- Product Merchandising API
Update: Introducing a powerful enhancement to the Product Merchandising API, supporting up to 2,000 variants per product. This empowers merchants with unprecedented flexibility and scalability, allowing them to seamlessly manage intricate product catalogs.
Value for Merchants:
Flexibility: Merchants can now manage and showcase even the most intricate product catalogs with ease.
Scalability: The API’s support for a higher number of variants enables businesses to effortlessly accommodate diverse inventories.
Example: A clothing retailer can use the increased variant limit to offer extensive customization options for products like t-shirts, allowing customers to choose from various sizes, colors, and designs without overwhelming the product page.
- Shopify Combined Listings
Update: Shopify introduces a streamlined approach to product merchandising with Combined Listings. This feature allows merchants to manage multiple variations of a product from a single parent listing.
Value for Merchants:
Efficiency: Managing multiple variations becomes more efficient as merchants can do so from a single, cohesive listing.
Organization: The Combined Listings feature ensures that product information remains cohesive and easy to manage.
Example: An electronics store selling smartphones can use Combined Listings to manage multiple variations of each device (e.g., storage capacity, color) under a single product listing, simplifying inventory management and offering a cohesive shopping experience..
- Rich Attributes for Each Product Category
Update: Enhancing product organization, Shopify introduces rich attributes for each product category. Merchants can now add detailed attributes to their products, aiding in better organization and automation.
Value for Merchants:
Organization: Easily create, classify, and organize products with the added granularity of rich attributes.
Automation: The ability to automate variant generation based on attributes adds a layer of efficiency to product management.
Example: A furniture store can utilize rich attributes to categorize products based on material, style, or room type, making it easier for customers to find relevant items and facilitating targeted marketing campaigns.
- Semantic Search
Update: Shopify Plus merchants can now leverage the power of Semantic Search, an AI-powered feature that transcends traditional keyword limitations, providing an enhanced search experience.
Value for Merchants:
Enhanced Search: Semantic Search goes beyond conventional keyword search, offering customers a more refined and relevant search experience.
Personalization: The feature contributes to a more personalized shopping journey by connecting customers with highly relevant search results.
Example: A beauty retailer can implement Semantic Search to understand customer queries like “moisturizer for dry skin” and display relevant product recommendations, enhancing the search experience and increasing the likelihood of conversion.
- Shopify Subscriptions
Update: The Shopify Subscriptions app reaches full release, allowing merchants to offer subscription services seamlessly on their online stores.
Value for Merchants:
Predictable Revenue: Merchants can now establish recurring orders, providing a steady and predictable revenue stream.
Customer Loyalty: Offering subscription services fosters trust and convenience, encouraging long-term customer engagement.
Example: A coffee retailer can offer subscription plans for weekly or monthly coffee deliveries, providing customers with convenience, ensuring a steady revenue stream, and fostering long-term brand loyalty.
- Shopify Bundles
Update: Significant enhancements are made to the Shopify Bundles feature, allowing merchants to create more impactful product bundles.
Value for Merchants:
Expanded Possibilities: Bundles can now support up to 30 items, providing merchants with greater flexibility in crafting bundled offers.
Customization: Integration with Shopify Scripts allows for advanced automation and customization of bundled offerings.
Example: A gift shop can create themed gift bundles for special occasions like birthdays or holidays, bundling together complementary items such as greeting cards, candles, and chocolates to offer value and convenience to customers.
- Shopify Checkout Customization
Update: Shopify takes a significant leap in Checkout Extensibility, introducing 14 new APIs and UI components for enhanced customization.
Value for Merchants:
Enhanced Branding: Merchants gain greater control over the post-purchase journey, ensuring brand consistency.
Improved User Experience: Seamless integration with Shop Pay contributes to an improved overall checkout experience.
Example: A luxury fashion brand can customize the post-purchase experience by adding branded imagery and personalized thank-you messages to the order confirmation page, enhancing brand perception and encouraging repeat purchases
- Shopify One Page Checkout
Update: Shopify introduces a new one-page checkout design, aiming to streamline the checkout process for customers.
Value for Merchants:
Efficiency: The one-page checkout design reduces buyer completion times by an average of 4 seconds.
Improved User Experience: Accelerated checkout loading speeds by up to 95% contribute to an overall improved user experience.
Example: A subscription-based meal kit service can implement the one-page checkout design to streamline the ordering process, allowing customers to select meal preferences, choose delivery frequency, and complete payment quickly and efficiently.
- Shopify Checkout Sheet Kit
Update: Shopify introduces the Checkout Sheet Kit for mobile apps, providing a fully customized checkout experience.
Value for Merchants:
Mobile Optimization: The Checkout Sheet Kit ensures a fully customized and optimized checkout experience for mobile applications.
Versatility: Available for iOS/Swift, Android, and React Native, providing flexibility for a wide range of users and devices.
Example: A mobile app for a fitness apparel brand can integrate the Checkout Sheet Kit to offer a seamless checkout experience within the app, allowing customers to browse products, add them to the cart, and complete the purchase without leaving the app.
