Shopify continues its innovative journey in the e-commerce industry with Shopify Editions Winter, the first series of innovations for 2024. The series features cutting-edge tools and products that will keep users ahead of the curve in the dynamic e-commerce landscape, in line with Shopify's commitment to pushing the e-commerce platform even further. Shopify's biannual updates aim to quickly adapt to industry developments and continuously improve the user experience.

Add up to 2000 Variants

Shopify is ushering in a new era in the e-commerce industry with a move to increase product variety. Now merchants and developers can create more complex product catalogs by increasing the number of variants available for each product from 99 to 2000. This innovation allows stores to offer more options on a single product, enriching the user experience and increasing sales potential. Shopify's move once again demonstrates the platform's flexibility and responsiveness to user needs.

Shopify has added a new GraphQL product API that supports up to 2000 variants per product. Get ready for more complex product catalogs with more variants. These new APIs are in developer preview only, and a public release will follow later.

Combined List Application

Shopify introduces a new app that allows merchants to consolidate product variations into a single listing. This feature provides a centralized and organized product presentation, enriched with custom image carousels, descriptive URLs, and publishing controls for each variation. This allows merchants to provide customers with a clearer and more compelling shopping experience, while streamlining product management. This innovation makes Shopify's e-commerce platform even more flexible and user-friendly.

Checkout and Checkout Completion Pages Customization Plugin Features Expanded

For Shopify Plus users, "Checkout Extensibility" represents a new way to personalize and enhance the checkout process. Now, merchants and developers can go beyond the basic checkout page to further customize the checkout experience. This is made possible through UI updates, adding sections, and other custom functionality so that Shopify Plus stores can offer a checkout experience that is unique to their brand. This feature takes Shopify's flexibility and responsiveness to user needs one step further. checkout.liquid is retiring and becoming legacy.

Payment Completion and Order Status Page Extensions

Additional extensions can be added to pages that show payment completion and order statuses. These features will be available for Shopify Plus users, and developers will be able to build custom apps for these areas.

New AI Features

There were similar apps in the Shopify store before, which made the process of changing the product background with artificial intelligence. We see that this feature has been added into Shopify's own application.

Shopify Magic in product descriptions, and now introduces new AI capabilities to transform product photography, expand automated authoring, and improve search capabilities. Stores can now professionally edit product images, change backgrounds or remove them with a few clicks or keywords. These AI-powered features streamline product presentations and increase sales potential.

Shopify Artificial Intelligence Makes Creating Product Photos Easy

Create professional product photos with new AI-powered image editing features. Instantly create, match or remove backgrounds from existing images with just a few clicks or keywords. Need to create more contact for your product shot? Maybe you want to show that model on the beach? All this and more is now possible using the AI-enhanced image features in Shopify.

Building Store Pages with Shopify Magic

With Shopify Magic, you can now create your product descriptions quickly and efficiently. This native AI-based tool generates stunning product descriptions in minutes based on your product title and keywords. And here's the big news: This feature has been extended to other parts of Shopify Admin, allowing you to quickly create not just product descriptions, but other important content, such as "About Us" or "FAQ" pages. With a few clicks, content creation is now easier and faster.

Semantic Search

Shopify Discovery app. With this app, you can enrich your search and discovery experience and deliver more relevant results to your customers. AI-powered semantic search goes beyond keyword matching to better understand customer intent and provide inspirational recommendations based on search terms. This helps your customers find exactly what they are looking for and improves their shopping experience.

Shopify B2B What's New

Shopify B2B is designed specifically to meet the unique needs of business-to-business transactions. Shopify B2B already supports companies, customized pricing structures, volume discounts, and payment terms, but some great new features have arrived.

With the announcement made as part of Shopify Editions Winter 2024, you'll get even more useful B2B features on your Shopify Plus stores.

Sales Representative Support

The ability to assign sales reps directly from the Shopify admin panel has been added. This feature allows businesses to personalize customer service and gives sales representatives access to private customer information and order management authority. In this way, customer satisfaction and loyalty can be increased by making customer relationships more personalized and effective.

Define Special Discount for B2B Customers

You can now create promotional discounts exclusively for B2B customers using Shopify Functions. Discounts can be applied automatically at checkout, including additional discounts on top of certain catalog prices.

Built-in Subscription Search and Shopify POS Updates

New and free, eliminating the need for a third-party application to support subscription services Shopify Subscriptions app. With this app, subscriptions can be easily set up and managed directly from the Shopify admin panel. There are many similar apps in the app store, but since they need to work with payment solutions, there is no gateway that supports this model in Turkey for now. If there is a change with the subject in the future, you can follow the announcement from our news.

Shopify POS Terminal is an all-in-one payment terminal for retail stores, offering Wi-Fi and Ethernet connectivity.

With the new update, it can now offer a real-time display where customers can see their purchases in detail on the screen. They can even complete the purchase and checkout securely with clear flows for payment, PIN entry, tipping, and receipt selection. Shopify POS is unfortunately not available in Turkey.

Shopify 2024 updates were a version announcement with good features in general. However, compared to previous versions, this time it seems to integrate more applications into the core application. There can be too many bugs in the applications that are executed in this way compared to the main application. For example, Shopify Flow contains many bugs.

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