Apps that create new discount types using Shopify Functions can now register shopify/Discount app intents. This lets Sidekick launch an app’s create and edit flows and promote them in the disambiguation picker. Apps can register an intent using either of these targets: admin.app.intent.link navigates to an existing page in a React Router app.
Apps that bill with the Billing API can now move their existing subscriptions to Shopify App Pricing by using the migration tool in the Partner Dashboard or new commands in Shopify CLI. Subscriptions move at the start of their next billing cycle, and merchants don’t need to re-approve charges.
Sidekick now surfaces app extensions that declare only intents , with no tools file. Previously an extension had to declare tools to be eligible for Sidekick, so an admin.app.intent.link or admin.app.intent.render extension that registered only an intent was skipped and Sidekick never suggested the app.
With today's release of AI Toolkit , all existing shopify- skills are consolidated into a single shopify skill. If you use AI Toolkit skills with agents or npx skills , you might need to update your environment.
The Polaris 2.0 release candidate is now available for embedded App Home interfaces. It includes the Shopify admin’s new visual styles, allowing your app to adopt the new look. The new Shopify admin design began rolling out progressively to merchants on September 15, 2026.
As of API version 2026-10, the GraphQL Admin API includes a feeDetails query for retrieving specialized fees charged to a shop. No action is required for existing apps. What changed The new feeDetails query returns a connection of FeeDetails objects. Each FeeDetails object includes: feeName and amount : The name of the fee and the amount charged.
Polaris Web Components 1.1 is now available on the stable Polaris CDN channels. This is the first minor release under the CDN's new semantic versioning model . The following URLs now serve Polaris 1.1 Apps using polaris.js or polaris-1.js receive the update automatically. No action is required.
Developers using Shopify App Pricing can now create unlimited private plans per app and add unlimited target stores to each plan, replacing the previous limits of 15 private plans and 20 stores per plan. No action is required to continue using existing plans. What changed A private plan is an app pricing plan available only to stores you select.
The deprecated automaticDiscounts query is removed from the GraphQL Admin API in version 2027-01 . If your app reads a shop’s automatic discounts through automaticDiscounts , you need to move to the discountNodes query with a method:automatic filter before you upgrade to 2027-01 .
The GraphQL Admin API now includes the auditTrail field on ProductVariantContextualPricing in API version 2026-10 . Apps with the read_products access scope can use this field to inspect the ordered adjustments that Shopify applied to a contextual product variant price. Existing apps do not need to take action.
Starting today, we're updating Events payloads, trigger syntax, and delivery headers. Classic Webhook subscriptions are unaffected. What's changed fields_changed now describes how each path changed The flat array becomes an object containing three arrays: added , updated , and removed .
Shopify Functions can now read metafields attached to delivery options in the cart. On API version 2026-10 , you can call metafield(namespace:, key:) on any option in cart.deliveryGroups.deliveryOptions . This affects apps that build Delivery Customization Functions and any other function whose input includes delivery options. No action is required.
The Discounts Allocator Function API, available only through the Discounts Allocator developer preview, has been removed and won’t be released. The developer preview is closed. Most developers don’t need to take action. The one exception is an app that still declares the purchase.discounts-allocator.run extension target.
Shopify CLI 4.8 adds shopify store commands that let you create and manage dev stores from your terminal or coding agent. These commands are available after you update to Shopify CLI 4.8.
Starting with Customer Account API version 2026-10, customer address inputs and objects support countryCode . The existing territoryCode field is deprecated but remains fully supported, so current integrations continue working without interruption. Developers should migrate to countryCode when adopting API version 2026-10.
Shopify storefronts now advertise support for Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) version 2026-08-25 in their discovery profiles at /.well-known/ucp . This update adds compatibility with the 2026-08-25 protocol release and doesn’t require any changes to your existing integrations.
The Hydrogen developer preview adds new capabilities to the toolkit and extends the ways developers can build Shopify storefronts: Variant links: Links that name a variant, like the ones Shopify submits to a Google Shopping feed, now open on that variant instead of the product's default.
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