Our focus here is a run through of updates announced by Shopify relevant to standard Shopify for UK based businesses. The full update including Shopify Plus features can be found here.
Markets - new unified home to more easily expand across B2B, retail, and regions, and tailor the customer experience for each.
Split shipping in checkout - allow customers more choice by splitting the order into multiple shipments. Customers can now get their order shipped to pickup points like parcel points and post offices.
New analytics - improved features including customisable dashboards and reports.
Billing - you can now pay your Shopify plan via Direct Debit (available in certain regions).
Themes - new style settings in themes to customise blocks.
Locations - sort and filter your locations to more easily manage settings such as store pick up, local delivery, POS and more.
POS - ship to and from retail stores - online orders can be transferred to customers preferred store to pickup.
POS - Digital receipts and capture of customer's email plus rules to streamline your in-store returns as well as creation of draft orders.
Search & Discovery:
- Image filters for search
- New product category filter in search
- Sort your filters either manually or using AI
Metafields - bulk import and export.
Store credit - issue store credit to customers directly in admin, view balances and transaction history, and enable customers to spend their credit at checkout.
Product bundles - now availble in draft orders and Shop
Stack discounts - process multiple discounts in a single retail checkout.
Shopify flow - more automated tasks are now included plus metafield values can now be more easily accessed.
Settings - Soon all plans will be able to efficiently manage billing, staff access, and more for multiple stores by combining them all under a single organisation.
Admin - context aware navigation with an intuitive top bar.
Coming soon - AI for media editing - easily transform images.
As always, do get in touch if there is anything that you need any help, guidance or support with; we'd be delighted to help.
