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Oct 9, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify Carrier Services No Longer Auto-Link to Shipping Profile
- Operations & Fulfillment
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's 2026-10 API stopped auto-adding new carrier services to the General shipping profile — here's the silent failure mode and the fix.
Read articleOct 9, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify's RequestedOrderEdit: What ERPs Need to Watch
- Integrations & APIs
- Operations & Fulfillment
Shopify's 2026-10 API adds a RequestedOrderEdit resource so ERP and 3PL integrations can finally see buyer-requested order edits before fulfillment.
Read articleOct 9, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Stripe Connect: Unreject Accounts and Reject With a Balance
- Payments & Marketplaces
Stripe's Dahlia release lets platforms reverse their own account rejections and reject accounts that still carry a balance.
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Oct 8, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Shopify Discount Functions Gain Cart-Wide Visibility
- Conversion & Growth
- Apps & Product Engineering
As of API 2026-04, Shopify discount functions can see what other discounts already did to a cart — but only if they run after them.
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Oct 8, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify Checkout WebMCP: What Agents Can Actually Do
- Automation & AI
- Apps & Product Engineering
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's new Checkout WebMCP tools let browser agents read, update, and submit checkout — but only after the buyer explicitly confirms the order.
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Oct 8, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify Moves Draft Order Holds From Reserved to Committed
- Operations & Fulfillment
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify is consolidating draft order, transfer, and shipment inventory holds into the committed state — here's what integration code needs to check.
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Oct 7, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify Functions Run in a Fixed Order During Checkout
- Apps & Product Engineering
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify Functions execute in a fixed 17-step order during checkout — and the resource limits every function shares, regardless of position.
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Oct 7, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Oxygen Hosting No Longer Requires a Paid Plan
- Storefront Engineering
Shopify opened Oxygen hosting to dev and trial stores in August 2026 — removing a paid-plan gate, but not the store-login requirement.
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Oct 7, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify's New Pricing Audit Trail, Explained
- Enterprise & Shopify Plus
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify's 2026-10 API added an auditTrail field that shows the exact calculation behind a buyer's contextual price — and one trap to avoid.
Read articleOct 6, 2026 · Muhammad Rehan
Shopify Split Return Creation From Processing. Rebuild ERPs Now
- Operations & Fulfillment
- Integrations & APIs
returnProcess splits return confirmation from return creation, moving when a sale is recorded and when exchange fulfillment orders exist. Here's what ERPs need to rebuild.
Read articleOct 6, 2026 · Ahmed
Shopify Functions: 5 to 25 Per API, Limits Unchanged
- Apps & Product Engineering
- Integrations & APIs
Shopify raised the active-function limit per API from 5 to 25. The per-execution resource ceiling didn't move — here's what that combination actually changes.
Read articleOct 6, 2026 · Muhammad Umar
Shopify's INP Guide: Where Slow Taps Really Happen
- SEO & Performance
- Storefront Engineering
Shopify's theme performance docs break every slow interaction into three measurable phases. Here's what each one means for a theme, and which fix belongs where.
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