Shopify released its full Summer '25 Edition featuring 150+ updates designed to unlock creativity and enable merchants to spend less time dealing with technical challenges and more time building the brand they want — according to Shopify.
If you're unfamiliar with Editions, twice a year, Shopify releases a mega showcase of its latest features called Shopify Editions. I've covered all of their Editions including Winter '25, Summer '24, Winter '24, Summer '23, Winter '23, and Summer '22 (the first one).
Here's what's new with Summer '25 Edition. Some of these updates you've seen me talk about in recent editions and others were announced for the first time:
- Horizon – A new first-party theme featuring 10 design presets and built-in AI assistance. Horizon introduces “Theme Blocks,” which allow merchants to group, reorder, and position design elements, without custom code.
- AI Theme Block Generation – Merchants can now create entirely new storefront blocks with text prompts like “a banner with text and typing animation” — and AI generates the necessary code.
- AI Store Builder – Catching Shopify up with Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, and other website builders that offer AI design, Shopify now offers the ability to generate store layout options, complete with images and text, based on a short description.
- Shop App Home Feed – The app now offers smarter, personalized recommendations in the home feed that adapt based on real-time shopping activity, as well as curated collections where buyers can organize and save items into themed sets and share them with friends or co-shop with others.
- Sidekick Real-Time Response Correction – Shopify's AI chatbot can now adjust its answers on the fly based on context and feedback for more relevant support. Plus, Sidekick now speaks 20 languages and can generate images.
- Knowledge Base App – A new tool that creates AI-optimized, automatically generated store facts and FAQs so that merchants can better control how their brand appears in AI shopping conversations.
- Shopify Store Credit Refunds – Third party apps can now issue refunds directly to a customer's store credit, even when that wasn't the original payment method, unlocking the ability for merchant's to automate their “keep the cash in store” workflows.
- Improved Theme Customizer – Now offering hover-to-preview in block picker, categories for blocks and sections, one-click text editing, custom names for blocks and sections, and the ability to copy and paste blocks and sections. We're so close to Global Sections / Blocks that update across templates from the Theme Customizer! Please get us there Shopify!
- Redesigned POS – Now offering the ability to brand customer display screens and process mixed-fulfillment orders in a single transactions, so customers can take items home while shipping others.
- Checkout Updates – Merchants can now charge customers a single flat rate when fulfilling from multiple locations to reduce unexpected shipping costs, customers can buy physical products in Roblox through a new integration, and Shop Pay Installments came to Canada.
- Apple Pay Upgrade – Merchants can now offer Apple Pay as a payment method through the traditional payment area (where the credit card field appears), as opposed to as an Express Checkout option.
- Shopify Payments in 16 More Countries – The payment type is now available in Lithuania, Poland, Norway, Latvia, Hungary, Estonia, Malta, Croatia, Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, and Mexico.
- Improved Global Commerce – Shopify now lets Plus merchants sell from multiple business entities, receive payouts in multiple currencies, and collect duties, taxes, and tariffs at checkout.
- B2B Markets – Merchants can now create multiple B2B markets, each with their own unique catalogs, currency, and storefront theme customizations.
- Tap to Pay on Mobile App – Previously only available from the POS, merchants can now accept contactless payments directly on their phone through the Shopify mobile app.
- Discount Codes in Cart – Merchants using the Horizon theme and the Ajax Cart API can now enable customers to apply discounts directly in the cart, as opposed to waiting until the checkout screen.
You can check out the rest of the updates in the full Summer '25 Edition.