Your Shopify Unite 2019 Recap

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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