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AI shopping assistants cannot reliably recommend a product from thin, inconsistent catalog data. Shopify’s current guidance points to a practical product-data audit: complete product facts, accurate policies, structured attributes, and a clear distinction between discovery settings and actual catalog controls.
Shopify Managed Markets will stop supporting delivered duty unpaid on August 24, 2026 in countries and regions where it supports delivered duty paid. Affected markets will move to duties and taxes collected at checkout unless merchants turn off Managed Markets before the deadline.
Shopify and Meta Ads can both report valid performance numbers while disagreeing sharply. The difference is usually attribution rules, measurement scope and data collection—not proof that one dashboard is broken. Here is a practical way to compare them before changing spend.
Shopify has added Shop Campaigns performance data to ShopifyQL. Authorized analytics and reporting apps can now query campaign and segment metrics without a new scope, giving agencies and app teams a clearer way to report advertising performance for merchants.
Shopify has added native DHL Express label buying for merchants in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Here is what the rollout includes and the shipping, customs, and customer-service checks to run before moving live orders.
Retail technology only improves the customer experience when store teams know the workflow and inventory data stays trustworthy across channels.
A checkout link is a customer promise. Treat it as an end-to-end commerce integration with clear controls for pricing, availability, payment and support.
A/B testing can reduce launch risk, but only if traffic allocation, test duration and conversion definitions are stable enough to support a decision.
Instant Checkout changes where a purchase can begin. It does not remove the merchant's responsibility for order approval, fulfillment, tax and post-purchase care.
Shopify's Spring '26 Edition puts product information closer to the center of discovery, checkout and AI-assisted shopping. Merchants should respond by tightening the catalog basics.