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The update adds a persistent cart button on phones, helping staff review cart details and reopen the full cart without leaving their current POS task.
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Eligible Shopify Payments stores on Advanced and Shopify Plus can now receive payouts in more currencies, subject to the bank-account arrangements described by Shopify.
Privacy, claims, recalls, trade, platform policy, and risk.
Shipping, fulfillment, returns, payments, fraud, and chargebacks.
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Every brief keeps the original source available and turns a complex change into a clearer explanation.
Merchants can now request WhatsApp marketing consent during checkout, creating a new opt-in point for customer messaging.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the recalled helmets may fail to protect users in a crash because they do not meet retention, positional-stability, and certification requirements.
Shopify has closed the global developer preview, removed the API, and will not release it. Most developers are unaffected; apps still declaring the purchase.discounts-allocator.run extension target must remove it.
Amazon says attribute usage and enumeration values will change for numerous product types across its stores, giving sellers a short window to check listing data workflows before the effective date.
Shopify says Meta now appears in Agentic Storefronts, with product sharing enabled by default through Shopify Catalog and controls for catalog access, direct checkout, and performance visibility.
The global update lets merchants attach standard and custom identifiers to one variant, while the first barcode remains the one used where a single value is expected.
The update gives each variant a structured barcode set for identifiers such as UPC, EAN, GTIN, ISBN, and ASIN, while keeping the existing barcode field working for now.