Developer changelog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can now create a metafield with a value type of json_string, which allows you to store structured data and access it using Liquid. When retrieving the value of a json_string type Metafield, the data is deserialized to an iterable hash or array.

We've shipped a change that removes inventory validation from the checkoutCreate mutation in the Storefront API. This is part of our effort to remove the risk of bots and crawlers getting access to inventory information on stores.

Currently, Admin API requests to locked stores return a 420 status code. As of Thursday, August 30th, this response will change to 423. We're pushing this change to reduce ambiguity around the 420 response code and make sure our responses are as accurate as possible.