Many of our clients asked us for a summarized list of the new Shopify features.
We thought it would be helpful to share this list with the wider community as well.
Below is a clean summary of the new Shopify features from Spring 2026 and Winter 2026 Editions, grouped by area.
1. AI / Agentic Commerce
- Products optimized for AI shopping – Shopify can structure and enrich product data so products can appear better in AI shopping channels.
- Checkout inside AI chats – Customers can buy directly from AI surfaces like Copilot using Shop Pay.
- Universal Commerce Protocol / UCP – Shopify is pushing agentic commerce through Catalog, Cart, and Checkout MCPs.
- Agentic plan – Non-Shopify businesses can sync products to Shopify Catalog and sell across AI channels and Shop app.
- Catalog API improvements – Image search, product lookup, richer product details, availability, variants, offers, and Shop sign-in support.
- Shop skill for personal AI agents – Shoppers using AI agents can discover Shopify products and approve purchases through Shop.
2. Sidekick AI
- Sidekick works with apps – Sidekick can work with apps like Judge.me, Klaviyo, Loop, Smile, etc.
- Actionable guidance – Sidekick gives tips to improve traffic, conversion, and repeat sales.
- Sidekick on Apple Watch – Merchants can check business information from Apple Watch.
- Multi-tasking in Sidekick – Sidekick can keep working in the background while merchants start other tasks.
- Sidekick creates customers – Merchants can describe a customer and Sidekick fills the form.
- Sidekick can generate Flow tests – It can create test events for Shopify Flow automations.
- Custom app generation – Sidekick can build small custom apps for specific business needs.
- Theme edits and image editing – Sidekick can edit themes, create product photos, remove backgrounds, expand images, and help edit emails.
3. Online Store / Storefront
- AI sales associate in Shopify Inbox – Shopify Inbox can recommend products, especially for customers signed in with Shop.
- Improved storefront search – Better search results even with typos or unusual search phrases.
- SimGym AI store analysis – AI-simulated shoppers can analyze stores and suggest improvements.
- Rollouts – Schedule theme changes, checkout changes, customer account changes, or run A/B tests.
- Mobile store editing – Better mobile editing experience inside the Shopify app.
- Variant-level publishing – Control which variants are available by channel and market.
- Localized theme scheduling and A/B testing – Translate themes by market and test/publish them using Rollouts.
- Customer account improvements – Better account pages, 365-day sessions, social sign-in, editable customer emails, and customizable sign-in copy.
- 2048 variants per product – Merchants can now manage much larger product variant structures.
- Sell on WordPress – Shopify plugin can add products, collections, cart, and checkout to WordPress sites.
4. Markets, B2B, and International Selling
- Visualized Markets graph – Better view of market setup, discounts, products, and settings.
- Discounts by market – Run region-specific, retail-location-specific, or B2B-specific promotions.
- Sales channel control in Markets – Customize product availability, pricing, and currency by sales channel.
- B2B features on more plans – Company profiles, volume pricing, and up to three B2B catalogs are available on more plans.
- B2B native support in QuickBooks and Mailchimp – Sync B2B orders, PO numbers, company details, and create B2B email segments.
- B2B store credit – Issue store credit to company locations.
- Pickup in store for B2B – B2B customers can select pickup as a delivery option.
- Dynamic payment terms and deposits – Apps powered by Shopify Functions can set terms and deposits.
- ERP integrations – Sync B2B companies, orders, and payment terms with NetSuite, BrightPearl, Fulfil, Sage, and Acumatica using integrations.
5. Checkout and Payments
- Shop Pay for any brand on any platform – Businesses outside Shopify can offer Shop Pay.
- Managed payment methods – Shopify Payments can dynamically reorder payment methods to improve conversion.
- Ship and pickup in one checkout – Customers can choose shipping for some items and pickup for others in the same checkout.
- More local payment methods in Shop Pay – Regional and local payment methods are being added to Shop Pay.
- USDC payments – Customers can pay with USDC on Ethereum, Base, and other chains; cashback/credits are also supported in some cases.
- Redesigned checkout – Mobile checkout has less scrolling, clearer delivery options, and a more prominent pay button.
- VAT ID validation – EU and UK buyers can add and validate VAT IDs at checkout.
- Better address suggestions – More accurate address autocomplete and validation in selected countries.
- Checkout branding consistency – Logo, colors, and typography can be applied consistently across checkout, accounts, and sign-in.
- Personalized Shop Pay button – Saved card details can appear on the Shop Pay button.
- Checkout customization by market – Checkout and account pages can be customized for different countries and B2B buyers.
6. Marketing
- Campaign Autopilot – AI-powered marketing campaigns that learn, optimize, and run across channels.
- Shop Campaigns on more channels – Campaigns can run across ChatGPT, Microsoft Monetize, Pinterest, and earlier channels like X, Snapchat, and Bing.
- WhatsApp marketing – Create and manage WhatsApp campaigns from Shopify Messaging.
- SMS automations – Shopify Messaging supports SMS campaigns and automations.
- Smart email delivery – Shopify can prioritize which messages to send or hold back to improve conversion.
- Marketing analytics – Reports include spend, ROAS, impressions, sessions, and sales.
- Discount links tied to campaigns – Better attribution for campaign-specific discount links.
- Auto-translation for Shopify Forms – Translate forms from English into 19 other languages.
- Dynamic product sections in emails – Automatically show best sellers or selected collections in emails.
- Marketing consent controls – Better consent management for email, SMS, WhatsApp, and Shopify Forms.
7. Operations and Analytics
- Store management with AI agents – Manage products, collections, and orders from Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity.
- Shopify AI Toolkit – Manage Shopify from AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and VS Code.
- New analytics visualizations – Scatter plots, radar charts, bubble charts, and sunburst charts.
- Daily insights in analytics – Shopify highlights important trends from store data.
- Chart annotations – Visual explanations for why metrics changed.
- Metric targets – Set and track business goals inside analytics.
- Analytics filtered by metafields – Use custom structured data in reports.
- Heatmaps in analytics – View sales or other metrics across two variables, like day and hour.
- Bot filtering – Cleaner traffic and conversion data by excluding bots.
- Single-view analytics for multiple stores – Plus merchants can see organization-wide performance in one place.
8. Inventory, Fulfillment, and Shipping
- Enhanced inventory management – Better purchasing, barcode receiving, inventory counts, and returns data.
- Faster inventory syncing – Back-in-stock updates reach the online store faster.
- Pickup fulfillment from multiple sources – Use both in-store stock and transferred inventory for pickup orders.
- Shipment-level barcode receiving – Scan GS1-128 and similar barcodes to receive transfers faster.
- Inventory adjustment workflows – Better audit trail for quantity changes.
- Customer cancellation requests – Customers can request cancellation before fulfillment or returns after fulfillment.
- Batch fulfillment workflow – Group orders into pick, pack, scan, and ship workflows.
- Advanced shipping options – Combine order value and weight conditions with descriptions and transit times.
- Manual delivery confirmation – Mark orders as delivered for unsupported carriers.
- Carrier auto-detection – Manual tracking numbers can detect DHL, EVRi, Australia Post, and other carriers.
- UPS return labels – US businesses can buy UPS return labels and pay only when used.
- Managed Markets improvements – Faster setup, duty breakdowns, UK/Canada support, local currency gift cards, and better product restriction reassessment.
9. Retail / POS
- Fastest-ever POS – Shopify POS v11 improves cart, customer creation, product adding, and checkout speed.
- Scannable discounts – Generate QR codes and scan them at POS to apply discounts.
- Returns and exchanges in one cart – Handle refunds, exchanges, and new sales together.
- Offline checkout by device – Staff can enable offline checkout when internet drops.
- In-store-only discounts – Create discounts that apply only in POS.
- Customer data permissions – Control which POS staff can view sensitive customer details.
- POS Hub – New retail hardware hub with wired reliability, processing power, automatic firmware updates, and device connectivity.
- Subscriptions on POS – Customers can sign up for subscriptions in-store.
- Quick count with POS – Scan and update inventory from POS.
10. Shop App
- Custom Shop product pages – Add slideshows, collections, videos, media, custom sections, and branding.
- Demand indicators and inventory alerts – Product pages can show trending and low-stock indicators.
- Posts in Shop app – Merchants can create posts shown in Shop feeds and store pages.
- Dynamic storefronts – Shop storefronts can personalize products for each shopper.
- Deals feed – Discounts, price drops, and campaigns can appear in a dedicated deals area.
- Shoppable videos – Add videos to Shop app with AI-assisted distribution.
- Better Shop Minis discovery – Products can appear in immersive experiences like virtual try-on and outfit tracking.
- Order tracking in more countries – Shop order tracking expanded to 21 more countries.
11. Finance
- Shopify Capital flex account – Apply once for ongoing access to funding, subject to approval.
- Capital repayment from Shopify Payments balance – Repay funding from payments balance instead of bank debits.
- Shopify Capital in France and more European countries – Funding expanded to France, Netherlands, Spain, and Ireland.
- Automatic transfers in Shopify Balance – Split payouts into accounts like expenses, inventory, marketing, and savings.
- Staff cards with spend controls – Issue Balance cards to staff with controls.
- Same-day ACH transfers – Send same-day transfers from Shopify Balance in the US.
- Domestic wire transfers – Send vendor wire transfers from Shopify Balance.
12. Developer Features
- Commerce skills for AI tools – Build and manage Shopify from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, and more.
- Webhook field-change triggers – Trigger webhooks only when specific fields change.
- GraphQL and bulk operations from CLI – Run queries and bulk operations from terminal or AI agents.
- All partner stores in Dev Dashboard – Dev, client transfer, and collaborator stores are together.
- App Events API – Send app events to Shopify and monitor performance.
- Metafields in ShopifyQL – Use metafields as dimensions and filters.
- No-backend lightweight apps – Build App Home directly in admin without maintaining backend infrastructure.
- Safer app deployments – CI/CD improvements to avoid deleting live extensions by mistake.
- Faster bulk operations – Bulk operations support all Admin API mutations, larger files, and more concurrent operations.
- Shopify Dev MCP – AI coding tools can validate API calls, access docs, and generate better Shopify code.
- Sidekick app extensions – Apps can expose their data and actions to Sidekick.
Most useful features
For most Shopify merchants, the best practical features are:
- AI-ready product data and agentic commerce readiness
- AI sales associate / Shopify Inbox improvements
- Better storefront search
- Rollouts and A/B testing
- Variant-level publishing
- Discounts by market
- B2B features on more plans
- Redesigned checkout and better address validation
- Shop Pay expansion and local payment methods
- WhatsApp, SMS, and AI-powered marketing
- Analytics improvements and daily insights
- Inventory, returns, and batch fulfillment improvements
- POS v11 improvements for retail stores
- Shop app customization, posts, deals, and shoppable videos
- Developer MCP, AI Toolkit, and Shopify UCP opportunities for custom apps / agentic commerce.