• 04/03/2026

    CheckoutPaymentsTaxes

    New Features

    • Tax settings have been overhauled to bring more clarity and flexibility to assign Tax Services to Tax Regions allow for multiple tax services at the same time.
    • Stripe Link is now supported as an express checkout method for a faster, lower friction payment experience.

    Improvements

    • Campaigns app now always shows for all users in the dashboard for all users who have access to the app.
    • Storefront Checkout now supports South Korea, Japan, China, and Israel and their local respective currencies.
    • We've improved our background CSV export process to be more robust and less likely to
    • German translations on the Checkout flow have been improved to match customer expectations in German speaking markets.
    • We've improved our logic and handling to always pass a customer phone number to shopify on the shipping address if one is possibly available.
    • PayPal now supports adding custom soft descriptor statement descriptor through the dashboard settings, Campaign settings, and also per order using the statement_descriptor Admin API.

    Bug Fixes

    • We fixed an issue with product.udpated webhooks not being able to send retries if the product images were deleted.
    • We fixed an issue with subscription next renewal date was not set properly after the subscription recovery flow succeeded.
    • We fixed an issue with campaign integration modal not showing after a second click.

  • 04/02/2026

    StorefrontTaxes

    New Features

    • Storefront country localization settings now allow merchants to configure automatic pricing forex rules so all products get prices set in all currencies even as new products are imported via API.

    Improvements

    • Order confirmation pages and invoices now show payment and refund details for more clarity and transparency to end customers.
    • Order management "Mark as Paid" action is now restricted to Admin users to prevent unauthorized users from marking orders as paid.
    • Next Payments exports now have both a Date Created and Last Event date allowing for deeper analysis on payment activity over time.
    • Tax Jar integration has been updated as a correction to only apply in the US and allow all other countries to use internal Next Tax Regions.
    • Webhook events can now be searched by object ID making it possible to find webhook events related to a single object for debugging and troubleshooting.
    • Subscription search has been overhauled with the introduction of a new search index for faster and more accurate search filters.
    • Export CSV processes have been improved to show more visual feedback to the user while the background is in progress to make the user feel more confident their export is in progress and will eventually finish.

    Bug Fixes

    • An edge case with directory names and spaces has been fixed with Next App Kit local development tool.
    • We've fixed an edge case that allowed a customer email to change through the Admin API unexpectedly.
    • We've fixed an edge case that allowed a dashboard user email address to be changed through Admin API.
    • We've fixed an edge case issue with SEPA payment method that prevent customers from using it as their payment method at checkout.
    • We've fixed an issue with Campaign Analytics that did not always load the current day of data into the charts.
    • We've fixed an edge case validation issue that allowed creating an order without a customer.

  • 29/10/2025

    Taxes

    New Features

    • Complete Tax System Overhaul: Taxes can now be more easily configured and applied across your store’s catalog, significantly improving the merchant setup experience and tax compliance workflow.

     

    Improvements

    • Taboola Integration Upgrade: The Taboola integration now uses our Storefront Event Tracking framework to more reliably capture key tracking and conversion events.

    • Faster Faceted Search & Attribution Handling: Catalog attribution data storage and storefront search facets have been optimized for faster performance.

    • Cart Creation Speed Boost: A slow query in the cart creation flow has been fixed, leading to faster cartCreate API response times.

    • Smarter Shipping Method Pricing: Shipping methods now auto-apply forex conversions if a currency-specific price is missing—preventing checkout failures on multi-currency orders.

    • Campaign Shipping Country Restrictions: Developers can now define available_shipping_countries for campaigns via the campaignRetrieve API to support dynamic display of country-based shipping rules.

    • Authorize.net Error Mapping: Improved error response mapping for failed credential scenarios on Authorize.net integrations.

     

    Bug Fixes

    • Checkout Save Indicator Fix: Resolved a bug where the checkout settings page showed an incorrect last updated timestamp even when no changes were saved.

    • Metadata Field UX Fixes: Addressed several UI issues with image and file upload fields in metadata configuration.

    • Incorrect Language Redirect Fix: Fixed a bug where the storefront redirected to /en/ even when the requested language was not configured.

  • 2022/11/28

    Admin APIMetadataTaxesDashboardCustomers

    New Features

    • Order Metadata and Order Attribution Metadata can now be edited in the dashboard on the Order detail view improving workflows for dashboard users.
    • Transaction details now have Attribution data to more easily see the source of the transaction, especially useful for failed transactions that did not successfully create an order.

    Improvements

    • Improved database queries on Customer list view with a new approach to customer total spend to improve load speeds by 2x.
    • We've now added support for product_id to the Admin API for carts, orders, and subscription line items.
    • The labeling and error messages for App Kit setup has been improved for better DX.
    • We've now added support Auth/Catpure flows for upsells and refunds using Avalara tax calculation.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed an issue related to customers not receiving the password reset email if they did not have a password set for their account.
    • Fixed an edge case related to Variant Products not showing the lowest price on the product catalogue view.
    • Fixed an edge case for Auth/Capture flows where payment was automatically captured on fulfillment even when setting was disabled.
    • Fixed an issue where public child products were still shown in the Google Merchant feed even though the parent was set to non-public.
    • Fixed an issue where we failed to match chargebacks to failed transactions.

  • 2022/10/3

    CheckoutPaymentsProductsTaxesDashboard

    New Features

    • Introducing Apple Pay as a new payment method available in the storefront checkout flow and on the Admin API.
    • Introducing TaxJar as a new third-party tax calculation and tax reporting App to automate sales tax collection and reporting.
    • Checkout Links now support adding attribution metadata to the cart and order by passing a querystring with the metadata key and value, ie attribution_metadata.KEY=VALUE
    • The WYSIWYG editor now supports adding video embeds as a new toolbar option to easily embed videos into storefront content.

    Improvements

    • Improved the storefront checkout flow order summary totals to make them more clearly display applied discounts.
    • Updated the Product Class Admin APIs to use the product class ID instead of slug as the reference point for consistency across the Admin API.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed issues where user's IP address wasn't automatically saved in the payment redirect flows for APMs.
    • Fixed the order stats on Funnel overview page that weren't showing all orders associated to the funnel.
    • Fixed the Total Spent metrics on the Customers List view to display correctly.
    • Fixed the Subscriptions Dashboard New Subscribers chart to include all subscriptions created within the timeframe.
    • Fixed missing validation for Attribution Metadata on the Carts Admin API to be consistent with the orders Admin API.
    • Fixed a minor display issue for Apps that don't have a public version yet and installed on development stores.
  • Topics
  • Admin API
  • Apps
  • Campaigns
  • Checkout
  • Customers
  • Dashboard
  • Disputes
  • Fulfillment
  • Gift Cards
  • Metadata
  • Notifications
  • Offers
  • Orders
  • Payments
  • Products
  • Reports
  • Settings
  • Storefront
  • Storefront API
  • Subscriptions
  • Support
  • Taxes
  • Themes
  • Webhooks