This past week felt like a Mini Shopify Editions with the company releasing several long requested features! Here's what's new:
1) Unlisted Products – Shopify enabled a new product status called “Unlisted” alongside its existing “Active, Draft, and Archived” statuses. Unlisted hides the product from on-site collections and search, 3rd party search engines like Google, and all other channels except for the Online Store, which means the product can still be accessed by directly visiting its URL. This allows merchants to drive traffic to “hidden” products via e-mail marketing and social media, without having the product listing visible to their general audience. It could also be used for selling warranties or other product add-ons that don't need to show up elsewhere.
2) ACH bank payments for B2B – Shopify Payments now allows U.S. businesses to accept ACH bank payments for B2B orders, making it possible for wholesale buyers to pay straight from their bank accounts at checkout. Customers can optionally save their payment details for future orders, allowing you to charge their accounts directly from the admin as payments become due, eliminating manual payment matching. Kai Morton, a senior account executive at Shopify, said that the transaction fee is 1% capped at $7.50 for payments.
3) Increased Entry Limits – Shopify increased the entry limits for metafields and metaobjects from 64k for non-Plus stores and 128k for Plus stores to 1M entries for everyone, allowing merchants and developers more room to build complex, custom data structures. Each app also now gets its own allocation, with up to 128 metaobject definitions per app. The update supports larger catalogs, richer metadata, and more advanced multi-app workflows.
4) New Cross Border Sales Reporting – Shopify introduced two new analytics reports, Average Profit Margin by Market and Profit Margin by Order, to help merchants measure the profitability of cross-border sales. The first shows overall profit margins by market, including customer costs and fulfillment expenses, and the second provides a detailed breakdown at the order level. Merchants can access both reports in the Shopify admin under Analytics → Reporting by searching “Average profit margin by market.”
5) New Local Payment Methods – Lastly, Shopify added Pay by Link to Shopify POS, allowing in-store customers to pay using local methods like iDeal, Klarna, Swish, Twint, MobilePay, and USDC. Shoppers can now complete purchases securely on their own devices via QR code or link, reducing manual entry and expanding checkout flexibility. The feature requires Shopify POS version 10.13 and activation of the supported payment provider.