacy section in Shopify Admin. The Shopify Privacy & Compliance app will be discontinued on March 1, 2024.

Smarter search that understands customer intent (Jan 31)

Let customers search for products using everyday language with the new Semantic Search feature, available for Shopify Plus merchants in the Search & Discovery app.

New support for filter values that lead to no results (Jan 31)

Available in the Search & Discovery app, you can now choose how to display filter options that would lead to no matching results. Ensure your customers can easily filter products by moving filter values with no matches to the end, or by hiding them entirely.

You can make these customisations by going to the Shopify Search & Discovery app > Settings > Empty Values card.

The Shopify Subscriptions app is now in full release (Jan 31)

Increase customer lifetime value and boost recurring revenue with Shopify’s new subscriptions offering. The Shopify Subscriptions app integrates seamlessly into the admin and makes it easy to set up and manage simple subscription use cases. You can also give your customers the flexibility to pause or skip their subscriptions in the new customer accounts.

New metaobjects experience in admin (Jan 31)

Another new release: a new admin experience to simplify working with metaobjects, featuring definition-specific views and dramatically improved search and filter capabilities. Learn more about the redesigned metaobjects experience in the Shopify Help Center.

Shop Cash offers is now Shop Campaigns (Jan 31)

As part of the Winter '24 Edition, Shop Cash offers is evolving to Shop Campaigns. Shopify merchants can use Shop Campaigns to scale customer growth on a new acquisition channel.

This release enables you to:

  • Use real-time estimates to evaluate the reach and performance of campaigns during the setup process.
  • Extend reach and attract new customers across channels including the Shop app and web.
  • View detailed performance metrics and analyse newly acquired customers using customer cohorts.

New dynamic source selector in the online editor (Jan 31)

With the growing adoption of metafields and metaobjects to connect resources to online store templates, merchants need an easy way to find the right dynamic source. Shopify has therefore simplified the dynamic source selector interface and added search and filtering.

New self-serve process to transfer organisation ownership (Feb 7)

Organisation owners in Shopify Plus are now able to transfer organisation ownership to other users within their organisations, without having to contact Shopify Support.

As an organisation owner, you can navigate to your own user profile page in the Shopify Admin, click "Transfer ownership" and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the transfer. 

Geolocation app removal (Feb 12)

On December 1st, 2024, Shopify’s Geolocation app will sunset, and the app will automatically uninstall.

Shopify’s platform has recently made advancements that have reduced the need for Geolocation app’s consent-based localisation feature for shops that use dedicated domains/shared domains. These advancements include:

For those who currently have the Geolocation app installed and don’t have an EU top-level domain, Shopify recommends enabling the above features in Settings -> Markets -> Preferences. This will effectively bypass the Geolocation functionality on your storefront, and then you can safely remove the Geolocation app from your store.

Note - If you sell to customers in the European Union via an EU top-level domain, e.g. example.fr or example.de, you will still require a consent-based strategy to redirect buyers and should explore 3rd party options in the app store.

2.16.2024
10 minute
read
on brand logo
17

On Shopify is a weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify

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2.16.2024
10 minute
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onbrand:
17

A weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify.

Welcome to Superco: On Shopify, a weekly bulletin to keep you up to date with Shopify Plus news and updates. 

Recently, we gave an expert-led overview of the product updates announced by Glen Coates during his insightful walkthrough of Shopify Editions Winter '24. 

Now, we're zooming in on those enhancements with more detail. January 31st marked a significant day for the platform, launching the longest list of new features we’ve ever seen in one go — and they’re all aimed at fueling your growth 💥

If you have a specific question related to Shopify, get in touch with the team at tm@superco.io — we’re always happy to chat.

Events not to miss

💥Untangling the Complexity of eCommerce Growth in 2024 is the theme of our next exclusive eCommerce Leaders Roundtable, in partnership with Reload Digital, powered by s360. 

Join us for brunch on Wednesday 20th March with the likes of ICONIC London, Neal's Yard Remedies, Victoria Beckham, Molton Brown, Daisy London, and The INKEY List to discuss growth drivers, international markets, and platform boom and bust. 

We’re offering On Shopify readers the opportunity to attend for free, please drop rachel@superco.io ASAP if you’re interested, there are limited spaces left!

💥We’re also inviting all brands platformed on Magento to a VIP Dinner on Thursday 21st March in partnership with Shopify. This exclusive event will be hosted at The River Cafe from 6pm and we’d love to see you there.

Shopping service suggestions are now available when purchasing Shopify Shipping Labels (Jan 26)

Shopify has improved how shipping services are pre-selected when buying shipping labels. A suggested shipping service will be pre-selected based on similar orders in your store, rather than always pre-selecting the last used service. This will increase the accuracy and speed of buying shipping labels.

If your customer selected a specific shipping service at checkout, that will automatically be pre-selected when buying a shipping label, if available.

Updated Order Details experience in the Shopify Mobile App (Jan 29)

Improvements made to the Order Details page in the Shopify Mobile Admin app include:

  • The page received an overall UX refresh
  • Contact icons in the customer card have been updated
  • The subtotal amount in the payment card now accurately reflects pre-tax values
  • The refund button is now found in the overflow menu of the payment card
  • An Add Customer action has been added to the customer card if the order does not have a Customer
  • An Add Shipping Details action has been added to the customer card if an order does not have a shipping address

Shopify Flow - New Run code action (Jan 31)

You can now use a “Run code” action in Flow to write JavaScript code to solve your automation needs.The Run code action makes it possible to do many things that were not possible before. Common use cases include:

  • Counting the number of certain types of items in a list
  • Computing the value for complex metafields like lists
  • Transforming data like dates and numbers so that they can be used in conditions

For more information about how it works, limitations, and upcoming improvements, follow this link

Shopify Scripts and product bundles (Jan 31)

Now, merchants using Shopify Scripts can use Shopify's bundle offering to increase their average order value.

Retarget twice as many potential buyers with Shopify Audiences v2.2 (Jan 31)

Shopify Audiences helps Shopify Plus merchants find more customers on top ad platforms, cut their customer acquisition costs by up to 50%, and get more out of their ad spend with custom audience lists (powered by millions of commerce insights).

The release of Shopify Audiences v2.2 means improved retargeting boost lists, new benchmarks data, and their best performing algorithms yet!

Improved visibility of retailer cancellation requests for Collective Suppliers (Jan 31)

On their orders landing page, suppliers will now notice a badge displayed next to the order number, indicating an order cancellation request and identifying the retailer who initiated the request. This badge ensures suppliers have immediate visibility into cancellation requests, enabling them to take necessary actions promptly and efficiently.

The badge will read as "Retailer Name has requested to cancel this order. Reason for cancellation." The reason for cancellation will also be visible within the order timeline and notes section on the orders page.

Collective Suppliers gain quick visibility into the status of product sharing (Jan 31)

Suppliers can quickly and efficiently view which retailer connections are awaiting the sharing of a price list through a new sticker on their retailers page.

AI-powered search suggestions for retailers in Shopify Collective Discovery (Jan 31)

Collective retailers can now expect even stronger and more relevant results when searching for different terms in Discovery.

More ways to discount in draft orders (Jan 31)

Shopify has launched more support for discounts in draft orders, helping you drive more sales and boost customer loyalty. 

Within draft orders, now you’ll be able to combine multiple discounts and use discount codes and automatic discounts. 

New predictive spend metrics in Cohort Analysis (Jan 31)

You can now see the predicted average amount spent per customer of your cohorts in the Customer Cohort Analysis report. 

Having greater insight into both historical and predicted customer spend will help you optimise the retention and lifetime value of your cohorts.

This feature is available on Advanced plans and above, and requires a minimum of 24 months of historical sales data.

Support for up to 30 products in a bundle (Jan 31)

The maximum number of products you can offer in a fixed bundle has increased from 10 to 30. Offer larger bundles using the Shopify Bundles app or any fixed bundle created using the Admin API.

Media Versioning (Jan 31)

A new "Revert to original" button has been added to the product media editor so you can revert image edits after saving. It’s no longer required to reupload the original product image to revert any changes. 

Improve accuracy of in-stock products in different markets with fulfillable inventory (Jan 31)

Also newly released is fulfillable inventory to help merchants who sell products across multiple shipping zones by ensuring their customers can only purchase items that can be shipped to their location. 

This helps improve inventory accuracy, reduce overselling, and increases efficiency by avoiding unnecessary order cancellations. This feature is only available to select merchants.

New Shopify features and developer tools now available on Hydrogen (Jan 31)

Headless development on Shopify is now easier than ever, with more Shopify features available on Hydrogen, and new developer tools that make the path to production seamless. Get in touch with our experts for more details.

New DOM events in pixels (Jan 31)

Shopify has added support for select DOM events to app and custom pixels, including input_changed, input_blurred, input_focused, form_submitted, and clicked. You can subscribe to these events with a custom pixel from the Customer Events page in your admin. This gives you more insight to better understand how visitors are engaging with your online store.

Introducing Customer Privacy settings in Shopify admin (Jan 31)

Manage privacy settings centrally with the new Customer Privacy section in Shopify Admin. The Shopify Privacy & Compliance app will be discontinued on March 1, 2024.

Smarter search that understands customer intent (Jan 31)

Let customers search for products using everyday language with the new Semantic Search feature, available for Shopify Plus merchants in the Search & Discovery app.

New support for filter values that lead to no results (Jan 31)

Available in the Search & Discovery app, you can now choose how to display filter options that would lead to no matching results. Ensure your customers can easily filter products by moving filter values with no matches to the end, or by hiding them entirely.

You can make these customisations by going to the Shopify Search & Discovery app > Settings > Empty Values card.

The Shopify Subscriptions app is now in full release (Jan 31)

Increase customer lifetime value and boost recurring revenue with Shopify’s new subscriptions offering. The Shopify Subscriptions app integrates seamlessly into the admin and makes it easy to set up and manage simple subscription use cases. You can also give your customers the flexibility to pause or skip their subscriptions in the new customer accounts.

New metaobjects experience in admin (Jan 31)

Another new release: a new admin experience to simplify working with metaobjects, featuring definition-specific views and dramatically improved search and filter capabilities. Learn more about the redesigned metaobjects experience in the Shopify Help Center.

Shop Cash offers is now Shop Campaigns (Jan 31)

As part of the Winter '24 Edition, Shop Cash offers is evolving to Shop Campaigns. Shopify merchants can use Shop Campaigns to scale customer growth on a new acquisition channel.

This release enables you to:

  • Use real-time estimates to evaluate the reach and performance of campaigns during the setup process.
  • Extend reach and attract new customers across channels including the Shop app and web.
  • View detailed performance metrics and analyse newly acquired customers using customer cohorts.

New dynamic source selector in the online editor (Jan 31)

With the growing adoption of metafields and metaobjects to connect resources to online store templates, merchants need an easy way to find the right dynamic source. Shopify has therefore simplified the dynamic source selector interface and added search and filtering.

New self-serve process to transfer organisation ownership (Feb 7)

Organisation owners in Shopify Plus are now able to transfer organisation ownership to other users within their organisations, without having to contact Shopify Support.

As an organisation owner, you can navigate to your own user profile page in the Shopify Admin, click "Transfer ownership" and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the transfer. 

Geolocation app removal (Feb 12)

On December 1st, 2024, Shopify’s Geolocation app will sunset, and the app will automatically uninstall.

Shopify’s platform has recently made advancements that have reduced the need for Geolocation app’s consent-based localisation feature for shops that use dedicated domains/shared domains. These advancements include:

For those who currently have the Geolocation app installed and don’t have an EU top-level domain, Shopify recommends enabling the above features in Settings -> Markets -> Preferences. This will effectively bypass the Geolocation functionality on your storefront, and then you can safely remove the Geolocation app from your store.

Note - If you sell to customers in the European Union via an EU top-level domain, e.g. example.fr or example.de, you will still require a consent-based strategy to redirect buyers and should explore 3rd party options in the app store.

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2.16.2024
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17

On Shopify #17

On Shopify is a weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify

Welcome to Superco: On Shopify, a weekly bulletin to keep you up to date with Shopify Plus news and updates. 

Recently, we gave an expert-led overview of the product updates announced by Glen Coates during his insightful walkthrough of Shopify Editions Winter '24. 

Now, we're zooming in on those enhancements with more detail. January 31st marked a significant day for the platform, launching the longest list of new features we’ve ever seen in one go — and they’re all aimed at fueling your growth 💥

If you have a specific question related to Shopify, get in touch with the team at tm@superco.io — we’re always happy to chat.

Events not to miss

💥Untangling the Complexity of eCommerce Growth in 2024 is the theme of our next exclusive eCommerce Leaders Roundtable, in partnership with Reload Digital, powered by s360. 

Join us for brunch on Wednesday 20th March with the likes of ICONIC London, Neal's Yard Remedies, Victoria Beckham, Molton Brown, Daisy London, and The INKEY List to discuss growth drivers, international markets, and platform boom and bust. 

We’re offering On Shopify readers the opportunity to attend for free, please drop rachel@superco.io ASAP if you’re interested, there are limited spaces left!

💥We’re also inviting all brands platformed on Magento to a VIP Dinner on Thursday 21st March in partnership with Shopify. This exclusive event will be hosted at The River Cafe from 6pm and we’d love to see you there.

Shopping service suggestions are now available when purchasing Shopify Shipping Labels (Jan 26)

Shopify has improved how shipping services are pre-selected when buying shipping labels. A suggested shipping service will be pre-selected based on similar orders in your store, rather than always pre-selecting the last used service. This will increase the accuracy and speed of buying shipping labels.

If your customer selected a specific shipping service at checkout, that will automatically be pre-selected when buying a shipping label, if available.

Updated Order Details experience in the Shopify Mobile App (Jan 29)

Improvements made to the Order Details page in the Shopify Mobile Admin app include:

  • The page received an overall UX refresh
  • Contact icons in the customer card have been updated
  • The subtotal amount in the payment card now accurately reflects pre-tax values
  • The refund button is now found in the overflow menu of the payment card
  • An Add Customer action has been added to the customer card if the order does not have a Customer
  • An Add Shipping Details action has been added to the customer card if an order does not have a shipping address

Shopify Flow - New Run code action (Jan 31)

You can now use a “Run code” action in Flow to write JavaScript code to solve your automation needs.The Run code action makes it possible to do many things that were not possible before. Common use cases include:

  • Counting the number of certain types of items in a list
  • Computing the value for complex metafields like lists
  • Transforming data like dates and numbers so that they can be used in conditions

For more information about how it works, limitations, and upcoming improvements, follow this link

Shopify Scripts and product bundles (Jan 31)

Now, merchants using Shopify Scripts can use Shopify's bundle offering to increase their average order value.

Retarget twice as many potential buyers with Shopify Audiences v2.2 (Jan 31)

Shopify Audiences helps Shopify Plus merchants find more customers on top ad platforms, cut their customer acquisition costs by up to 50%, and get more out of their ad spend with custom audience lists (powered by millions of commerce insights).

The release of Shopify Audiences v2.2 means improved retargeting boost lists, new benchmarks data, and their best performing algorithms yet!

Improved visibility of retailer cancellation requests for Collective Suppliers (Jan 31)

On their orders landing page, suppliers will now notice a badge displayed next to the order number, indicating an order cancellation request and identifying the retailer who initiated the request. This badge ensures suppliers have immediate visibility into cancellation requests, enabling them to take necessary actions promptly and efficiently.

The badge will read as "Retailer Name has requested to cancel this order. Reason for cancellation." The reason for cancellation will also be visible within the order timeline and notes section on the orders page.

Collective Suppliers gain quick visibility into the status of product sharing (Jan 31)

Suppliers can quickly and efficiently view which retailer connections are awaiting the sharing of a price list through a new sticker on their retailers page.

AI-powered search suggestions for retailers in Shopify Collective Discovery (Jan 31)

Collective retailers can now expect even stronger and more relevant results when searching for different terms in Discovery.

More ways to discount in draft orders (Jan 31)

Shopify has launched more support for discounts in draft orders, helping you drive more sales and boost customer loyalty. 

Within draft orders, now you’ll be able to combine multiple discounts and use discount codes and automatic discounts. 

New predictive spend metrics in Cohort Analysis (Jan 31)

You can now see the predicted average amount spent per customer of your cohorts in the Customer Cohort Analysis report. 

Having greater insight into both historical and predicted customer spend will help you optimise the retention and lifetime value of your cohorts.

This feature is available on Advanced plans and above, and requires a minimum of 24 months of historical sales data.

Support for up to 30 products in a bundle (Jan 31)

The maximum number of products you can offer in a fixed bundle has increased from 10 to 30. Offer larger bundles using the Shopify Bundles app or any fixed bundle created using the Admin API.

Media Versioning (Jan 31)

A new "Revert to original" button has been added to the product media editor so you can revert image edits after saving. It’s no longer required to reupload the original product image to revert any changes. 

Improve accuracy of in-stock products in different markets with fulfillable inventory (Jan 31)

Also newly released is fulfillable inventory to help merchants who sell products across multiple shipping zones by ensuring their customers can only purchase items that can be shipped to their location. 

This helps improve inventory accuracy, reduce overselling, and increases efficiency by avoiding unnecessary order cancellations. This feature is only available to select merchants.

New Shopify features and developer tools now available on Hydrogen (Jan 31)

Headless development on Shopify is now easier than ever, with more Shopify features available on Hydrogen, and new developer tools that make the path to production seamless. Get in touch with our experts for more details.

New DOM events in pixels (Jan 31)

Shopify has added support for select DOM events to app and custom pixels, including input_changed, input_blurred, input_focused, form_submitted, and clicked. You can subscribe to these events with a custom pixel from the Customer Events page in your admin. This gives you more insight to better understand how visitors are engaging with your online store.

Introducing Customer Privacy settings in Shopify admin (Jan 31)

Manage privacy settings centrally with the new Customer Privacy section in Shopify Admin. The Shopify Privacy & Compliance app will be discontinued on March 1, 2024.

Smarter search that understands customer intent (Jan 31)

Let customers search for products using everyday language with the new Semantic Search feature, available for Shopify Plus merchants in the Search & Discovery app.

New support for filter values that lead to no results (Jan 31)

Available in the Search & Discovery app, you can now choose how to display filter options that would lead to no matching results. Ensure your customers can easily filter products by moving filter values with no matches to the end, or by hiding them entirely.

You can make these customisations by going to the Shopify Search & Discovery app > Settings > Empty Values card.

The Shopify Subscriptions app is now in full release (Jan 31)

Increase customer lifetime value and boost recurring revenue with Shopify’s new subscriptions offering. The Shopify Subscriptions app integrates seamlessly into the admin and makes it easy to set up and manage simple subscription use cases. You can also give your customers the flexibility to pause or skip their subscriptions in the new customer accounts.

New metaobjects experience in admin (Jan 31)

Another new release: a new admin experience to simplify working with metaobjects, featuring definition-specific views and dramatically improved search and filter capabilities. Learn more about the redesigned metaobjects experience in the Shopify Help Center.

Shop Cash offers is now Shop Campaigns (Jan 31)

As part of the Winter '24 Edition, Shop Cash offers is evolving to Shop Campaigns. Shopify merchants can use Shop Campaigns to scale customer growth on a new acquisition channel.

This release enables you to:

  • Use real-time estimates to evaluate the reach and performance of campaigns during the setup process.
  • Extend reach and attract new customers across channels including the Shop app and web.
  • View detailed performance metrics and analyse newly acquired customers using customer cohorts.

New dynamic source selector in the online editor (Jan 31)

With the growing adoption of metafields and metaobjects to connect resources to online store templates, merchants need an easy way to find the right dynamic source. Shopify has therefore simplified the dynamic source selector interface and added search and filtering.

New self-serve process to transfer organisation ownership (Feb 7)

Organisation owners in Shopify Plus are now able to transfer organisation ownership to other users within their organisations, without having to contact Shopify Support.

As an organisation owner, you can navigate to your own user profile page in the Shopify Admin, click "Transfer ownership" and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the transfer. 

Geolocation app removal (Feb 12)

On December 1st, 2024, Shopify’s Geolocation app will sunset, and the app will automatically uninstall.

Shopify’s platform has recently made advancements that have reduced the need for Geolocation app’s consent-based localisation feature for shops that use dedicated domains/shared domains. These advancements include:

For those who currently have the Geolocation app installed and don’t have an EU top-level domain, Shopify recommends enabling the above features in Settings -> Markets -> Preferences. This will effectively bypass the Geolocation functionality on your storefront, and then you can safely remove the Geolocation app from your store.

Note - If you sell to customers in the European Union via an EU top-level domain, e.g. example.fr or example.de, you will still require a consent-based strategy to redirect buyers and should explore 3rd party options in the app store.

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2.16.2024
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onshopify:
17

A weekly bulletin detailing the latest news and updates from Shopify.

2.16.2024
10 minute
read
onshopify logo

Welcome to Superco: On Shopify, a weekly bulletin to keep you up to date with Shopify Plus news and updates. 

Recently, we gave an expert-led overview of the product updates announced by Glen Coates during his insightful walkthrough of Shopify Editions Winter '24. 

Now, we're zooming in on those enhancements with more detail. January 31st marked a significant day for the platform, launching the longest list of new features we’ve ever seen in one go — and they’re all aimed at fueling your growth 💥

If you have a specific question related to Shopify, get in touch with the team at tm@superco.io — we’re always happy to chat.

Events not to miss

💥Untangling the Complexity of eCommerce Growth in 2024 is the theme of our next exclusive eCommerce Leaders Roundtable, in partnership with Reload Digital, powered by s360. 

Join us for brunch on Wednesday 20th March with the likes of ICONIC London, Neal's Yard Remedies, Victoria Beckham, Molton Brown, Daisy London, and The INKEY List to discuss growth drivers, international markets, and platform boom and bust. 

We’re offering On Shopify readers the opportunity to attend for free, please drop rachel@superco.io ASAP if you’re interested, there are limited spaces left!

💥We’re also inviting all brands platformed on Magento to a VIP Dinner on Thursday 21st March in partnership with Shopify. This exclusive event will be hosted at The River Cafe from 6pm and we’d love to see you there.

Shopping service suggestions are now available when purchasing Shopify Shipping Labels (Jan 26)

Shopify has improved how shipping services are pre-selected when buying shipping labels. A suggested shipping service will be pre-selected based on similar orders in your store, rather than always pre-selecting the last used service. This will increase the accuracy and speed of buying shipping labels.

If your customer selected a specific shipping service at checkout, that will automatically be pre-selected when buying a shipping label, if available.

Updated Order Details experience in the Shopify Mobile App (Jan 29)

Improvements made to the Order Details page in the Shopify Mobile Admin app include:

  • The page received an overall UX refresh
  • Contact icons in the customer card have been updated
  • The subtotal amount in the payment card now accurately reflects pre-tax values
  • The refund button is now found in the overflow menu of the payment card
  • An Add Customer action has been added to the customer card if the order does not have a Customer
  • An Add Shipping Details action has been added to the customer card if an order does not have a shipping address

Shopify Flow - New Run code action (Jan 31)

You can now use a “Run code” action in Flow to write JavaScript code to solve your automation needs.The Run code action makes it possible to do many things that were not possible before. Common use cases include:

  • Counting the number of certain types of items in a list
  • Computing the value for complex metafields like lists
  • Transforming data like dates and numbers so that they can be used in conditions

For more information about how it works, limitations, and upcoming improvements, follow this link

Shopify Scripts and product bundles (Jan 31)

Now, merchants using Shopify Scripts can use Shopify's bundle offering to increase their average order value.

Retarget twice as many potential buyers with Shopify Audiences v2.2 (Jan 31)

Shopify Audiences helps Shopify Plus merchants find more customers on top ad platforms, cut their customer acquisition costs by up to 50%, and get more out of their ad spend with custom audience lists (powered by millions of commerce insights).

The release of Shopify Audiences v2.2 means improved retargeting boost lists, new benchmarks data, and their best performing algorithms yet!

Improved visibility of retailer cancellation requests for Collective Suppliers (Jan 31)

On their orders landing page, suppliers will now notice a badge displayed next to the order number, indicating an order cancellation request and identifying the retailer who initiated the request. This badge ensures suppliers have immediate visibility into cancellation requests, enabling them to take necessary actions promptly and efficiently.

The badge will read as "Retailer Name has requested to cancel this order. Reason for cancellation." The reason for cancellation will also be visible within the order timeline and notes section on the orders page.

Collective Suppliers gain quick visibility into the status of product sharing (Jan 31)

Suppliers can quickly and efficiently view which retailer connections are awaiting the sharing of a price list through a new sticker on their retailers page.

AI-powered search suggestions for retailers in Shopify Collective Discovery (Jan 31)

Collective retailers can now expect even stronger and more relevant results when searching for different terms in Discovery.

More ways to discount in draft orders (Jan 31)

Shopify has launched more support for discounts in draft orders, helping you drive more sales and boost customer loyalty. 

Within draft orders, now you’ll be able to combine multiple discounts and use discount codes and automatic discounts. 

New predictive spend metrics in Cohort Analysis (Jan 31)

You can now see the predicted average amount spent per customer of your cohorts in the Customer Cohort Analysis report. 

Having greater insight into both historical and predicted customer spend will help you optimise the retention and lifetime value of your cohorts.

This feature is available on Advanced plans and above, and requires a minimum of 24 months of historical sales data.

Support for up to 30 products in a bundle (Jan 31)

The maximum number of products you can offer in a fixed bundle has increased from 10 to 30. Offer larger bundles using the Shopify Bundles app or any fixed bundle created using the Admin API.

Media Versioning (Jan 31)

A new "Revert to original" button has been added to the product media editor so you can revert image edits after saving. It’s no longer required to reupload the original product image to revert any changes. 

Improve accuracy of in-stock products in different markets with fulfillable inventory (Jan 31)

Also newly released is fulfillable inventory to help merchants who sell products across multiple shipping zones by ensuring their customers can only purchase items that can be shipped to their location. 

This helps improve inventory accuracy, reduce overselling, and increases efficiency by avoiding unnecessary order cancellations. This feature is only available to select merchants.

New Shopify features and developer tools now available on Hydrogen (Jan 31)

Headless development on Shopify is now easier than ever, with more Shopify features available on Hydrogen, and new developer tools that make the path to production seamless. Get in touch with our experts for more details.

New DOM events in pixels (Jan 31)

Shopify has added support for select DOM events to app and custom pixels, including input_changed, input_blurred, input_focused, form_submitted, and clicked. You can subscribe to these events with a custom pixel from the Customer Events page in your admin. This gives you more insight to better understand how visitors are engaging with your online store.

Introducing Customer Privacy settings in Shopify admin (Jan 31)

Manage privacy settings centrally with the new Customer Privacy section in Shopify Admin. The Shopify Privacy & Compliance app will be discontinued on March 1, 2024.

Smarter search that understands customer intent (Jan 31)

Let customers search for products using everyday language with the new Semantic Search feature, available for Shopify Plus merchants in the Search & Discovery app.

New support for filter values that lead to no results (Jan 31)

Available in the Search & Discovery app, you can now choose how to display filter options that would lead to no matching results. Ensure your customers can easily filter products by moving filter values with no matches to the end, or by hiding them entirely.

You can make these customisations by going to the Shopify Search & Discovery app > Settings > Empty Values card.

The Shopify Subscriptions app is now in full release (Jan 31)

Increase customer lifetime value and boost recurring revenue with Shopify’s new subscriptions offering. The Shopify Subscriptions app integrates seamlessly into the admin and makes it easy to set up and manage simple subscription use cases. You can also give your customers the flexibility to pause or skip their subscriptions in the new customer accounts.

New metaobjects experience in admin (Jan 31)

Another new release: a new admin experience to simplify working with metaobjects, featuring definition-specific views and dramatically improved search and filter capabilities. Learn more about the redesigned metaobjects experience in the Shopify Help Center.

Shop Cash offers is now Shop Campaigns (Jan 31)

As part of the Winter '24 Edition, Shop Cash offers is evolving to Shop Campaigns. Shopify merchants can use Shop Campaigns to scale customer growth on a new acquisition channel.

This release enables you to:

  • Use real-time estimates to evaluate the reach and performance of campaigns during the setup process.
  • Extend reach and attract new customers across channels including the Shop app and web.
  • View detailed performance metrics and analyse newly acquired customers using customer cohorts.

New dynamic source selector in the online editor (Jan 31)

With the growing adoption of metafields and metaobjects to connect resources to online store templates, merchants need an easy way to find the right dynamic source. Shopify has therefore simplified the dynamic source selector interface and added search and filtering.

New self-serve process to transfer organisation ownership (Feb 7)

Organisation owners in Shopify Plus are now able to transfer organisation ownership to other users within their organisations, without having to contact Shopify Support.

As an organisation owner, you can navigate to your own user profile page in the Shopify Admin, click "Transfer ownership" and follow the instructions on the screen to complete the transfer. 

Geolocation app removal (Feb 12)

On December 1st, 2024, Shopify’s Geolocation app will sunset, and the app will automatically uninstall.

Shopify’s platform has recently made advancements that have reduced the need for Geolocation app’s consent-based localisation feature for shops that use dedicated domains/shared domains. These advancements include:

For those who currently have the Geolocation app installed and don’t have an EU top-level domain, Shopify recommends enabling the above features in Settings -> Markets -> Preferences. This will effectively bypass the Geolocation functionality on your storefront, and then you can safely remove the Geolocation app from your store.

Note - If you sell to customers in the European Union via an EU top-level domain, e.g. example.fr or example.de, you will still require a consent-based strategy to redirect buyers and should explore 3rd party options in the app store.

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