Shopify Summer Editions 2025 is here!
With 150+ upgrades and new features across the store, this summer edition is ready to give you creative freedom that is not trapped in technical challenges.
You spend less time solving technical hurdles and more time building your store.
Now, let’s get into the details.
What’s New in the Shopify Summer 2025 Edition?
This edition is a classic summer vibe called Horizon.
The cool and refreshing vibes reflect the design creativity the merchants can enjoy, giving their store the look, feel, and features they like.
This Shopify Summer 2025 Edition focuses on design flexibility and power-packed AI-powered features.
8 Key Features & Updates in the Shopify Summer 2025 Edition
1. Shopify Horizon: A New Theme Designing System
Shopify Horizon is a new theme foundation that comes with theme design flexibility. You can create your store theme using the Horizon present design or make them from scratch.
Using the simple drag-and-drop option, you can create a theme block without a line of coding.
Additionally, use the built-in AI if you don’t want to create the block yourself. Within the Horizon theme, also enjoy:
- A theme editor with impressive features like one-click text editing, more interactive product cards, and more.
- Use AI to generate a theme. Just explain your key requirement, for example, “Stylish Laptop Bags for Women”, and hit generate.
- Get 10 free theme options to choose your store’s next theme with in-built AI
This new feature makes it easy for Shopify merchants to create and build themes without getting into coding troubles. The theme is currently available in Shopify themes.
2. Shopify Sidekick More Smarter & Powerful
In its Editions Summer’24, Shopify launched its AI sidekick, and a year later, it is more powerful than ever.
Shopify sidekick is more than a task manager now but a smart teammate ready to analyze your data with deep data analysis or create images for you. Shopify sidekick now:
- Supports 20 languages
- Create images with just a few prompts
- Using voice chat to understand your query
- Available on the mobile app to get your tasks done
Sidekick is now available in all Shopify stores regardless of the Shopify plan.
3. Shopify POS Has a New Look
Now, skip the traditional retail POS system. Shopify has redesigned its POS to simplify operations and improve customer interaction.
The Shopify POS version 10 focuses on speed, workflows, and simplified design. Other features included in this are:
- Create ship and carry out item orders in a single transaction
- Create a customized payment option as per the POS device
- Apply a single discount across products, orders, and shipping
4. Shopify Payments are now Global
Shopify Payments is now available in 16 more countries like Lithuania, Poland, Norway, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, and Mexico.
Additionally, you can reduce the foreign exchange fee and get paid in 8 currencies with Shopify Payments. You can also sell from multiple business entities using your online store and Shopify POS system.
5. Marketing Stack to Grow Your Store
Shopify has made it much easier to have all the right marketing elements at your fingertips.
- Create a single discount that can be applied across products, orders, and shipping
- Edit segments with features, shortcuts, and better date filtering option
- Customize your FAQs for AI shopping chats
- Find the right marketing automation template for your campaigns
- Stop the email campaign mid-way in case of any errors
6. Create Multiple B2B Market with Unique Catalogs
Shopify adds more functionality and features for its B2B merchants.
Shopify B2B merchants can create multiple B2B markets with unique catalogs and currency, alongside, set minimum and maximum value for all customers or only B2B buyers.
Shopify has also broadened the number of compatible B2B apps that work perfectly with the store. Other features and updates for B2B markets include:
- Search for the name directly in the Shopify collectives
- Join Shopify collective where minimum sales are not needed
- Use NetSuite ERP connector for better data sync and management
7. Shipping & Operations are More Streamlines
The update here makes it easy to manage shipping, and operation is streamlined.
You can now manage shipping, local delivery, and more from a single location to view each of their statuses at a glance. You can create and manage a barcode scanner to better receive your inventory details.
Your store operations are simplified now, as you can:
- Issue refunds as store credit in the admin
- Get more analytics features to view your store data
- Easily navigate between pages and dynamic back buttons
- Your Shopify loads 30% faster now
8. Next-gen Developer Platform
The Shopify Next-Gen Dev platform brings a lot of relief to app developers. Developers can now easily create and streamline their app development.
Shopify has now included a developer store in all their pricing plans that helps with testing the apps in a safe environment.
Other features & Update in the Shopify Summer Editions 2025
It is hard to cover 150+ updates in a blog, but we have covered the key features you must know as a Shopify store owner. Here are some more:
- Smart search options with typos or any other spelling mistake
- Shop Pay is now available in Canada
- Offer a carbon-neutral checkout option
- More local payment options for the EU
Check out the entire Shopify Edition’s Summer ’25 here and start leveraging on these updates as their main goal is to make your daily tasks easy.
