Shopify Editions Fall '26: Every Update and What Works in Poland

Shopify Editions Fall '26 is Shopify's fall update, named "Exponential" and published on October 28, 2026. Shopify talks about more than 150 updates (150+) across 11 areas, and most of the space goes to selling through AI agents, Sidekick, Canvas and Rollouts, the Shopify Protect fraud suite, and changes to POS, shipping and analytics. A store based in Poland gets most of them, but many require Shopify Payments, while checkout inside AI chats, Shop Promise and Shop Pay Installments only work for stores in other countries or when selling to customers outside Poland for now. For a Polish store, the biggest gains right now come from getting into Shopify Catalog, an approved knowledge base for agents, promotions scheduled in Rollouts and a test of DHL eCommerce labels in the admin.

Shopify's fall Edition is called "Exponential" and came out on October 28, 2026. The Editions page splits the updates into 11 areas: Agentic, Sidekick, Online, Merchandising, Retail, Payments, Operations, Shop, Marketing, Fulfillment and Developer. In the page description Shopify talks about "150+ updates", and when we broke every entry down into single changes, we counted 222. We covered the previous Edition in our guide to Shopify Editions Spring '26.

Shopify opens the page with three numbers. The first is "1B+ products in our catalog can get discovered across AI channels". The second is "400M+ shoppers with Shop Pay accounts", as of September 30, 2026 according to Shopify's footnote. The third is "Shopify Payments prevents 12K+ high-risk payments each minute". All three are Shopify's own figures.

This guide covers every entry on the Editions page, one-liners included. We checked each change in Shopify's documentation (help.shopify.com, shopify.dev and the changelog) from the point of view of a store based in Poland: does it work, on which plan, in what status and under what conditions. Where Shopify doesn't say, we write that plainly, and where the Editions page and the docs disagree, we flag it. Everything here is as of October 28, 2026.

The changes that matter most for stores in Poland

Out of 222 entries we picked the 12 that, in our view, change the most for a store based in Poland. Shopify Payments comes first, because access to many of the other new features depends on it, and the concrete steps for the coming weeks are in the action plan at the end of this guide.

1. Shopify Payments with Shop Pay and BLIK as the key to many new features

Shopify Payments, Shopify's built-in payment processor, has been available to businesses based in Poland since March 21, 2025, for online sales only. Turning it on also switches on Shop Pay (Shopify's accelerated checkout, available in Polish), Apple Pay and Google Pay, and the settings add BLIK, the Polish mobile payment method, for customers with a Polish address paying in PLN (not for subscriptions). Przelewy24, a Polish online payment method, no longer takes new activations through Shopify Payments, though stores that already have it keep it. In this Edition, Shopify Payments is the entry ticket to the Shop app, Shop Campaigns, the new Shopify Protect features, Shop Pay in AI agents and sourcing in Shopify Collective. If a third-party provider handles your cards today, you can add Shopify Payments alongside it, paying the standard rate plus a 1.25% premium on transactions that go through Shopify Payments (docs).

2. Shopify Protect: blocking before authorization and AI dispute responses

Shopify Protect is now the shared name for Shopify's fraud and dispute tools. Shopify Payments stops some high-risk payment attempts before an order is even created (the "Blocked" view under Orders > Abandoned checkouts), the "Order risk evaluation" view explains risk signals in plain language, and AI drafts chargeback responses from your evidence. Shopify states no country limits for these features, so our read of the docs is that a Polish store on Shopify Payments gets them. Chargeback reimbursement stays US only, so the EUR 15 (PLN 75) chargeback fee still falls on the store. The sources disagree on status: the Editions page says Protect is rolling out, while Shopify's blog says it's live today. Make sure every order has a tracking number, because defending "parcel not received" disputes relies on tracking data.

3. Shopify Catalog: can AI agents see your products

Shopify Catalog is the shared catalog of products from Shopify stores, used by the Shop app, AI agents and new developer tools such as Shop MCP and the Catalog API. It has no country restrictions. It requires the Starter plan or higher, a store without a password, products with a title, at least one image and a price above zero, published and not marked Unlisted, and an account in good standing: a verified email, 2FA and a low chargeback rate. A new screen under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources > Shopify Catalog shows how many of your products are in the catalog, or why the store is excluded. Some categories are excluded, including products set to "Uncategorized", so filling in product categories is where we'd start. A new "List price" setting sends agents the price before a markdown, but the docs don't mention the EU Omnibus Directive, so check that your compare-at prices comply before you switch it on (Shopify Catalog requirements).

4. A knowledge base for AI agents

There's a new knowledge base under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources. Shopify scans your store and admin, then suggests facts about your business: store policies, contact details, payments, returns, warranty and fulfillment. Facts drafted by Shopify stay unpublished until you approve them, and published facts go to Shop and to third-party AI agents that ask about your store. The knowledge base holds up to 1,000 facts and replaces the Shopify Knowledge Base app, which will be deprecated on January 15, 2027. Shopify states no country limits and hasn't said yet how it handles the language of the facts (as of Oct 28, 2026). Go through the suggestions with an eye on what you actually offer, such as BLIK or parcel locker delivery, and compare the return rules with your store's terms. The details are in the knowledge base docs.

5. Rollouts: a promotion that switches itself off

Rollouts, Shopify's scheduled changes in the Markets area of the admin, bundle a theme change, checkout configuration, catalogs and discounts (up to 250 discounts at once) into one package. A Launch changes the store permanently, an Event runs for a set period and then reverts on its own, and an Experiment is an A/B test with a control group. Rollouts work from the Basic plan, Experiments from Grow, vintage themes aren't supported, and Shopify states no country limits. A Launch or Event at 100% of traffic also reaches POS, headless stores and Google feeds, while an Experiment works in the online store only. We'd set up Black Friday as an Event that returns to regular prices automatically, and run price changes during active Google Shopping ads as a Launch or Event at 100% of traffic, so prices in the feed and in the store stay in line (Shopify's guide).

6. Custom checkout fields: the full version on Plus only, and only after BFCM

Shopify is adding native fields to the checkout and customer accounts editor: text, text area, choice list, date and checkbox, plus ready-made "Delivery instructions" and "Gift message" fields. The value is saved to an order metafield, and a field can be required, appear only for carts with selected collections and be set separately for each market. All field types are Shopify Plus only, and other plans get just the delivery instructions and gift message fields. The fields won't appear before or during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and after that they'll be added automatically, with no early access. Shopify states no country limits. Stick with your current setup for this season, and once the fields launch on Plus, the date field can be useful for something like a preferred delivery day (custom fields docs).

7. DHL eCommerce labels in the admin for stores shipping from Poland

A store with a location in Poland can now buy labels in the admin: DHL Parcel Connect for addresses in Poland and DHL Parcel Connect (EU) for other EU countries. According to the docs, DHL is the only carrier whose labels Shopify sells to stores shipping from Poland. You create a label in an unfulfilled order with Create shipping label, in bulk too, and drop parcels off at a DHL locker only, with no courier pickup. Rates come from Shopify's DHL account with no fee on top of your plan, but they aren't shown at checkout, so you set your shipping prices yourself. The size limit is 64x41x38 cm and 25 kg, and there are no return labels from Polish locations in the admin. The October 16, 2026 changelog lists only shipments to other EU countries for Poland, while the help docs also cover domestic parcels, so check domestic labels in your own admin. A foreign brand gets these labels only if it ships from a warehouse in Poland.

8. Shop Campaigns in PLN

Shop Campaigns are Shopify's pay-per-sale ads. You decide how much you pay for an acquired customer, and you pay only when an ad leads to a sale. The ads run in Shop and, according to the product page, also in channels such as Meta, Google, ChatGPT and Pinterest. With this Edition one campaign can cover several markets at once, and Poland and PLN are on the list of supported countries and currencies. You need Shopify Payments, the "Sell directly on Shop with direct checkout" setting in the Shop channel, local-currency prices in your cross-border markets, a store that isn't in private mode and Shopify Network Intelligence switched on, which in the EEA brings cookie banner and consent obligations. The Editions page says "Shop Campaigns has led to over 18M sales for businesses", while the product page still says "10M+ sales". The conditions are on the list of countries and currencies.

9. WhatsApp in Shopify Messaging

Shopify Messaging, Shopify's app for email, SMS and WhatsApp, now sends WhatsApp messages in abandoned browse, cart and checkout automations, and since September 10, 2026 you can add a WhatsApp marketing consent field to checkout. Polish recipients aren't excluded, since the only excluded recipients are in the US, China and sanctioned regions. A marketing message to a recipient in Poland costs USD 0.172 and a service message USD 0.0122, so 1,000 cart reminders cost USD 172. You need a paid Shopify plan and a WhatsApp Business account connected under Apps > Messaging > Settings, and message templates are approved by Meta, which doesn't guarantee approval. New accounts are capped at 2,000 messages a day. Before you switch the channel on, work out the cost against your number of abandoned carts (WhatsApp pricing).

10. New session measurement and cookie consent

Since the update rolled out on September 21-23, 2026, Shopify counts sessions differently. A session lasts as long as there is activity and ends after 30 minutes of inactivity, and known bots are filtered out by default. Sessions, conversion rate, add-to-carts and visitor counts change, while orders and sales stay the same. In the EEA, which covers shoppers in Poland, Shopify waits for consent before setting analytics cookies when automated privacy settings are on, and third-party consent apps that delete and re-create the _shopify_s cookie inflate session counts. Shopify recommends passing consent through the Customer Privacy API. On October 18, 2026 the channel values in marketing reports changed as well. We'd treat September 2026 as the new baseline and ask the developer of your consent app about the Customer Privacy API (what changed).

11. Returns by market and the EU right of withdrawal

Return window overrides have been available since September 29, 2026. You can set a separate window for a collection, product or variant, the shortest window wins, and final sale always wins. Separate return and cancellation rules for each market are in early access, and the per-market self-serve returns toggle needs the Advanced or Plus plan. Shopify cites EU Directive 2023/2673, in force since June 19, 2026, and suggests a return window of at least 14 days from delivery of the last item, self-serve returns and cancellations switched on, and a visible link to the customer account. It also points out that these settings don't make a store legally compliant on their own. We'd compare the return settings with your store's terms and run them past a lawyer (return rules).

12. POS in Poland: new features yes, Shopify Payments at the counter no

The Shopify POS app and POS Pro (a paid add-on billed monthly per location) work in Poland. New software features such as scheduled stock counts, shared carts, local delivery from the counter, staff sales attribution and the activity log have no country limits in the docs, though some of them need POS Pro. Shopify Payments doesn't support in-person payments in Poland, and Shopify card readers aren't sold here. That rules out recognizing customers when they pay by card, receipt selection on the customer screen and QR code payments such as Alipay or Satispay. A Polish store connects an external terminal as a custom payment method and marks orders as paid by hand, and BLIK and Przelewy24 don't work in POS. Shopify's docs don't cover Polish fiscal rules, so settle fiscal cash register questions with your accountant. The countries with Shopify Payments at the counter are listed in the POS docs.

Here are the same 12 changes in short.

What you can't get in Poland yet

Some of the most talked-about announcements only work for stores based in other countries, or only when selling to customers outside Poland. Here's the list as of October 28, 2026.

• Selling in ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Both channels require selling to customers in the US, and ChatGPT only refers shoppers to your store anyway, with no payment inside the chat.

• Selling in Google AI Mode and Gemini. The channel covers only customers in the US, Canada and Australia, so a Polish store qualifies only if it sells to one of those countries.

• Meta checkout in Muse. Meta's direct checkout is shown only to customers in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Singapore.

• Conversational search in the Shop app. The merchant docs limit it to customers in the US and Canada, even though the Editions page says the Shop agent reaches more markets.

• Shop Promise. The delivery and returns badge is a program for stores with locations in the US that ship within the US.

• Shopify Managed Markets, including all-in prices and flat-rate shipping. The service is only for merchants in the continental US and selected stores in Canada and the UK.

• Shop Pay Installments. Shop Pay's installment payments work in the US, Canada and the UK, with Australia in early access, so a Polish store can turn on Klarna in Shopify Payments instead.

• Chargeback reimbursement in Shopify Protect. The coverage applies only to stores based in the US with a US Shopify Payments account, so the EUR 15 (PLN 75) chargeback fee stays with a Polish store.

• US tax and payment features. Shopify Tax managed for you, tax based on the ship-from location, tax on return fees and HSA/FSA payments through Truemed apply to stores based in the US or to orders shipped to US addresses. Shopify also announces the machine-learning approval boost for online payments in the US only.

• Shop Pay with a third-party payment gateway. Without Shopify Payments as the processor, Shop Pay works only for stores in Australia, France and the US.

• DHL Express in the admin. DHL Express labels are available only to stores with locations in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.

• Pickup points at checkout, including Royal Mail. Native pickup points are available to stores in France, Italy, Spain and the UK, and to a store in Poland only on Plus with a custom app.

• UPS labels from Canada and Canada Post return labels. Both apply to locations in Canada, and Shopify sells return labels only for locations in the US and Canada.

• Shopify Payments at the counter and Shopify card readers. In Poland Shopify Payments works online only, which rules out in-store customer recognition, receipt selection on the customer screen and QR payments in POS (Alipay, WeChat Pay, Satispay, Scalapay, GrabPay).

• Tap to Pay in the Shopify mobile app. Shopify lists the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and our read of the docs is that it won't work in Poland, because Shopify Payments doesn't support in-person payments here.

• VAT summary on POS receipts. Poland isn't on the list of countries for which Shopify adds it to receipts automatically.

• Translate & Adapt with Auto-sync and 8 languages. Automatic translation with weekly syncing is for stores in 14 listed countries, while a store based in Poland gets 2 languages and re-runs the translation by hand.

• Snapchat in Campaign Autopilot. The channel requires a store currency of AUD, CAD, DKK, EUR, GBP, NOK, SEK or USD, so a store that runs in PLN can't use it.

• A/B price tests in Smart Pricing. They're only for US stores selling to the US on the Grow plan or higher.

• Shopify Credit with QuickBooks and international transfers in Shopify Balance. Both are for businesses in the US, and Shopify Credit also for businesses in Puerto Rico.

• A store in one command through Stripe Projects CLI. This works only in the United States.

• Sourcing from foreign suppliers in Shopify Collective. Collective connects only stores in the same country using the same currency, so a Polish store sees only Polish suppliers selling in PLN.

How to read this guide

From here we go through the 11 areas in the same order as Shopify, with the Developer area split into two parts. Each part opens with a short intro and a "For stores in Poland" paragraph, and closes with a cheat sheet table that gives the status of every change (live, rolling out, early access, beta, coming soon) and a verdict for Poland (yes, no, partly, unclear). Bigger announcements get their own subheadings, and short entries are grouped into themed lists. Store owners can skip the two developer parts, apart from the app deadlines (January 1 and March 1, 2027). The action plan, our take, the sources and the FAQ are at the end.

If your brand is based outside Poland and sells into it, keep one distinction in mind when you read the Poland notes. Some features follow the country your business or warehouse is in, like Shopify Payments or the DHL eCommerce labels, while others follow where your customers are, like selling inside AI chats.

• Agentic: selling through AI agents

• Sidekick: the AI assistant in your admin

• Online store: Canvas, Rollouts, languages and B2B

• Products and merchandising

• Retail and POS: selling in person

• Payments, fraud protection and checkout

• Operations: the new admin, analytics and Shopify Flow

• The Shop app and shop.com

• Marketing: Campaign Autopilot, Shop Campaigns and WhatsApp

• Shipping, inventory and returns

• For developers and agencies: agentic commerce and new APIs

• For developers and agencies: tooling, security and storefronts

Agentic: selling through AI agents

The first section of the Fall '26 Edition is about AI agents, the assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok that can look for products and buy on a shopper's behalf. Shopify is building two things at once here: channels where the shopper pays without leaving the chat, and connectors that let a merchant run the store from the AI assistant they already use. According to Shopify, "1B+ products in our catalog can get discovered across AI channels". Below we go through all 16 updates in this section.

For stores in Poland, this section splits in two. Running your store from a chat (the connectors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Muse and Microsoft Copilot) has no country limits on Shopify's side, and availability depends on the provider of each AI tool. Selling inside someone else's chat is a different story, because eligibility depends on where your customers are, not on where your store is based. ChatGPT requires selling to customers in the US (and it only refers them to your store, with no checkout in the chat), Google AI Mode and Gemini require customers in the US, Canada or Australia, Microsoft Copilot is US only, and Muse from Meta covers the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Singapore. A store that sells only to Poland and the EU qualifies for none of these channels today. The same lists matter for brands based elsewhere that sell into Poland, because selling to Polish shoppers alone doesn't open any of them. The tools that get a store ready for agents do work here: Shopify Catalog with no country restriction, the knowledge base about your business, the Shop app once Shopify Payments is active, digital products created from a chat, and sourcing from Polish suppliers. That's where we'd start.

Shop skill for any agent

The Shop skill is published at shop.md. A shopper adds it to ChatGPT, Claude or any other agent that supports MCP (the protocol AI agents use to connect to outside tools). From then on, the agent searches for products using the shopper's Shop profile and order history, prepares the purchase and pays with Shop Pay (Shopify's fast checkout with saved card and address details). It can also track orders, check return policies and reorder. Shopify's launch post says the agent can search more than a billion products.

Shoppers can turn on "Allow agent to pay for me" with a weekly, monthly or total spending limit, and they control agent connections in their Shop account settings. Anyone can tailor the skill and add their own rules. The tools Shopify used to build it are available to developers at shop.dev.

Shopify doesn't describe any merchant-side setup, and our read of the docs is that products reach the agent through Shopify Catalog and Shop. Shopify hasn't said yet which countries shoppers can use the skill in (as of Oct 28, 2026). A Polish store can be in Catalog, and with Shopify Payments active also in Shop, so its products can show up in the agent's answers. The shopper side is explained on Shop's help page about personal agents.

Shop Pay in more agents

Shoppers can now find a product, approve the purchase and pay with Shop Pay in three personal agents: Muse from Meta, Claude Duet and Instinct. Merchants don't have to switch anything on for agents, and orders land in the admin showing which agent they came from. In Muse, Shop Pay works only for purchases from stores on Shopify and runs on Meta's direct checkout, where it can appear as a wallet. Shopify cites "400M+ shoppers with Shop Pay accounts" (as of September 30, 2026), so a lot of buyers already have their payment details saved. Developers who want to add Shop Pay to their own agent get the tools at shop.dev.

On the store side, Shop Pay is part of Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment gateway). Merchants based in Poland have been able to use Shopify Payments since March 21, 2025, for online sales only, and Shop Pay switches on automatically with it, in Polish too. Shop Pay with a third-party gateway and without Shopify Payments isn't available in Poland. Meta's direct checkout in Muse is shown only to customers in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and Singapore, so that route is closed to shoppers in Poland. For Claude Duet and Instinct, Shopify hasn't said yet which countries are covered (as of Oct 28, 2026).

If you want these channels open, Shopify Payments is the first step. How Shop Pay works for merchants is in Shopify's Shop Pay docs, and the Muse settings are in the Meta channel documentation.

Buying inside AI chats: Shop Pay at any brand and selling in Google

• Shop Pay at any brand through Claude Duet, Grok Bot and Instinct. In these agents, shoppers can pay with Shop Pay even at a store that isn't on Shopify. If the store doesn't offer Shop Pay, the shopper approves the store, items, payment method and spending limit in Shop, and the agent gets a one-time payment credential (a token or a single-use virtual card) that it enters in the store's normal card form. The real card details aren't shared with the store, and the shopper's statement shows "SHOPPAY*[store name]". The merchant doesn't need any integration. Sources differ on two details. Editions lists Mastercard, Visa and "soon" Amex, while Shopify's launch post adds Discover. Shop's help page names only Claude Duet and Instinct for paying at any store, without Grok Bot. Shopify hasn't said yet which countries this covers (as of Oct 28, 2026). Our read is that a Polish store that accepts cards would receive such an order as an ordinary card payment.

• Selling in Google Search, AI Mode and the Gemini app. The channel sits under Sales channels > Agentic, and you can change its settings after turning off "Allow Shopify to manage for me". Google finds products through Google Merchant Center (the Google & YouTube channel or a feed from a third-party app), and the shopper pays by card in a Shopify checkout embedded in Google, without leaving the chat. You need a Google Merchant Center account and products that qualify for Shopify Catalog. You manage the orders in the admin, the channel has no fees beyond standard payment processing, and direct checkout is on by default for eligible stores. If you turn it off, shoppers are sent to your online store instead. Shopify is rolling it out gradually to customers in the US, Canada and Australia, and the store itself can be based in any country. A Polish store selling only to Poland and the EU doesn't qualify, but one with a market and shipping to the US, Canada or Australia can (that's our reading of the "sell to customers in" condition). Direct checkout doesn't support subscriptions, bundles, customizable products, pickup in store, pickup points or browser-side pixels, Google Analytics included, among other things. Details are in the Google channel documentation.

Shopify Catalog: compare-at prices and eligibility checks

Shopify Catalog is the shared catalog of products from Shopify stores that AI agents and the Shop app draw on. Its requirements don't include any country restriction, so Polish stores can be in it.

• Compare-at price for agents. On the Channel mapping page for Shopify Catalog there's a "List price" setting with two options, Price or Compare-at price. With the second one, Catalog sends the pre-markdown price as the list price, but only when it's higher than the current price, and agents may then show it as a strikethrough price. Editions says this works with "no extra setup", but the documentation describes a toggle and doesn't state the default, so check it under Sales channels > Agentic. Changes are processed with a delay. The docs don't mention EU rules on displaying price reductions (the Omnibus Directive), so before you switch it on, make sure the compare-at prices in your store follow those rules. The setting is described in the Catalog mapping docs.

• Checking whether your store qualifies for Shopify Catalog. Under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources > Shopify Catalog, the admin shows either the number of products in Catalog or an "Ineligible" warning. Click it to see the reason and what to fix. The docs list 11 types of message, from plan and store password to account standing and B2B-only products. Shopify requires the Starter plan or higher, no password on the store, and products with a title, at least one image and a price above zero, published to Online Store, Hydrogen or Headless and not set to Unlisted. On top of that you need good account standing, meaning a verified email, 2FA and a low chargeback rate. Some categories are excluded, including alcohol, tobacco and vaping, CBD, prescription and medical products, weapons, fireworks, event tickets, services and anything in "Uncategorized". We'd start by checking that no product has been left without a category, because those won't get into Catalog. The full list is in the Shopify Catalog requirements.

Store preview in agents

The shopify store create preview command in Shopify CLI (Shopify's command-line tool for developers) creates a new store without an existing Shopify account. Editions frames it around agents: you can start building a store before you sign up and keep everything you made once you're ready to sell. The --country flag sets the store's country with a two-letter ISO code, --name gives it a name, and --json and --no-input help when a script or an agent runs the command.

The documentation for stores created with AI tools says such a store starts as a trial store. When you save it to your account you become the owner, a four-month free trial begins, and the storefront stays password-protected until you choose a paid plan. That page covers AI tools and doesn't name the CLI command, so treat this part as our read.

The CLI docs describe --country as an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and give US, CA and GB as examples. PL isn't named, but the format suggests the Polish code should work. A store created in a chat without a country defaults to the US, and test checkout in the connectors only works when the store's country matches the country you're in. So we'd always pass the right country code from the start, --country PL for a Polish store. This is mainly a tool for developers and freelancers who want to show a client a working draft of a store before anyone opens an account. The command is documented in the Shopify CLI reference.

Digital products created from a chat

In a chat with a connected AI tool (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Muse, Perplexity or Microsoft Copilot), you just ask to sell a file or a link. The tool installs or uses the Digital Products app, creates a draft product (title and price are required), attaches a file of up to 5 GB or a link, turns on automatic delivery and publishes the product with a shareable link. After the purchase, the customer gets an email with a download link and the order is marked as fulfilled. The file goes straight from your browser to Shopify, not through the chat. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Grok Bot show an install button and a file picker, while Muse, Perplexity and Copilot give you links instead.

This suits people who sell patterns, e-books, templates or course materials, and stores that want to add a digital product next to physical ones. Shopify doesn't list separate plan or country requirements, so we see nothing blocking Polish stores. Selling links works only with supported providers.

Once the product exists, check in Products that the status is Active, the Online Store channel is on, the file is in the assets and delivery is set to "Automatically", then place a test order. The whole flow is in the guide to selling digital products from an AI tool.

Product sourcing through agents (Shopify Collective)

In ChatGPT or Claude with the Shopify plugin, you describe what you want to sell, and the tool searches Shopify Collective catalogs (the network where Shopify stores sell products from other Shopify stores) and shows matching products to import. Imported products work like any Collective product, so the supplier handles stock and shipping and you set the retail price. The Collective app installs on your first import, and Shopify says it's free on all plans, subject to store eligibility.

Poland and PLN are on the list of supported countries and currencies. The store and the supplier must be in the same country and use the same currency, though, so a Polish store will only see Polish suppliers selling in PLN. The rule works both ways, so a store based outside Poland won't see Polish suppliers either. You also need Shopify Payments with active payouts in the store's currency, and in the EU also Shopify Tax, Basic Tax or a tax app (manual tax isn't enough) plus a verified VAT status. Collective also requires Shopify Network Intelligence to be on, which in the EEA brings cookie banner and consent duties. Shopify may ask for identity verification with a selfie.

This fits stores that want a wider range without their own warehouse, for example with complementary products from a Polish brand. Details are in Shopify's post on product sourcing with agents and the Collective requirements.

Running your store from a chat: connectors and Canvas

Connectors link your store to the AI assistant you already use. Shopify states no country limits here and charges nothing on top of your plan, while the AI tool's subscription is paid to its provider. No connector can change payments, taxes, domains or the published theme. Keep in mind that a connector is for managing the store and doesn't open sales in that chat by itself. Selling depends on the conditions described above.

• Grok and Grok Bot. The connector for Grok (xAI's assistant) lets you create a store before signing up, build it and save it to a Shopify account, or connect an existing store. From the chat you manage products, collections, inventory, percentage discount codes and analytics shown as tables and charts, while orders and customers are read-only. Pages, menus, metafields, markets and translations can be changed through the Admin API after you confirm. The connector can't refund or cancel orders, and it makes theme changes on an unpublished copy. Grok Bot, a separate xAI product, lets you build "AI teammates" with Shopify connected that help you run the business. Shopify states no country limits, and xAI doesn't list regions for connectors. Setup is in the Grok connector docs.

• Google Gemini. The connector lets you create a new store or sign in to an existing one and, from Gemini, manage products, collections, inventory, discounts, analytics and digital products, with read-only access to orders and customers. You install it in Gemini's Connected Apps settings or by naming Shopify in a chat and approving access. There's no Shopify App Store listing. This is separate from selling in Gemini, which requires customers in the US, Canada or Australia. Google says Connected Apps availability varies by location, language and device, and says nothing specific about Poland. Setup is covered in the Gemini connector docs.

• Muse from Meta. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent. The connector lets you link an existing store, create a new one, or sign up for Shopify and come back to Muse with the store connected. Editions mentions managing products, inventory and discounts, and the docs add collections, orders, customers and analytics. You connect by asking Muse to link Shopify, in the mobile app, on the web or in the desktop app, but not through WhatsApp. The Muse subscription is paid to Meta. We couldn't confirm whether Muse is available in Poland, and Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026). More in the Muse connector docs.

• Microsoft Copilot. The Shopify plugin works in Copilot Cowork (a Microsoft 365 agent) and in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. In Cowork, store data sits next to your email, documents and spreadsheets, so you can, for example, create products from a supplier's email or update inventory from an Excel sheet. In Copilot Chat, a separate Shopify agent works only with store data. You need Microsoft 365 Copilot access, and in a company an admin may have to deploy the plugin. Availability in Poland depends on Microsoft licensing, and Shopify doesn't specify it. Selling through Copilot is a separate channel, open only for customers in the US. Instructions are in the Copilot plugin docs.

• Canvas in AI agents. Canvas is Shopify's new whole-store editor with Sidekick (the AI assistant in the Shopify admin), and it shows all templates side by side. Editions announces designing with Canvas from ChatGPT, Claude and other agents, but every connector's documentation says "Coming soon", so today it doesn't work in any of them. Canvas itself is in early access in the admin, only for certain stores, on desktop, and with themes made by Shopify or custom themes. A theme edited in Canvas stops receiving theme updates and can't be downloaded. Stores with several markets can't customize it per market, and its text has to be translated in Translate & Adapt (Shopify's translation app). We say more in the Online section, and the requirements are in the Canvas docs.

• Shopify in the ChatGPT sidebar. In the Shopify plugin for ChatGPT, you can pin Shopify to the sidebar. Opening it shows a home screen for your store with sales, sessions, conversion rate and task cards, and you can add or search products without going into the admin. Next to the chat there's also a Shopify panel where you edit fields ChatGPT has drafted, such as title, description or price, and the changes sync with the conversation. You call the plugin in prompts with "@Shopify". Shopify states no country limits on its side, and the ChatGPT subscription is paid to OpenAI. Shopify hasn't said yet in which countries the plugin itself is available (as of Oct 28, 2026). Selling in ChatGPT is a separate matter and requires customers in the US. Details are in the ChatGPT plugin docs.

Your business details in AI channels (Knowledge base)

Under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources there's a new Knowledge base. Shopify scans your storefront and admin, then drafts facts about your business in categories such as about and brand, store policies, contact, gift services, payment, returns and warranty, second-hand goods, fulfillment and additional facts. You approve or reject suggestions, edit sources and add references, and Shopify suggests how to improve your content. Facts drafted by Shopify aren't published until you approve them. Published facts are publicly available through Storefront MCP and are used by Shop and third-party AI agents.

The knowledge base holds up to 1,000 facts and replaces the Shopify Knowledge Base app, which will be deprecated on January 15, 2027, with its facts moving over automatically. Access is limited to the owner and staff with permission for the Agentic channel. Headless stores and stores on the Agentic plan can only add additional facts, and on a password-protected store Shopify uses only admin data.

Shopify states no country limits here, so Polish stores can use it. It hasn't said yet how it handles the language of the facts (as of Oct 28, 2026), so check which language they were drafted in, especially if your store runs in Polish and other languages. Then go through the payment and delivery facts. They should describe what you actually offer (in a Polish store that might be BLIK or parcel locker delivery), and the returns facts should match your terms and conditions. The docs are on the Knowledge base page.

Cheat sheet: Agentic

Sidekick: the AI assistant in your admin

Sidekick is the AI assistant built into the Shopify admin. This Edition gives it more room to work on its own: it turns multi-step jobs into a plan, writes and runs its own code, remembers earlier conversations and prepares whole batches of changes for you to approve in one go. Shopify also says Sidekick now powers store editing in Canvas and understands the apps installed in your store. According to Shopify, "Daily Sidekick sessions have grown 4.2x year over year", but its own September 24, 2026 post on the new admin look puts session growth at 4.8 times, so the two official figures don't match.

For stores in Poland the main point is that Sidekick should work in Polish. Polish is one of the admin languages, and with the Summer '25 Edition Shopify said Sidekick speaks every admin language, but no current doc lists the supported languages. Questions about payouts and chargebacks only make sense for stores on Shopify Payments, which Polish businesses have been able to use since March 21, 2025 (online only). Pulse recommendations and changes tested by Sidekick need Shopify Network Intelligence (SNI), and in the EEA that means a cookie banner, consent for ads based on activity across merchants, and a link to Shopify's privacy portal in your privacy policy. For Smart Pricing tips the docs state no country limit; only A/B price tests are restricted to US stores.

More technical tasks with Sidekick

Sidekick now handles jobs with several steps. It drafts a plan first and then works through it, and longer tasks keep running in the background until a notification tells you the result is ready to review. It can build workflows in Shopify Flow (the automation tool in the admin), and it can write and run its own code to forecast, compare periods or summarize store data. It also follows saved "skills", which are instructions for recurring tasks: up to 50, or 25 in some stores. It remembers conversations from roughly the last 3 months and admin activity from about the last 12 hours, and you can switch memory off for a single conversation. Shopify notes that in some stores Sidekick can't run code and only uses a skill when you select it or type its shortcut.

Sidekick is included in every plan, but features and usage limits vary by plan, and generating apps with Sidekick needs Grow, Advanced or Plus. You'll find it in the Sidekick field on most admin pages, on Home, in the Shopify app on phone and tablet, in a mobile browser and on Apple Watch (voice, read-only answers). Screen sharing is in early access and desktop only. Staff use Sidekick within their own admin permissions. We'd start with one recurring report, such as a weekly sales comparison, saved as a skill. The details are in Shopify's Sidekick docs, and the limits of memory are covered on the Sidekick memory page.

Recommendations tested by Sidekick

Some Pulse cards (Sidekick's recommendations on the Home page) suggest a theme change. Sidekick builds that change into an unpublished copy of your live theme, and SimGym (a Shopify app that sends simulated AI shoppers through your store) compares the copy with the live version. If the copy gets a higher add-to-cart rate, the card is labeled "Tested by Sidekick", sometimes with a badge showing that rate. Clicking "Review suggested changes" creates a draft theme called "[Sidekick] Suggested theme", which you review, adjust and publish in Canvas.

It's in early access, available only to certain stores, and the changelog on Shopify's Sidekick page dates it October 28, 2026. Shopify hasn't said yet which plans and countries get it (as of Oct 28, 2026). Sidekick only tests desktop changes meant to lift add-to-cart. You need Pulse access (some stores with recent sales, the owner or staff with admin access, SNI switched on), a live theme that can be opened in Canvas, and the SimGym app, which is free to install and charges per simulation. Themes from other developers in the Theme Store are ruled out. For Poland the status is unclear. Our read of the docs is that it comes down to SNI with its EEA consent setup and a Canvas-compatible theme. Shopify explains the flow in the Pulse docs.

Guidance from Sidekick on more of your store

Sidekick Pulse researches your store data and shows up to 5 suggested actions as cards on Home. Picking a card opens a Sidekick conversation with a ready-made to-do list. What's new is that recommendations can draw on data from installed apps that have built a Sidekick extension. Shopify names Printful, Smile.io, Appstle, Notify Me!, Kaching Bundles, Kaching Subscriptions, TinySEO and Sendvio among the first. Sidekick shows which app data a recommendation is based on and prepares the change in that app's own editor, where you check it before saving. It can't reach apps that haven't built an extension.

Pulse is only available to some stores with recent sales activity, for the owner or staff with admin access, and it needs SNI switched on. Some app features follow the app's own plan tiers. The Editions page also promises context from web research on your industry and market, but the help docs we read don't describe that part. Shopify hasn't said yet which plans or countries get Pulse (as of Oct 28, 2026). You can dismiss a card that doesn't fit and leave short feedback. In a Polish store we'd first check which of the apps you already use have a Sidekick extension, because that decides how much these cards can actually see. The partner list is in Shopify's post on app extensions.

Sidekick in everyday admin work

• Several changes, one approval. When you ask Sidekick to change many products or a whole collection, for example by rewriting descriptions, it drafts the changes in a "Store changes" card. You review each type of change in a table with "Show original" and only then click "Publish all changes". One set holds up to 50 changes; if you ask for more, Sidekick drafts the first 50 and asks you to publish or discard them. A draft expires 10 days after its last update, and published changes can't be undone automatically. The feature is in early access for certain stores only, with no country limit stated, so before a bulk description rewrite we'd export products to CSV as a backup (how store changes work).

• Floating chat in the new admin. In the redesigned admin, Sidekick sits at the bottom of every page. Short tasks stay in a small floating window, longer work opens into a side panel, and Sidekick uses the page you're on as context. The new admin look has been rolling out gradually since September 15, 2026 and needs no setup. Search, notifications and the store picker move into a collapsible side navigation at the same time. Shopify states no country limit here, so the admin should look the same in Poland. The changes are described in Shopify's post on the new admin.

• Recommendations to start the day. When you open the admin, Home shows today's tasks, next steps for orders, recent sales, personalized recommendations and growth steps. Sidekick adds Pulse cards to that feed and suggests ready-made prompts in its field on Home. Home itself works in every store, Polish ones included, while Pulse cards only show up in some stores with recent sales and SNI switched on. The Shopify Home docs list what each part of the page does.

• Draft orders through Sidekick. Sidekick opens the draft order page, fills in the details and marks added line items with an "Added" badge, and nothing is saved until you click Save. It can add products and custom items, change quantities and prices, apply discounts, add a custom shipping rate, a customer or a B2B company, reserve inventory, set payment terms, add a PO number for B2B and change the draft order's currency. For a Polish store that quotes in both PLN and EUR, that last option saves a lot of clicks. A deposit is only available on Shopify Plus, and only when the draft already has payment terms.

Sidekick for products, pricing and payments

• Print-on-demand products from your own design. You tell Sidekick "Help me create a custom product", pick a product, then upload or describe a design, and Sidekick shows it on the product right away. "Create product" saves the design to Content > Files and opens Printful, where you finish the setup (Printful adds the product as a draft) and add a billing method. Only Printful receives the design automatically; for other print-on-demand apps you upload the file yourself. Shopify recommends a PNG or JPEG under 5 MB, at least 150 DPI, with a transparent background (print-on-demand docs). This is early access, and Shopify's docs don't describe where Printful operates, so for Poland we'd check that on the Printful side.

• Pricing questions with Smart Pricing. Once you install the free Shopify Smart Pricing app (which suggests product prices), Sidekick gives a price tip for one product at a time, for example after the prompt "Help me figure out a price for @PRODUCT". It's the same tip the app shows, it applies to all variants, and it respects your guardrails, by default a minimum margin of 10% and a maximum discount of 50%. Shopify says Smart Pricing tips in Sidekick are rolling out gradually, and the app has a Polish interface. The docs explain that when your prices include tax, Smart Pricing removes the tax at your store's home rate before it checks the margin guardrail, which for a Polish store means Polish VAT. A/B price tests remain limited to US stores.

• Payouts and chargebacks in Shopify Payments. Sidekick reads your Shopify Payments account (Shopify's built-in payment processing). According to the help docs, it can check whether your chargeback rate has led to a payout reserve or a card network dispute program, report your chargeback rate and amounts, group chargebacks by reason, and build a Flow workflow that cancels or refunds risky orders. A good first prompt is "Is my chargeback rate affecting my Shopify Payments account?" The Editions page also promises explanations for lower payouts and help with business verification, but the linked help section describes neither. Sidekick can't release a reserve, remove a hold or change payout details. Poland is on the Shopify Payments supported countries list, so this works for Polish stores on Shopify Payments and does nothing for a store that only uses a third-party payment gateway.

Sidekick in checkout and themes

• Help in the checkout and accounts editor. Here the Sidekick icon in the editor's menu bar opens a conversation about your saved configuration, such as colors, fonts, layout, sections, and which app blocks sit where and for which markets. Sidekick points you to the right sidebar or page and explains how to do a task, but according to the checkout editor docs it can't edit, save or publish the configuration. The Editions wording ("build and optimize customizations") promises more than the help docs describe, and the Checkout Blocks app listing doesn't mention Sidekick at all. It works on desktop only. Checkout Blocks is free and covers the Thank you and Order status pages on every plan, while full checkout customization needs Plus and per-market settings need Advanced or Plus. In Poland it works the same, as guidance only.

• AGENTS.md and DESIGN.md in your theme. These are two optional Markdown files in the theme's root folder. AGENTS.md explains the architecture and code conventions, and DESIGN.md records design intent. Sidekick in Canvas reads them before changing the theme and can add your style preferences to DESIGN.md, and local coding agents read the same files. Each file can be up to 50 KB, the names are case-sensitive, the files aren't shown on the storefront, and they work with Shopify CLI 4.8.4+, the GitHub integration, the admin code editor and the Admin API. Themes created in Canvas include both files from the start, and on custom themes we'd add them at handover (developer docs). Shopify states no regional limit, but the Sidekick side of this only pays off in stores that have Canvas access.

Cheat sheet: Sidekick

Online store: Canvas, Rollouts, languages and B2B

This part of the Edition is about the online store itself. Canvas gets the most attention, a new space for designing the whole store with Sidekick, followed by Rollouts, which let you schedule theme, checkout, catalog and discount changes as one package. Around them sit an AI agent in Shopify Inbox chat, Shop sign-in for stores outside Shopify, better search suggestions, right-to-left languages and smaller B2B improvements. Shopify gives two numbers for the section: "From no theme to a launched store 20% faster with Canvas" and "Customers signed-in with Shop convert up to 1.5x higher in Shopify Inbox chats".

For stores in Poland, Shopify states no country limits for most changes in this section. Rollouts are available from the Basic plan, and search suggestions support Polish. Canvas is in early access and only supports themes made by Shopify and custom themes, so stores on themes from other Theme Store developers can't use it for now. The promise that every edit stays current in translated versions relies on Auto-sync in Translate & Adapt, which stores based in Poland don't get by default. Shopify Inbox has a Polish interface, and B2B catalogs are available from the Basic plan (up to 3 active).

Canvas: your whole store edited in one view

Canvas is a new design space where all your store's templates sit side by side, and you can pan across them and zoom into any detail. You can ask Sidekick to build or change the theme, including blocks the theme doesn't have and full-template redesigns, or edit block settings and text yourself. Changes save automatically and only go live when you click Publish or Update. A new theme can be created from a description of your brand (Online Store > New), and an existing supported theme opens via "Duplicate in Canvas". According to Shopify's Canvas announcement, Sidekick made more than 25 million theme edits in the first half of 2026. The existing theme editor stays, since Canvas isn't replacing it yet.

Canvas is in early access for certain stores only, desktop only, on plans that include theme customization. It supports only themes made by Shopify and custom themes, not themes from other Theme Store developers, and staff need permission to edit theme code. A theme edited in Canvas opens only in Canvas, stops receiving theme updates, can't be downloaded or customized per market, and you can't add app blocks or app embeds to it in Canvas. It can still go into a rollout as a replacement main theme. Translations, Polish included, have to go through Translate & Adapt (the "Default theme content" resource), because Canvas doesn't translate text. On a live store we'd always work on a copy, never the published theme. Requirements are listed in the Canvas docs.

A smarter storefront agent

Shopify Inbox (Shopify's chat app for stores) gets an AI agent that acts as a sales associate in your store chat, and you opt in to switch it on. It answers questions about products, shipping, returns, sizing and store policies using your catalog, policies, Knowledge Base and published pages, and it can cite web search results for product reviews or social proof. It gives personalized recommendations, including to customers with an active Shop session who haven't signed in to your store, looks up orders for signed-in customers, adds items to the cart and hands the conversation to your team. The Editions page talks about starting checkout from the chat, but the docs describe adding to cart. Customers see a fixed notice that they're chatting with AI powered by Shopify.

Inbox is available on Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus, not on Starter. The agent needs new customer accounts (it doesn't work with legacy accounts) and has limits: 100 agent messages per conversation for signed-out customers, 1,000 for signed-in customers, and 50 conversations per customer per day. The app has a Polish interface, and the agent replies in the customer's language, although catalog details may appear in the store's language. In the settings you choose whether the agent handles all conversations, only those when staff are unavailable, or none. We'd start with the second option and read the transcripts for a week. Settings are covered in the Shopify Inbox help.

The online store page and Shop sign-in

• Redesigned online store page. The Editions page says you'll manage themes, update your domain and launch your store from a redesigned Online Store page. The linked launch doc only covers launching: from the access menu on the Online Store page, the launch banner in the theme preview, Online Store > Preferences or the launch card on Home. Before that you need a plan, a store address and a payment method with test mode off, and launching is also a requirement for being listed in the Shop app. The help docs don't yet describe the redesign itself or domain management there, and Shopify hasn't said what the rollout status is (as of Oct 28, 2026). Our read is that it's part of the admin redesign that is rolling out gradually. Shopify states no country limit, so it should work the same in Poland.

• Shop sign-in for stores not on Shopify. Businesses that don't run on Shopify can add "Sign in with Shop" to their login page. It's a developer job: you create a Shop app in the Dev Dashboard and add Shop as a sign-in provider over the OIDC standard, through the Auth0 Marketplace integration or manually in Ping Identity, AWS Cognito or another OIDC provider. The Shop SDK can also recognize returning Shop users. The developer guide states no country limits, but it doesn't say anything about GDPR or EU consent either. A Polish store outside Shopify can technically add it, and the legal side needs a separate check.

• Shop in sign-up forms. The lead capture component in the Shop SDK recognizes returning Shop users by email, pre-fills their details and can apply an existing discount code after sign-up (lead capture guide). In Shopify Forms (Shopify's free forms app), when Sign in with Shop is activated, eligible forms show a "Claim with Shop" button by default, and you can remove it from any form. Shopify Forms has a Polish interface, so this works in Poland. The Editions page also names Klaviyo, but Klaviyo's App Store listing doesn't mention Shop sign-in, so that part is unclear.

• Extra form after first sign-in (coming soon). Shopify plans to send customers once to a form after their first sign-in, asking for things like name, birthday, interests or business details, and then return them to where they were going. The form can be a Shopify Forms or third-party form on a store page, a customer account page added by an app, or an external https page. It never blocks sign-in and isn't shown for sign-ins during checkout (unless the store requires sign-in before checkout) or via Multipass. It needs new customer accounts and, per the help doc, isn't available to any store yet. Forms on store pages follow the market's subfolder or domain, so a store with, say, Polish and German versions needs a form in each language.

Clearer rollouts setup

Rollouts are scheduled change sets in the Markets area of the admin. They bundle the main theme (an edit or a replacement), the checkout and accounts configuration, catalogs (set to Active or Draft) and discounts (switched on or off, up to 250 at once) into one package. There are three types. A Launch changes the store permanently, an Event runs for a set period and then rolls back on its own, and an Experiment is an A/B test with a control group, split 50/50 by default and ending after 90 days. You can draft edits on the main theme without duplicating it, each rollout has its own analytics, and the schedule follows your store's time zone.

Rollouts need the Basic plan or higher, and Experiments need Grow or higher. They don't work on vintage themes, can't change Liquid templates, and can't target segments, tags or devices, because visitors are assigned at random. Shopify states no country limit, so a Polish store can use them right away. Before Black Friday we'd set up the promotion as an Event that switches back to normal prices automatically, instead of someone flipping it by hand in the middle of the night. Shopify's step-by-step guide walks through the setup, and the requirements page lists the limits.

More from Rollouts: reach, discounts and catalogs

• Reach beyond the online store. The Editions page talks about scheduled changes and A/B tests across headless builds, Shopify POS, Google Shopping and the Shop app, but the reach docs are more careful. A Launch, or an Event at 100% of traffic, reaches everything: the online store, cart and checkout, the Storefront API and Hydrogen, POS, and Google & YouTube feeds, which pick up the change on their next sync. An Experiment, or an Event below 100%, applies to the online store only, theme and checkout changes always stay in the online store, and the doc doesn't mention the Shop app at all. If you run Google Shopping, set price changes as a Launch or an Event at 100% of traffic, and pause product ads during a price experiment, because the docs warn that mismatched offers can lead Google or Meta to delist products or suspend the account.

• Discounts in rollouts. One discount change in a rollout switches existing discounts on or off, up to 250 at once, for the visitors included in the rollout. In an Experiment, the control group sees the store's usual discounts. A discount keeps its own active dates, can only be in one unfinished rollout at a time, and combination rules still apply. That lets a discount, a new theme banner and a checkout change go live together on one schedule, and Polish stores get it on the same terms (discount changes in rollouts).

• Prices and product publishing as catalogs. A rollout can set a market catalog (custom prices, price adjustments, which products are included) to Active or Draft at a set time. An Event restores the previous status when the promotion ends, while a Launch keeps the change. Only the catalog status changes, so price edits take effect as soon as the catalog is active. You can't add catalogs assigned directly to B2B company locations or archived catalogs, and activating a B2B catalog counts toward your plan's limit. For a Polish store this is a handy way to run separate promotions in a PLN market and a EUR market (catalogs in rollouts).

Testing, search and languages

• A shopping goal for SimGym simulations. SimGym sends AI shoppers through your store and shows where they get stuck. The "shopping goal" from the Editions page is called "Test focus" in the docs: the entire shopping journey, product discovery, add-to-cart confidence, or a comparison between your published theme and a draft. Results include a key finding, storefront screenshots with numbered markers tied to numbered recommendations written by Sidekick, and feedback plus session replays for each AI shopper. A simulation usually takes 1-5 minutes. The app is labeled "AI Research Preview", has an English-only interface, works on any active plan and, after the monthly allowance, costs USD 0.75 per single-theme simulation and USD 1.50 per comparison. It needs a Liquid storefront (not headless), no permanent password page and SNI switched on, which in the EEA means a cookie banner and extra consent.

• Better search suggestions. Predictive search suggests queries, products and collections as shoppers type, up to 10 results by default, and searches the title, description, product type, tags, vendor, variant title, SKU and barcode. According to Shopify, "Add-to-carts from search have improved by 8%", though the docs don't repeat that figure. Polish is on the list of supported languages, collection suggestions are based on the store's primary language, and the theme has to support predictive search. You set result types in the free Search & Discovery app.

• Right-to-left languages. You can launch a store in Arabic, Hebrew or Urdu, and Shopify says these right-to-left languages are read by over 600 million people. According to the language requirements, the latest versions of themes in the Horizon family support them, other themes need checking, and checkout has translated content for 49 languages. A store can have up to 20 languages on Basic, Grow and Advanced and up to 30 on Plus. For a Polish store this only matters if you sell to countries that read right to left.

• Translate & Adapt and up-to-date translations. Translate & Adapt (Shopify's free translation app) fills in missing translations automatically and refreshes outdated machine translations without touching manual ones. The promise that every edit stays current relies on Auto-sync, a weekly re-translation, and according to the docs Auto-sync and 8 languages are only for stores located in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US. A store based in Poland gets 2 languages via manual "Auto-translate", which you have to re-run after content changes, unless the app shows a "Translate now" button, in which case it gets 8 languages and Auto-sync. Our read of the docs is that the rule follows the store's location, not the target language, so a brand based in Germany that adds a Polish version falls under the 8-language rule with Auto-sync. Legal policies can't be auto-translated, a language you've auto-translated can't be swapped for another, and removing a language doesn't free up the limit, so choose those languages carefully.

B2B: search and catalog exports

• B2B search with Algolia. According to the Editions page, the Algolia app shows B2B customers only products from their catalog, at their negotiated prices, in search results. Algolia's App Store listing doesn't mention B2B or catalog-based results, and we didn't use Algolia's own docs, since they're a third-party source. Installation is free and Algolia bills separately (its own Grow tier, which isn't a Shopify plan, includes 10K searches a month, then USD 0.50 per additional 1,000), and the app interface is in English. Shopify B2B catalogs are available on Basic, Grow and Advanced (up to 3 active) and without a limit on Plus. Whether this works for Polish B2B stores is unclear until the listing describes it.

• Vendor in B2B catalog CSV exports. According to the Editions page, B2B catalog CSV exports now show the vendor in every row, and a vendor filter is meant to speed up price updates. CSV export and import of catalogs, single or in bulk, works from Markets > Catalogs with filters (all products, included products, fixed prices only, products with quantity rules), and the file arrives by email. The help docs don't mention a vendor column or filter yet, so the status is unclear. For a multi-brand wholesaler, in Poland or elsewhere, this could shorten price list updates from a single supplier.

Cheat sheet: Online store

Products and merchandising

This part covers product data and how it reaches your sales channels. Shopify adds per-channel product data mapping, a new collections model that combines products, variants and other collections, and a rebuilt product page for variants. On top of that come price tips for new products, up to 20 barcodes per variant, selling access through a link, a cart preview for a chosen market, and analytics in Shopify Collective.

For stores in Poland, almost everything here should work, because Shopify states no country limits. Channel mapping helps with your Google feed, and Shopify says the new variants page reaches every store in December 2026. Shopify Smart Pricing and Shopify Digital Products both have a Polish interface, but Shopify doesn't say whether Smart Pricing finds enough comparable products priced in PLN. Shopify Collective supports Poland and PLN, but only between stores in the same country using the same currency.

Product data mapping by channel

Each sales channel, such as Google & YouTube or Facebook & Instagram, gets a Channel mapping page. There you choose which product field, variant field or metafield feeds each channel field, for example title, brand or age group. Text fields can combine several sources with your own text, or use Liquid with a limited set of filters (no Liquid tags, up to 10 sources per value). You get a per-product preview, field coverage, and overrides in the bulk editor. Your online store doesn't change, and saving the mapping updates the channel feed. Sidekick can create mapping rules and fill in missing values, one product at a time, and mapping can also set the product data used in Shopify Catalog.

The feature is live, but Shopify hasn't said yet which plans include it (as of Oct 28, 2026). It doesn't cover the Shop and Shopify Collective channels, and money fields such as price can't be mapped. Staff need permission to view and edit products, and you'll find it under Settings > Sales channels > your channel > Channel mapping. For a Polish store, or any store with a Google Merchant Center feed, it's an easy way to have the Google title carry brand, color and size while the product page title stays short. That's where we'd start cleaning up the feed before the season. The rules are in the channel mapping docs.

Multi-source product collections

The new collections model replaces legacy manual and smart collections. One collection can combine several sources (products, variants, other collections and products from third-party apps), each with its own inclusion and exclusion conditions, plus manual additions and exclusions. That makes it possible to build a collection of variants only, such as just the red ones, or nested collections. A collection can also be hidden from customers and used only inside the admin, for example for tax overrides. The Editions page adds that you can create collections with Sidekick, reuse them and base other operations on them.

The new model is rolling out gradually. If it has already appeared in your admin, all of your previous collections were converted automatically; if not, the legacy ones keep working. It needs the Basic plan or higher, and nothing in the docs restricts it by country, so Polish stores should get it the same way. Collections are also available in the Shopify mobile app. After the conversion we'd check the main collections in your menu and on the home page before a big campaign starts. Details are in the collections docs and the page on managing collection sources.

Variants managed from the product page

Variants are now edited right on the product page. A left-hand pane lets you search, filter, group and reorder variants, and both the detail view and the table view support bulk edits. Shopify says bulk variant price updates now take "two clicks instead of five". Price, inventory and shipping are grouped together, along with barcodes (up to 20) and saved package dimensions. A product can have up to 2,048 variants.

Shopify says the new layout is "Rolling out to all merchants in December 2026." It states no plan or country limits, so Polish stores get it along with everyone else. Stores with a large size and color grid, such as fashion, gain the most when they change prices before a sale. If your team has written instructions for adding products, rewrite them for the new layout before December. The changes are shown in Shopify's post on the variant redesign.

Pricing and barcodes

• Price tips for new products. Shopify Smart Pricing suggests a price for products added in the past 30 days, based on the most common public price of similar products on Shopify. You accept or edit the tip for one product or in bulk, you can see the publish history, and a tip can take 1-3 days to appear. Most new products need one price across all variants, and prices must not be contractually restricted. The app is free and has a Polish interface, but Shopify doesn't say whether it finds enough similar products for a Polish store pricing in PLN (new product tips).

• Up to 20 barcodes per variant. Each product or variant can hold up to 20 barcodes, for example from different suppliers, regions or marketplaces, and each barcode has a type (GTIN, UPC and others). A value registered with GS1 gets the GTIN type automatically, and the admin warns you when the product name or vendor doesn't match the GS1 listing. You can add barcodes in the bulk editor with a scanner, by CSV import or with the camera in the Shopify app, and Shopify POS finds a product by any of its barcodes or its SKU (barcode docs). EAN-13 codes count as GTINs, and the POS app can be used in Poland, although in-store payments go through an external terminal.

Digital products

• Selling access through a link. The Shopify Digital Products app can attach a link to a product instead of, or alongside, a file, for example to a template or a booking calendar. After purchase, the customer gets an email with a download page that opens the link. Only supported providers work: Notion, Calendly, Acuity, Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides, Dropbox, Canva, YouTube, Vimeo and Figma. Access limits count clicks on the link, but Shopify doesn't monitor the destination, so you control access to the content itself on the provider's side (digital downloads docs). Shopify states no country limit, and the app has a Polish interface.

• Improved Shopify Digital Products app. Shopify Digital Products is a free Shopify app for selling files and links. Each variant can hold up to 50 files with a combined size of up to 5 GB (500 MB per file when added from the product page), with no download bandwidth limit. A product can mix digital and physical parts, delivery can be automatic or manual, access limits are optional, email templates can be edited, and download links can show up in checkout. The app has a Polish interface, so it works in Poland straight away. Before launch we'd fine-tune the Polish text of the access email.

Markets and Shopify Collective

• Cart preview for a specific market (coming soon). The Markets graph view will get a checkout preview with a "View as" option. You choose a country or region and a sales channel (optionally a B2B company location), add products, a discount code and a shipping address, and Shopify shows that market's prices, availability, discounts, shipping options, estimated taxes and duties, and totals. It's for testing only and creates no cart or order. It doesn't apply your theme, checkout customizations or app blocks, and doesn't support subscriptions, pre-orders or POS markets. The feature isn't available yet; once it is, we'd use it to check PLN and EUR markets before every price change.

• Catalog performance across Shopify Collective. Shopify Collective is a program where a store imports and sells products from other Shopify sellers. The linked analytics doc covers the retailer side: reports on net sales, orders, gross profit, sales by supplier, and orders by product and category, plus Insights cards on milestones, customer searches with no results, and popular or complementary products. The supplier view the Editions page describes isn't covered there. Poland and PLN are supported, but only between stores in the same country using the same currency. According to the Shopify Collective requirements, you need Shopify Payments, SNI switched on, Shopify Tax, Basic Tax or a third-party tax app (not manual tax), and a verified VAT number in the EU.

Cheat sheet: Products and merchandising

Retail and POS: selling in person

We counted 20 updates in the Retail section of Fall '26, all linked to Shopify POS, the point-of-sale app Shopify merchants use in physical stores. Almost all of them are already live, and most shipped in POS releases between June and October 2026. The changes fall into three groups: recognizing customers and speeding up the counter, tools for staff and stock, and closer links between the shop floor and online sales. Shopify gives one number for the section: "A known in-store customer has over 60% higher lifetime value than an unknown one."

For stores in Poland the answer comes in two parts. The Shopify POS app and POS Pro (a paid POS add-on billed monthly per location) can be used in Poland, and the software features, such as stock counts, shared carts, local delivery, staff attribution and the activity log, have no country restriction in Shopify's docs. Payments are where it breaks down. Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment processing) works in Poland for online sales only, and Shopify card readers aren't sold here. That rules out everything that needs Shopify Payments at the counter: customer recognition when a card is tapped, receipt selection on the customer screen, Alipay or Satispay in store, and Cartes Bancaires. A Polish store connects an external card terminal as a custom payment method and marks orders as paid by hand. Shopify charges no transaction fee on those payments, but it only sees the payment status, with no transaction details. BLIK and Przelewy24 are not supported in POS, and Shopify's docs don't cover Polish fiscal rules, so the fiscal cash register and receipts have to be settled with your accountant or till provider. Before you buy POS Pro, count how many locations will actually use the staff and stock features, because the add-on is paid separately for each one.

Expanded in-store customer recognition

When a shopper taps a card to pay, POS checks whether that person has checked out before at any store running on Shopify Payments. Shopify describes that network as hundreds of millions of people. If there's a match, POS pre-fills their masked contact details as a digital receipt option. When the customer picks it, the details are shared with the store and saved as a customer profile linked to the order. Later payments with the same card are matched to that profile automatically. Customers with a Shop account (Shopify's shopping app for buyers) can get the receipt in Shop, and future receipts land there automatically. Shopify adds that a person with a Shop account is recognized both when chatting with the store's online agent and when paying at the counter.

It's live in POS 11.17 and later. On devices with a customer-facing display (Victa Mobile, POS Terminal) it's on by default. Without a display, turn on customer receipt selection under Sales channels > Point of Sale > Edit Point of Sale > Customer receipt selection. Shopify hasn't said yet which plans it needs (as of Oct 28, 2026). You need Shopify Payments active and a Shopify card reader, and for receipts in Shop also Shop Pay switched on online plus a customer-facing display.

This won't work in Poland, because Shopify Payments doesn't process in-person payments here and Shopify card readers aren't sold in the country. A Polish store can still add a customer to the POS cart by hand, for example by email address, as with the abandoned-cart feature further down. Details are in Shopify's announcement and the docs on creating customer profiles in POS. We cover the receipt selection settings below, under faster checkout.

Scheduled stock counts in POS

Stock counts can now be planned ahead in the admin, under Inventory > Stock counts. You pick one location and a list of products. Staff count in POS with a barcode scanner or by hand, several people at once, and each entry is tied to a specific person through their PIN. Inventory doesn't change straight away. A manager first reviews the variances and approves them. Only then does stock update, and the whole count stays in the history as an audit trail. This is different from Quick count, which a staff member starts on their own without a plan.

Counting in POS has been live since September 28, 2026, and creating counts in the admin since October 20, 2026. Counting in POS requires POS Pro. Shopify hasn't said yet which plan you need to create counts in the admin (as of Oct 28, 2026). You need POS 11.16 or later, a network connection and the "Perform inventory counts" permission. Counts are created only in the desktop admin, not in the mobile app.

For a Polish store with POS Pro we see no obstacles, because the docs don't tie this feature to a country or to payments. This is where we'd start before the holiday season: one count for your fastest-moving products, before stock levels drift under heavy traffic. Instructions are in the docs for counting in POS and creating counts in the admin.

Recent carts saved across POS devices

Carts in POS now save automatically, and any associate can finish one on any device in the same store. One person starts serving a customer at the shelf, another closes the sale at the till, and a shift change doesn't wipe anything. It works for orders, returns and exchanges, and one staff member can keep several carts going and serve several customers at once.

Your team should know the limits before you start. A saved cart doesn't reserve stock. Only a draft order (a working version of an order that isn't paid yet) holds inventory. Two people can't edit a cart at the same time, carts can't move between locations, and they don't save in offline mode.

Cart sharing arrived in POS 11.11 (changelog dated July 27, 2026) and works only at POS Pro locations. Staff need the "Manage recent carts" permission. In Poland it should work unchanged, because the feature doesn't depend on payments. It helps most in stores with several people on a shift and on busy days, when a customer is waiting at the shelf and the till is taken. See the recent carts docs.

Faster checkout at the counter

• Fewer taps for cash, split payments and receipts. Shopify promises fewer steps for cash and split payments, faster receipt flows and improved card processing. The linked doc only covers receipt selection: the customer picks a printed, email, SMS or Shop app receipt on screen and can opt in to email or SMS marketing on the same screen. That part needs Shopify Payments and a Shopify card reader, so it won't work in Poland. The page doesn't describe the cash, split-payment or card changes, and Shopify hasn't said their status or plan yet (as of Oct 28, 2026). So we don't know yet whether those changes will reach Polish stores.

• Filtered search. POS search can be narrowed to one type of result, such as products, orders, customers, collections or draft orders, with filters on top, instead of searching everything at once. It arrived with POS 11.16 (September 28, 2026) and works automatically, with no setup. It doesn't depend on payments, so it should work the same in Poland. Details are in the roundup of versions 11.15 and 11.16.

• Suggested smart grid tiles. The smart grid is the set of tiles on the POS home screen that staff use to open products and actions. The "Add tile" screen now shows tiles picked from the store's own catalog, orders and POS activity, and each suggestion says why it's there. Nothing changes until a staff member accepts it, and the POS editor in the admin can also suggest removing tiles nobody has used for a year. It has been live since October 12, 2026, and needs POS 11.17 and the "Customize smart grid" permission. Shopify states no country limits, so it should work in Poland (smart grid docs).

• Cart always on the phone screen. On phones running POS, a persistent cart button shows recently added items, the item count and the total, and confirms changes such as a discount or an attached customer. One tap opens the full cart from Home, Products, Orders or Search, and the old Cart tab is gone. It's on automatically from POS 11.15 (September 14, 2026) and should work the same in Poland. It helps most where staff walk the floor with a phone in hand (changelog).

• Connectivity status on the home screen. An icon on the POS home screen is green when everything works, yellow when hardware is disconnected and red when the internet is down. Tapping it opens a Connectivity screen with four parts: internet, Shopify service status (with a resync and a switch for offline checkout), this device (updates, diagnostics) and hardware. The health view first appeared in POS 11.10, and since POS 11.14 (September 1, 2026) it sits on the home screen, with no setup. It should work the same in Poland, and it cuts the time spent hunting for the cause when the till stops at peak hours (connectivity troubleshooting).

Linking the store with online sales

• Local delivery from the POS checkout. Staff can choose local delivery at the till, using the delivery zones and rates already set up for the online store, then prepare, fulfill and track that order in POS. Every physical item in the order has to go by local delivery, with no mixing with shipping or pickup, and the address must be in the same country as the location. It has been live since POS 11.16 (September 28, 2026), at POS Pro locations only, and staff need the "Create shipping and delivery orders" and "Fulfill shipping, pickup, and delivery orders" permissions. Shopify states no country limits, so a Polish store with POS Pro and local delivery set up under Settings > Shipping and delivery should be able to use it (local delivery docs).

• Abandoned online cart finished in store. When staff add a customer to the POS cart by email and that customer has an abandoned checkout in the online store, an "Items in online cart" note appears. Staff can see the products (up to three inline, the rest under "View all") and add them to the POS cart. They only see the cart, not the customer's browsing history. Online carts expire 90 days after creation or 30 days after the last update, and staff need the Create new customers, View customer details and View abandoned checkouts permissions (docs). It has been live since POS 11.14 (September 3, 2026). We see no obstacles in Poland, and it pairs well with the abandoned-cart emails you already send.

• Retail locations visible to AI agents. In Settings > Locations, the "Physical storefront" setting marks a location as a store open to customers. Shopify says this lets customers find it through the Shop sales channel and through AI agents, and the Editions page adds that agents can direct a shopper to the nearest store. On mobile devices the setting also allows POS logins at that location. The toggle has existed since January 2026, is on by default and needs an address verified by Google, and location names in Shop match the names in your admin (locations docs, changelog). Shopify doesn't say which AI tools show this data and gives no country limits, so for Poland it's unclear. The setting costs nothing, so check your addresses and give locations names a customer would recognize instead of internal codes.

Barcodes and receipts

• Scan or search any barcode. POS finds the right variant from any barcode assigned to it, including GTINs, supplier codes or your own identifiers, or from the SKU. Each variant can hold up to 20 barcodes typed as UPC, EAN, ISBN, GTIN, ASIN or Custom, with format validation in the admin, so staff can scan the manufacturer's code, a supplier's code or your own label (searching for products in POS). Scanning has worked since POS 11.14 (September 1, 2026), and multiple barcodes per variant arrived in the admin on September 8, 2026. The extra codes have to be added to the variant in the admin first. Sales channels still read only the first barcode, so we keep the main EAN in first place and add supplier codes after it. Shopify states no country limits, so it should work unchanged in Poland and is handy for stores that work with EAN codes.

• Custom printed receipt template. A visual editor in the POS editor handles sale, return, exchange, gift and gift card receipts, with branding, header and footer, per-location overrides and fields for return policy, signature and tax IDs (VAT, GST/QST, ABN). Shopify adds a VAT summary automatically, and it can't be switched off, for Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, provided you use Basic Tax or Shopify Tax (not Avalara, TaxJar or Vertex) and POS 11.10+. Canada gets separate lines per tax, and Italy keeps its own fiscal flow (printed receipts docs). Despite the "EU" on the Editions page, Poland isn't on that list, and Shopify's country-specific retail requirements page doesn't mention Poland at all, so the template helps with branding while compliance with Polish rules has to be handled separately. The sources disagree on the plan: the printed receipts doc says the visual editor is on every POS plan, while the POS plan table lists custom printed receipts as POS Pro only. Customized Liquid templates must be migrated by January 1, 2027, or Shopify migrates them automatically.

Staff, permissions and devices

• Staff sales attribution. A whole sale or individual items can be credited to a staff member from the cart or the smart grid. Since July 6, 2026, sales go automatically to the staff member signed in with their PIN, in shops that hadn't changed this setting before. Results show in the "POS total sales by staff member" report in the admin and in the Staff Attribution reports in POS Analytics (docs). The feature works only at POS Pro locations, and Shopify states no country limits, so it should work in Poland with POS Pro.

• POS and admin users in one place. All users, from POS and from the admin, now live in Settings > Users with their roles and PINs, and one person can hold several roles. Seasonal staff can be suspended and reactivated without deleting their history, and there are new high-trust roles: POS Administrator, POS Device Setup, POS User Administrator and Organization POS Administrator. Organization-level roles are Shopify Plus only (per the docs also available in multi-store organizations and Partner organizations), and adding users to the admin and assigning store roles works on every plan except Basic and Starter (managing users). It's been live since June 2026, with no country limits stated, so it should work in Poland.

• POS activity log. In the Point of Sale channel, under Settings > Activity log, you see risky register actions with date, time, location and staff name. Per the docs that means voids, refunds, manual discounts and access to customer records (not the data itself), along with manager approvals. Entries are kept for one year and can't be exported (docs). The sources disagree on one point: the Editions page and the June 2026 changelog mention cash drawer opens, while the current help doc lists cash drawer operations among events that aren't captured. Shopify states no plan or country limits, so it should work in Poland. Shopify recommends a separate PIN for every staff member, and viewing the log needs the Manage settings permission. When reconciling till differences at the end of the day, we'd start with the refunds and manual discounts in this log.

• Staff import from CSV. A CSV file in Settings > Users > Import (a sample file is provided there) creates admin or POS users with PINs and suspends or reactivates existing accounts. It can't bulk delete, change 2FA, PINs, roles, locations or user type, or create new roles, groups or locations (import docs). It's been live since August 21, 2026. Shopify states no plan or country limits, so it should work in Poland. It's useful before peak season, when you need to add seasonal staff quickly, and after it, when you suspend them again.

• POS devices in the admin. The Devices view (Sales channels > Point of Sale > Devices) lists every device, from POS Go and Victa Mobile to iPhone, iPad and Android, with online or offline status, last sync, POS version, location and device mode. You can filter, search by serial number, log a device out remotely or remove it, for example when it goes missing (devices docs). It's been live since June 29, 2026. Third-party iOS and Android devices need POS 11.9+, and removing devices requires staff permissions. Shopify states no country limits. Shopify card readers aren't sold in Poland, so our read is that a Polish store's list will mostly hold iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

Payments at the counter

• Alipay, WeChat Pay, Satispay, Scalapay and GrabPay in store. The customer scans a QR code on the POS device or customer display and pays on their own phone. These count as card-not-present transactions, so online Shopify Payments rates apply, and Shopify warns of a higher chargeback risk in retail. GrabPay and Scalapay are in early access. Each method has its own conditions: Alipay and WeChat Pay in their supported regions, GrabPay in Singapore (SGD), Satispay with a retail location in EUR, and Scalapay in EUR for amounts from EUR 5 to EUR 4,999.99 (local payment methods in POS). In Poland this doesn't work, because Shopify Payments doesn't process in-person payments here. The POS methods table does list Poland next to Scalapay, but that contradicts Shopify's Poland payment methods page, and Scalapay needs EUR anyway. BLIK and Przelewy24 aren't supported in POS at all.

• Cartes Bancaires on WisePad 3 and POS Terminal. Debit-only Cartes Bancaires payments (France's domestic card scheme) can now be accepted and processed through Shopify Payments on the WisePad 3 and POS Terminal readers (supported cards). It's live, but only in France, with a French Shopify Payments account and those two readers. For a store operating in Poland it changes nothing.

Cheat sheet: Retail and POS

Payments, fraud protection and checkout

This part of the Edition covers everything that happens between the "Pay now" button and the money landing in your bank account. Shopify has pulled its fraud and dispute tools together under one name, Shopify Protect, while Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment processor) gets new local payment methods, a redesigned payouts page and an activity report for your accountant. Checkout is due to get native custom fields and a cleaner layout. For a sense of scale, the header of the Editions page says "Shopify Payments prevents 12K+ high-risk payments each minute".

For stores in Poland, this is one of the sections that matters most, because Shopify Payments has been open to businesses based in Poland since March 21, 2025, though for online sales only, not in POS. Our read of the docs is that a Polish store on Shopify Payments gets fraud blocking before authorization, order risk explanations, automatic dispute evidence and AI-written dispute responses, the new payouts view, the activity report, and Satispay and MB WAY for shoppers in Italy and Portugal. It does not get fraud-chargeback reimbursement (still US only), Shopify Managed Markets, Shop Pay Installments or any of the US tax features. A store that takes payments only through a third-party gateway will miss most of the new protection, because it is built on Shopify Payments.

Shopify Protect: one name for fraud and dispute protection

Until now, Shopify Protect meant Shopify reimbursing chargebacks on Shop Pay orders (Shop Pay is Shopify's accelerated checkout that remembers the buyer's details). With this Edition it becomes the umbrella name for all of Shopify's fraud and dispute tools across the life of an order. The package covers blocking near-certain fraud before it reaches the banks, a plain-language explanation of each order's risk, AI-built dispute responses, free chargeback coverage for eligible Shop Pay orders and a new paid app, "Shopify Protect: Rule Builder". The Editions page says "60% more “product not received” disputes won with Shopify Protect". In its launch blog, Shopify adds that a $100 dispute costs a business about $238, and that it now blocks 17x more card-testing attacks than in January.

Shopify describes the status two ways. The Editions page says "Features rolling out soon", while the blog says Shopify Protect "is on today for every business on Shopify Payments".

In Poland this works partly. Blocking and dispute help require Shopify Payments, and Shopify states no country limit for them, so a Polish store on Shopify Payments should have them (our read). Chargeback reimbursement covers US stores only. Shopify also says it gathers the evidence banks need and "pulls delivery photos with Shopify Shipping". A store shipping from Poland can buy DHL eCommerce labels in the admin, but whether those labels feed a delivery photo into disputes, Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026). The full rundown is on the Shopify blog.

Blocking, risk explanations and disputes: what Shopify Protect does

• Blocking high-risk orders before authorization. Shopify Payments can stop some high-risk checkout attempts before an order is ever created, so there is nothing to cancel or refund. You'll find the blocked attempts under Orders > Abandoned checkouts, in the "Blocked" view. If the system stopped a customer you know, create a draft order and send them an invoice from it. The feature is live and requires Shopify Payments, and since Shopify names no country limit, a Polish store on Shopify Payments should have it (our read).

• Explaining where an order's risk comes from. A rebuilt "Order risk evaluation" view in the order details lists the actual signals: AVS and CVV results, a location that doesn't match the payment method, unusual device or network activity, and several cards tried. Next to them you get a rating (low, medium or high risk) and a suggested next step, which is to fulfill, confirm with the customer or consider canceling. Indicators come with the Basic plan and up, recommendations with Grow and up or with Shopify Payments. POS, B2B, gift-card-paid, free, test and subscription renewal orders get no recommendation. It's live and Shopify states no country limit, so our read of the docs is that a Polish store on Basic or higher will see the indicators.

• Protection report in Analytics. In its blog, Shopify announces a report that will show what Shopify Protect blocked, what it challenged and "what that was worth to you in dollars". The Editions page talks about custom reports, but we found no help doc for it yet. Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which plans or countries get it, so for Poland it's an open question. The only thing the Editions wording makes clear is that it's about payments processed by Shopify Payments.

• Chargeback protection beyond Shop Pay. Today Shopify Protect reimburses the disputed amount and the chargeback fee on eligible Shop Pay orders when a customer claims fraud or doesn't recognize the transaction. The conditions are narrow: shipped physical items only, fulfilled with tracking within 7 days and in transit within 10 days, a supported carrier, no address change after checkout, and only the first order of a subscription. The blog lists extending coverage beyond Shop Pay as "Next up", with no date and no country list. Polish stores aren't covered today, because you need to be located in the US with a US Shopify Payments account, so the Polish chargeback fee (EUR 15 or PLN 75) stays with you.

• Evidence on unauthorized chargebacks. With Shopify Payments, order data goes into every chargeback response automatically and is submitted by the due date, even if you add nothing yourself. It includes products, customer details, addresses, IP, fulfillment and tracking, refunds, earlier undisputed orders, previous disputes and payment verification results. For fraud disputes, the docs name AVS and CVV, device and IP, 3D Secure, order history and delivery as the strongest evidence. It's live and Shopify states no country limit, so Polish stores on Shopify Payments should benefit (our read). Details are in the chargeback process docs.

• Carrier proof of delivery. When a customer says the parcel never arrived, Shopify attaches a PDF with the shipping and tracking details to the dispute, and for some carriers the carrier's delivery photo as well. This only works for orders with a tracking number, and Shopify doesn't list which carriers supply photos. In Poland the tracking PDF should work (our read), while photos from Polish carriers are an unknown. So make sure every order carries a tracking number in Shopify, including when you create labels outside the admin.

• AI-written chargeback responses. For card payment chargebacks and inquiries on Shopify Payments, Shopify writes a defense of your case with AI. It combines your evidence with the automatic evidence and addresses the requirements of the customer's bank, the card network and the reason code the dispute was filed under. It's on by default, and you opt out by unticking "Include Shopify-generated insights to strengthen case (recommended)". Sidekick (the AI assistant in the Shopify admin) can also explain what a given dispute is about. It's live with no country limit stated, so Polish stores on Shopify Payments should have it (our read).

• Shopify Protect: Rule Builder. This is a paid Shopify app for your own fraud rules, where a rule can block an order, request 3D Secure or hold the order for manual review. You can test a rule against the last 90 days of orders, get an alert when its results shift, and build lists of emails or IP addresses once to reuse across rules. It's free to install, then $0.07 per screened transaction, which comes to $700 a month at 10,000 transactions. For now there's only a waitlist (App Store listing, up since Oct 27, 2026), the app is in English, and Shopify hasn't said which countries it covers.

More local payment methods in Shopify Payments

Shopify Payments is adding more local payment methods: Alipay, WeChat Pay, Satispay, Scalapay and GrabPay, plus MB WAY and OXXO for online payments. Satispay, MB WAY and OXXO are live, while Alipay, WeChat Pay, Scalapay and GrabPay are in early access. Each method has its own lists of merchant and customer countries.

For a store based in Poland the picture is mixed. Satispay (customers in Italy paying in EUR) and MB WAY (customers in Portugal paying in EUR) can be switched on. Alipay and WeChat Pay don't list Poland as a merchant country, GrabPay is Singapore only and OXXO is Mexico only. Scalapay's page doesn't name merchant countries, so it's unclear; its customers must be in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal or Spain and pay in EUR, between EUR 5 and EUR 4,999.99.

The full list for an account based in Poland is on the Poland payment methods page. For Polish shoppers the method that matters most is BLIK, which comes with conditions. The customer must enter a Polish address and pay in PLN, the store needs PLN as its domestic currency or a Poland market priced in PLN, and BLIK doesn't work with subscriptions. Przelewy24 through Shopify Payments is closed to new activations, though stores that already have it can keep using it. You turn methods on under Settings > Payments > Shopify Payments > Manage > More actions > Manage payment methods. If you sell to Italy or Portugal in euros, we'd start with the two new methods.

A clearer payouts view in Shopify Payments

The payouts page (Finance > Payouts) has a new layout. Payouts are sorted by payout date, with paid and pending ones in a single list. The details of the selected payout sit next to the list, with an expandable breakdown of every amount, and failed payouts are easier to trace. According to the changelog of September 16, 2026, the redesign "rolls out gradually to all merchants" on the web and in the mobile app, so some stores may not see it yet. It needs Shopify Payments, and Shopify names no country limit, so we expect Polish stores to get it too.

A quick reminder of how payouts work for a store in Poland. On every plan, payouts go out in PLN or EUR. The bank account must be in EUR, or in PLN if the bank is in Poland, and it must be SEPA-eligible with a supported IBAN. The minimum settlement time is 3 business days and the minimum payout is EUR 1. Payouts in more currencies are only on Advanced and Plus. The new view works best alongside the activity report described below: use the payouts page for day-to-day checks and the report for the month-end close.

Shopify Payments accounts, payouts and reports

• Shopify Payments alongside your existing provider. If a directly connected third-party processor handles your cards, you can keep it as the primary and add Shopify Payments only for what that provider lacks, such as Shop Pay, local methods and wallets. Shopify Payments can also recover failed card transactions. Transactions through Shopify Payments cost the standard rate plus a 1.25% premium, and on the share handled by the third-party processor you pay your plan's third-party transaction fee. Only one direct third-party provider can run at a time, the setup doesn't work with multiple entities, and Shopify Protect only covers Shopify Payments transactions. It's early access by request on Plus with a contract, and available on all other plans. For Poland this is an important route (our read), because Shop Pay with a third-party gateway as the processor only works for stores in Australia, France and the US. This is how a Polish store adds Shop Pay and BLIK without dropping its current provider (docs).

• Shopify Payments across multiple legal entities. One store can run several legal entities, each with its own Shopify Payments account, for example online and retail, per location, B2B and D2C, or per country. Since May 2026 this also works for several entities in the same country, and each entity is paid out in its domestic currency. Non-primary entities can add PayPal, with other third-party methods in early access by request. It's for Shopify Plus and Shopify Enterprise Commerce only, it needs the new Markets and business entities, and it can't be combined with Managed Markets, automated tax filing or a direct third-party provider. Poland is a Shopify Payments country, so a Polish entity on Plus should qualify (our read), but you can't set up a separate retail entity that takes in-store payments through Shopify Payments, because Shopify Payments doesn't work in POS in Poland.

• High-value goods review. Shopify's banking partners may require a "High-value goods review" from stores that sell items such as loose diamonds, gold, gemstones and precious metals, jewelry, art, designer goods or watches. The store owner answers questions in the admin, sometimes fills in a detailed questionnaire and uploads documents. Without that, you have to remove those products or move to another payment provider by the deadline. Shopify names no countries, so we assume this also applies to Polish jewelry and watch stores. If you run one, check your admin before the deadline passes.

• Shopify Payments activity report. The new report shows the movement on your Shopify Payments balance for any date range and payout currency: starting balance, gross earnings, fees, payouts, net amount and ending balance. Activity is grouped by type, such as charges, refunds and disputes, and the whole report exports to PDF. Shopify aims it at month-end reconciliation and accountants and points out that it isn't a revenue statement. It also leaves out third-party processors and Shopify billing. You'll find it under Finance > Documents or on the Payouts page, and the owner or a staff member with payout permission can open it. Shopify states no country limit, so our read of the docs is that it works in Poland, and it's a good file to send your bookkeeper every month.

• Payouts in more currencies in Australia, France, Singapore and Hong Kong. Multi-Currency Payouts (payouts in several currencies to separate bank accounts) has expanded. Australia now has 13 currencies, France 18 (including PLN), and Singapore and Hong Kong added EUR, GBP and JPY. The 8-bank-account limit is gone too, so you can now have one bank account per supported payout currency. It's Advanced and Plus only. Poland was already on the country list, so the news itself concerns other markets. A Polish store gets PLN and EUR payouts with no multi-currency fee, and extra currencies (including USD, GBP, CZK, HUF and SEK) with that fee.

• Shop Pay outside Shopify, including multi-entity businesses. "Shop Pay on any platform" lets a site that doesn't run on Shopify add the Shop Pay button through the Shop Pay Wallet API. Customers track their orders in the Shop app, and payouts go through Shopify Payments. The Editions page mentions multi-entity businesses managed from one store, but the help docs don't describe that part yet. The business must be in a Shopify Payments country, the checkout must collect an email before payment and the integration runs through the API. Payouts must be set up within 21 days, or the payments are refunded to customers. Poland is a Shopify Payments country, so in theory it qualifies (our read), but the multi-entity part is still an unknown.

Custom fields in checkout and accounts editor

Shopify is adding native checkout fields as blocks in the checkout and accounts editor. You can choose a text field, a longer text area, a choice list, a date and a checkbox, plus ready-made "Delivery instructions" and "Gift message" fields. Each field saves to an order metafield, and the value shows up in the order's Metafields section, on the thank-you page and on the order status page. A field can be required, can appear only for carts with products from selected collections, and can be set per market. Fields also work in direct checkouts inside AI channels (Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot), but those channels require selling to customers in the US, Canada or Australia, and Copilot to the US only.

All field types are Shopify Plus only. Other plans get just delivery instructions and gift messages. The Editions page says "Rolling out soon" and the docs say "Coming soon". The fields won't be released before or during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and when they do arrive they'll show up in the editor automatically, with no early access program (custom fields docs).

Shopify states no country limits, so Polish stores should get them at launch (our read). On Plus, a date field suits a preferred delivery day, and a checkbox suits an extra consent. For this peak season, stick with what works today.

Payment methods as tiles instead of a list

Shopify has announced a new look for choosing a payment method in checkout. Instead of radio buttons (the list with little circles to tick), customers will see tiles, which Shopify says gives "a more compact, visually clear set of payment options". The status is "Rolling out soon", and the linked checkout settings page doesn't describe the change yet. Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which plans or countries get it, so we don't know when Polish stores will see it, or whether you'll be able to keep the old layout.

Polish checkouts often have a long list of methods. With Shopify Payments, BLIK, Klarna and Przelewy24 (in stores that activated it earlier) can sit next to cards, and some stores add a third-party gateway on top. Shopify promises a more compact set of options, but how tiles handle that many methods we'll only see after rollout. When the change reaches your store, go through a purchase on a phone and check that BLIK is easy to spot and that method names aren't cut off.

Celebration on the thank you page

Shopify has announced an animated transition from payment to order confirmation. In the Editions wording, it ends every purchase with "a moment of gratitude". The status is "Rolling out soon", and the linked checkout settings docs don't describe it yet. Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which plans or countries get it, or whether it can be switched off, so for Poland it's an open question for now.

Shopify describes no setup for the animation itself, but the thank-you page is where many stores run app blocks, such as a "how did you hear about us" survey or a post-purchase offer. When the change arrives, place a test order and check that those blocks still render properly and that the purchase still reaches your analytics. For the first few days, also compare order counts in Shopify with conversions in your ad platforms, so you catch any gap early.

Checkout: per-market fees, Apple Pay in other browsers and a tighter form

• Fees for products and collections per market. These are fixed, required per-unit fees, such as an eco fee or a bottle deposit, attached to products, variants or collections, for all customers or for selected markets. At checkout they appear as a separate "Fees" line. Discounts don't apply to them, they aren't taxed and they aren't converted between currencies. You can have up to 100 active fees, they're collected in online checkout, in Shop Pay and in direct checkouts in AI channels, and they can only be refunded in full. It's early access through a request form, and stores that use Shopify POS aren't eligible for it. Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which plans or countries it covers. Whether it fits Polish deposits and environmental fees is a question for your accountant, not least because Shopify doesn't charge tax on these fees.

• Apple Pay in Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Customers will be able to pay with Apple Pay in browsers other than Safari by scanning a QR code with their iPhone. Today Apple Pay only works in Safari on a compatible device, and Shopify's docs say non-Safari support "is coming soon". Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which payment providers and countries this covers. In Poland Apple Pay switches on automatically with Shopify Payments, but Shopify doesn't say whether the QR flow will reach Polish stores.

• A tighter checkout form. Shopify has announced a more compact, stacked field layout that cuts scrolling and makes field errors easier to see, so customers fix them faster. The status is "Coming soon", and the linked docs don't describe it yet. Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026) which plans or countries get it. Less scrolling matters most on phones, so once it ships, go through checkout on a smartphone and check the error messages for Polish addresses and in fields added by apps.

Shopify Tax managed for you: US sales tax handled on your behalf

Shopify Tax (Shopify's tax calculation tool) gets a mode where Shopify itself calculates, collects and remits US sales tax to every state. This works because eligible online orders are processed through the Shop marketplace and reported under SC Commerce Services Inc. The mode is on by default for eligible new stores and costs nothing up to $100,000 in total sales, after which standard Shopify Tax pricing applies. It doesn't cover POS orders, orders from third-party apps or B2B orders.

It's early access, only for certain stores opened after October 27, 2026, on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans (not the Agentic plan or Shopify for enterprise). The store has to be based in the US and use Shopify Payments with no manual, custom or PayPal payments. Products must be published on Shop with an image, title, description and category, tax must be charged on all products, and no duties can be set on the US market.

This doesn't apply to Polish stores, even those selling to the US, because the store has to be based in the United States.

All-in prices and flat-rate shipping in Shopify Managed Markets

Shopify Managed Markets is Shopify's cross-border service where prices include guaranteed duties and taxes. You can now set guaranteed flat Standard and Express shipping rates for each destination country. Part of the shipping cost is built into product prices, and you can absorb part of it yourself. Prepaid FedEx and DHL Express labels bought through Managed Markets are never re-billed for carrier adjustments. Duties-inclusive pricing is required, and before you switch it on you get a preview of prices, totals and payouts. It doesn't work in a store that uses shipping options by market. It has been live since October 24, 2026, and you set it up under Markets > your market > Shopify Managed Markets > Shipping.

The Editions page says "Brands saw +50% higher international conversion with Shopify Managed Markets". The product page on shopify.com says "up to 40%", based on an EY study of 567 brands, so Shopify's two figures don't match.

This doesn't work in Poland. Managed Markets is only for merchants based in the continental US and certain stores in Canada and the UK, so a Polish store selling abroad sets its own prices and shipping in standard Shopify Markets.

Features for the US, Canada, the UK and Australia

• US tax based on the ship-from location. For orders to US customers, Shopify Tax now calculates tax from the location the order actually ships from (as chosen by order routing, Shopify's automatic pick of fulfillment location) or from the pickup location. The ship-from location shows on the order, so rates stay correct when you ship from several warehouses. It has been live since August 24, 2026. It only concerns US sales tax, so it doesn't apply to Polish stores.

• Machine learning for payment authorization in the US. Shopify Payments routes each payment to the processor most likely to approve it, with no setup on your side. The Editions page presents it as an improvement for online payments in the US, approved on the first try, while the sentence in the docs names no country. We treat it as a US feature, so for now we wouldn't count on higher approval rates for Polish shoppers.

• HSA and FSA in Shop Pay through Truemed. US customers will be able to pay for eligible health products with funds from US HSA and FSA health accounts (money set aside before tax), or pay by card and claim the money back later. Truemed checks product eligibility, handles the medical qualification and is the merchant of record for these sales. The Editions page says "Coming soon", while the docs describe early access. It requires a primary entity in the US, a customer in the US and payment in USD, so it won't come to Poland.

• Shop Pay Installments in Australia. Shop Pay's pay-over-time option (powered by Affirm) is coming to Australian online stores for orders of AUD 50 to AUD 30,000, in early access for now. You need an Australian entity and Shopify Payments account, and you must sell and get paid in AUD. Outside Australia, Installments works in the US, Canada and the UK and requires English as the store's primary language, so it isn't available in Poland. A Polish store on Shopify Payments can turn on Klarna instead, which is on the payment methods list for accounts based in Poland.

• Shop Pay Installments for multi-entity businesses. Businesses with several entities can now switch on Shop Pay Installments for non-primary entities too, from one store. Each entity must qualify in its own country, and financing plans are set per entity. It has been live since September 22, 2026, and multi-entity selling is a Shopify Plus and Enterprise Commerce feature. Entities outside Australia, the US, Canada and the UK aren't eligible, so a Polish entity won't get Installments.

Cheat sheet: Payments, fraud protection and checkout

Operations: the new admin, analytics and Shopify Flow

The Operations part of this Edition collects the changes you will notice in day-to-day store work: a new admin look, a faster search, passkey sign-in, folders for files and a rebuilt mobile app. The second big group is analytics, with sales maps, your own annotations on charts, metafields in reports and a new way of counting sessions. The third is Shopify Flow (Shopify's free automation app), which gets a new trigger, role-based permissions, version restore and support for AI agents.

For stores in Poland this is one of the calmest parts of the Edition, because Shopify states no country limits for almost any of it: the new admin, search, passkeys, folders, analytics, the Flow changes, store status and the mobile app. Two finance features drop out, Shopify Credit with QuickBooks and international transfers in Shopify Balance, since both work only in the US (Shopify Credit also in Puerto Rico). Two items stay unclear. Shopify doesn't say whether automated store policies have a Polish template, and the docs don't describe in-context metafield editing yet. The new session measurement depends on cookie consent, and shoppers in Poland are in the EEA, so it is a good moment to look at your consent banner settings. In the mobile app, our read is that Tap to Pay won't work in Poland.

The new look of the Shopify admin

Shopify has redesigned the whole admin: colors, typography, spacing, icons and the page frame. Search, notifications and the store switcher move into a collapsible side menu. Sidekick (the AI assistant built into the admin) stops being a separate side panel and becomes a floating chat at the bottom of every page, which you can expand into a side panel for longer work.

The rollout started on September 15, 2026 and is gradual. There is nothing to turn on, the new look will show up in your admin by itself, and the Editions page says it is rolling out soon to all admin pages. Shopify's help docs say the redesign "changes only the appearance and layout". Shopify doesn't tie the change to a plan or a country, so stores in Poland get it the same way as everyone else. The admin is available in Polish, and Sidekick should work in Polish, although Shopify doesn't publish a current list of its languages.

We'd start with one thing. If your team works from guides with screenshots (for example how to handle a return or correct an order), plan to refresh them once the new admin reaches your store. Shopify describes the changes in its post about the new admin and in the changelog.

Everyday work in the admin

• Store activity log. Shopify is introducing one log of changes across the store, in the form of a filterable table: who made the change (owner, staff member, collaborator, app or sales channel), which resource, what action, which field and when. The Editions page marks it "coming soon", while Shopify's help docs say it is already rolling out in stages, to owners and admin roles first, under Settings > General > Resources > Store activity log. Entries are kept for 18 months, but there is no keyword search and no export, and Sidekick can open the log but can't answer questions about its entries. It works the same way in Poland, and with several people in the admin and a dozen or more apps installed, it is the quickest way to find out who changed a price or a description (Shopify Help Center).

• Passkey sign-in. A passkey replaces the password and works through face recognition, a fingerprint, a PIN or your screen lock, and it can be synced in a password manager or kept on a single device. Shopify can also create a passkey for you automatically if your account qualifies, but it doesn't publish the criteria, and if you delete an auto-created passkey, a new one won't be created at your next login. You need a verified account email and a device that supports passkeys (Windows Hello, Touch ID, Face ID, Android), and the setting sits in your profile under Security > Passkeys > Create passkey. A passkey is not two-step authentication, so we keep 2FA switched on, as Shopify recommends (Shopify Help Center).

• One search across the admin. The new search looks through admin pages, store resources, settings and installed apps at once, and it opens with Cmd+K or Ctrl+K. It shows up to 7 results with a "Show # more" button, has category filters and can pass your query on to Sidekick or to an App Store search. It works in the redesigned desktop admin, so a Polish store gets it together with the new look (Shopify Help Center).

• Folders for files. In Content > Files you can finally create folders and subfolders (New folder) and move files into them with Move to. Shopify states no plan or country limits here, so folders work the same way in Poland. Deleting a folder also deletes everything inside it, so before any cleanup we check that the files aren't used in the theme or in product descriptions (Shopify Help Center).

• In-context metafield editing. According to the Editions page, you can click into a metafield and edit it right there on any admin page, without going to a separate screen. The linked documentation currently covers only editing metafield definitions (name, description, validation, pinning) in Settings > Metafields and metaobjects, and Shopify hasn't said yet what the status of the new feature is (as of Oct 28, 2026). Nothing points to a limit for Poland, and once it arrives it will save a lot of clicks for stores with many metafields, such as technical specs, materials or dimensions.

• App extension status. Shopify says that soon each app's settings will show the status of every extension that app runs, with a direct way to contact the developer when something stops working. Today, Settings > Apps > [app] shows the Extensions and Functions views (active or inactive, by store area) and function-error warnings that ask you to contact the app developer. Shopify states no regional limits, so after release it should work in Poland too. Stores with several apps plugged into checkout or discounts will benefit most, because they can spot the broken one quickly (Shopify Help Center).

Store policies and new languages

• Automatically generated store policies. Shopify can now generate your return and refund policy, terms of service, shipping policy and contact information, and the October 8, 2026 changelog also lists a legal notice. The text updates when you change your settings, because it pulls in data such as the store address, email, fulfillment time, shipping destinations and the EU or UK VAT number, and you switch each policy on separately in Settings > Policies > [policy] > Use automated policy. Switching it on overwrites your current text and, in languages that have an automated template, your own translations too, so Shopify advises saving a copy first (past versions can also be exported and are kept for 2 years) and notes that the templates "aren't legal advice". Shopify hasn't said yet which countries and languages have templates (as of Oct 28, 2026), so we don't know whether a Polish version exists, and before switching it on we'd check the output on a test store with Polish as a language (Shopify Help Center).

• 13 new storefront and checkout languages. Shopify added checkout translations and default content for Shopify-built themes in 13 languages: Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Estonian, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Latvian, Marathi, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Ukrainian, and checkout now has translations in 49 languages. These are storefront and checkout languages, not admin languages, and adding a language only gives you the standard theme and checkout text, so product descriptions and pages still need translating separately, for example in Translate & Adapt (Shopify's translation app). Polish was already supported, so for Polish stores the update matters when selling to Estonia, Latvia or Ukraine (Lithuanian was already on the list). The limit is up to 20 languages on Basic, Grow and Advanced and up to 30 on Plus. Weekly translation syncing (Auto-sync) in Translate & Adapt doesn't cover stores based in Poland, which get Auto-translate for 2 languages that has to be re-run by hand (list of languages).

Finance: Shopify Credit and Shopify Balance (US only)

• Shopify Credit and QuickBooks. Shopify Credit (Shopify's business credit card) can now connect to QuickBooks Online as a bank feed called "Shopify Finance", so card transactions, statements and account data reach your bookkeeping with less manual entry. You set up the connection on the QuickBooks side, under Bookkeeping > Bank transactions > Connect account. Shopify Credit requires a residential address in the US or Puerto Rico, though, so stores in Poland can't use it (Shopify Help Center).

• Paying suppliers through Shopify Balance. Shopify Balance (Shopify's business money account) lets you send domestic wire transfers in the US and pay international suppliers in their local currency. An international transfer costs USD 0.10-0.50 plus a 0.75% exchange fee, can only be sent from the Balance mobile app, and Shopify notes that not every Balance account has the option. The business must be based in the US and use Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment processor), and Poland isn't even on the list of recipient countries (the list includes Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the UK, among others), so this feature doesn't apply to Polish stores (Shopify Help Center).

Sales maps in analytics

Shopify analytics now has a bubble map. Orders from nearby shipping or billing addresses are grouped into bubbles sized by the metric you pick, and the clusters are recalculated as you zoom and pan. The map works with sales, payments or sales tax metrics, and the reports list has a new default report, "Order hotspots by shipping location".

According to the October 28, 2026 changelog, the feature is available in reports and dashboard cards for everyone with access to Analytics reports. Shopify states no plan or country limits, so it works in Poland right away. You turn the map on by adding the Shipping address or Billing address dimension to a report. In ShopifyQL (the query language behind Shopify analytics), that is GROUP BY CLUSTER shipping_address with the bubble_map visualization (Shopify Help Center, changelog).

For a store in Poland we see three simple uses. You can check whether orders cluster in a few big cities or spread across the whole country, which tells you where to focus local ads. You can see which EU countries actually send you orders before you spend budget on another market. And if you are thinking about in-store pickup or your own local delivery, the map quickly shows where it makes sense.

Analytics: new data in reports and a new session measurement

• App events in analytics. Apps can send standard events to Shopify analytics, for example a marketing email sent (shopify.marketing.email_sent) or loyalty points redeemed, and you can build your own reports from them and compare apps with each other (query FROM app_events, dimension app_name). You will find the data in the report configuration panel under App Events and in the "Created by Apps" section. Shopify's sources disagree on the status. The help docs call it early access that may not be available in your store or for your apps, while the October 28, 2026 changelog announces it as available for supported apps. In Poland everything depends on whether your email and loyalty apps send these events, so that is the question we put to their developers (Shopify Help Center).

• Category metafields and metaobjects in reports. Category metafields from Shopify's product taxonomy (color, material, fit and similar) are now report dimensions and filters, with nothing to switch on. On top of that come fields from metaobjects linked through metafields to products, variants, customers or orders (for example designer, loyalty status or warranty). Metaobjects created by apps first have to be enabled for analytics in Settings > Metafields and metaobjects, and metafields with mixed references are left out. It has been live since September 28, 2026, and Poland gets it like everyone else. In practice your products need an assigned category and filled-in category metafields, otherwise the report has nothing to group by (Shopify Help Center).

• Your own annotations in reports. You can add your own note to any report with a timeline: a title of up to 75 characters, a date or date range, an optional time, a category and a description of up to 150 characters. Your annotations sit next to Shopify's automatic annotations and the ones added by apps, and adding them requires the Reports permission and time as the report's first dimension (Analytics > Reports > [report] > Annotations). It has been live since October 1, 2026, including in Poland. We'd mark every promotion launch, newsletter send, price change and new theme release this way, and ahead of the holiday sales season we'd make it a fixed habit (Shopify Help Center).

• Purchase orders in analytics. Data from purchase orders to suppliers in Shopify can now be viewed, filtered and exported in Analytics. There are three default reports (Purchase order costs, Purchase order transfers, Purchases on order) plus custom explorations, for example ordered quantity, supplier costs or estimated taxes. This has been live since October 6, 2026, though the help docs add that it applies only if purchase order analytics is available to your store. It makes sense if you manage supplier orders in Shopify itself rather than in an external inventory system, and in that case it works in Poland too (Shopify Help Center).

• New session measurement. After an update rolled out on September 21-23, 2026, Shopify counts sessions differently. A session lasts as long as activity continues instead of breaking at midnight UTC, it ends after 30 minutes of inactivity, and some journeys without a pageview now count too (for example going from a cart link straight to checkout). Identified bots are filtered out by default, so sessions, conversion rate, add-to-cart rate, reached-checkout rate, bounce rate and visitor counts change, while orders, sales and customer counts stay the same. In regions where the store asks for consent, Shopify doesn't set analytics cookies until the visitor accepts. Shopify's banner asks automatically for visitors from the EEA and the UK when automated privacy settings are on, so in our reading this also covers shoppers in Poland. Third-party consent apps that delete and re-create the _shopify_s cookie inflate session counts. The fix is to pass consent through the Customer Privacy API (Shopify's interface for handling consent), after which your session numbers may drop, and stores on Hydrogen (Shopify's framework for headless stores) or a custom headless setup may need to migrate their tracking (what changed, cookies and session counts).

After this update we'd start with three things in your reports. We treat September 2026 as a new baseline and compare periods with the same Human or bot filter (the filter can't be changed on the admin Home page or in Live View). Bot classification exists only for sessions from October 7, 2025 onward, so comparisons with older data won't be reliable. And if the store uses a third-party cookie consent app, we ask its developer whether it passes consent through the Customer Privacy API.

Shopify Flow: new trigger, permissions, AI agents and version history

Shopify Flow works on a "when something happens in the store, do this" basis and is free. This Edition gives it four changes: a new trigger, permissions based on admin roles, management through AI agents and version restore.

• Product updated trigger. A workflow can now start when a chosen product or variant field changes, such as price, tags, a metafield, status, title, vendor and others, with up to 5 fields per trigger. You pick it in Apps > Flow > new workflow > Product updated, and it has been live since October 28, 2026. It works in Poland too and is handy, for example, for tagging products whose price changed or for alerting the team when a product changes status (Shopify Help Center).

• Flow permissions by admin role. Access to Flow is now set through regular roles in Settings > Users > Roles, with the permissions "View, create, and delete automations" and "Manage connections and secrets". To test or turn on a workflow, a staff member also needs the permissions for every step that workflow performs. Existing Flow users are migrated automatically and running workflows keep running. Shopify's help docs describe this as early access rolling out gradually, while the October 28, 2026 changelog announces the change. If people from outside your company work in your store on collaborator accounts, check their roles before someone gets stuck turning on an automation (Shopify Help Center).

• Flow through an AI agent and the AI Toolkit. The AI Toolkit (Shopify's set of tools for AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor) lets an external agent create, update, delete, turn on, turn off and list workflows and read .flow files, and you can do the same through Shopify CLI with the shopify store execute command. It is meant for managing automations in your own store. Third-party apps can't call these APIs directly, and an app would need the write_automations scope approved by Shopify. To get started, ask your agent to install or update the shopify skill from the Shopify AI Toolkit. Shopify states no limits for Poland (developer changelog).

• Workflow version history and restore. Every workflow has a change history (edits, activations, deactivations and exports, with the person and time), and now you can open an older version in preview, compare two versions and restore the one you choose as a new draft that you review before turning it on. Sidekick can also roll back a change when you ask. History is kept for a year, some data exists only from April 2026, and each version shows only the 7 most recent changes per person (Apps > Flow > [workflow] > Version history). Polish stores get it as well, and it is a good safety net for automations that touch prices or stock levels (Shopify Help Center).

Your store's status on Shopify

The new seller health view gathers your store's standing on Shopify in one place. The store gets one of four statuses (Establishing, Good, At risk or Critical) and a task list, where each item shows the area it affects, a due date, the consequence and a link to fix it. The docs give examples of such items, including business verification, Shopify Payments holds and concerns related to Shopify's policies. You see the status in Settings > General, next to the store name and on the seller health card, and for stores with several entities only the primary one is shown (Shopify Help Center).

The feature is in early access and rolling out gradually, and who can see it depends on store permissions. Shopify states no plans or countries, so stores in Poland will get it as the rollout reaches them.

For Polish stores it has practical value for two reasons. Shopify Payments has worked in Poland since March 21, 2025, so stores that use it have verification and possible holds on funds to watch. On top of that, Shopify Catalog requires an account in good standing (Catalog is Shopify's product catalog that AI channels draw from), which includes a verified email, 2FA and a low chargeback rate. Shopify doesn't say outright that this is the same status, but in our reading the seller health list is a good way to catch problems early that could keep a store out of Catalog. We'd check that list once a month, the same way you would run a regular technical review of the store.

The new Shopify mobile app

Shopify has rebuilt its app for iOS and Android. It is meant to launch and load screens faster, move between them more smoothly and look like the new admin, with the same colors, typography and icons, in a layout designed for the phone first. The rollout started on October 13, 2026, Shopify hasn't given an end date, and the app is included in every plan. You only need to update it from the App Store or Google Play (app page, changelog).

Shopify states no country limits for the app itself, and its language follows your phone's settings. One caveat concerns payments. Tap to Pay (taking contactless payments on your phone) works in the app only in select countries, and Shopify names the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. Shopify doesn't mention Poland directly, but Shopify Payments for in-person sales doesn't work in Poland, so our read of the docs is that Tap to Pay won't work for a Polish store. For handling orders and products on the go, the app works in Poland just as it does anywhere else.

Cheat sheet: Operations

The Shop app and shop.com

Shop is Shopify's shopping app for buyers, and shop.com is its browser version. Shoppers keep one Shop Pay account there (Shopify's wallet with a saved card and address), track their parcels and buy from stores that run on Shopify. This Edition adds a single payment for a cart filled from several stores, a redesigned shop.com, more personal search, and syncing of carts and store branding between your site and Shop. Shopify cites "400M+ shoppers with Shop Pay accounts" (as of September 30, 2026), so the audience is large.

For stores in Poland, Shop is available. It works in countries where Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment processor) is supported, and Poland has been on that list since March 21, 2025. Shop also supports Polish. To appear in Shop, a store needs Shopify Payments switched on, the Starter plan or higher, and a chargeback rate under 1% over the last six months (Shop requirements). A store that takes payments only through a third-party gateway can't get into Shop, so every Shop conversation we have starts with payments. In Poland, Shopify Payments switches Shop Pay on automatically and also covers BLIK. For most of the updates in this section, Shopify states no country limits. The exceptions are the agent in Shop (the docs still limit conversational search to the US and Canada), branding sync (early access for selected stores) and carts in more than one currency, which shoppers pay for separately.

Universal checkout on Shop: one cart from several stores

In the Shop app, a shopper can add products from different brands to one cart and pay for everything in one go. After tapping "Check out all", each store's checkout appears in turn. The shopper picks delivery for each store, can use a different payment method for each, and taps "Pay now" only once. Every store gets its own order and confirmation, and shipping, taxes, discounts and gift cards are calculated per store. If one store's order fails, the others still go through. Shopify says the checkout still respects each merchant's extensions and validations.

The combined payment works only in the app. On shop.com, shoppers pay one store at a time. A separate checkout is needed when the cart holds products in more than one currency, when a store redirects to its own website, or when a payment method needs extra verification (Apple Pay or installments, for example). The shopper needs at least one saved payment method and a shipping address in Shop Pay (help for shoppers).

The feature is live, and Shopify hasn't said which plans or countries it covers (as of Oct 28, 2026). Our reading of the single-currency rule, which Shopify doesn't spell out, is that a shopper paying in PLN can combine your products with products from other stores that sell in PLN. We also read the docs as saying that buying directly in Shop requires the "Sell directly on Shop with direct checkout" setting in the Shop channel. If Shop only links to your store, the shopper lands on your site, and the order with you needs its own checkout.

The new shop.com: shopping and parcel tracking in the browser

shop.com has a new design. According to Shopify, it now offers shoppable posts, editorial picks, sections personalized for each shopper and more detailed package tracking. Shopify explains the change by saying that traffic on the website is growing faster than in the app. Your Shop Store, the storefront your brand gets inside Shop, looks the same in the app and on shop.com.

Anyone can browse and search without signing in. To pay with Shop Pay, use Shop Cash or see a synced cart, the shopper has to sign in to Shop. The merchant docs still say that tracking an order and reviewing a product work only in the Shop app, which doesn't match the Editions announcement (as of Oct 28, 2026).

Your store's pages on shop.com are indexed by Google and Bing by default. If you'd rather keep them out of search results, you can switch indexing off in the Shop channel settings (shop.com in the docs).

In Poland, shop.com works for every store that meets the Shop requirements listed above. We'd start by reviewing the Shop channel in the admin to see how the store looks on shop.com before customers do.

Discovery and search in Shop

• Personalized feed and interest feeds. The Shop app's home screen shows recommendations matched to the shopper's interests, posts and videos from stores they follow, recently viewed products, price-drop and back-in-stock alerts, reorder suggestions and offers. Shoppers can mark something "Not interested" or ask for similar items. The "interest feeds" themselves don't have their own description in Shopify's docs yet. The app works in Poland and nothing points to a country limit. From what we see, the simplest way into the feed is posting regularly and building followers in Shop.

• Filters in Shop search. When a shopper types a brand, product or category name, Shop can suggest filters for size, price, color and brand, and according to Editions also related subcategories (the docs don't describe those suggestions yet). Product titles, categories and tags shape the results. Keyword search works outside the US and Canada too, so Polish shoppers use it. For a store, it's one more reason to fill in product categories and tags properly.

• Results ranked for signed-in shoppers. Shop ranks results using purchase and browsing history, synced shopping activity, personalization settings (sizes, for example) and the shopper's shipping country and currency. Results include only stores that ship to the shopper's country, and stores can't opt out of Shop search. To show up there, a store needs a custom domain, a sales history and good reviews, among other things. A shopper in another country will see a Polish store only if it has shipping set up to that country.

• The agent in Shop in more markets. Editions says Shop's AI agent (product recommendations, order help and support) is available wherever the Shop app and website are. The merchant docs still say conversational search is available only to customers in the US and Canada, and everyone else gets keyword search. For Poland this is therefore unclear, and the docs may simply not have been updated yet. The shopper help center says the assistant replies in the language the shopper uses, so detailed product descriptions in Polish will pay off once the feature reaches Poland.

Content, discounts and carts in Shop

• Instagram in Shop. In the Shop channel (Posts > Manage apps > Instagram) you connect an Instagram Creator or Business account, since personal accounts aren't supported. When you connect, Shop imports reels, images and carousels from the last 90 days with their captions, and new posts sync and publish automatically (you can switch auto-publishing off). Posts appear in the app's home feed, in your Shop Store and in the Following tab, but not on shop.com. You can tag up to 10 products or one collection, plus a discount, on each post (posts in Shop). In Poland it works for any store that's on Shop.

• Unused discount codes in the Shop account. When a shopper fills in a sign-up form (Shopify Forms or a supported lead capture app) with an email linked to Shop, they're signed in with Shop, and the form's code is added to their Shop account and applied when they pay with Shop Pay. Shoppers can also see codes you emailed them in the app, even if Shop isn't selected in the code's sales channel settings. To feature a code in Shop on purpose, go to Discounts > [code] > Sales channel access. It needs Shop Pay, which in practice means Shopify Payments, and that works in Poland.

• Your store's cart on other devices. A shopper with a Shop account keeps their cart across visits and devices, so they can start on a phone and finish on a laptop, and the cart also shows up in the Shop app. One of three conditions has to be met: the shopper signed in with Shop, signed in to new customer accounts with the same email as in Shop, or Shop recognizes them from an earlier session. The feature is on by default and doesn't merge carts. Shopify notes that cart sync can be limited by region but doesn't list the regions, so it should work in Poland, though the docs don't guarantee it.

Your online branding syncs to Shop

Shop Store is your storefront in the Shop app and on shop.com. Until now you had to lay it out separately. Now supported content from your online store's home page flows into it automatically, including images and video, slideshows, featured collections, product rows and story tiles. Shop turns some content into its own sections and skips what it doesn't support. Product page blocks, About and FAQ pages, other subpages and navigation don't sync. Your theme and its SEO stay as they are.

You can turn sync off to edit the Shop Store by hand. When you turn it back on, Shop shows a preview and replaces your manual edits with the current content from your site.

This is early access for a small, manually selected set of stores, and Shopify is widening it gradually. It needs an Online Store 2.0 theme, which rules out vintage themes and headless stores. According to the docs, sync switches on automatically for selected non-Plus stores that hadn't merchandised their Shop Store before. Plus stores and stores with their own Shop Store layout get 30 days' notice. Shopify's blog post has a link where you can register interest.

Shopify states no country limits, but it grants access by hand, so the status for Polish stores is unclear. If you've polished your Shop Store manually, take screenshots before sync overwrites it. To avoid cropped or low-quality images in Shop, Shopify recommends vertical or mobile-optimized images on your home page.

Carts in Shop sync to online store

This is the other half of the cart sync described above. A shopper who started filling a cart in the Shop app sees the same products when they visit your site and can finish the order with you. The same conditions apply: signing in with Shop, signing in to new customer accounts with the same email, or being recognized from an earlier Shop sign-in. The feature is live and on by default (cart sync in the docs).

Carts don't merge. If the shopper already has a cart where they're shopping, that cart isn't replaced, and only one cart syncs. A product sold only in Shop will appear in the store cart but can't be bought there. Shopify also warns that the cart may not follow a shopper who shops from a different region from the one where they created it.

In Poland it should work, because Shop is available here, but Shopify doesn't list the regions with limits. In practice one technical detail matters. Matching by the same email doesn't work with legacy customer accounts. If your store still uses them, moving to new customer accounts widens the group of shoppers whose cart carries over between Shop and your store. That's our advice, not a Shopify requirement.

Cheat sheet: The Shop app and shop.com

Marketing: Campaign Autopilot, Shop Campaigns and WhatsApp

Marketing in this Edition is mostly about automation and better measurement. Campaign Autopilot (a tool that proposes and runs campaigns for you) covers more ad channels, Shop Campaigns (ads you pay for per sale) expands to over 35 new markets, and the marketing reports now show all of your store's traffic. Shopify Messaging (Shopify's app for email, SMS and WhatsApp) adds WhatsApp to abandonment automations and gets a ready-made Black Friday email campaign. On top of that come ads in ChatGPT and purchases from TikTok ads for selected businesses.

For stores in Poland, most of these changes work. Shop Campaigns lists Poland and PLN among its supported countries and currencies, WhatsApp marketing can go to Polish recipients (USD 0.172 per marketing message), and Shopify states no country limits for the reports or for ShopifyQL. Campaign Autopilot is available on every plan except Agentic, but the Snapchat channel requires one of eight store currencies, and PLN isn't one of them. Three items remain unclear: TikTok Buy Direct (no documentation), the ChatGPT Ads app (no country list) and the language of the ready-made Black Friday campaign.

Campaign Autopilot: more channels and SEO suggestions

Campaign Autopilot proposes and runs marketing campaigns based on your store data. According to the changelog, it's available to all merchants from October 28, 2026, after a period in early access. It covers Shopify Messaging, Shop Campaigns, Meta Ads, Microsoft Advertising (Performance Max campaigns) and Snapchat (Dynamic Collection Ads). It also suggests SEO updates to page titles (the title in a product's search listing) and product descriptions, which you review in Sidekick and approve before anything changes, but that part is rolling out gradually. X Ads and ChatGPT Ads are marked "Coming soon" on Shopify's Autopilot landing page.

You set a monthly budget, which Shopify treats as a spending target. Because of delayed attribution, Autopilot can go over it, and you can then ask Shopify Support for a credit for the difference. You also set guardrails such as a target ROAS, ad regions and ad languages, and you can require approval for every tactic before it starts. Autopilot itself is free, and you pay Meta, Microsoft and Snapchat directly for the ads. You'll find it in the admin under Growth > Autopilot (Autopilot docs).

In Poland it works with caveats. Snapchat needs a store currency of AUD, CAD, DKK, EUR, GBP, NOK, SEK or USD, so a store that runs in PLN can't use that channel. For Microsoft Advertising, Shopify only says it works in regions where Microsoft Advertising operates, with no country list. Meta ads aimed at the EU need advertiser and payer details on the Meta ad account, and Meta won't run them until those details are added. We'd start with approval required for every tactic and a low budget for the first month.

Unified marketing reports: one report for all traffic

Since September 2026, the "Performance by marketing channel" report covers all online store traffic, not just the traffic attributed to marketing, so the session, sales and order totals in the report may be higher than before. Each channel is split into paid, organic, direct, unattributed and unknown traffic, so you can compare paid and organic results for the same channel in one report. A marketing channel is the ad product or tool (Meta Ads, for example), a marketing platform is the company (Meta), and a referring channel is where the visit came from (Instagram or Gmail, say).

On October 18, 2026 the values for referring channel, medium and traffic type changed, so Twitter, for example, is now X. Visits where the referrer is your own store count as direct traffic and get no credit for sales under the "last non-direct click" model. Total sales and order counts aren't affected. The report sits under Analytics > Reports > Marketing, with a summary in Growth > Attribution (marketing reports).

The report works in Poland too, and Shopify states no country limits. We'd run year-over-year comparisons on the "Marketing channel" dimension, because when an ad or messaging tool is identified, the classification is the same before and after October 18. Rows without an identified source can still shift. If you use auto-match rules in Campaigns, update them to the new values. Together with the session measurement change of September 21-23 (bot filtering, a session ending after 30 minutes of inactivity), this gives you a new baseline for your autumn reports.

Shop Campaigns in over 35 new markets

Shop Campaigns are Shopify's pay-per-sale ads. They run in Shop and, according to Shopify's Shop Campaigns product page, also in channels such as Meta, Google, ChatGPT and Pinterest. You can now run one campaign across several markets at once, selling locally or across borders. You set how much you pay per acquired customer and pay only when an ad drives a sale. Shopify says "Shop Campaigns has led to over 18M sales for businesses". The product page still says "10M+ sales", so Shopify's own sources disagree on this number.

The list of supported countries (based on the business address) has 37 entries: most of the EU plus the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the US, among others. Poland and PLN are on the list (countries and currencies). Shopify doesn't mark which countries are new.

To start, you need a market with a supported country, Shopify Payments with a supported store currency and payout currency, and local-currency prices in your cross-border markets. The Shop channel must have "Sell directly on Shop with direct checkout" switched on. Shopify Network Intelligence must be on as well, which in the EEA comes with a cookie banner and consent obligations. The store also needs a valid billing method and can't be in private mode. You launch campaigns in the Shop channel under Advertising, or through Campaign Autopilot.

Our read of the docs is that a Polish store selling to, say, Germany and Czechia can run one campaign instead of several, as long as it has prices in euros and Czech koruna in those markets.

WhatsApp and email in Shopify Messaging

• WhatsApp marketing consent at checkout. Checkout gets a WhatsApp marketing opt-in checkbox. If both SMS and WhatsApp opt-ins are on, you choose which one shoppers see in each region, either following Shopify's recommendation or by hand. Consent is saved only once the order is placed. You need the SMS checkout option switched on, terms of service and a privacy policy in your settings, and a phone number field at checkout. The setting is under Settings > Checkout > Marketing opt-in > WhatsApp. It's been live since September 10, 2026, and nothing excludes Poland.

• Automated WhatsApp messages on abandonment. The Shopify Messaging automations "Convert abandoned product browse", "Recover abandoned cart" and "Recover abandoned checkout" can now send WhatsApp messages alongside email and SMS. WhatsApp templates go to Meta for approval automatically, and approval isn't guaranteed. You need a paid plan (it doesn't work during a trial or on Pause and Build) and a WhatsApp Business account connected under Apps > Messaging > Settings > Connect WhatsApp, and new accounts are capped at 2,000 messages a day. A marketing message to a recipient in Poland costs USD 0.172 (WhatsApp pricing), so 1,000 abandoned-cart reminders cost USD 172. Only recipients in the US, China and sanctioned regions are excluded, and the app's interface is also available in Polish.

• Ready-made Black Friday email campaign. For a limited time, Shopify Messaging shows a card with a pre-built series of emails for an occasion such as BFCM, with the content, audience and send times already set (recommended series). You preview it, edit it, send tests to up to 5 addresses and schedule the whole series as one campaign, and you can move or delete single emails. The series always goes to all email subscribers, you can't change the audience, and only one series can be active at a time. Shopify hasn't said when the card appears in a given store or what language the pre-built content is in (as of Oct 28, 2026), so for Poland this is unclear. Before you schedule it, check the language and content of every email.

Data and new ad channels

• Shop Campaigns results in ShopifyQL. Shop Campaigns data, meaning spend, sales, orders, ROAS, average order value and average customer acquisition cost (split by customer segment and period), is available through ShopifyQL, Shopify's query language for analytics data. That lets analytics apps and BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Looker Studio pull it, and you can also export the data to CSV. It's been live since August 10, 2026, and in Poland it works for any store running Shop Campaigns. If you collect ad results in one spreadsheet or dashboard, you can add Shop Campaigns to it without copying numbers by hand.

• TikTok Buy Direct. According to Editions, selected businesses can sell on TikTok through Buy Direct ads, where shoppers buy without leaving the app and Shopify powers the checkout. Editions doesn't link to any documentation, and Shopify's TikTok help page and the TikTok app listing cover only TikTok Shop and ads in general. Who qualifies, on which plans and in which countries, Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026). For Poland, the status is unclear.

• ChatGPT Ads app. The ChatGPT Ads app is made by OpenAI, is free, comes in English and has been on the Shopify App Store since September 3, 2026. You connect or create a ChatGPT ad account, your product catalog syncs automatically to ChatGPT Ads Manager, and you build ads from your products, measure conversions with a Shopify pixel and track results in the admin. The sponsored placements Editions mentions aren't described in the listing. The listing doesn't say which countries the app works in, so for Poland it's unclear. This is separate from selling inside ChatGPT through the agentic channel, which requires selling to customers in the US. In Campaign Autopilot, the ChatGPT Ads channel is marked "Coming soon".

Cheat sheet: Marketing

Shipping, inventory and returns

This part of the Edition covers shipping, warehouse work, returns and order editing. Shopify sums up the scale of the area with one line, "27.1B products shipped over 5.8T miles in 2025". Many of the shipping updates are tied to the country a parcel ships from, so they only work for stores with a location in a specific country.

For stores in Poland, the headline is that a store with a warehouse in Poland can now buy DHL eCommerce labels directly in the Shopify admin, for domestic parcels (according to the help docs) and for shipments to other EU countries. Stock counts, transfer metafields, package sizes per variant, extra discounts on existing orders, subscriptions in draft orders and tax recalculation after an address change have no country limit in the docs. Shipping managed in Markets, barcode scanning from any admin page and waived balances are in early access, so only selected stores get them. Return rules by market help with the EU right of withdrawal, though part of them is in early access and the per-market toggle needs the Advanced or Plus plan. Shop Promise (US only), DHL Express in the admin, Royal Mail pickup points, UPS and Canada Post labels from Canada and tax on US return fees don't apply here, and FedEx delivery photos are unclear because Shopify sells FedEx labels only from US locations. Polish stores still have no native pickup points at checkout (Plus with a custom app is the exception), so parcel locker delivery keeps running the way you have it set up today. If you are a foreign brand selling into Poland, our read of the docs is that label features follow the country of your warehouse, not the country of your customer.

DHL eCommerce labels in the admin for stores in Poland

On the Editions page this is a single line about the Netherlands and Poland, but for Polish stores it's the most important change in this section. In the Netherlands the labels cover domestic shipments only, with drop-off at a DHL service point or locker. From Poland there are two services, DHL Parcel Connect for addresses in Poland and DHL Parcel Connect (EU) for addresses in other EU countries. The sources disagree here. The changelog post from October 16, 2026 lists only shipments to other EU countries for Poland, while the help docs (in English and in Polish) also cover domestic parcels. Going by the docs, domestic labels work, but check it in your own admin.

You open an unfulfilled order and click Create shipping label. Bulk printing works too. The tracking number is added automatically and the order is marked as fulfilled. Parcels are dropped off at a DHL locker only, there is no courier pickup. Rates come from Shopify's account with DHL, and the changelog promises discounted rates with no fee "on top of your Shopify plan". You pay when you buy the label, and DHL rates aren't shown to customers at checkout, so you set your shipping prices yourself. A parcel has to be between 15x11x1 cm and 64x41x38 cm and weigh up to 25 kg. Soft packs are accepted, envelopes are not. An unused label expires after 30 days, and an unscanned one can be voided within that time for a shipping credit. Claims go through the Shopify admin only, and there are no return labels from Polish locations in the admin. The general label docs say discounts depend on your Shopify plan, but for DHL in Poland Shopify hasn't said yet (as of Oct 28, 2026). The labels need a fulfillment location in Poland, so a foreign brand gets them only if it ships from a Polish warehouse. In our view this is a good option for stores without their own carrier contract, but compare the price of a few labels with your current rates before you switch.

Shop Promise: a delivery and returns badge, US only for now

Shop Promise is a free Shopify program that adds a badge with a promise to products, such as "Trusted delivery", "Free returns" or "Returns accepted". According to Shopify, products with the badge rank higher in search in the Shop app (Shopify's shopping app for consumers) and in Shopify Catalog (the product catalog that AI channels draw on). On the Editions page Shopify says "Eligibility for Shop Promise grew 20x". Shopify awards "Trusted delivery" within a product category, based on the time from order to the first carrier scan, and it requires automated delivery dates. The returns benefit comes from your return rules.

The refreshed program is marked "Coming soon" and is reaching stores gradually. It drops the USD 5 Shop Cash guarantee for late delivery, and claims for earlier orders can be filed until December 16, 2026. Shopify describes it as a program "for stores in the United States". You need an active Shopify plan, an active US location that fulfills to the US, Shop Pay turned on and tracking on at least 90% of eligible orders, and Shopify reassesses this daily (program eligibility). A store shipping from Poland won't get the badge, so for now it's only a signal of where Shopify is taking ranking in Shop. The settings live in Settings > Shipping and delivery > Shop Promise for stores that qualify.

DHL Express in more countries

Stores with a location in the UK, France, Italy, Germany or Spain can buy DHL Express labels in the admin. The services are Express Domestic (1 business day), Express Worldwide EU (1-2 days) and Express Worldwide (1-3 days). You can schedule a courier pickup, both DDP and DAP are supported (the sender or the recipient pays the duties), customs data is sent electronically and international shipments need HS codes. Recipients can use DHL On Demand Delivery.

The changelog from August 13, 2026 describes it as "Available on any Shopify plan, with no app, no monthly fee, and pay per label". The sources differ on status, because the changelog says "now available" while the help docs still describe early access for selected stores and origin countries. Rates come from Shopify's DHL Express account and aren't shown at checkout. Unscanned labels are deleted after 7 days, dangerous goods can't be shipped, and parcels must be between 10x15x1 cm and 120x80x80 cm.

Poland isn't on the list of origin countries. Our read of the docs is that what counts is the country of the location the parcel ships from, so a Polish brand with a warehouse in Germany could use it for shipments from there.

Shipping managed in Markets

"Shipping in markets" moves shipping settings into Markets (Shopify's tool for selling to different regions). Instead of shipping profiles, zones and location groups, you set shipping options per market, including regional and B2B markets. On the Editions page Shopify says this covers each region, retail and company location, or channel. Each option, for example Standard or Express, holds flat, order-amount, weight-based or carrier and app-calculated rates, with conditions for products (collections) and locations. Child markets inherit settings from parent markets. Within one option the highest matching rate applies instead of a sum of rates, while the prices of different options add up. Migration is automatic, product groupings turn into unpublished "[Shipping]" collections, and split shipping is always on (how shipping options by market work).

The status is early access ("available only to certain stores"), rolling out gradually over an extended period. If Shopify offers it to your store, the Get early access button appears in Settings > Shipping and delivery, and after switching you get a window to opt out. From then on you manage shipping in Markets > [market] > Shipping. Staff need the Markets permission, and stores that rely on shipping apps may get the change later. Shopify hasn't said yet which plans get it (as of Oct 28, 2026), and no country limit is stated either, so a Polish store can get it. Before migrating, take screenshots of your current rates, because the new calculation can change the shipping cost of a cart with several products.

Native stock counts

Stock counts are now built into the admin. You create and schedule a count for a chosen location (date, tags, note), staff count with a barcode scanner or enter quantities by hand, and several people can work on one count. A manager then reviews the variances and approves the result. Approval adjusts inventory and records the changes in the adjustment history. In a note on the Editions page Shopify adds that "Counts scheduled in the admin show up for staff in POS" (POS is Shopify's point of sale app for physical stores). You can't assign a specific person to a count.

According to the changelog, the feature has been live since October 20, 2026, and the step-by-step guide is in Shopify's help center. Counts are created only in the desktop admin, under Inventory > Stock counts, with the permission to manage inventory. Counting in the POS app requires POS Pro (the extended version of Shopify POS) at that location and a role with the "Perform inventory counts" permission. For counts in the admin alone, Shopify doesn't state a required plan. It works in Poland, because the POS app and POS Pro are available there. The Polish limitation concerns in-person Shopify Payments and card readers, and inventory features aren't affected. If you count stock in a spreadsheet today, run your first count in Shopify before peak season and compare the result with your usual one.

Returns and cancellations by market

Two updates change who can request a return or cancellation, and when. For stores selling in the EU this matters now, because Shopify's return rules documentation cites EU Directive 2023/2673, in force since June 19, 2026, which covers withdrawing from a contract electronically. Shopify suggests a return window of at least 14 days counted from delivery of the last item in the order, extended for weekends and holidays, cancellation until the item is fulfilled, self-serve returns and cancellations turned on, and a visible link to the customer account. It also notes that these settings don't make a store compliant automatically.

• Return and cancellation rules by market, with return window overrides. Alongside the default policy you set separate policies for markets, each with return rules, cancellation rules and a list of final-sale items. The return window is 14, 30 or 90 days, unlimited or custom, counted from delivery of each item or of the last item in the order, and the cancellation window is none, until fulfilled, 15 minutes, 1 hour or 24 hours. Return window overrides can be set per collection, product or variant, the shortest window wins and final sale always wins. Rules by market are in early access ("available only to certain merchants"), while the changelog from September 29, 2026 calls the overrides available. You set them in Settings > Policies > Return and cancellation rules, and customers can only send requests when self-serve returns and cancellations are turned on. Rules apply to orders placed after the change, and in POS they need POS Pro.

• Per-market return and cancellation toggle in the checkout editor. In the checkout and accounts editor (the Order actions section) you turn the self-serve Return and Cancel buttons on or off for each market separately. What counts is the market where the order was placed, not where the customer lives, and markets without their own setting inherit it from the parent market or the store default. This is early access for selected stores, and per-market control requires the Advanced or Plus plan, while other plans can change only the store default. You'll find it in Settings > Customer accounts > Order actions > Manage. Orders placed through Managed Markets in the EU always allow requests unless the right of withdrawal feature in Managed Markets is turned off, but Managed Markets isn't available to merchants based in Poland anyway. For a Polish store selling inside and outside the EU, the toggle lets you keep online returns on for EU markets and set them differently elsewhere.

Shipping and returns in other countries

• Royal Mail pickup points in the UK. Stores with a UK location can ship orders to a Royal Mail pickup point, and the customer picks a point at checkout from a map or list showing name, address, opening hours and price. According to the changelog it has been live since October 15, 2026, and you turn it on in Settings > Shipping and delivery > Pickup points for a UK location. Native pickup points are available only to stores in France, Italy, Spain and the UK, plus Plus stores with a custom app built on the Pickup Point Delivery Option Generator API. A store in Poland can have native pickup points only on Plus, through such a custom app.

• International UPS labels from Canada. Stores with a location in Canada can buy UPS labels in the admin for international shipments, including the US. The services are Worldwide Express, Worldwide Express Saver and Worldwide Expedited, plus Express Air Early AM, Standard U.S. and 3 Day Select for the US only. The Editions page promises that customs documents are created for you, although the help page itself doesn't mention it. Customers may have to pay duties, taxes and brokerage fees. For Poland this doesn't matter unless you ship from a warehouse in Canada.

• Canada Post return labels. Stores in Canada create, send and track domestic Canada Post return labels in the admin and pay only when a label is scanned. The services are Regular Parcel, Expedited Parcel, Xpresspost and Priority, and the order needs at least one fulfilled item. The labels never expire and include delivery confirmation and signature, but they run on Shopify's rates only, so you can't connect your own Canada Post account. Shopify sells return labels only for locations in the US and Canada. A Polish store still buys them from the carrier or through an app.

• FedEx delivery photos. If a carrier such as FedEx provides a delivery photo, it appears on the order under Proof of delivery photos and stays there for up to 90 days. With Shopify Payments (Shopify's built-in payment processing), photos from some carriers are added to chargeback responses automatically. The fulfillment needs a carrier "delivered" status, and not every delivery has a photo. For Poland it's unclear. Shopify lists FedEx labels only for US locations, so as we read it, this matters little to Polish stores.

• Tax on US return fees. Since October 23, 2026, Shopify calculates tax on return shipping fees for orders shipped to US addresses, if the store uses Shopify Tax or Tax Platform and the fee is taxable in that jurisdiction (changelog). It doesn't apply to restocking fees. Tax is calculated automatically when you create the return, so the return summary matches the amount. It doesn't affect a Polish store selling in Poland and the EU.

Packaging, barcodes and stock transfers

• Package dimensions for each variant. For a product or variant you enter Packed product size, the outer dimensions after packing (length, width, height), and pick the default packaging. Shopify packs each shipment into the smallest saved Box that fits, so carrier-calculated rates land closer to the label cost. If an item has no dimensions, no box fits or there are too many items, the store's default package is used, and the "Package when shipped alone" setting still wins for single-item orders. You fill in all three dimensions or none, and it works in the bulk editor and the product CSV. The feature is live and works in Poland, but in our reading of the docs it helps mainly with app-calculated rates and with pre-filling labels, because DHL rates aren't shown at checkout.

• Barcode scanning from any admin page. Connect a USB scanner, scan on any desktop admin page, and Shopify takes you to the matching variant, order or batch. You can assign an unrecognized barcode or create a new product with it straight away, and since September 8, 2026 a variant can hold up to 20 barcodes. This is early access for selected stores. Camera scanning and Bluetooth scanners without HID mode aren't supported, and the cursor can't be in a text field. Shopify states no country limit, so Polish stores with their own warehouse can get it too.

• Metafields on inventory transfers. You can add your own metafields to transfers between locations, such as lot or serial numbers, a bill of lading, incoterms or an ERP reference. You define them in Settings > Metafields and metaobjects > Transfers and edit them on the transfer create and details pages. They also work in the Admin GraphQL API and carry over when you duplicate a transfer. According to the changelog it has been live since June 30, 2026, and no country limit is stated. For a Polish company with several warehouses, it's a simple way to keep the internal transfer document number from the ERP (the MM document in Polish accounting) attached to the transfer in Shopify.

Order editing, balances and taxes

• Extra discount on an existing order. When editing an order you can add one custom order-level discount, as a fixed amount or a percentage, on top of item discounts, and change or remove it later. Item discounts work on fulfilled and unfulfilled items but not on partially fulfilled line items, and existing codes or automatic order discounts can't be changed. Totals and discount allocations recalculate automatically, and the order shows a refund owed or a balance due. You'll find it in Orders > [order] > Edit > Payment > Add custom discount. It's live and works in Poland, and it's handy when customer service promised a discount after the order was placed.

• Subscriptions in draft orders. You can add subscription products (recurring or prepaid) to a draft order, mixed with one-time items, and the customer pays via an invoice or a checkout link. The order and the subscription are created at checkout, and you need an app that creates purchase options, such as Shopify Subscriptions (Shopify's own subscriptions app). It doesn't work with pre-orders, try before you buy, bundles, custom items, B2B companies, or custom or locked prices. Payment terms and deposits apply to the first order only, and mark as paid and card payment are "coming soon". It has been live since October 28, 2026 and works in Poland, but keep in mind that BLIK (the Polish mobile payment method) in Shopify Payments doesn't support subscriptions.

• Waived order balances. A balance you don't want to collect, for example a few cents left after an edit or a tax recalculation, can be waived. The waived amount is recorded on the order and in reports, the order is marked paid when nothing else is due, you can add a reason, and the waiver can be removed later. The customer sees the waived amount. It's early access for selected stores and needs the store owner or the "Waive order balances" permission. It doesn't work on canceled orders, on some marketplace orders or on Managed Markets orders after fulfillment. Shopify states no country limit, so a Polish store can get it, and it's worth agreeing with your accountant beforehand how such write-offs are booked.

• Tax recalculation after a shipping address change. When you change an order's shipping address, Shopify recalculates line item taxes for the new destination and shows the old tax, the new tax and the difference. If tax goes up, you send the customer an invoice or keep the balance on the order, and if it goes down, you refund the difference. It works only for unfulfilled orders and not for orders with edit restrictions (imported, Shop Pay Installments, local delivery). It has been live since August 13, 2026, and in our view it matters most for cross-border orders within the EU, where VAT follows the destination country.

Cheat sheet: Shipping, inventory and returns

For developers and agencies: agentic commerce and new APIs

The Developer section of Fall '26 shows the technical groundwork for selling through AI agents and what's new for apps. The first group, Agentic experiences, gives builders of agents and shopping apps access to the product catalog, carts and payments through the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP, the protocol that describes catalog, cart and checkout in a form agents can work with). The second group, Platform primitives, is a set of new building blocks for apps: analytics, Polaris components, POS extensions, the Admin API, Shopify Functions and Sign in with Shop. Developer tooling, app security and storefronts are covered in their own sections.

For stores in Poland, the good news is that Shopify states no country restrictions for most of these changes. WebMCP tools have appeared on every Liquid storefront, /buy links accept the buyer's country and language, and the Catalog API returns products from any store that meets the Shopify Catalog requirements (among them the Starter plan or higher, no storefront password, and products with a title, an image and a price above zero). Our read of the docs is that a Polish store doesn't need to install anything for agents built on these APIs to see its products, but it does need clean product data. The limits are about money and tax. Shop Pay requires Shopify Payments (online only in Poland), the extra Shop Campaigns commission for agent developers applies only to campaigns in the US in USD, and Shopify calculates tax on return shipping fees only for orders shipped to the US. For a foreign brand selling into Poland, watch the currency rules: a /buy link can set the buyer's country, which also sets the currency, and a combined multi-brand checkout only joins carts in the same currency.

Shop MCP: one MCP server adds shopping to any agent

Shop MCP is an MCP server (MCP is the standard for connecting AI models to outside tools) that Shopify hosts at mcp.shop.com and documents on shop.dev. An agent or app connected to it can search Shopify Catalog (the shared product catalog that AI channels draw on), fetch product details, open carts and checkouts, sign the shopper in with their account in Shop (Shopify's consumer shopping app), pay with Shop Pay and track orders. It also handles spend requests, which are card payments at non-Shopify stores that the shopper approves. The server has 17 tools, runs on MCP protocol 2026-07-28 and UCP 2026-08-25, and its CLI installs with npm i -g @shopify/shop. It's live now, with no early access label.

Search is free and needs no account or key, while an API key from the Dev Dashboard (Shopify's developer console) raises the limits. Results can't be cached, and every request has to name an agent profile. On the Editions page Shopify says "1B+ products in our catalog can get discovered across AI channels" (see also the developer announcement). Shopify hasn't said yet which plans or countries apply (as of Oct 28, 2026). The examples in the docs use the US and Canada, and the "Ships to" field in the playground offers only the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, so we don't know yet how search behaves for a shopper in Poland.

Our read of the docs is that products from a Polish store that is in Shopify Catalog become available to any agent built on Shop MCP. You can check the status in Sales channels > Agentic > Sources > Shopify Catalog, which also shows the reason if the store doesn't qualify (Shopify Catalog requirements).

WebMCP: agent tools built into every store

WebMCP is a proposed browser standard that lets a web page register tools for an agent running in the browser. Shopify registers them on every Liquid storefront, and on Hydrogen 2026-10 storefronts when ShopifyScripts renders. The agent gets ready-made tools for the catalog (search, store browsing, product page, variant selection), the cart (view, add, change lines, cancel), checkout and orders (go to checkout, read and update the checkout, complete the purchase only after the buyer confirms, manage orders) and store information (search policies and FAQs, read the UCP profile).

The cart tools use the standard storefront actions (Shopify.actions), so theme behavior such as a slide-out cart drawer fires just as it would on a normal click. The storefront tools have been live since August 5, 2026 and the checkout tools since September 28, 2026. For now, agents support WebMCP only in Chromium-based browsers. Checkout tools aren't registered on the classic three-page checkout (except Shop Pay checkout), on B2B checkout, on embedded checkouts and those opened from mobile SDKs, when the checkout contains merchandise from another shop, or for draft orders, order edits and payment collection. Hydrogen can turn them off with webMcp: false (WebMCP docs).

Polish stores on Liquid already have this and don't need to install anything. If your theme has its own custom JavaScript cart, check that it responds to Shopify's standard storefront actions, because those are what the agent calls.

Catalog API: video and 3D filters plus more product data

The Catalog API (the API for searching Shopify Catalog) now returns video and 3D models alongside images. That applies to search, single product lookups and lookups by ID. Search accepts a media-type filter (image, video, external video and 3D model), and multiple filters combine with AND logic. Shopify announced it in a changelog post on September 15, 2026. Variants carry a price and a list price, so an agent can show a sale price.

Video and 3D need the draft version of the global catalog extension, and the agent profile has to declare that extension. Shopify says the draft schema will move to stable in the next UCP release. We didn't find the safety warnings mentioned on the Editions page in the docs we checked, so Shopify hasn't detailed them yet (as of Oct 28, 2026).

For a store in Poland this is a strong argument for video and 3D models on product pages. Our read of the docs is that an agent filtering results by video or 3D will only show products that have that media. If your product videos live only on YouTube or social media, attach them to the products in Shopify as well.

Catalog API now searches products not on Shopify

In beta, the Catalog API can return products from the websites of stores that don't run on Shopify. The developer sets the sources in the request: Shopify, external, or both. Shopify indexes external offers from those merchants' own sites. The differences are big. An off-Shopify offer has no checkout link, can't be added to a Shopify cart or paid with Shop Pay, has no tracked stock and never appears in promoted placements. The agent builder must link to the merchant's page and name the seller, and may not redistribute the data or train models on it. Merchants and rights holders can request removal through the Shopify Help Center.

The beta requires UCP 2026-08-25 or draft and an API client that Shopify has enabled (catalog extension docs). Shopify hasn't said which countries it indexes external stores from (as of Oct 28, 2026).

Our take for Polish stores on Shopify is that you may show up in agent results next to stores on other platforms, but you have the edge, because your product can be bought right away while an external one sends the shopper off to another site. A Polish store that isn't on Shopify and doesn't want to be in this index has a removal request route.

Catalog API: personalization, commissions and markdowns

• Personalized results for shoppers signed in with Shop. The app passes a buyer-linked token and gets search results tailored to a customer signed in with their Shop account. According to shop.dev, the shopper's preferences never reach the app, which only sees the finished results. It's live (Catalog API docs). Shopify states no country limits and Shop works in Poland, so our read of the docs is that Polish shoppers with a Shop account can get these results too.

• Shop Campaigns commission plus 0.3% from Shopify. An agent developer turns on commission earning for a saved catalog in the Dev Dashboard and earns 0.3% from Shopify on every sale of eligible products they drive (off-Shopify products don't qualify). If the merchant runs Shop Campaigns (paid campaigns in Shop where the merchant sets the commission it pays) with external platforms switched on, a merchant-funded commission comes on top. Attribution is last non-direct click within a 7-day window, and the commission is calculated on the whole attributed order. It's invite-only early access with a waitlist, and rates may change before full launch (promoted placement rules). Shop Campaigns run in Poland and in PLN, but the extra commission for developers applies only to products in an active campaign in the US, in USD, and the above-base rate applies only to purchases completed in Shop (the app or shop.com). The base 0.3% is paid by Shopify, not by the merchant.

• Markdowns in agent results. Variants in the Catalog API carry a price and, optionally, the pre-discount price (compare-at price) for the buyer's market, so an agent can show a strikethrough price and the size of the discount. That second price appears only when the store shares its compare-at price with Shopify Catalog (Sales channels > Agentic > Channel mapping > List price > Compare-at price) and it's higher than the current price. Polish stores can turn this on with no restrictions. Shopify's docs don't mention the EU rules on displaying price reductions (the Omnibus rules), so check that your compare-at prices comply before you switch the setting on.

Unified checkout: one checkout across brands in your app

Universal checkout for partners lets you build an app or agent that finds products in Shopify Catalog and lets the shopper pay for carts from several stores at once with Shop Pay. Per the docs, the app creates a separate cart for each store, then a single call to the global UCP endpoint returns one combined checkout link plus fallback links for each cart. The checkout renders through Checkout Kit (the library for embedding Shopify checkout in apps) and is paid with Shop Pay. One combined checkout covers up to 15 carts, all in the same currency. During early access, the combined checkout fails if even one cart is incompatible.

It's early access by request, through a form. You need an API key with access enabled and an agent profile that declares the right extension in its draft version (universal checkout docs). Next to this item, the Editions page points out that the Shop app itself already offers universal checkout across brands, through its "Check out all" button.

For Poland the single-currency rule matters most. Our read of the docs is that a PLN cart will only combine with other PLN carts, and a euro cart only with euro carts. The store needs Shop Pay, which means Shopify Payments. Shopify hasn't stated any other country limits (as of Oct 28, 2026).

Shop Pay and UCP: payments, buy links, store questions and physical locations

• Shop Pay in any app. Partners can embed Shop Pay (Shopify's accelerated checkout with the buyer's saved details) in their own app or checkout through Checkout Kit. Shop Pay opens in its own window, completes checkout with each merchant and returns finished orders. A store advertises Shop Pay in its UCP profile, and the app may only offer Shop Pay when every store in the cart has it. Today this works for stores on Shopify. Support for any merchant that accepts Shop Pay and the Swift, Kotlin and React Native libraries are marked "coming soon", while web and WebView work now (Shop Pay for partners docs). Shopify counts "400M+ shoppers with Shop Pay accounts" (as of September 30, 2026). A Polish store can take part only with Shopify Payments, because Shop Pay with a third-party payment gateway works only for stores in Australia, France and the US.

• /buy links with cart, customer details and attribution. The UCP /buy endpoint takes over from the old /cart permalinks. The link holds variants with quantities, and its parameters can pass buyer details, the shipping address, the country (which also sets the currency), the language, discount codes and attribution (UTM parameters, referring domain, click IDs). It's been live since October 28, 2026 with UCP 2026-08-25, and the old /cart links keep working. Opening a link never places an order, but every open creates a new cart that replaces the shopper's current cart. Links don't support subscription selling plans, notes, cart attributes or line item properties, and the limit is 500 items and 2,048 bytes (/buy link docs). Shopify states no country limits, and the country and language parameters let you build a link for a Polish shopper. In our view these links work best in emails, SMS and ads, not as a widget on a product page, where every click would wipe the customer's cart.

• The /ask endpoint: answers from the store's knowledge base. The ask_business tool answers agents' questions about a store, such as returns, shipping, warranties and services. Answers are based on the knowledge base (Knowledge base in Sales channels > Agentic) and the policies the store has published. The agent can add buyer context like country, postal code, language and currency, gets a plain-text answer to one question, and changes nothing in carts or orders. For now it's a draft UCP capability, outside the dated protocol releases (/ask docs). Shopify hasn't said yet whether there are country limits or which language the answer comes back in (as of Oct 28, 2026). The sources differ on one point: the help center says agents read the knowledge base through Storefront MCP, while the developer docs say they go through Ask MCP. A Polish store should fill in and approve its knowledge base (up to 1,000 facts), because facts drafted by Shopify wait for approval and aren't published until then.

• Physical stores in agent results. Storefront Catalog MCP has location tools for searching locations within a given radius, with a filter for up to 10 variants available on site, and for fetching location details. The agent gets the name, address, phone number and coordinates if the store has filled them in. It works from UCP 2026-08-25, and the store needs at least one active location that sells in person. Our read of the docs is that Polish stores with physical locations qualify, even though Shopify Payments doesn't work in POS in Poland and in-person payments go through an external terminal. Fill in the address, phone number and coordinates of your locations, because an agent only shows what's entered in Shopify.

App events in Shopify analytics

Apps can now send their own events to Shopify, and the merchant sees them in Shopify Analytics next to store data. The developer declares standard or custom events in an analytics_app_events extension and sends them through the App Events API. The merchant queries them in ShopifyQL (Shopify's analytics query language) with FROM app_events. One query can compare the same standard event across all installed apps.

It's been live since the October 28, 2026 announcement and is optional for developers. According to the app events docs, an app can send up to 500 requests per second, and an event can have at most 15 attributes and may not contain personal data. Attributes can be filtered for 30 days, and hourly sums and counts are kept for 365 days. app_events data can't be joined with other datasets. Existing App Events used for logs or billing don't automatically become analytics events.

For Polish stores this is a practical tool when choosing apps, and Shopify states no country limits here. Ask vendors of recommendation, review or loyalty apps whether they send app events. If they do, you can check their claims in your own analytics instead of relying only on the app's dashboard. If you're building your own app, plan the events from day one.

More app data in analytics

• Events from UI extensions with one line of code. UI extensions in checkout and customer accounts send events with a single call, with no network access, token or shop ID needed. Events land in the Dev Dashboard logs and, if they match a declared standard event, in Shopify Analytics too. It needs API version 2027-01, which is a release candidate today. The limit is a burst of 20 events, then 2 per second per extension. Events go out only after the buyer consents to analytics, and they aren't sent from the checkout editor or from checkouts in the Shop app. There are no country limits, but our read of the docs is that events from customers who decline analytics in the consent banner won't arrive, so the numbers will be lower than actual traffic.

• App annotations on charts. Through Admin API 2026-10, apps can add, edit and delete annotations on the store's analytics timeline, labeled with the app's name. The title can be up to 75 characters and the description up to 150, the type comes from the ShopifyQL list, and each app has a per-store annotation cap and can only change its own entries. For merchants this answers the familiar question of why sales suddenly jumped or dropped, because the chart shows which app changed something and when. The docs set no country limits.

• Metaobjects as ShopifyQL dimensions. When a product, variant, customer or order metafield points to a metaobject, that metaobject's fields can become dimensions in reports, for example the country of the designer linked to a product. You need to turn on analyticsQueryable for the metaobject definition, either through the Admin API from version 2027-01 (a release candidate today), in the app's TOML file (since October 23, 2026), or with a toggle in the admin (analytics for apps). Category metafields, such as material, work with no setup. The definition needs at least one analytics-compatible field, such as text, a number, a date or a product reference. Polish stores that keep product lines or brands in metaobjects can now report sales by those fields.

Polaris: new components and versioning

• 14 new Polaris components. Polaris is the component system apps use to build their screens in the Shopify admin. The new components load from the Shopify CDN, and the changelog lists, among others, an empty state (EmptyState), number and progress components, and new text-size options for headings and paragraphs. Polaris 1.1 has been stable since September 22, 2026 and Polaris 2.0 since October 22, 2026. The docs we read don't list all 14 items, so we can't confirm the count one by one. It's a toolkit for app developers, so the store's country plays no role.

• Polaris versioning on the CDN. The Polaris CDN now follows semantic versioning. An app can follow a whole major version (polaris-2.js), pin an exact release (polaris-2.0.js, immutable except for security fixes) or test a release candidate (versioning rules). The old polaris.js file stays on 1.x and will never move to 2.x, so switching to Polaris 2 is a deliberate choice. Polaris 2.0 matches the new admin look that Shopify has been rolling out since September 15, 2026. Apps with the Built for Shopify badge have to match the new admin style by May 1, 2027, so if you run your own admin app, plan the migration before that date.

POS extensions: printing, background work and shared data

• Printing from POS extensions (Printing API). POS extensions (app add-ons inside the Shopify POS app) can now list connected printers and print HTML, an image or a PDF fetched from the app's server, such as receipts, labels and packing slips. Without a printer, the system print dialog opens, and PDFs print only through that dialog. It works in POS UI extensions 2026-10 across 22 extension targets in POS (Printing API). The POS app works in Poland and Shopify states no country limits here. Shopify's docs don't cover Polish fiscal rules, though, so check the fiscal cash register requirements locally, whatever the extension prints.

• POS extensions that run in the background. A new extension target runs once when POS is ready and stays active for the whole session with no UI. It listens for completed transactions and for cash-tracking sessions opening and closing. For now it only observes and can't change POS state, and it has access to things like a read-only cart, product search, device data and Storage. So it can, for example, update the data a tile shows on the POS home screen. In Poland, POS works with an external terminal set up as a custom payment method, and Shopify doesn't say whether that affects the transaction-complete event, so test it on your own setup.

• Shared data between extension targets (Storage API). The POS Storage API now exposes keys as reactive signals. When one extension target, for example the background one, changes a value, a tile on the home screen shows it right away. It works in version 2026-10 (changelog from October 22, 2026), and the existing Storage API methods haven't changed. The limits are 100 entries, about 1 KB per key and about 1 MB per value. Data stays local to the POS device and scoped to one extension, so it won't replace syncing between registers.

Admin API and Shopify Functions

• Purchase orders in the Admin API. From version 2026-10, the Admin API can read purchase orders, with details, line items, status, supplier data and linked inventory transfers (query docs). It's read-only, with no creating or editing, so an ERP integration can pull data from Shopify but can't write it back through this API. It needs the new read_inventory_purchase_orders scope, because read_inventory alone is no longer enough, and that also applies to apps that used the preview. You can filter by ID, status and destination location. Shopify states no country limits, so Polish stores with an ERP get an official route to their purchasing data.

• Rollouts in the Admin API and webhooks. Rollouts are Shopify's scheduled launches and tests of changes to discounts, catalogs, themes, and checkout and customer account settings. Apps can now read what an active rollout contains (the schedule, planned and actual traffic split, test variants and changed resources) and subscribe to webhooks about changes. It works in Admin API 2026-10 (changelog from October 1, 2026) and needs the read_rollouts scope, and existing installs may need re-authorization. Apps that read discounts should review Shopify's guidance on discounts in rollouts. In Poland, Rollouts depend on the plan, not the country. They work from the Basic plan, and A/B tests from Grow.

• Tax on return shipping fees. The Returns API has new fields for tax on the return shipping fee, an estimate when the return is calculated and a final amount locked in when it's processed. The two values can differ, and the final one stays empty until processing. The fields are in API 2026-10, and since October 23, 2026 Shopify calculates this tax for orders shipped to the US on stores using Shopify Tax (automatic tax calculation) or Tax Platform. For now it doesn't affect a Polish store selling in Poland and the EU.

• Delivery option metafields in Shopify Functions. Shopify Functions are custom logic for discounts, delivery and checkout that Shopify runs on its own infrastructure. A function that customizes delivery options can now read metafields attached to those options, for example ones set by a delivery option generator or returned by a carrier service. It works in Functions API 2026-10 (changelog from September 15, 2026). These metafields exist only within that checkout and aren't saved, and metafields in another app's reserved namespace return an empty value. For Polish stores it's a simpler route to rules like "hide or rename a delivery option based on data from the carrier app".

• Metaobjects in Shopify Functions. According to the Editions page, functions will pick the right metaobjects for each checkout, so bundle, delivery and eligibility rules can be managed in Shopify. It's marked "coming soon". Functions can already read app-owned metaobjects today, but not merchant-owned ones. The mechanism for choosing a metaobject for a specific checkout isn't described on the Functions 2027-01 (release candidate) doc pages we checked. Shopify hasn't given a date yet (as of Oct 28, 2026), and no source mentions country limits.

Checkout Kit, Sign in with Shop and packages for Python and PHP

• Checkout Kit v4. Checkout Kit lets you embed Shopify checkout in a website, a mobile app or agent-driven shopping. Version 4 replaces Checkout Sheet Kit (v3). It has new package names and a single repository, supports UCP's Embedded Checkout protocol and sends start and update events with the full checkout state. The upgrade breaks backward compatibility in a few places (v4 upgrade guide). Web pixel events are no longer relayed to the app and fire only inside checkout. Personal data in events is redacted by default and appears only in the purchase-complete event, and only if the store grants the app the matching permission. Closing the checkout no longer implies abandonment, and React Native requires the New Architecture. Shopify hasn't given an end-of-support date for v3 or any country limits (as of Oct 28, 2026). Polish stores with a mobile app should check after the upgrade that abandonment reports still count correctly.

• Granular consent with Sign in with Shop. The lead capture component in the Shop SDK can ask for data the customer already has in their Shop profile, such as first name, last name and phone number. Through a Rich Authorization Request, Shop asks the shopper for missing data (first name, last name, phone and date of birth), with each field marked as required or optional. This data never reaches the browser, and the app's server receives it in exchange for a separate consent token. The Editions page also says customers can manage what they've shared, but the docs we read don't describe that in detail. Shop works in Poland, and Sign in with Shop turns on automatically when a store has Shop Pay active with customer accounts, so our read of the docs is that Polish stores can collect a phone number or birthday this way without extra form fields.

• Sign in with Shop in storefront apps. Signing in with a Shop account is now a ready-made component for any app running on the storefront, such as wish lists, back-in-stock alerts, loyalty programs or reviews. The developer creates an OAuth client in the Dev Dashboard and gets the Shop SDK plus a recognition signal for a "Continue as [name]" button. One sign-in covers the whole store and is shared across partner apps, and each further app asks only for the permissions it's missing. Shopify advises against triggering sign-in automatically on page load and recommends keeping a fallback path. It was announced on July 15, 2026. In Poland it works for customers who have a Shop account, and everyone else needs a regular login.

• Official Python and PHP packages. Shopify released official, framework-agnostic packages, shopify/shopify-app-php (Packagist) and shopifyapp (PyPI), at version 1.0 (changelog). They handle request verification (webhooks, App Home, app proxy, extensions), token exchange and an Admin GraphQL client with retries. They've been available since August 26, 2026. The old shopify-api-php and shopify_python_api libraries no longer get new features or security fixes, though they have no removal date. There's no app template in PHP or Python, and for most new apps Shopify still recommends React Router. If your store's ERP or wholesale integration runs on one of the old libraries, plan the move to the new packages.

Cheat sheet: agentic commerce and new APIs

For developers and agencies: tooling, security and storefronts

This part of the Edition is for the people who build apps, themes and headless stores. Shopify rebuilt the Dev Dashboard, reworked Shopify CLI so AI agents can drive it, expanded billing in Shopify App Pricing and set hard security deadlines for apps. On the storefront side there is a new Hydrogen, a new Liquid theme architecture (Canvas runs on it) and lighter CSS on store pages. Most of this needs nothing from store owners, but a few dates affect apps they already have installed.

For stores in Poland, almost nothing on this list has country limits, because these are tools for partners and developers. The one item fully closed to Poland is creating a store with a single command through Stripe Projects CLI, which works only in the United States. Stores that Shopify bills in PLN now see estimated app prices in PLN in the Shopify App Store. Two dates matter most: January 1, 2027 (public apps without expiring tokens drop out of the App Store) and March 1, 2027 (Shopify stops injecting script tags into storefronts). We'd start by listing the apps in your store and asking each vendor whether they'll be ready before these deadlines.

Refreshed Dev Dashboard

The Dev Dashboard is Shopify's workspace for app developers and agencies, where you manage apps along with dev stores and client stores. After a major update on September 25, 2026, the home screen shows a summary of all your apps ranked by issue severity, plus earnings, payouts and the changelog. The apps list shows revenue, install counts, distribution status and alerts. Each app has its own overview and a Logs tab that puts API requests, webhooks, Shopify Functions runs (custom logic in cart and checkout) and app events on one timeline. Logs are kept for 30 days, and one filtered view covers up to 7 days. On October 27, 2026, payouts, billing and the remaining partner settings moved into organization settings, and existing data was migrated automatically. The IP allowlist, public keys for client credentials and the EventBridge connection now live only in the Dev Dashboard. App Store listings and pricing are still set in the Partner Dashboard, so for a while you'll work across two dashboards. For a store in Poland, nothing changes directly. The agency or freelancer who looks after your integrations will simply find the cause faster when something stops working. Details are in the Dev Dashboard documentation.

Dev Dashboard, Shopify CLI and AI agents

• Listing, pricing and app ads in the Dev Dashboard. Shopify says submitting an app to the App Store, setting pricing and running app ads will move into the Dev Dashboard, so building and distribution happen in one place. The status is "coming soon", with no date. Today the Distribution card only lets you choose public or custom distribution (a permanent choice) and links out to listing management, while Shopify App Pricing plans are still configured in the Partner Dashboard. In its announcement of the new Dev Dashboard, Shopify also lists app review and requests for protected data scopes as upcoming.

• Store index in the Dev Dashboard. A new index combines dev stores, client transfer stores (built to be handed over to a client), collaborations and stores you reach through app installs in a single list. You can search and filter it, and request collaborator access from it or from an app's Installs page. A store page shows installed apps, collaborators and earnings, though earnings need the View financials permission. Shopify may ask you to verify your identity before you send a new access request. The list has been live since September 25, 2026, and individual store pages since October 27.

• Shopify CLI for AI agents. Shopify CLI, the command-line tool for working with apps, themes and stores, has been reworked to run without a human at the keyboard. Version 5.0 standardizes JSON output (the --json flag, with --no-input for unattended runs), and the AI Toolkit plugin gives agents documentation, schemas, validation and store operations. Supported tools include Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and VS Code. Teams with automation should note that CLI 5.0 changes the JSON format and removes app logs, so CI scripts that parse the output need fixing. The CLI requires Node 22.12 or later.

• Dev stores from the CLI. Since CLI 4.8 (September 9, 2026), an agent or a developer can create, list and delete dev stores with store create dev, store list, store info and store delete. A store can be deleted by its owner or by the organization's owner or admin. There is also a new limit of 250 dev stores per organization, which doesn't count client transfer stores or stores where you are a collaborator. For agencies this means a quick test environment for every project, but old test stores need regular cleanup.

• One-command store in Stripe Projects CLI. The command stripe projects add shopify/store creates a Shopify store, a Shopify account (if you don't have one yet) and a plan subscription billed through Stripe. The default is a free trial, which Shopify says currently runs for 4 months, and you can also pick Basic, Grow or Advanced, but not Plus. You can't add an existing store or remove a store from the project, and a trial store stays in private mode until it moves to a paid plan and launches. It works only in the United States, so it isn't an option for stores in Poland.

• Events with 18 topics. Events are a new, declarative version of webhooks. You set subscriptions in the shopify.app.toml file by choosing a topic, the actions (create, update, delete) and the fields whose change should trigger an event. You can attach a GraphQL query, and its result arrives right in the event payload. Topics cover products, collections, customers, companies, orders, fulfillment, inventory, locations, returns, blog articles, pages and metaobjects, among others. Events have been live since October 1, 2026 with API version 2026-10 and need CLI 3.92 or later, while classic webhooks stay. For ERP and warehouse integrations, that means fewer extra API calls after every change.

Shopify App Pricing and partner earnings

Shopify App Pricing (formerly Managed Pricing) handles app subscription billing on Shopify's side, with no custom payment code. Store owners get clearer prices, and app developers get less billing work.

• Migration from the Billing API to Shopify App Pricing. The Partner Dashboard has a tool that turns manually set plans into draft App Pricing plans, lets you test them and moves simple subscriptions over in one click. Harder cases (usage-based billing, adjusted prices, private plans) go through the shopify app subscription-migrations command, which Shopify describes as early access. The switch happens at the next billing cycle or at the annual renewal. If the terms change, the store gets at least 30 days' notice and an email, and doesn't have to approve the charge again. One-time charges stay on the Billing API, and subscriptions with an active discount wait until it ends. The tool has been live since September 29, 2026.

• New partner earning model. A partner who brings a business to Shopify gets 20% of the subscription fee on all plans for 4 years and 0.1% of eligible online GMV for 4 years. On top of that come a one-time USD 2,500 for an upgrade to Plus, a 20% profit share on B2B Payments for 4 years, a POS Payments profit share extended from 2 to 4 years, and 0.1% of Shop Pay volume off Shopify for one year. The rules cover deals signed and stores transferred from August 10, 2026, and the rates are the same whether the deal is partner-led or assisted by Shopify's sales team. Existing payouts don't change, and the four-year term starts with the first partner payment. We're a Shopify partner and can earn under this model ourselves, so we're saying so up front. Shopify hasn't said yet whether any country limits apply (as of Oct 28, 2026), but the POS Payments share doesn't matter in Poland, because Shopify's in-person payments aren't available there.

• Unlimited private plans. App developers can now create as many private plans in Shopify App Pricing as they need and assign any number of stores to each one. The previous limit was 15 plans and 20 stores per plan. One store can be authorized for at most 8 private plans of a given app, and only a logged-in, authorized store sees such a plan. The change has been live since September 21, 2026. For a larger store in Poland, this helps when negotiating with a vendor, because custom pricing can live inside Shopify's billing system instead of on a separate invoice outside the platform.

• App add-on bundled with a Theme Store theme. A theme developer can attach an app built on theme app extensions (app extensions that run inside the theme) to their Shopify Theme Store listing, and the store installs the theme and the app in one flow. The theme and the app must belong to the same partner organization, the app must meet App Store requirements, and each theme can have one add-on. The theme page shows the app's name, a short description, pricing and media. It has been live since October 28, 2026. Before installing, check the add-on's pricing shown on the theme page.

• Estimated app prices in local currency. Stores that Shopify bills in a currency other than USD see app prices as estimates in their billing currency, with an exchange-rate disclaimer. This applies to App Store listings and app cards, the plan selection page, charge approval and billing details in the admin. PLN is on the list of 14 supported currencies. Developers still set prices in USD and their earnings don't change, and prices on developers' own websites aren't converted. A store in Poland can compare app costs more easily, but the PLN amount is only an estimate based on the exchange rate. Live since October 28, 2026.

• Annual plan with monthly usage charges. Shopify plans to combine an annual subscription fee with monthly usage billing in one App Pricing subscription, with no custom billing code. The status is "coming soon", with no date. The current documentation still says usage-based billing requires a monthly cycle and can't be combined with annual plans, so the announcement and the docs disagree for now. Today you can only combine a monthly base fee with usage charges, or charge for usage alone with a USD 0 base fee.

• Store requirements per app plan. In the Partner Dashboard plan editor, an app developer can add a Store requirements section to a public plan. A store that doesn't meet them can't pick that plan, and Shopify checks this on the plan selection page and again at charge approval. Two requirements exist today: Checkout UI extensions on all pages together with branding customizations, and direct company catalogs for B2B. Existing subscriptions stay as they are, and logged-out App Store visitors still see every plan. For a store, this means less risk of paying for a plan it can't actually use. Live since October 28, 2026.

App security checks in your workflow

Shopify added an app security check to Shopify CLI and the AI Toolkit. You run it with shopify app security check or with a single prompt to your AI agent (/shopify Check my app for security vulnerabilities). The check has two parts. A local scan catches clear-cut problems, such as secrets committed to the repository or API versions past end of support. The second part is a set of instructions for the agent, which then works with the developer through what a scan alone can't settle: routes without authentication, keeping one store's data separate from another's, and unverified webhooks. Results are saved in the .shopify/app-security/ folder. The tool has been live since October 15, 2026, is open source and supports public and custom apps in any framework, though some automated checks work only for the React Router template. On October 20, Shopify asked all developers to deal with it that same week. It isn't a formal App Store requirement yet, but Shopify says it will raise security requirements and promises details before any change takes effect. Nothing here depends on country, so stores in Poland are covered the same way. If your store runs a custom app built by an outside team, ask for the result of this check before every release, which is also what Shopify recommends. The full description is in the app security checks documentation.

App security: deadlines and new safeguards

• End of script tags in storefronts. Script tags are the old way apps added their own JavaScript to a store. Since October 1, 2026, apps can't create or update them on any API version, and on March 1, 2027 Shopify will stop injecting them into storefronts. The replacement is an app embed block in a theme app extension, which the store owner enables separately in each theme, or a web pixel for scripts that only do analytics. Custom apps created in the store admin can't use extensions, so their scripts have to move into the theme code. The docs warn about two traps. An old script tag running alongside its new extension loads the script twice, which risks double-counted analytics, and after a theme change the app embed has to be switched on again. The migration guide walks through it step by step.

• Expiring access tokens before January 2027. Public apps that connect to the Admin API must switch to expiring offline tokens, and a stolen token of this type stops working within 60 minutes. An app that misses the deadline disappears from the Shopify App Store on January 1, 2027 and can't be newly installed, although existing installs keep working. From January 15, 2027 store owners see a warning in the admin, and from April 1, 2027 requests with old tokens get a 403 error, which means the app loses access to store data. Shopify stresses that the later dates are for merchants, not extra time to migrate. Custom apps and merchant-created apps aren't affected, and public apps created on or after April 1, 2026 already have to use expiring tokens. Client credentials are new as well, live since October 27, 2026. With them, a public app's backend fetches a token valid for up to an hour on its own, without the merchant opening the app. Shopify's token announcement collects all the dates.

• IP allowlist for apps. In the Dev Dashboard settings you can list, for each app, the IP addresses allowed to send requests to the Admin API. With enforcement on, a request using the app's token from outside the list gets a 403 error, so a stolen token won't work from anywhere else. The list holds up to 100 ranges, accepts only public addresses and rejects shared cloud pools, so you need a dedicated, static outbound address. For now it doesn't work with serverless setups whose addresses change (support is "coming soon"), with tokens from the "Send HTTP request" action in Shopify Flow (the admin's automation tool), or with calls made from Oxygen. Before switching it on, you can test the list against the last 30 days of traffic. Live since October 27, 2026.

• Partner details on access requests. New collaborator access requests show the store owner, in the admin and by email, how long the organization has been a Shopify partner, a rough range of its active collaborations (counting paid-plan stores only), its signup country and the country the request came from, flagged "(possible VPN)" when a VPN is suspected. This has been live since July 30, 2026, and since October 27 organization details are edited in the Dev Dashboard organization settings. The Editions page encourages partners to add their details, while the docs say the information in a request is generated automatically and there's nothing to fill out. If an agency in Poland sends you a request that comes from another country with a VPN flag, ask who sent it before you accept.

• Production logs from the CLI. Shopify plans to let developers read an app's production logs straight from Shopify CLI, so failures can be investigated without leaving the editor. The status is "coming soon", with no date and no documentation for the new command. The CLI 5.0 migration guide currently removes the existing app logs command, so the announcement and the current CLI disagree for now. Until it launches, logs are in the Dev Dashboard, with 30 days of history and up to 7 days per filtered view.

Shopify App Store rules: names and reviews

• Unique app names. Requirement 4.1.2, published on July 15, 2026, says an app's name must be unique and must not be confusable with another app, developer, brand or Shopify product. The name should start with the developer's own distinctive brand identifier. Shopify enforces this in waves, without one fixed date. A non-compliant app gets a set period to fix its name and may then be removed from the App Store. Shopify acts on reports of copied names only when there is a registered trademark. Stores will see fewer look-alike app names, and a developer in Poland should check the name before publishing.

• Reviews checked for trustworthiness. Reviews in the Shopify App Store are now checked against shop trust, the reviewer's identity and actual use of the app. Requirement 1.3, announced on July 6, 2026, bans any incentive for reviews, including granting or withholding features in exchange for one. Reviews below the trust bar are unpublished and may come back once they meet it, and older reviews are being re-checked gradually. Breaking the rules can mean losing some reviews, a lower ranking, removal from the App Store or closure of the partner account. A store in Poland gets more reliable ratings when choosing apps, and any app that offers a feature in return for a review is breaking the rules.

Hydrogen: headless commerce ready for AI agents

Hydrogen is Shopify's toolkit for headless stores, where the storefront is a separate application and Shopify handles products, cart and checkout. The new Hydrogen, version 2026-10, live since October 14, 2026, is a framework-agnostic JavaScript library that works with Next.js, React Router, Nuxt, Astro and SvelteKit. Inside are a Storefront API client, ready-made cart and checkout routes, state for cart, products, collections and predictive search, analytics, Shop Pay (Shopify's accelerated checkout), caching and a customer accounts client. It also ships with built-in agent skills and two starters: React Router 7 on Oxygen, Shopify's hosting, which the docs say is still free, or Vercel Shop deployed to Vercel (the Editions page talks about one-click deploys there). WebMCP tools for shopping agents load by default, with an option to turn them off. Hydrogen has no checkout UI of its own, so our read of the docs is that payments stay in Shopify checkout, and a headless store in Poland uses the same payment methods it has set up in the admin. Older versions (2026-04 and earlier) are now called Legacy Hydrogen and come with a migration guide. Technical details are in the Hydrogen documentation.

New Liquid theme architecture

Shopify introduced a new way to compose pages in Liquid themes. The {% block %} tag renders theme blocks directly from a template, and typed parameters are declared in {% doc %}, so it's clear what data a block expects. The {% partial %} tag marks server-rendered regions that JavaScript can refresh without reloading the whole page. You can add AGENTS.md and DESIGN.md files (up to 50 KB each) to the theme root to guide coding agents, and Sidekick (the AI assistant in the admin) when it works in Canvas. According to Shopify, Canvas, the new store editor covered in our online store section, is built on this architecture. The tags started as a developer preview in July 2026 and now have their own reference pages in the docs. The Editions page also promises built-in Tailwind styling, but Shopify hasn't said yet how it works (as of Oct 28, 2026). Current themes with sections and JSON templates keep working, and nobody has to rewrite them. For a store in Poland, this becomes relevant with your next theme or a major rebuild, and there's no urgent work to do now. Keep in mind that Canvas is still in early access, and a theme edited in it stops receiving theme updates and has to be translated in Translate & Adapt (Shopify's translation app). For stores in Poland, automatic translation there covers 2 languages and has to be re-run by hand. See the theme architecture documentation.

Storefronts: templates, testing and faster pages

• Vercel Shop. This is a Next.js 16 (App Router) store template maintained by Vercel and built on the new Hydrogen. Shopify handles checkout, payments and the catalog, and the Hydrogen docs list it as the Next.js starter. To get started you need Node 24, pnpm and a Vercel account. Vercel advertises an optional shopping assistant and Markdown content for AI agents alongside it, but those features are described by Vercel, not by Shopify's documentation. For a store in Poland, it's a sensible route if your team already works in Next.js and wants hosting on Vercel.

• mock.shop for agents. mock.shop is a public Storefront API with a set of sample stores, with no login or tokens needed. It has a store directory search, an llms.txt file for each store and a Hydrogen starter, and the same queries run unchanged against a real store. That means an AI agent can build and test a storefront on sample data before it gets access to a client's store. The mock.shop page describes the "publish to Shopify" step only in general terms, as moving the project to a real store, Oxygen or a Liquid theme. An agency can use it to build a prototype or a pitch mockup without touching client data.

• Less CSS on every page. Shopify now sends each page only the CSS from {% stylesheet %} tags in the files that page actually renders, meaning its sections, blocks and snippets. This has worked automatically since April 20, 2026, and Shopify flagged the change as Action required. It doesn't affect stylesheets in the assets/ folder, inline styles, <style> tags or {% style %}. Themes run into trouble when classes defined in one file are used in another, unrelated file, because on a page that doesn't render the first file those styles simply disappear. On heavily customized themes we'd check this with the ValidScopedCSSClass rule in Theme Check, which is on by default.

Cheat sheet: tooling, security and storefronts

What to do now: a plan for the coming weeks

We built the plan around the deadlines that come out of the Edition itself: the Black Friday season, the end of the year and the dates Shopify has set for apps in early 2027.

Before Black Friday

• Check under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources > Shopify Catalog whether your store qualifies, because products without a category, an image or a price won't reach AI agents or Shop.

• Schedule your promotion as an Event rollout, so discounts, catalogs and theme changes go back to normal on their own, with no switching things off by hand in the middle of the night.

• If you run Google Shopping, set price changes up as a Launch or an Event at 100% of traffic, because an Experiment works only in the online store, and prices that don't match the feed put your products at risk of disapproval.

• Don't plan on custom checkout fields this season, because Shopify won't release them before or during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

• Check the "Blocked" view under Orders > Abandoned checkouts regularly, because blocking before authorization can also stop a genuine customer, and you can then send that customer an invoice from a draft order.

• Make sure every order has a tracking number, including labels you create outside the admin, because defending "parcel not received" disputes relies on tracking data.

• With your first orders, test a domestic DHL eCommerce label and one to another EU country, because the changelog and the docs disagree on domestic parcels, and you'll want to compare the price with your current contract.

• Treat September 2026 as the new baseline in your reports, because the new session measurement and the new channel values from October 18 change sessions and conversion rate.

• Add annotations to your reports when a promotion starts, a newsletter goes out or prices change, because that makes sales spikes easier to explain after the season.

• If you use the ready-made BFCM email series in Shopify Messaging, check the language and content of every email, because Shopify doesn't say what language the ready-made copy is in, and the series goes to all subscribers.

By the end of the year

• Approve and correct the facts in the knowledge base (Sales channels > Agentic), because AI agents and Shop answer customers based on them, and facts drafted by Shopify aren't published without your approval.

• Compare your return rules with your store's terms and EU Directive 2023/2673, because Shopify suggests, among other things, a window of at least 14 days from delivery of the last item, but says the settings don't make a store compliant automatically.

• Set return window overrides for products whose rules differ from the rest of your range, because the feature is already live, and when several overrides apply, the shortest window wins.

• List your installed apps and ask each vendor about expiring tokens and script tags, because public apps without expiring tokens drop out of the App Store on January 1, 2027, and Shopify stops injecting script tags on March 1, 2027.

• If you have custom POS receipt templates in Liquid, move them to the new editor before January 1, 2027, or Shopify will migrate them for you.

• Ask the developer of your cookie consent app whether it passes consent through the Customer Privacy API, because apps that delete the _shopify_s cookie inflate session counts.

• Rewrite your internal guides for adding products, because the new variants page reaches every store in December 2026.

• If only a third-party gateway handles your payments, price out Shopify Payments alongside your current provider (the standard rate plus 1.25%), because without it your store can't get into Shop or Shop Campaigns.

• Review staff and collaborator roles in Settings > Users > Roles, because access to Shopify Flow moves to regular admin roles, and turning on a workflow requires permissions for every step in it.

Early 2027

• After Black Friday, check whether custom fields have appeared in the checkout editor, because they'll be added automatically, with no early access, in every field type on Plus and as two ready-made fields on other plans.

• From January 15, 2027, watch for admin warnings about apps that still use old tokens, because from April 1, 2027 those apps get a 403 error and lose access to store data.

• Before March 1, 2027, check that your apps' app embeds are switched on in the theme and that no script loads twice, because an old script tag running next to its new extension inflates your analytics data.

• When tiled payment methods and the more compact checkout form arrive, go through a purchase on your phone, because you need to check that BLIK is easy to spot and that no payment method name gets cut off.

• If you sell in several markets in local currencies, test one Shop Campaigns campaign across several markets, because you only pay for sales and you set it up once.

• If you're considering selling to the US, Canada or Australia, factor AI channels into that decision, because Google AI Mode and Gemini, which are rolling out gradually, accept stores from any country as long as they sell to customers there.

• When Canvas reaches your store, test it on a copy of your theme, because a theme edited in Canvas stops receiving theme updates, and its text has to be translated in Translate & Adapt.

Polar-Commerce's take

Fall '26 is the Edition in which Shopify leans hardest on AI agents and on its own network: Shop, Shop Pay and Shopify Catalog. For a Polish store, what counts today is the work that pays off right away and builds a position for later, meaning Shopify Catalog eligibility, an approved knowledge base and solid product data with categories, images and video. An agent that filters results by video or 3D models, for example, will only show products that have that media, so gaps in your product data lower the chance that a product shows up at all. This is the groundwork for visibility in AI search that we cover in PolarAI.

Among the changes that actually alter day-to-day work in Poland, we rate three highest. Shopify Protect gives stores on Shopify Payments blocking before authorization and AI dispute responses with no extra setup, although that is our inference from the docs, since Shopify names no countries here. DHL eCommerce is, according to the docs, the only carrier whose labels a store in Poland can buy in the Shopify admin. Rollouts solve the old problem of switching promotions on and off by hand, and they do it from the Basic plan up.

Many announcements work mainly in the US or in a handful of other countries for now. That covers selling in ChatGPT, Copilot and Muse, Shop Promise, Managed Markets, Shop Pay Installments, chargeback reimbursement and a whole group of tax features. We read them as a signal of where ranking in Shop and in AI channels is heading. A store that already has a clean catalog, good reviews and a low chargeback rate will be ready if Shopify opens these features to more countries.

We'd be careful in four places. Canvas is in early access, and a theme edited in it stops receiving updates, so we start on a copy. Automated store policies overwrite your current texts, and Shopify doesn't say whether there's a Polish template. The pre-markdown price sent to agents needs checking against the Omnibus Directive. And many new features, from Pulse cards and SimGym to Shop Campaigns and Collective, require Shopify Network Intelligence, which in the EEA means a cookie banner and additional consents.

For our clients we'd start with Catalog, the knowledge base, Rollouts for Black Friday and a DHL label test, and after the season we'd review installed apps against the token and script tag deadlines. Polar-Commerce is a Shopify Select Partner. We launch new Shopify stores in 7-30 days, and we're rated 5.0 on Clutch and in the Shopify Partner Directory.

If you'd like to walk through this Edition with your own store as the example, let's talk.

Sources

• Shopify Editions Fall '26, the Edition page with every update

• Exponential: Shopify's Fall '26 Edition, Shopify's post for merchants from October 28, 2026

• Bringing shopping into the future: The Fall '26 Edition for developers, Shopify's post for developers

• Introducing Canvas, the Canvas announcement

• Introducing Shopify Protect, an overview of the Shopify Protect suite

• Shopify Payments in Poland: payment methods

• Using Shopify Payments with a third-party provider

• Shopify Catalog requirements

• Knowledge base in the Agentic channel

• Selling in ChatGPT and in Google AI Mode and Gemini

• Shop channel requirements

• Creating a rollout

• Custom fields in checkout

• DHL eCommerce Poland on Shopify and the changelog from October 16, 2026

• Return and cancellation rules

• Shop Campaigns: countries and currencies

• WhatsApp pricing in Shopify Messaging

• Session measurement update and cookies and session counts

• Automatic translation in Translate & Adapt

• Shopify Payments in POS

• Expiring offline access tokens before January 2027 and migrating from script tags

As of October 28, 2026. We update this guide when Shopify changes its documentation.

FAQ

When was Shopify Editions Fall '26 released?

Shopify Editions Fall '26 came out on October 28, 2026 under the name "Exponential". According to Shopify it includes more than 150 updates (150+) across 11 areas: Agentic, Sidekick, Online, Merchandising, Retail, Payments, Operations, Shop, Marketing, Fulfillment and Developer.

What matters most in Shopify Editions Fall '26 for stores in Poland?

A store based in Poland gains the most from Shopify Catalog eligibility and the knowledge base for AI agents, the new Shopify Protect features for stores on Shopify Payments, Rollouts for scheduling promotions, DHL eCommerce labels in the admin, Shop Campaigns in PLN and WhatsApp messages in Shopify Messaging. Some of the headline features, such as checkout inside AI chats, Shop Promise and Shop Pay Installments, only work for stores in other countries or when selling to customers outside Poland for now.

Does Shopify Payments work in Poland?

Yes. Shopify Payments has been available to businesses based in Poland since March 21, 2025, but for online sales only, with no payments in POS. Turning it on also switches on Shop Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and in the settings you can add BLIK for customers with a Polish address paying in PLN. Payouts go out in PLN or EUR, and Przelewy24 through Shopify Payments no longer takes new activations.

Can a Polish store sell in ChatGPT?

What decides access to selling in AI chats is the country of the store's customers, not where the business is based. ChatGPT requires selling to customers in the US and only refers shoppers to the store, with no payment inside the chat, while Google AI Mode and Gemini cover customers in the US, Canada and Australia. A Polish store that sells only in Poland and the EU doesn't qualify for any of these channels today, but it can manage the store through the Shopify plugin in ChatGPT, for which Shopify states no country limits.

What is Shopify Catalog?

Shopify Catalog is the shared catalog of products from Shopify stores, used by the Shop app and AI agents, and according to Shopify more than a billion products in it can be discovered. It has no country restrictions, but it requires the Starter plan or higher, a store without a password, products with a title, an image and a price above zero, and an account in good standing. You can see your store's status and any reasons for exclusion under Sales channels > Agentic > Sources > Shopify Catalog.

Are custom checkout fields available on every plan?

No. All custom field types (text, text area, choice list, date and checkbox) are Shopify Plus only, and other plans get just the ready-made "Delivery instructions" and "Gift message" fields. The feature is marked as coming soon, and according to Shopify it won't appear before or during Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Does DHL eCommerce work in Poland on Shopify?

Yes. A store with a location in Poland can buy DHL Parcel Connect labels for addresses in Poland and DHL Parcel Connect (EU) labels for other EU countries in the admin. Parcels are dropped off at DHL lockers only, with no courier pickup, and the rates aren't shown to customers at checkout. The October 16, 2026 changelog lists only EU shipments for Poland, while the help docs also cover domestic ones, so it's best to check domestic labels in your own admin.

Does Shopify Protect work in Poland?

Partly. Blocking fraud before authorization, order risk explanations and AI dispute responses work for stores on Shopify Payments, and Shopify states no country limits for them, so our read of the docs is that Polish stores on Shopify Payments have them. Chargeback reimbursement covers only stores in the US, so in Poland the EUR 15 (PLN 75) chargeback fee stays with the store.

Do Shop Campaigns work in Poland?

Yes. Poland and PLN are on the list of countries and currencies supported by Shop Campaigns, Shopify's pay-per-sale ads. You need Shopify Payments, direct checkout in the Shop channel, local-currency prices in cross-border markets, a store that isn't in private mode and Shopify Network Intelligence switched on, which in the EEA brings cookie banner and consent obligations.

Does Shopify POS work in Poland?

The Shopify POS app and the POS Pro add-on work in Poland, but Shopify Payments doesn't support in-person payments here, and Shopify card readers aren't sold in Poland. Instead, a store in Poland adds an external card terminal as a custom payment method and marks those orders as paid manually, and BLIK and Przelewy24 aren't supported in POS. Shopify's docs don't cover Polish fiscal rules, so those have to be settled with your accountant or till provider.

Does Sidekick work in Polish?

Sidekick should work in Polish, because Polish is one of the Shopify admin languages, and with the Summer '25 Edition Shopify said Sidekick supports every admin language. The current docs don't list Sidekick's languages, though (as of Oct 28, 2026). Sidekick is available on every plan, with limits that depend on the plan.

Why does Shopify show a different session count than before September 2026?

After the update rolled out on September 21-23, 2026, Shopify filters out known bots by default, and a session lasts as long as there is activity and ends after 30 minutes of inactivity. Sessions, conversion rate and visitor counts change, while orders and sales stay the same. In the EEA Shopify waits for consent before setting analytics cookies, and third-party consent apps that delete the _shopify_s cookie can inflate session counts.