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Merchants can group up to 250 fulfillments by criteria such as product type or shipping destination and pick, buy labels, print documents, and pack them together through a customizable workflow with pick, print, and scan-to-verify pack steps. Steps and actions can be added, renamed, reordered, and assigned to staff, and batches are created from the Orders page via Create batch.

Merchants shipping from the Netherlands or Poland can now buy discounted DHL eCommerce shipping labels directly on Shopify, with no fee on top of their plan. Labels are bought per order with delivery address, items, and weight pre-filled, and tracking is sent to the customer with the order marked fulfilled automatically. From the Netherlands, labels cover domestic orders dropped at a DHL service point or locker; from Poland, orders to eligible addresses in other EU countries dropped at a DHL locker.

Checkout MCP and Cart MCP now support the dev.ucp.shopping.buyer_consent extension on UCP 2026-08-25, returning a buyer.consent object listing each consent purpose the shop supports along with its state, description, and policy links. Agents that negotiate the extension can send buyer consent choices on cart and checkout create, update, or complete; unsent consent falls back to the shop's country defaults, and choices requiring a missing contact detail return a missing_consent_data warning that blocks checkout completion.

Royal Mail is now a pickup point provider across the UK, letting checkout customers select a location from a map or list and see its name, address, opening hours, and price before committing. Merchants enable it under Settings > Shipping and delivery by turning on Ship to pickup points for a UK location and editing the rate to include Royal Mail.

Merchants can buy shipping labels through a Shopify Flow action by setting conditions for which orders qualify; each matching order gets a label ready to print from the Shipping labels page, while orders that don't match are left alone. Carrier and service, package type, weight, and ship date are configurable, with triggers on tags, specific products, single-item orders, or any combination of order attributes.

Shopify AI Toolkit and Shopify CLI now include shopify app security check, a command that runs locally and scans an app's codebase, extension-point configuration, and dependencies for common vulnerability patterns, reporting the affected file and line, severity, a fix example, and documentation links. It supports public and custom apps across React Router, Rails, Django, Laravel, and custom authentication, and the engine is open source.

The visibility fields on CheckoutBrandingFooterContent and CheckoutAndAccountsConfigurationBrandingFooterContent now control only merchant-configurable footer content, so HIDDEN no longer produces an empty footer since Shopify-provided transaction information can still render. No fields, input types, enum values, scopes, or mutations changed, but apps that preview or test checkout branding should update previews and visual tests that assume HIDDEN removes all footer content.

Hydrogen is now a library rather than a React Router framework, so it can be added to any JavaScript stack to handle cart, variants, Markets pricing, analytics, Shop Pay, and customer accounts, with React Router and Next.js starters and hosting anywhere including Oxygen. The package also ships 20 skills that teach coding agents to build storefronts, and supports WebMCP shopping agents through the same storefront actions used by Liquid themes.

Shop MCP is live at https://mcp.shop.com, giving MCP-compatible agents 17 tools to search the 1 billion-product Shopify Catalog, build carts, and complete Shop Pay checkout; search requires no API key. Existing Catalog API integrations are unchanged, though there are no webhooks at launch so checkout status must be polled via get_checkout.

Sidekick is now available in the desktop checkout and accounts editor, where it answers configuration questions, recommends apps, and searches the Shopify Help Center. It also helps plan blocks and functions in the Checkout Blocks app.

The POS Navigation API adds a navigatesuccess event that fires after the destination screen finishes its native transition, with the callback receiving a standard Event; currententrychange can fire before the screen finishes appearing and the navigate() promise does not wait for the transition. The event is available to POS UI extensions targeting API version 2026-10 on POS builds that support it, and older builds will not emit it.

Shopify now suggests smart grid tiles based on the products and discounts a store's staff use most, with each suggestion explaining why it is recommended. Suggestions appear in the Add tile flow in Shopify POS and when editing a smart grid template in the POS editor in Shopify Admin, where unused tiles from the past year may also be flagged for removal.

POS UI extensions targeting API version 2026-10 can read shopify.extension.version, an opaque name matching the version shown on the Dev Dashboard Versions page, to identify which published build a merchant's device is running. The value is undefined when the extension runs from a local development server.

Cart operations that leave the cart unchanged, such as resubmitting values the cart already has, no longer trigger a carts/update webhook. Apps now receive one webhook per cart change instead of one per request.

For EU merchants in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, we've added automatic translation updates to Translate & Adapt. Until now, editing a product description or any…

Shopify now shares your compare-at price with AI shopping agents through Shopify Catalog, so AI agents can see when a product is marked down. Previously, AI agents reading Catalog only saw the current price and markdown prices displayed in storefront were not shown.

The Global Catalog REST API, which was deprecated in April 2026, stops serving traffic on November 2, 2026. If your app still calls it, you need to migrate to Global Catalog MCP, which implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), before that date.

The Catalog API now returns a merchant’s compare-at price as list_price on each product variant. Your app or agent can use list_price to tell when a product is marked down and by how much. The price field doesn’t change. No action is required.

Starting with API version 2026-10, Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions can specify an owner_type for each metafield declaration in shopify.extension.toml. Starting with API version 2027-01, owner_type is required for every metafield declaration, and deployments…

You can now automate your return and refund, contact information, terms of service, shipping, and legal notice policies to help you launch your store faster and expand into new markets. Your automated policies stay up to date as your store settings change and in sync with…