In June, Shopify shipped changes across themes, checkout, payments, B2B, Markets, POS, and Collective. Plus the Spring '26 Edition with its own pile of releases. Below is the rundown of what actually matters, what each update changes for your store, and where it's worth acting on.
If any of these affect a part of your store you've been meaning to fix, our Shopify developers can help you get them fixed.
Schedule, publish, and A/B test new themes, checkout and customer account configurations
Rollouts now cover more than just themes. You can use it to launch a new theme, gradually release it, or run a true A/B test, and the same applies to checkout and customer account experiences.
That means you can:
- Stage a new theme and push it live on a set schedule
- Release changes to a slice of traffic before going all-in
- Run experiments comparing two checkout or customer account setups against real - shoppers.
For anyone who's ever pushed a redesign live and crossed their fingers, this turns a gamble into a measured decision.
Improved catalog publishing
Catalog edits are now batched. You make all your changes, then commit them together or discard the whole set at once. No more half-finished states where one price update goes live before the rest of your edits are ready. You work, review, and publish it the way you want.
Shipping performance metrics and Verified Tracking badge in Shopify Collective
Suppliers on Shopify Collective who keep consistent carrier tracking across every order now earn a Verified Tracking badge. The badge isn't just decoration it makes those suppliers easier for retailers to find and trust.
If you're supplying through Collective, reliable tracking now has a direct payoff in discoverability. It rewards the operational discipline you're already supposed to have.
Shopify Collective is now available in Australia
Australian retailers and suppliers can now connect through Shopify Collective. Retailers expand their catalogs without carrying inventory risk, and suppliers open a new sales channel through partner stores.
For the Australian market, this is a straightforward way to grow what you sell or who sells your products, without the usual stock commitment.
Expanded multi-currency payout support in US, HK and SG
Multi-currency payouts now include the US, with additional supported payout currencies available in Singapore and Hong Kong.
If you sell across borders from any of these regions, you can receive payouts in more currencies instead of forcing everything through a single one. That's fewer conversion headaches and cleaner reconciliation for cross-border sellers.
Reduced bot noise in abandoned checkouts
Your abandoned checkout list now shows real buyers only. Bot-generated entries that used to clutter the view are filtered out. The practical win is that your recovery campaigns target actual people, your data reflects real behavior, and you stop wasting effort chasing traffic that was never going to convert.
Manage WhatsApp marketing consent in Shopify
WhatsApp marketing consent now lives in Shopify alongside email and SMS. You can view and update it directly, in the same place you manage your other channels. One consent view across all three channels means less switching between tools and a clearer picture of what each customer has actually opted into.
Smart delivery in Shopify Messaging
Instead of blasting everything and hoping, the platform helps you send smarter, which keeps your sender reputation healthy and your campaigns landing. If marketing automation is a focus for you, our AI development services can extend this kind of logic across your stack.
Set channel-specific prices, availability, and currency with Markets
Channel Markets lets you set different prices, availability, and currency for each sales channel you use, managed directly inside Markets.
This is real flexibility for multi-channel sellers. The price and product mix that works on one channel doesn't have to match those on another, and you control it all from one place rather than juggling separate configurations.
Ship and pickup in one order available for Plus and Enterprise plans
Merchants on Plus and Enterprise plans can now let customers choose shipping for some items and store pickup for others, all within a single checkout.
It removes a real friction point. A shopper no longer has to split an order or abandon the cart because they want one item shipped and another picked up. For high-volume stores, that flexibility protects conversion on mixed baskets.
Checkout Blocks: Prevent non-compliant shipping addresses at checkout
Address format validation in Checkout Blocks is now open to all merchants, not just a subset. It blocks non-compliant shipping addresses before the order goes through.
Fewer bad addresses means fewer failed deliveries, fewer support tickets, and fewer reships. Catching the problem at checkout is far cheaper than fixing it after the package is already lost.
Online Store Editor with Sidekick on mobile
The mobile Online Store Editor now keeps the canvas visible while you edit, with touch controls redesigned for phones. Sidekick is also available inside the editor for the first time on mobile.
Editing your store from a phone used to mean fighting the interface. Now you can see what you're changing as you change it, and lean on Sidekick for help without switching to a desktop.
Flow: Automatic charging for vaulted payment methods
B2B merchants get a new Flow action that automatically charges vaulted payment methods. The charge can trigger on fulfillment, due dates, or invoicing. For wholesale operations, this cuts out a manual step that's easy to forget and slow to process. Set the trigger once and collection happens on its own.
The Spring '26 Edition is live
The Spring '26 Edition bundles 150+ updates to Shopify into a single release. It spans admin, checkout, B2B, analytics, POS, and more. This is the broad seasonal drop where many of the smaller improvements land together.
Worth a read in full if you want to see everything that shipped, since plenty of useful changes hide inside an Edition that never get their own headline.
Purchase orders now create transfers to move inventory
Purchase orders now use transfers to handle inventory movement. From a single PO you can create one or more shipments, receive stock as it arrives, manage partial deliveries, and route inventory to the right location.
This matches how supply actually works, shipments rarely arrive complete and on time. Handling partial receipts and multi-location routing from the PO itself keeps your inventory counts honest.
B2B discounts are now enabled by default for new B2B stores and eligible existing stores
B2B discounts now turn on automatically for new B2B stores and for existing B2B stores that don't have active or scheduled discounts. No more contacting Shopify Support to switch them on. It removes a setup hurdle that used to require a support ticket. If you sell wholesale, the discount tools are ready to use out of the box.
Shopify now supports €3 EU import customs duty collection
Shopify now gives you two ways to handle the EU's new €3 customs duty on qualifying low-value imports. If you ship low-value goods into the EU, this keeps you compliant without a manual workaround. Pick the method that fits your operation and let the platform account for the duty correctly.
View and manage all your POS devices from Shopify admin
Every device running Shopify POS now appears in one unified view. You can check device status, see which POS app version each one is running, and remotely log out or revoke access when needed.
For any retailer with more than a couple of registers, this is real operational control. Spot the device on an outdated version, cut off access to a lost or stolen tablet – all without walking the floor.
POS activity log
The POS activity log lets you trace high-risk register actions back to a specific named staff member. When something looks off at the register, you get accountability instead of guesswork. Knowing who did what, and when, makes loss prevention and staff oversight far more concrete.
Final thoughts
June's updates lean heavily toward control and flexibility, staged rollouts, channel-specific Markets pricing, mixed shipping and pickup, and tighter POS oversight. Individually, they're incremental. Together, they give you more precise command over how your store sells, ships, and runs.
The catch is that most of these only pay off when they're configured properly and wired into the way your business actually operates. That's where DigitalSuits comes in. As a certified Shopify Plus Partner with 100+ delivered projects, we help merchants turn platform updates into working setups with the help of our Shopify development services.
Want to put these June updates to work on your store? Talk to our team, and we'll map out what's worth implementing first.
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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