Developer changelog

The Buy Button cart component’s model is no longer initiated to an empty checkout. Instead, the model is null until a variant is added to cart. This is expected to have a positive impact on the performance on your Buy Buttons!

If you have leveraged the cart’s model in any custom code written using Buy Button JS, it is recommended that you verify your Buy Button still functions as expected.

Learn more about these changes by reviewing the pull request on Github.

Searchable resources for predictive search APIs now include pages and articles. Author, body, tag, variant SKU & barcode attributes have also been added to searchable fields for products.

Parameters are getting an update (the old parameters remain valid):

• - the s query parameter is renamed to q
• - the bury option of the unavailable_products parameter is renamed to last
• - types is renamed to type and accepts a comma-separated list instead of an array
• - a fields parameter was added

By default, unavailable_products is set to last. This means that out of stock products will now be shown last in the results list. There are options to hide out of stock products completely, or show them together with available products.

Learn more about the predictive search API in the Shopify Help Center.

You can now retrieve large amounts of data from our Admin GraphQL API using bulk operations. Provide a standard GraphQL query to the bulk mutation and you receive a link to a file that contains all of your data after the operation has finished running.

Find out more in the bulk operation guide.

Version 2019-10 is stable and ready for general usage.

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.

If your app or sales channel implements either the Checkout API or the Storefront API, consider updating it to the 2019-10 release candidate API version of the Checkout API or Storefront API so that it can fully support payment authentication using 3D Secure.

To learn more about changes that you can make to support 3D Secure, refer to Authenticating payments with 3D Secure.

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.

We understand the importance of staying up to date with the many changes to Shopify and the Partner Program. To make sure updates are visible while not getting in the way, we’ve added a notification section to the Partner Dashboard. Over the next while, we’ll start transitioning relevant notifications from emails and banners to this section of the dashboard.

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've added new properties on cart items listed in the JSON response of Shopify's AJAX API. Each cart item listed in the items array has the following additional properties.

• featured_image: an object with the varaint image's alt text, aspect_ratio and url.
• options_with_values: an array of objects with each product option's name and value.
• product_has_only_default_variant: a boolean describing if the product only has a default variant.

This gives theme developers more information about cart items when working with the AJAX API to build storefront designs.

To learn more about interacting with the cart through AJAX calls, read about the Shopify's AJAX API in the Shopify Help Center.

You can also read about these new properties' Liquid equivalent in the line_item object in the Shopify Help Center.

In April 2019, we introduced versioning to the GraphQL and REST Admin APIs. Today, stable version 2019-07 is now generally available. The Storefront API has also been added to our versioning scheme.

The Liquid cheat sheet is updated to reflect the content of the Liquid reference.

The major update has been to the filters and objects, with 38 and 133 items being added respectively.

• 176 items have been added in total.
• 22 items have been edited or updated.
• 9 deprecated items have been removed.

This represents a 43% increase in content; with the filters, objects, and tags increasing from 485 items to 695.

Check out the Liquid cheat sheet in the Help Center.

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 are excited to announce that after its success for Plus merchants, Multi-Currency for Shopify Payments is coming to all plans.

We’re excited to announce that Shopify now supports the ability to seamlessly sell in multiple languages using apps. This feature will allow merchants to sell with the same consistent shopping experience for international buyers in multiple languages. In order to help partners offer a fully multi-language experience and localize their apps workflows, Shopify is launching a set of new platform capabilities.

We're excited to announce the developer preview and API for managing 3D and video on products is now available to partners for testing and development. Likewise, additions to the GraphQL Admin API allow developers to create, retrieve, update, and delete 3D and video on products.

The new tax exemptions property is available on the customer resource in the 2019-07 release candidate. This allows app developers to specify which taxes a customer is exempt from paying on their orders. Tax exemption related UI changes to the admin are also exposed in the Unite developer preview on development stores.

The Fulfillment Orders API is now available. Fulfillment applications can opt into using this new API to gain new capabilities in managing fulfillments via the API. Fulfillment Orders related UI changes to the admin are also now available in the Unite developer preview on development stores.

Per product shipping has come to Shopify. Through Shipping Profiles, merchants can group products together to specify custom shipping rates for them. Apps can leverage the Delivery Profiles API to read and modify these profiles.

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.

We've opened up the ability for any published Shopify marketing app to be embedded directly into the Shopify admin through the marketing activities API.

You can build your own app extension today to be on the list of marketing integrations.

You can find more information about creating an app extension using the marketing activities API in the Shopify Help Center At a high level, the implementation requires the following steps.

If you have any questions about this update, then contact support through your partner dashboard or request support in our Shopify APIs and SDKs discussion board.

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.

Shopify now supports shared web creditials between iOS apps and their website counterparts.

Shared web credentials let iOS users access a native app after logging into the respective website in Safari without re-entering their username and password. Now your customers can move between your mobile website and native app more seamlessly!

Learn how to get started in the Help Center.

We're making a change to how variants are matched based on any given options when you update products. Although we don't expect this change to impact existing apps, please review the following information to make sure that your own apps don't include any use cases that might be affected.

We've updated the Stores section on the Partner Dashboard to make it easier for you to manage all the stores you work on in one place

Theme section schemas now accept a tag attribute, which customizes the HTML tag that wraps theme sections. Existing theme sections continue to use <div> by default.

Learn more about section schema tags in the Help Center.

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

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.

Shopify is always looking for new and better ways to connect merchants with apps that will help them meet their needs. To help developers get their app noticed by merchants, we’re experimenting with allowing app developers to run ads in the Shopify App Store on category pages. We intend to experiment with search result pages at another time.