Last week Shopify announced their most ambitious features to date at the fourth annual Shopify Unite partner conference. Paul and I attended, and break it down for you here.

How Shopify is going after Amazon
Why it's going to be easier than ever to manage your store
And why Shopify is now the entrepreneurship operating system

Show Links

Shopify Blog: Everything Announced at Shopify Unite 2019
Shopify Unite
Shopify Fulfillment Network
Shopify Plus Blog: Unite 2019: New Tools to Unlock Meaningful Customer Experiences

Kurt's Unite Notes

What's new on Shopify? These are the notes I took during the Shopify Unite keynote:

Online store:

Site-wide sections
Apps can add sections
Product pages have parent and child templates
Content portability: all content lives outside theme, simplifying theme changes
Native video & 3-D support on product pages
Check-out app extensions for native integrations of things like subscriptions
Multi-currency checkout rolling out to all merchants
Multi-language API for native localized content

POS:

Tap & chip case for mobile orders. Apple store like experience. Printed with a custom logo.
Cart extension apps.
Entirely redesigned POS interface
Native “buy online pick up in store”

Admin:

New “shipping profiles” to assign product-specific shipping rules.
Order editing!!!

Plus:

All new interface: centralized view of multiple stores
Multistore dashboard for customers, orders, Flow automation, etc
Future: cloning & store sync
Multi-store staff managed in one place

Apps:

Command line interface tool to make dev easier
Shopify App Bridge: one library to rule them all, and create more embedded apps
GraphQL improvements mean faster apps
More stable apps because of API versioning. (Keeps apps from breaking when the API changes.)

Shopify Fulfillment Network:

2 days to deliver
99.9% order accuracy
Multichannel support
Custom packaging & branding
Returns/exchange support
Now: Merchants of every size. (10-10,000 orders/day)
Later: Merchants of every size. (3-30,000 orders/day)
Beta complete, apply for early access at shopify.com/fulfillment

When: Most updates had a timeline of "Available later this year"

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