Shopify News & Updates
Last updated September 10, 2026
Shopify audit committee chair Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah resigns from the board to join the U.S. Commerce Department full-time
Open Standard launches Open USD, a fee-free stablecoin backed by 140-plus firms including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Shopify
Shopify shoppers pivoted to sleep aids, dumb phones, and repair parts in June as they fixed old devices instead of buying new ones
TikTok cuts 450-plus tech jobs at Indonesia’s Tokopedia, moving TikTok Shop and Tokopedia development to ByteDance in China
Shopify settles its copyright lawsuit over rival Shopline cloning its Dawn theme, with Shopline agreeing to stop and pay Shopify
TikTok Shop publishes formal gambling policy banning lucky spins and 8 card-break formats while keeping qualified sellers on a 2.5 performance-score gate
NordVPN uncovers fake Pokémon card stores using paid Google and Meta ads, polished Shopify sites, and mailed thank-you cards to delay chargebacks
Shopify partners with Trustpilot to integrate customer reviews into stores
TikTok pushes toward super-app status, adding hotel booking, a World Cup hub, and a Brazil fintech bid beyond TikTok Shop
Mountain Dew sells commemorative cans for five cents exclusively on TikTok Shop in a nostalgia stunt marking its 1948 origins
Trustpilot partners with Shopify to let merchants display and manage its reviews on their stores as AI reshapes online trust
Cloudflare launches a PACT protocol for AI-agent trust, backed by Google, Shopify, and major browser makers, to let verified agents through while blocking bad bots
TikTok Shop’s Smart Promotion now charges sellers a fixed 3.5% of all GMV, rising to 4.5% during major campaigns, with campaign access gated behind enrollment
Shopify will ban all US vape sales from its platform after pressure from a coalition of 25 state attorneys general targeting illegal e-cigarettes
Onward acquires Inveterate, a Shopify loyalty and membership platform, folding store-credit cashback into its post-purchase retention stack
Google Analytics will auto-pull Shopify purchase data server-to-server starting July, bypassing the browser to recover lost conversions on an opt-out basis
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Shopify launches Campaign Autopilot, a built-in AI ad agency for merchants, and extends its Shop campaigns ads to ChatGPT
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