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Oct 27, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Google's video_link Attribute: The Real Requirements
- SEO & Performance
- Conversion & Growth
Google's video_link attribute has strict format and crawlability rules. Miss them and Google silently declines to serve your product video.
Read articleOct 27, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify's identityProviderSubjectDelete, Explained
- Enterprise & Shopify Plus
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's new mutation unlinks a customer from an SSO identity provider and signs them out everywhere — but it isn't a permanent block. Here's why that matters.
Read articleOct 27, 2026 · Ahmed
Pre-Warming OpenAI Agent Sandboxes: Three Timers
- Automation & AI
- Integrations & APIs
OpenAI's Agents API lets you pre-warm sandboxes for lower latency and now bills compute only during active turns — but three separate expiry timers still apply.
Read articleOct 26, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify's Market ID Targeting Is No Longer Stable
- Enterprise & Shopify Plus
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify Markets lets merchants nest markets, but deprecated endpoints return only the most specific match — and Shopify's own fix for it is on hold.
Read articleOct 26, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Stripe Blocks Direct Charges on Legacy Connect Accounts
- Payments & Marketplaces
Stripe now blocks new Connect platforms from direct charges on legacy Express or Custom accounts — a decision that's costly to reverse after launch.
Read articleOct 26, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify Now Recalculates Taxes on Address Edits
- Operations & Fulfillment
- Integrations & APIs
Editing an unfulfilled order's shipping address now recalculates its taxes as of API 2026-10 — and apps must reconcile the resulting balance change themselves.
Read articleOct 25, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
What Stripe's Networked Onboarding Actually Syncs
- Payments & Marketplaces
Stripe lets repeat sellers reuse verified KYC data across connected accounts, but only four fields stay synced, and eligibility has a strict API-version cutoff.
Read articleOct 25, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify's New Batch Fulfillment Has No API Yet
- Operations & Fulfillment
- Apps & Product Engineering
Shopify's new batch fulfillment groups up to 250 orders in the Admin UI, but there's no documented API for it. Here's what that means for automation.
Read articleOct 25, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify Rollouts Now Gate Discounts and Catalogs
- Enterprise & Shopify Plus
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's Rollouts system now overrides discount and catalog state for a slice of traffic — here's what pricing syncs must read instead.
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Oct 24, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Shop Pay Installments' 24-Month Terms Have a 6-Month Catch
- Conversion & Growth
Shop Pay Installments advertises 24-month terms and strong lift numbers. Here's exactly what Shopify's own eligibility gate and footnotes say.
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Oct 24, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify CLI Dropped --force — Here's What Replaced It
- Apps & Product Engineering
Shopify CLI 4.0 removed --force from app deploy. Here's exactly what --allow-updates and --allow-deletes now require from an unattended pipeline.
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Oct 24, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify's Expiring Token Migration Gets Two Recovery Windows
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's January 2027 offline-token deadline stays fixed, but two 2026 updates added 30-day and 7-day recovery windows for lost responses.
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