Shopify News & Updates
Last updated October 28, 2026
Shopify stock jumps 19% after revenue grows 34% and the company guides third-quarter growth above Wall Street estimates
Shopify’s Horizon theme climbs from 7.4% to 8.6% of storefronts in a single quarter, four times the share gain of any other theme
Dimension raises a $1.65 million seed to move Seller OS, its agentic AI platform for TikTok Shop sellers, into general release
Wander buys the team behind family app Maple, adding two former Shopify executives to its direct-booking platform for rentals
Stripe launches its own subscriptions app on the Shopify App Store, competing with Recharge, Loop, and Shopify’s native tool
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke endorses an idea to weight votes by income tax paid, and says pensioners should lose the right to vote
AMZ Advisers acquires a stake in TikTok Shop agency Reach Social Commerce, stretching its Amazon practice into social selling
TikTok Shop tests an Amazon Prime-style membership program called TikTok Shop Plus
#288 – TikTok Shop Plus, Facebook’s Seller App, & the Online Sellers Bill of Rights
TikTok tests an Amazon Prime-style paid membership called TikTok Shop Plus with free shipping and member-only discounts in the US
Circeus acquires WhatsApp commerce platform Dondy and folds it into Shop Circle, its agentic commerce software division
TikTok Shop pilots UK alcohol sales with licensed retailers and three-stage age checks as Ofcom probes its age-verification tech
Shopify expands Shop Campaigns to the UK, letting British retailers pay only when a promoted product converts to a sale
StarApps acquires AppMaker, a native mobile app platform for enterprise Shopify brands, in an all-cash deal of undisclosed size
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT for small business program with training academies, guides, and partner skills from Shopify and Intuit
TikTok Shop side hustlers are losing affiliate income to AI-generated influencer videos that GMV Max surfaces in the feed
Amazon and TikTok Shop sell silver-look jewelry loaded with cadmium at thousands of times the UK legal limit, testing finds
Shopify finally overhauled its archaic Collections logic with the ability to Exclude items and pull from external sources
TikTok will soon sell your items on TikTok Shop for you with its managed-services program in the U.S.
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