New Markets Feature
Shopify introduces the powerful new Markets feature, a centralized hub to manage your entire sales ecosystem effortlessly.
Manage All Sales Channels: Consolidate control over your online store, B2B operations, and international sales. Really, this is a centralized approach and you save time because you don’t have to run different sites, removing all that complexity from one location.
Easy B2B Expansion: Expand your B2B operations with ease by creating tailored experiences for wholesale customers. Customize catalogs and pricing structures to meet the unique needs of different business clients, making it simpler to handle large orders and specific client requirements.
Retail Integration: If you’re selling in person, Markets integrates seamlessly with Shopify POS. This integration ensures a smooth and streamlined checkout process enhancing the customer experience and reducing operational friction.
Reach New Markets: Effortlessly expand into new regions by tailoring customer experiences based on location. Customize currency, language, and product offerings to better serve customers in different parts of the world, thereby increasing your global reach and sales potential.
Personalize for Customers: Cater to a particular customer’s needs where his or her location is irrelevant and similarly where he would like to shop. Personalized service ensures that the customer will get a personalized experience that meets their expectations and, therefore, will come out satisfactory.
Simplify Operations: Save time and resources by managing all your sales channels from one place. This unified approach streamlines your operations, making it easier to oversee your entire sales strategy and execution.
Split Shipping
Split shipping enhances transparency and provides options for orders with items from different locations or varying fulfillment times.
Price Priority: At checkout, customers can choose the most cost-effective shipping option for each item. This option helps customers save money on shipping costs.
Speed Priority: Customers can prioritize the fastest possible delivery for all items, even if it means splitting the shipment into multiple packages. This ensures quick delivery of urgent items.
Custom Options: Offer the customer separate shipping options on all products in one order. Due to its personalization, customers are allowed to be in charge of where, when, and how they’ll receive their purchased items, which offers them greater convenience in shopping.
Shopify Magic
Shopify Editions Summer 2024 introduces a suite of powerful AI features designed to streamline your workflow and empower your business.
Sidekick: Sidekick, now living in thousands of Shopify stores, acts as your virtual assistant. It understands your specific store data and provides personalized guidance, helping you make informed decisions and manage your store more efficiently.
AI Media Generation: AI-powered media generation allows for the speedy creation of high-quality visuals, saving time and resources and developing that professional look.
AI-Powered Customer Support: Shopify Inbox includes a new feature on AI-suggested replies for improving customer service. With AI support, one can respond to customer inquiries faster and with higher accuracy levels, thus improving both efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Rebuilt Analytics
Shopify’s revamped analytics tech stack offers significant improvements to help you better understand your customers and store performance.
Faster: Access reports and insights in real-time, allowing you to react quickly to trends and opportunities. No more waiting for data to refresh – get the information you need instantly.
More Flexible: Customize these reports according to your needs so that you could deeply understand your business.
More Intuitive: The redesigned interface is intuitive and easy to understand, making it really navigable and analytically possible for everyone, even the non-data expert.
ShopifyQL: A powerful query language coming soon, ShopifyQL will allow you to query your data directly, providing even more control and flexibility in analyzing your store’s performance.
Theme Style Settings
Theme developers are in for a treat with new features designed to streamline the theme creation process and offer greater flexibility to merchants.
Customization: This empowers merchants with the ability to customize the look and feel of their store without touching any code, which helps quite easily establish an online presence that is unique and attractive.
Seamless Integration: Use pre-built style panels for common design elements or create custom ones for more control. Developers can leverage these panels or create custom ones for even more control over the design elements, ensuring a cohesive and professional look.
Block Management: Theme developers can now create static block elements within sections. This allows for a more “opinionated” design approach, ensuring a consistent and cohesive brand experience throughout the store.
Hydrogen Visual Editor
Shopify Editions Summer 2024 introduces the Hydrogen Visual Editor, a revolutionary tool powered by Utopia, an open-source platform now under Shopify’s wing.
Visual Editing for Everyone: Design your storefront visually, empowering non-technical team members to contribute.
Code as the Source of Truth: Despite the visual interface, your code remains the foundation. All edits seamlessly translate into clean and maintainable code changes that are synced to your GitHub repository, ensuring that your storefront remains robust and scalable.
Frictionless Collaboration: Break down silos between developers, designers, and merchandisers with a shared view of the store, streamlining development.
Managed Markets
Managed Markets simplifies the complexities of international selling, allowing you to focus on creating amazing products and running your business.
Duties & Taxes Simplified: Include duties and taxes directly in your regional pricing, ensuring a transparent and frictionless checkout experience for your international customers. This clarity helps avoid unexpected costs and improves customer satisfaction.
Restricted Products: Selling restricted items internationally can be a compliance nightmare. Managed Markets automatically flags and prevents you from selling restricted products in certain regions, helping you stay compliant with local regulations.
Optimized Shipping Rates: Access competitive shipping rates through Shopify’s network of partners for efficient and affordable delivery.
Order Editing: We can easily make changes to international orders for a smoother customer experience.
Ship to & From Retail Stores
Customers today crave convenience and flexibility. Shopify Editions Summer 2024 empowers you to meet these needs with powerful new features.
In-Store Pickup: Permit customers to order online, but take their orders in-store at one of their locations; that way it eliminates the shipping cost and improves the shopping experience.
Ship from Store: Retail spaces should be used as mini-fulfillment centers. Manage in-store inventory and fulfill online orders directly from your stores, reducing fulfillment times for customers located near your stores and optimizing stock levels.
Easy Retail Checkout
Shopify Editions Summer 2024 introduces features designed to simplify retail checkout with Shopify POS.
Enhanced Staff Attribution: Easily track sales associated with specific staff members. This provides valuable data for commission structures, performance reviews, and identifying top salespeople, helping you manage and motivate your team effectively.
Clearer Staff Roles and Permissions: Assign customized roles and permissions to staff members within Shopify POS. This ensures everyone has the necessary access while avoiding unauthorized actions, improving security and efficiency.
Digital Receipts with Opt-In: Send digital receipts to customers right from Shopify POS. Those receipts can include your signature button for them to join an email list when possible that may or may not be tied to the receipt and are useful in reaching out and getting to know customers better, which ultimately strengthens your marketing.
Clearer Return Policies: Display in-store return policy information directly at checkout within Shopify POS. This reduces confusion for customers and ensures they understand your return process, leading to a better overall shopping experience.
