If you run POS, use Shopify Analytics, or have been waiting for B2B features without a Plus plan, April had something for you. The month's changelog is one of the denser ones this year, and a handful of updates that quietly change how your team handles things at the counter or in the admin.
Capital remittance via Shopify Payments expands to all U.S. States
Shopify has rolled out Capital remittance through Shopify Payments to merchants across the entire United States. Previously, some merchants had to handle repayments via ACH debit. Now, eligible merchants repay through Shopify Payments directly. ACH debit only applies if a Shopify Payments remittance attempt fails three times in a row.
The practical difference is fewer manual steps and a more consolidated view of your finances. If you're managing Shopify Capital repayments alongside other payment activity, having it all route through the same system reduces friction.
Product bundles and their components are shown on the draft order status page
Bundled products and their individual components now appear correctly on the draft order status page in customer accounts. Before this fix, the breakdown wasn't surfaced here, which created confusion for customers trying to review what they'd ordered.
Detect which apps use extensions and functions to power checkout, online store, and more
From Settings > Apps, you can now open any installed app and see exactly what it's doing across your store. This gives you a clear view of:
Extensions - which are active on your checkout, online store, customer accounts, and POS
Functions - what's currently powering discounts, shipping, delivery, and payments, with the ability to identify and fix errors before they affect customers
Inactive Extensions and Functions - features the app offers that you haven't turned on yet, which is useful if you want to get more out of tools you already pay for
Pixels - which apps are collecting customer data, including connection status and data access mode
This builds on the app activity and permissions update from March. These updates make app access easier to check. Store owners can see which apps are active and what each one can reach.
Add tags to your discounts
You can now tag discounts the same way you tag products or customers to group, search, and filter across the Discounts section of your admin.
For stores running multiple campaigns or A/B testing discount strategies, this is a welcome bit of organization. Tracking which discount belongs to which campaign no longer requires a naming convention that only makes sense to the person who created it.
New cash management foundations for Shopify POS
This is one of the more substantial POS updates in a while. Shopify has rebuilt cash management across POS and the POS channel in Admin from the ground up.
What changed on device:
Register sessions now show a full session summary, cash totals, payment breakdowns, and a detailed cash activity log that tracks when the drawer was opened and by whom
Staff can now be required to select a reason code for any non-order cash activity, like drawer opens or manual adjustments. You configure these codes from the POS channel in Admin
You can control whether the drawer opens automatically after a sale, which matters for staff working with mobile devices on the floor
What changed in Admin:
A new Register Sessions tab shows open and closed sessions, expected cash balances by location, and improved filtering and export options for reconciliation
For developers and operations teams:
Multiple devices can now contribute to a single cash drawer, moving beyond the previous one-device-one-session model
New POS extension targets let apps plug into open/close procedures, display threshold alerts, and add custom reporting to session details
Session management can be automated via API — opening and closing sessions, creating drawers and reason codes, assigning devices, and pulling reports
If you run a multi-register setup or share drawers across staff, the new data model and audit trail give you the kind of accountability that was hard to achieve with the previous cash management setup.
Key B2B features now available on non-Plus plans
One of the more significant moves of the month: Shopify opened core B2B functionality to merchants on Basic, Grow, and Advanced plans.
What's included at no extra cost:
Up to 3 active B2B catalogs assigned through Markets
Company profiles and payment terms
Volume pricing
ACH payments (U.S. only)
Vaulted credit cards
Features that remain exclusive to Plus: unlimited catalogs, direct catalog assignment to companies and locations, partial payments, and deposits.
For smaller merchants who've been relying on third-party apps to handle wholesale, this removes a significant cost. It also makes Shopify B2B development more relevant for growing brands that now need clean catalog logic, company accounts, and pricing rules set up without moving to Plus.
Updates is now Posts - publish shoppable content to the shop feed
The Updates feature was renamed to Posts and significantly expanded.
With Posts, you can:
Add images or videos up to two minutes long, with a caption and optional headline
Tag up to 10 products or a collection to make the content shoppable
Schedule posts in advance and set an expiration date
Connect apps like Tolstoy and Videowise to automatically sync shoppable video content
The bigger change is distribution. Unlike Updates, Posts are not limited to followers, they appear in the main Shop feed and are ranked by relevance. If you've been treating the Shop channel as a low-priority add-on, this is a reason to revisit it. Reach beyond your existing followers is something the old Updates format couldn't offer.
To get started, go to the new Posts page in the Shop channel in your admin.
Checkout blocks: order value limits available on all plans
Order value limits in Checkout Blocks, minimum and maximum order subtotals enforced at checkout are now available on Basic, Grow, Advanced, and Plus Shopify pricing plans.
This rolls out alongside the broader B2B access expansion mentioned above. If you need to enforce a minimum order size for wholesale buyers or cap order values for certain products, you can now do that without being on Plus.
Search, filter, and saved views for orders, products, and more
Filters, search, and saved views now work together in a single unified bar across Orders, Products, Customers, Discounts, Collections, and Metaobjects.
The changes in practice:
Search and filters are in the same bar, no more switching between them
Any filter, column, and sort configuration can be saved as a named view that persists across sessions
You can duplicate a saved view and modify it without changing the original
Keyboard shortcuts speed up filtering: spacebar to add a filter, commas to separate terms, quotes for exact match
Shopify Sidekick can navigate directly to any filtered view if you describe what you're looking for
If your team works from specific views repeatedly, say, unfulfilled orders from a particular sales channel, saving those as named views cuts down the daily overhead of recreating the same filter setup every time.
Customers can set and manage default addresses in checkout
Logged-in customers can now designate a default shipping address during checkout, replacing the previous logic that simply pre-filled the last-used address.
How it works:
A default address is set automatically when a customer adds their first address or completes their first order
Customers can update their default address at any time from checkout or their account profile
This is a small UX improvement that reduces friction for returning customers who ship primarily to one address.
New most relevant sort order for products in a collection
Shopify has added "Most Relevant" as a sort option for collections. Your existing sort order stays unchanged. The new option appears alongside Bestselling, Price, Newest, and other existing options.
This adds a relevance-based ranking to the available sorting methods, which can be useful for large collections where recency and price don't always reflect what buyers are actually looking for.
Spot trends with new analytics insights
Stores processing 10 or more orders per week can now see analytics insights showing up as automated data summaries on the Home feed.
The scope of what Shopify now monitors has expanded to include Sessions and Fulfillments, with over 80 new data combinations tracked. What you can now see:
Session trends - changes in visitors, cart additions, and conversion rates, broken down by location, referrer, device type, and landing page
Fulfillment efficiency - changes in fulfillment speed and order volume, with breakdowns by shipping carrier, location, and sales channel
These appear as cards on the Home feed when a trend is detected, rather than requiring you to open a report and look for it yourself.
Updates to the local pickup user experience in checkout
The way local pickup appears in checkout has changed. Previously, shipping and pickup options were listed in a single vertical stack, which made it awkward to scan, especially for checkouts with multiple pickup locations.
The new behavior:
Shipping and pickup options appear inline rather than stacked
The checkout shows the first available pickup location with an option to expand and select others from a modal
Local pickup only appears for items that are actually eligible for it, and only when pickup locations exist in the buyer's country
Delivery method selection is based on whether cart items are eligible for shipping, pickup, or both
No action is needed to enable these changes. However, if you've added custom checkout extensions that affect how delivery options display, it's worth reviewing them to confirm they still render correctly.
Compare several metrics on one chart
Shopify Analytics now makes it easier to compare related data in one place. Instead of switching between separate reports, you can add several metrics to the same chart and spot patterns faster.
You can now use:
Multi-metric line charts Add up to four metrics to one line chart from the configuration panel. When the metrics use different units, such as revenue and conversion rate, Shopify adds separate Y-axis scales automatically.
Bar and line charts This new chart type shows one metric as bars and another as a line. It works well when you want to compare numbers, such as total sales and conversion rate in the same view.
These chart options are available in explorations, saved reports, and dashboard cards.
Use MATCHES in ShopifyQL to filter by what customers did
ShopifyQL now supports a MATCHES operator in the WHERE clause, letting you filter reports by customer behavior rather than just customer attributes.
For example, to find customers who purchased at least 2 products in the last 30 days:
sql FROM customers SHOW customer_id, email WHERE products_purchased MATCHES (quantity >= 2, date >= -30d) GROUP BY customer_id
The same MATCHES logic used in Customer Segmentation works here, so your segment definitions and analytics filters stay consistent. If you've built segments based on purchase behavior, you can now use the same logic in custom reports.
U.S. retailers can adjust retail prices on Shopify Collective
Retailers on Shopify Collective can now turn off price sync for imported products and set their own retail price, either above or below the supplier's listed price.
A few things to know:
Price sync remains on by default for all existing connections; retailers need to change this setting manually
Suppliers can see the retail price a retailer has set for their products on the order detail page
The supplier's cost price is never affected by any retail price changes the retailer makes
If you're a retailer with active Collective connections, Shopify recommends aligning with your suppliers before changing pricing to avoid expectation mismatches.
POS line-item discounts now apply to each item
Shopify POS has changed how fixed custom discounts work on line items.
From POS version 11.5, a fixed discount entered for a product line applies to each item in that line, not to the line total. For example, if a staff member adds a $5 discount to a line with 3 items, the total discount becomes $15.
Before this update, the same $5 discount would reduce the whole line by $5 only.
This change matches how fixed line-item discounts already work in Shopify admin and Draft orders. Store teams that use manual discounts at checkout should review this before they move to POS v11.5, so staff do not apply larger discounts by mistake.
Keyboard shortcuts and navigation in Shopify POS
iPad and Android tablets with a connected hardware keyboard now support keyboard navigation in POS, covering the most type-heavy parts of the workflow.
What's supported:
CMD+K to open search; hold CMD to see all available shortcuts
Arrow keys to navigate Products, Orders, and Customers lists
Enter to select a cart item or list result; CMD+1 through CMD+9 to jump to specific items
CMD+Enter to start checkout; Escape to exit flows
The main benefit is keeping hands on the keyboard during product search, customer lookup, and checkout, rather than switching between keyboard and touchscreen repeatedly during a busy shift.
Mid-session cash counts
Cash counts no longer have to happen only at the start or end of a shift. Staff can run a count at any point during an active session, which is practical for high-volume days where reconciliation mid-shift makes sense.
Returns and exchanges in cart for POS
Returns, refunds, and exchanges now take place inside the cart in Shopify POS, rather than through a separate workflow. Staff get one consolidated path for handling all transaction types faster, with less switching between screens.
New permissions introduced with this update include Manage item restock, Remove unfulfilled items, and Complete in-progress returns, all enabled by default. Manager approval for Remove unfulfilled items is enabled by default.
Review these permissions before deploying v11.5 to make sure the configuration matches how your staff operates.
Set and track targets in Shopify analytics
Merchants can now define numerical targets for analytics metrics and track progress against them through a visual gauge. Targets can be pinned to the dashboard, managed from a dedicated index page, and updated at any time.
Targets can cover a week, a month, a quarter, or a custom range up to two years. A new Target index gives you a single view of all active targets if you're managing multiple goals at once.
Data-driven insights now appear on your analytics dashboard
The analytics dashboard now shows insights at the top of the page. The top 5 findings ranked by business impact, updated daily.
Each insight carries a status badge:
Trending Up
Trending Down
Top Performers
Clicking "See why" opens the relevant report and launches Sidekick alongside it with the insight pre-loaded, so you can ask follow-up questions without having to re-explain the context.
Shopify monitors your sales, sessions, and fulfillment data across products, regions, channels, customer types, and more. The intent is to surface changes worth acting on before you'd normally notice them in a weekly report review.
Flow: new triggers for inventory transfer completed, and inventory transfer ready to ship
Flow now has two new triggers for inventory transfers — stock movements between your business locations.
Inventory transfer ready to ship - fires when a transfer has been prepared and marked as ready. Use this to notify the receiving location, update logistics dashboards, or kick off pre-arrival prep tasks
Inventory transfer completed - fires when a transfer is fully received (accepted or rejected). Use this to update internal records, alert teams that stock has arrived, or trigger follow-up tasks like shelf restocking or inventory reconciliation
If you move stock between a warehouse and retail locations regularly, these triggers let you automate the communication and task creation that typically happens manually after a transfer status changes.
Final thoughts
April's changelog covers a wide range of areas. A few updates, particularly the POS discount change and the new return permissions in v11.5, are worth reviewing before updating.
Need support with these Shopify updates or planning a Shopify store setup from scratch? DigitalSuits can help. As a certified Shopify Plus Partner, we work with merchants across different Shopify plans, from small store improvements to full Shopify web development projects. Our team also handles custom Shopify integrations , performance work, and ongoing store updates when standard Shopify settings are not enough.
If you need a team that can turn technical changes into clear business improvements, DigitalSuits is ready to help .
Written by
Yurii Zablotskyi
Content Marketing Specialist
Yurii Zablotskyi is a passionate content writer and storyteller with a strong marketing background, focusing on marketing, sales, and technology, turning complex ideas into valuable content.
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