Developer changelog

Shopify introduces Shipping Profiles, allowing merchants to set custom rates per product. Apps can use the Delivery Profiles API to automate shipping settings, enhancing flexibility and efficiency.

The GraphQL Billing API now supports auto-activated purchases and webhook subscriptions, enhancing app billing management without affecting existing REST implementations.

New store design enhances theme flexibility with sections, master pages, and drafts. API updates support new features. Prepare apps/themes for changes launching later this year.

Use the Predictive Search API to add product suggestions in storefront search, enhancing speed and user experience. Supports multiple languages via /search/suggest.json? endpoint.

Create translated app listings for all Shopify App Store languages. English is required as the primary language. Listings appear based on the merchant's browsing language.

Shopify marketing apps can now be embedded in the admin via the marketing activities API. Build app extensions for integration. Contact support for queries.

You can now specify Shopify Point of Sale as an install requirement for your app, to ensure that merchants can only install your app if they use that sales channel.

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Shopify now supports shared web credentials, allowing seamless user login between iOS apps and websites, enhancing user experience and reducing login friction for developers.

Product update API now retains variant IDs when options match, instead of creating new ones. Review your app for potential impacts. No expected issues for existing apps.

The Partner Dashboard's Stores section now offers improved navigation and mobile responsiveness, enhancing store management efficiency for developers.

Theme section schemas now accept a tag attribute, which customizes the HTML tag that wraps theme sections. Existing theme sections continue to use <div> by default.

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Storefront API updates: Metafields query support, Apple Pay checkout access, Shopify Scripts for Plus, out-of-stock filtering, product recommendations, improved error codes, and gift card purchases.

Product Recommendations API is now available on all Shopify plans, with added support for Liquid and Storefront API, enhancing product discovery and customization options for developers.

Apps now display a "Not Compatible" badge if they don't meet install requirements, helping merchants identify compatibility based on geographic and sales channel settings.

The Shopify App Store is now available in Dutch, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. You can now create a listing in these languages that will be shown to merchants. [Learn more about translated...

Shopify Flow connectors now support Shopify properties in triggers, enhancing custom triggers with related resource data and enabling specific actions. Available only for new connectors.

Starting May 1, 2018, new apps can't create non-HTTPS webhooks. By July 1, 2018, this applies to all apps. All non-HTTPS webhooks removed by January 1, 2019.

Shopify introduces API versioning for stability and predictability, with new versions every 3 months. Developer previews offer early access to upcoming features for testing.

AJAX API now supports multi-currency for Shopify Payments, returning monetary values in cart currency. Affects /cart.js, /products/{product-handle}.js, /recommendations/products.json, and /cart/shipping_rates.json.

Local collections and staff picks have started to roll out to merchants from regions around the world. Merchants visiting the Shopify App Store will see a local collection and staff picks more...

Set install requirements to block merchants whose stores don't meet your app's geographic and sales channel needs, ensuring core functionality.

Shopify now limits GET requests with a page offset over 100,000 to one call every two seconds. Use since_id pagination to avoid throttling. Adjust request rate using Retry-After header.

Shopify POS apps using the App SDK will stop working on iOS 9 from April 1, 2019. Developers must ensure compatibility with newer iOS versions to avoid errors.

New API call limits for product and variant creation will trigger HTTP 429 errors when exceeded. Implement retry logic to handle these limits effectively.

Shopify updates restrict partners from soliciting merchants off-platform, mandate app data sync with Shopify admin, enforce Shopify checkout use, and prohibit duplicate apps.

Added accepts_marketing_updated_at and marketing_opt_in_level to Customer REST resource for tracking marketing consent. Enhances customer data integrity. GraphQL API update coming soon.

The new Product Recommendations API offers smart suggestions on product pages, real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and customization, enhancing customer experience and boosting sales for Plus merchants.

The Shopify App Store listing submission form has been modernized to make it easier to submit a new app listing, or update an existing one.

With this, we’ve also updated our...

Shopify limits products to 250 tags. Exceeding this in API requests triggers a 423 error. Affects REST Admin API and GraphQL mutations for product updates and creation.

You can directly engage with the merchants who’ve posted a review of your app by replying to a review. [Learn how to reply to reviews...

The InventoryItem API now includes fields for HS codes, country/province of origin, aiding customs processes. Deprecate harmonizedSystemCode on Product Variant. Update apps accordingly.

Updates include efficient triggers with webhooks, enhanced security via action IDs, asynchronous actions, status code corrections, and a new HMAC header name for Shopify Flow apps.

The requires_shipping field is now on InventoryItem, not ProductVariant. Update apps to read from InventoryItem to avoid issues as ProductVariant field is deprecated.

New configuration options are available in the Buy Button JS library which allow you to expose an input field in the cart to collect checkout-level notes from the buyer.

You can learn...

Order creation now requires a location_id in fulfillment payloads. Apps must update to avoid 422 errors. Only one fulfillment per order is supported; all items must be fulfillable from that location.

JS Buy SDK update aligns with Storefront API, removes unused fixtures, fetches data from QueryRoot, returns checkoutUserErrors with code, and adds checkoutLineItemsReplace mutation.

As part of our efforts to improve the quality of the Storefront API, we've moved some nested fields out of the Shop object and...

The Shopify App Store is now available in French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Italian. You can now create a listing in these languages that will be shown to merchants. ...

Shopify now redirects merchants to the Apps page when app charges are declined, standardizing the process and eliminating the need for developers to create custom redirect pages.

The Storefront API now supports product/customer tags, discounts, Android App Links, multiple gift cards, and new sorting options. Deprecated checkout mutations replaced by V2 versions.

Shopify is testing ads for app developers on category pages in the App Store, allowing selected apps to appear above organic results without affecting search rankings or featured placements.

Set cart discounts via setDiscount with codes from the Discounts page. Supported on Shopify POS Android v3.1.3 and iOS v5.2.1. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Shopify App Bridge unifies Embedded and POS SDKs for seamless app integration in Shopify admin, mobile, and POS. Backwards compatible; no changes needed. Open source release soon.

Shopify now allows merchants to record unit costs, track margins, and access new profit reports. Developers can use the new cost property in InventoryItem for app integration.

Line item quantities must be ≥1; creating items with 0 returns a 422 error. This ensures consistent platform behavior, as 0-quantity items can't be fulfilled.

Shopify Payments now supports multi-currency, affecting APIs for products, checkouts, orders, and transactions. Update apps to handle currency changes before the December launch for Shopify Plus.

When you create a new product variant, there are two new default values applied to the inventory_quantity and inventory_management properties.

• inventory_quantity now defaults to...

You can now create a metafield with a value type of json_string, which allows you to store structured data and access it using Liquid. When retrieving the value of a json_string type Metafield,...

Starting September 17, 2018, Shopify will separate order risks from Shopify and third-party apps on the order page, requiring app updates for parsing Shopify-generated order risks.

We've shipped a change that removes inventory validation from the checkoutCreate mutation in the Storefront API. This is part of our effort to remove the risk of bots and crawlers getting access...