Developer changelog

As of September 14, 2019, the Revised Payment Service Directive, also known as PSD2, will be implemented in all countries in the European Economic Area (EEA). PSD2 requires most online transactions within the EEA to have customer authentication. To be compliant, Shopify will process credit card transactions in the EEA by using 3D Secure, which is a payment authentication method.

We’ve added support for automatic discounts to Buy Button carts, which has been enabled by default in the latest version of Buy Button JS.

You can now create a listing in any language that your app supports, and you can also select any language to be your primary.

The default sorting for category pages have been updated to be ‘Most relevant’ for merchants, similar to search.

The Shopify App Store is now available in Malay Hindi, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, Korean. You can now create a listing in these languages that will be shown to merchants. Learn more about translated listings

We’re excited to announce the launch of private metafields. Private metafields are a new type of metafield that enables you to restrict metafield data visibility exclusively to you own apps.

We’re releasing a new Discounts API that has the ability to create and manage automatic and code discounts in the Shopify GraphQL Admin API.

You can now leverage the GraphQL Admin API to implement billing for your app.

You can now add product suggestions to storefront search by using the Predictive Search API. This shows matching products to customers immediately as they start entering search queries, and lets them easily view the related product pages by selecting items from the search menu.

You can now create a translated app listing for all languages the Shopify App Store is available in. Merchants will see the listing based on the language they are browsing, if available.

You can now specify Shopify Point of Sale as an install requirement for your app, to ensure that merchants can only install your app if they use that sales channel.

We’re excited to share a number of exciting improvements that we've made to the Storefront API to enable you to build custom storefronts on Shopify’s platform. These changes affect metafields, Shopify Scripts, and checkout with Apple Pay.

Earlier this year, we announced our new Product Recommendations APIs available exclusively to Shopify Plus plans. Today, we're excited to share that these APIs are available on all plan types. We've also added Liquid and Storefront API support so you can have more touch points to create better product discovery and customized buying experiences for your users customers.

Merchants will be shown a “Not Compatible” badge on the search results, category and collection pages if their app does not meet install requirements.

The Shopify App Store is now available in Dutch, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. You can now create a listing in these languages that will be shown to merchants. Learn more about translated listings

Shopify Flow connectors can now include Shopify properties in workflow triggers. You can add an order, product, or customer property, which passes all Shopify data related to that resource to the workflow.

As of April 9th 2019 we have introduced versioning of our GraphQL and REST Admin APIs and a new developer preview feature for partners.

The AJAX API has been updated to support multi-currency for Shopify Payments. This means that monetary values are now returned in the customer's cart currency.

Local collections and staff picks have started to roll out to merchants from regions around the world. Merchants visiting the Shopify App Store will see a local collection and staff picks more relevant to their region.

Merchants whose stores don't fit the install requirements you've set in your app submission form will be blocked from installing your app.

Shopify is deprecating support for Shopify POS on iOS 9, and part of that deprecation involves apps embedded in Shopify POS.

We have introduced a new limit on page-based pagination requests when the resource offset generated by a request is greater than 100,000.

We’re adding call limits that restrict the number of variants that can be created by the API after a shop reaches a certain threshold.

We recently made some updates to the Shopify Partner Program Agreement (PPA) and the Shopify API License and Terms of Use (API Terms). These changes encourage the best possible merchant experience within our partner ecosystem and protect the integrity of the Shopify platform.

We’ve introduced two new properties to the Customer REST resource to allow you to save the marketing subscription data you have about a merchant's customers to Shopify.

We’re thrilled to share the new product recommendations API that returns smart recommendations for the product page. This will initially be released as part of the AJAX JSON API for our Plus merchants and Plus Partners, bundled with reporting for the performance of this feature.

The Shopify App Store listing submission form has been modernized to make it easier to submit a new app listing, or update an existing one.

Products can no longer have more than 250 tags, whether they're created by an app using the API or created manually by merchants in the Shopify admin. This limit currently applies to stores on the Advanced Shopify plan and below.

You can directly engage with the merchants who’ve posted a review of your app by replying to a review. Learn how to reply to reviews

The InventoryItem resource now includes fields for the 6-digit Harmonized System code (HS code), the country code of origin, the province code of origin, and a list of country-specific HS codes.

Our most recent updates include more efficient triggers with usage webhooks, improved security, and asynchronous actions. Triggers and actions for Shopify Flow can be added to any listed or unlisted app by using app extensions and following this step-by-step tutorial.

The InventoryItem resource now includes a field requires_shipping to indicate whether the item requires shipping, deprecating the corresponding field on the ProductVariant resource.

New configuration options are available in the Buy Button JS library which allow you to expose an input field in the cart to collect checkout-level notes from the buyer.

Fulfillment payloads on the order creation endpoint have been updated to require a location ID (a unique identifier of the location where the fulfillment should be processed). This means that if an app includes a fulfillment payload during order creation, then that payload must include a location_id.

We're updating the JS Buy SDK so that it matches the new Storefront API schema.

As part of our efforts to improve the quality of the Storefront API, we've moved some nested fields out of the Shop object and onto the QueryRoot.

The Shopify App Store is now available in French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Italian. You can now create a listing in these languages that will be shown to merchants. Learn more about translated listings

Currently, when a merchant declines an app charge after being prompted to confirm it, they are redirected to the confirmation_url provided by the app developer. As of Monday, December 3, 2018, Shopify will be handling all redirects whenever an app charge is declined.

Over the last few months, we’ve been hard at work improving the Storefront API to enable you to build custom storefronts on Shopify’s platform. The following changes are all available in the Storefront API, and we are continuously updating the JS Buy SDK and Mobile Buy SDKs to include these new changes.

With the latest update, you can call setDiscount as an Edit Cart action with a discount code that was created in on the Discounts page in the Shopify admin.

Product cost lets merchants record the unit cost of their variants, track margin, and report on product performance within Shopify. This feature will roll out to all stores over the next few days.

We're adding validation for line item quantities, which prevents the creation of line items with a quantity of 0. This means that orders created via the Order resource must have a line item quantity greater than or equal to 1.

When you create a new product variant, there are two new default values applied to the inventory_quantity and inventory_management properties.