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# News & Updates

- [Shopify POS Update: How to Use Shared Carts for Omnichannel Selling](/blog/shopify-pos-update-how-to-use-shared-carts-for-omnichannel-selling): Shopify's latest POS update allows staff to view a customer's online cart in-store, bridging the gap between digital browsing and physical retail.
- [The 2026 Guide to Agentic Commerce on Shopify: A 10-Step Setup](/blog/the-2026-guide-to-agentic-commerce-on-shopify-a-10-step-setup): Prepare your Shopify store for AI-powered sales with this 10-step guide to setting up agentic commerce channels like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.
- [Agentic Storefronts Are Live. Here's the Order Problem Nobody Is Talking About.](/blog/agentic-storefronts-are-live-here-s-the-order-problem-nobody-is-talkin): As AI agents begin placing orders on Shopify, a new wave of incorrect order details is creating a hidden operational problem for merchants.
- [Shopify's Rollouts Feature Explained: How to Safely Test New Discounts](/blog/shopify-s-rollouts-feature-explained-how-to-safely-test-new-discounts): Learn how to use Shopify's built-in Rollouts feature to safely A/B test new discount offers to a small percentage of customers before launching them store-wide.
- [How Agentic Commerce Changes Shopify Analytics and Reporting](/blog/how-agentic-commerce-changes-shopify-analytics-and-reporting): As AI agents begin to handle online shopping, the standard Shopify analytics dashboard is becoming obsolete; merchants must now track new metrics to understand this growing sales channel.
- [Heads Up: Shopify Will Start Taxing Return Shipping Fees in the US (Oct 2026)](/blog/heads-up-shopify-will-start-taxing-return-shipping-fees-in-the-us-oct): Starting October 23, 2026, Shopify will automatically calculate sales tax on return shipping fees for US merchants using Shopify Tax, treating them like outbound shipping.
- [The Merchant's Guide to Shopify's New SubscriptionContractCalculation API](/blog/the-merchant-s-guide-to-shopify-s-new-subscriptioncontractcalculation): Shopify's new SubscriptionContractCalculation API changes how subscription edits work, using the main checkout engine for more reliable calculations.
- [Shop.com: What Shopify's New Domain Means for Merchants and the Shop App](/blog/shop-com-what-shopify-s-new-domain-means-for-merchants-and-the-shop-ap): Shopify has acquired Shop.com, shifting its consumer app's web presence from shop.app and signaling a major strategic focus on its consumer-facing marketplace.
- [Is Your Shopify Checkout Really Open to AI Agents? A WebMCP Check](/blog/is-your-shopify-checkout-really-open-to-ai-agents-a-webmcp-check): Agentic commerce is bringing new orders to Shopify, but also new errors. Learn how Shopify's WebMCP and UCP protocols open your store to AI agents and what you need to check to be ready.
- [Shopify Analytics Annotations: A Practical Guide to Tracking the 'Why'](/blog/shopify-analytics-annotations-a-practical-guide-to-tracking-the-why): Learn how to use Shopify's analytics annotations feature to add crucial context to your sales data and understand the story behind the numbers.
- [Shopify Checkout Extensibility in 2026: What Non-Plus Merchants Need to Do](/blog/shopify-checkout-extensibility-in-2026-what-non-plus-merchants-need-to): For Shopify merchants not on the Plus plan, the August 2026 deadline for checkout extensibility requires migrating tracking pixels from 'Additional Scripts' to the new Web Pixels API to avoid losing marketing data.
- [Navigating the New Shopify Payouts Page: A 2026 Visual Guide](/blog/navigating-the-new-shopify-payouts-page-a-2026-visual-guide): Shopify has redesigned the Payouts page with a new list-and-detail view, making it easier for merchants to track payments and reconcile their accounts.
- [Shopify Spring '26: The 3 Updates That Reshape Store Operations](/blog/shopify-spring-26-the-3-updates-that-reshape-store-operations): Shopify's Spring '26 release included over 150 updates, but only a few fundamentally change how you run your store's operations.
- [The 2026 Agentic Commerce Stack: 5 Tools to Prepare Your Shopify Store](/blog/the-2026-agentic-commerce-stack-5-tools-to-prepare-your-shopify-store): Prepare your Shopify store for AI-driven shopping with the five essential tools and data optimizations that get you recommended by AI agents in 2026.
- [Shopify Analytics Just Changed: What the New Session Measurement Means](/blog/shopify-analytics-just-changed-what-the-new-session-measurement-means): Shopify's analytics changed in September 2026, altering how sessions are counted and affecting your store's key metrics.
- [Shopify POS Update: How to Use Shared Carts to Sell Across the Sales Floor](/blog/shopify-pos-update-how-to-use-shared-carts-to-sell-across-the-sales-fl): Shopify's new POS shared cart feature allows multiple staff to build and complete a single customer's cart from any device in your store.
- [Shopify Editions Spring '26: The 5 Updates That Actually Change Your Workflow](/blog/shopify-editions-spring-26-the-5-updates-that-actually-change-your-wor): Shopify's Spring '26 Edition released over 150 updates; we cut through the noise to find the five that will actually require you to change your daily workflows.
- [From Online Cart to In-Store Sale: Using Shopify's New POS Feature](/blog/from-online-cart-to-in-store-sale-using-shopify-s-new-pos-feature): Shopify's latest POS feature allows retail staff to view a customer's online abandoned cart, creating a powerful new opportunity to close sales in person.
- [Shopify's New Multiple Barcodes Feature: A Merchant's Guide](/blog/shopify-s-new-multiple-barcodes-feature-a-merchant-s-guide): Shopify's 2026 update allows merchants to add up to 20 barcodes to a single product variant, solving long-standing inventory and point-of-sale scanning issues.
- [Shopify's Persistent Cart: What It Is and How It Works](/blog/shopify-s-persistent-cart-what-it-is-and-how-it-works): A persistent cart saves a logged-in customer's shopping cart so it automatically syncs when they switch devices, preventing them from having to start their order over.
- [A Merchant's Guide to the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)](/blog/a-merchant-s-guide-to-the-universal-commerce-protocol-ucp): The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is a new open standard that enables AI agents to transact with merchants, changing the future of online selling.
- [A Merchant's Guide to Shopify's DDU Sunset for Managed Markets](/blog/a-merchant-s-guide-to-shopify-s-ddu-sunset-for-managed-markets): Shopify is ending Delivered Duty Unpaid (DDU) support for Managed Markets, and this guide explains how merchants can transition to a Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) model to remain compliant.
- [What Are Shopify Checkout Functions? An Explanation for Merchants](/blog/what-are-shopify-checkout-functions-an-explanation-for-merchants): Shopify Functions allow developers to build apps that customize the checkout process, a feature once locked down, giving Plus merchants powerful new control.
- [Shopify's Agentic Commerce Readiness Tool: What It Checks, Why Stores Are Failing, and What to Fix First](/blog/shopify-s-agentic-commerce-readiness-tool-what-it-checks-why-stores-are-failing-and-what-to-fix-first): Shopify launched a free Agentic Commerce Readiness tool that scores how visible your store is to AI shopping agents. Here is what it checks, what merchants are failing, and what to fix first.
- [Shopify Winter Editions 2026: Features Merchants Should Use Immediately](/blog/shopify-winter-editions-2026-features-merchants-should-use-immediately): The gap between merchants who benefit from Shopify Editions and those who do not is not knowledge. It is execution. Most merchants read the announcement, find a feature that sounds relevant, and never actually implement it.
- [How Shopify Agentic Storefronts Change Product Discovery in 2026](/blog/how-shopify-agentic-storefronts-change-product-discovery-in-2026): The shift from search-engine discovery to AI-agent discovery is not going to announce itself with fanfare. It is going to happen order by order, query by query, until one day a meaningful percentage of your new customer acquisition is arriving from a conversation that never touched your website first. The merchants who understand the mechanics now are the ones who will show up well in those conversations.
- [Shopify Agentic Storefronts Are Live. Here's the Order Problem Nobody Is Talking About](/blog/shopify-agentic-storefronts-are-live-here-s-the-order-problem-nobody-is-talking-about): Shopify Agentic Storefronts are live. Here is why AI-sourced orders bypass checkout validators and what merchants need at the order layer before volume grows.