Shopify has announced over 150+ updates in Shopify Winter Edition 2025, which they call boring. Why is it boring? There are no new outstanding features, but rather improvements of the existing functionalities and connections between different features for a better user experience.

Even though the Shopify team finds the edition boring, it will undoubtedly streamline workflows and provide practical benefits for merchants and developers. Here, we describe the most impactful updates of the Shopify Winter 2025 Edition and explain how they will influence merchants' routines.

Online

Shopify Winter Editions 2025 includes seventeen updates for online store management. We describe four of them that we find the most crucial.

Combined listings for search

A combined listing is a special product type that consists of separate products from your store connected by a shared option, such as color or model.

If you use this feature in your store, you can now choose whether to display parent or child products or both in the search results, product recommendations, and predictive search.

This is available using the Shopify Combined Listing app and the Shopify Search and Discovery app.

Another update for the Shopify Search and Discovery app is sorting filter values. There are two sorting options: automatic and manual. Automatic feature sorts filter values in ascending order, both alphabetically and numerically. Manual sorting allows you to choose the order of filter values. To find this option go to the app settings → Filters → Sort → Manually, then drag values for rearrangement and click Reorder for me. Alternatively, you can use Sort with Shopify Magic to logically sort values based on the filter name and its values.

Streamlined theme editor settings

In Shopify's theme editor, you will find a more compact settings sidebar. It is easier to find what you're looking for and have more control over your storefront design.

Buy X Get Y with subscriptions

You can apply the Buy X Get Y feature for subscription purchases, such as offering a free mug with a coffee subscription. You can also set up an automatic discount or create a discount code when certain conditions are met. See more details about subscription discounts here.

What else can you do with the Shopify new features for online store management?

Create smart collections based on taxonomy attributes, such as materials and colors.
Add custom metafields for product categories for more attributes in Shopify’s taxonomy.
Access to metaobjects like featured reviews with the dynamic source picker in the theme editor.
Edit subscriptions from the product details page in the admin.
Respect inventory settings after subscription renewals with the Shopify Subscriptions app.
Use more app-based automatic discounts with the limit increased from 5 to 25.
Start leveraging the Markets over the coming months.
Track bundles with metrics in the new analytics.
Use custom search filters in the Shop app.
Manage returns and exchanges through the Shop app.

Retail

The Shopify team continues improving in-store operations features, offering the following updates.

Bundles support in Shopify POS

Shopify Bundles are now supported in Shopify POS. This means that you can offer bundled products through your POS interface. To activate this feature you need to install the Shopify Bundles app, set up bundles, and publish them to POS via the product details page.

Retail customer segments

This Shopify update allows you to reach nearby customers through personalized marketing campaigns by using location-based filters for customer segments.

Editing customer metafields on POS

Customer metafields are fields with information about customers that go beyond just name and email address. Previously, you could collect this data through an online store. Today, customer metafields allow in-store staff to contribute to customer data collection with fields for birthdays, customer preferences, and much more.

What else is new for retailers in Shopify Winter Editions 2025?

Let your customers use Tap-to-Pay on Android and iPhone in more countries.
See search results and the cart on the Shopify POS home screen.
Transfer returns to a gift card without a receipt or order number.
Enjoy a more compact and convenient customer-focused POS interface.
Accept in-person card payments even if your network is down.
Meet Shopify POS in France.

Checkout

One of the most mind-blowing Shopify 2025 Winter updates for the Checkout section is a 50% faster cart and checkout experience. However, there are more features you should be aware of.

Checkout Blocks on more pages

The Checkout Blocks app is a no-code tool for customizing your Checkout, Thank you, and Order status pages. This update allows merchants to quickly add simple customizations, such as editing or removing reviews and promotional offers and reordering delivery and payment methods.

Functions work with draft orders

The draft order feature lets you create orders on behalf of your customers in the Shopify admin. You can add products and customer details and send an invoice to your client to get payment.

The Shopify update enables you to leverage Shopify Functions to customize draft orders. Now, draft orders support the Delivery and Payment customization API as well as the Cart and Checkout Validation API, so you can use the same robust features available for checkout customization.

Split shipping is now available

Split shipping allows you to separate items that can’t be included in a single shipment to let customers select available options for multiple shipments. For example, if a customer purchases products and adds a preorder item within a single order, your checkout displays that the preordered product is shipped separately. Now, this feature is compatible with third-party fulfillment apps like ShipBob.

What else can you do with Shopify Editions 2025 for checkout?

Add chat apps like Gorgias to the thank you pages with extensions or to any page on Plus.
Get smoother checkout loading with new animations and asynchronous loading of customizations.
Leverage accelerated checkout buttons that load 58,88% faster and support functions and bundles.
Preview accelerated checkout buttons like PayPal in the checkout and accounts editor.
Apply customizations made with UI extensions and Functions to draft orders if you use Shopify Plus.
Guarantee prices for draft orders by locking the price until the order is incomplete.
Disable gift cards in checkout using apps with updates to the Payment Customization Function API.
Boost conversions with the extended cart expiration.
Provide an option to pay over time with Shop Pay Installments (available for US-based enterprise businesses).

Marketing

The Marketing section of Shopify Winter Edition 2025 presents many updates to help merchants attract more customers and generate leads more effectively.

Customer account extensions

Customer account extensions let you add more features to customer account pages. For example, you can add booked appointments, downloadable files, and courses to customer accounts, conduct surveys, and redeem rewards. Check apps to extend customer accounts without coding.

You can also create custom solutions tailored to your business logic through extension development, addin

Shopify Winter Editions 2025 – No Big Surprises, Just Crucial Updates