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The Summer ’23 edition of Shopify Editions is a digital experience designed to show how Shopify can help businesses start, scale, and grow. Every six months, Shopify releases a new edition of Shopify that tells a comprehensive product story about the latest releases, updates, and enhancements across the platform.
1. Artificial Intelligence: The biggest catalyst for exponential growth
Artificial intelligence is the biggest catalyst for exponential growth in today's society. We are on the brink of a new frontier, where there are more possibilities in commerce than ever before. Businesses that leverage AI will have a major advantage over the competition.
Shopify is combining its expertise, world-class products, and the latest AI innovations to accelerate the future of commerce. They are building the tools to make complex needs easy to fulfill, so brands can do more than ever.
Shopify Magic: The AI-Powered Feature Suite
Shopify Magic is a suite of AI-powered features that are integrated into Shopify products and workflows. It combines the latest advancements in AI technology and Shopify data. Shopify Magic allows you to create instant responses to manage the most common questions you receive from your customers.
Sidekick: Your Commerce Assistant
Sidekick is a commerce assistant that combines advanced AI technology and Shopify data to offer personalized and contextually relevant support for a series of tasks, from building a store, marketing, customer support, and back office management.
2. Quality of Life Improvements: A complete visual overhaul
The platform has undergone a complete visual overhaul – from fonts and buttons to a less cluttered space around the admin. Global search has been improved and also has new filters to show items, such as order status.
Redesigned homepage
The homepage has also been redesigned to be clearer, with statistics and analytics at the top. It is now possible to copy data to a new store, making bulk data migration more scalable and reliable.
Improvements that add up
In short, there are many quality of life improvements that are all quite small on their own, but add up when you spend a lot of time on the platform.
3. Shopify Bundles: Offer product bundles
Offer product bundles using new apps that work seamlessly in the admin and include real-time inventory synchronization for overselling protection. For fixed bundles and multipacks, brands can use the new Shopify Bundles app.
4. Shopify Collective: Increase sales by connecting and selecting products
Shopify Collective is an easy way for businesses to increase sales by connecting and selecting complementary products from quality brands on Shopify. Merchants can add products to their store in minutes and earn margin on what they sell.
5. Shopify Credit: An accessible, flexible, and affordable business charge card
Shopify Credit is an accessible, flexible, and affordable business charge card that allows entrepreneurs to optimize workflows and track daily business expenses in the Shopify admin.
6. Shopify Marketplace Connect: Expand your reach
Businesses can expand their reach by effortlessly integrating into the Shopify product catalog with major marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy.
7. Flexible Sections in the Online Store Editor: Create unique layouts
Creating unique layouts in the online store is easier than ever with flexible sections that allow you to drag and drop, resize, group, edit, and much more.
8. Platform Conversion Study: The best conversion on the internet
Shopify Checkout is the best on the internet, now proven by a global Big 3 consulting firm. Shopify's overall conversion rate beats the competition by up to 36% and on average by 15%. In addition, Shop Pay increases conversion by up to 50% and beats other accelerated checkouts by at least 10%.
9. Checkout Extensions: Create unique checkout experiences
New APIs and updates that allow partners to create unique checkout experiences with apps, including custom delivery methods, delivery dates, and suggested addresses, all managed within the checkout editor.
10. Developer Updates: Create the best stores for your clients
Discover the latest enhancements, including over 15 APIs and updates to help you create the best checkout experience for your online stores, CLI improvements to build Hydrogen stores faster, no rate limits on the Storefront API, tools to develop and market your apps more effectively, and ways to customize Shopify backend logic.
11. Metafields and Metaobjects: Updates that will bring even more flexibility
Metafields are now 4x faster, making the addition of custom data even faster. With metafields, you can store additional information, such as product and order details, to customize the functionality and appearance of your store. In addition, they will soon be able to synchronize between drafts and completed orders to get more complete order data. You can also filter products by metafields in the admin to more easily find the products you are working on.
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