Shopify loves making the store owners’ lives easy.
How do we know, you ask?
Shopify biannual updates called Editions are proof that they come with quality features to create a faster and more resilient platform for you.
Out of the 150+ updates, here are key features you need to know from the latest Shopify Editions Summer 2024.
Shopify Editions Summer 2024: Key Features & Updates
1. Shopify Markets
This year, Shopify goes beyond its cross-border selling solution with Markets, making it a one-stop shop for growth and expansion.
This is where you can customize buyer experiences for:
- Selling internationally
- Expanding into B2B
- Selling in person with Shopify POS
This eliminates the need to navigate between multiple stores or workflows; you can simply create a new market, add your customizations, and it is ready to launch.
2. Split Shipping In Checkout
Split shipping enhances your customer’s experience and gives them more clarity on the shipment method while they are on the checkout page.
They can pick customized shipping options as per their convenience from options like the lowest price, fastest delivery or more.
3. Shopify Magic
Can any update be completed these days without AI powers in it?
Shopify has come up with major AI features to make your task much simpler, be it for a marketing campaign you plan to run or any enhancing your images to optimize their quality to their best version.
- Sidekick – A perfect AI assistance to manage your daily tasks or give you a creative nudge for your campaign. This AI feature is now made available in thousands of Shopify stores.
- Suggest Replies in Inbox – You can quickly tackle a customer query in your Shopify inbox with AI-generated responses.
- Segmentation in plain language – Shopify Magic can easily translate ShopifyQL code for segments into simple and easy-to-understand descriptions.
- Suggest Categories & Attributes – Using AI suggestions, you can discover more options for categories, attributes, and values to make your store accessible.
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4. All New Analytics
Shopify completely rebuilt its reporting dashboard for you to have a smarter and faster reporting system to make wise business decisions with real-time data.
You can easily drag and drop essential analytical metrics in your dashboard or work with an in-built Shopify template to get deeper insights into your store’s performance.
5. Create Custom Landing Pages
Now, you can create custom templates using meta objects that will simplify your tasks for creating unique content. You can easily design elements and create storefronts, incorporating quizzes, customer highlights, product features, and brand specifics.
6. Fresh New Settings For Themes
The blocks are now more flexible and functional than ever. With more customization options, you can move things around the way you like them.
Even theme developers can enjoy better control over layouts with better customization, and the cherry on top now is that the developer preview mode is available.
7. Flexible Shipping From Retail Stores
With two major updates on shipping convenience now, your customers can easily pick from pickup in-store and ship to the pickup point. If the product is not available, you can transfer the online order to the preferred store for pickup.
More From the Shopify Summer ’24 Edition
- Use retargeting with a custom retargeting boost list to increase the number of orders pulled out using Shopify audiences algorithms. This feature is exclusively available for Shopify Plus customers.
- Create customized stores for each B2B market with unique catalogs and themes without any need for coding.
- Your customers can easily apply discount codes that can be directly added to the POS smart grid with a few simple steps of implementation.
- You can uniquely show products exclusively under one parent listing. You can show rich media galleries, descriptions, and URL options. This feature is exclusively available for Shopify Plus customers.
You can also have the look at upcoming Shopify Editions Winter 2025 updates which looks boring but is not such!
Leverage On These Features Today
Missing out on these features can be a mistake as they are so powerful and smartly crafted by Shopify for your store to become more functional and, in the end, increase your sales.
You can read more about each feature and update here: Shopify Editions Summer ’24 and also know about the Shopify Editions Winter’24.
So, take charge and start working with features to take your store to new heights.
