Shopify Updates PART III

12.09.2024 – 12.16.2024

1.  Build customer segments based on store credit. The new store_credit_accounts segmentation feature allows you to identify customers based on their shop credit balance, the next shop credit expiry date or the date they last received shop credit. This allows you to engage with customers in a targeted way, reminding them of their outstanding or soon-to-expire shop credit balance and encouraging them to make additional purchases. You can access this feature by visiting Customers > Segments in the admin area. To help you get started, three new segmentation templates are available:
   – Customers with available shop credit to spend.
   – Customers with shop credit that expires in the next 7 days.
   – Customers who have not used their shop credit after 1 month.
2. Analyse store credit transactions with new reports and event details. A new ‘Store credit transactions’ report is now available that displays shop credit transactions for all customers in your shop. This report provides information on shop credit credits credited, debited, and expired for a specific period. Use this report to better understand shop credit disbursements and repayments on a store-wide basis. You can find this report under Analytics > Reports in the admin area. Note that you must use the new Shopify Analytics to view this report. In addition, information about the event that triggered the shop credit transaction is now available in the Shopify Transaction History view. This includes the order associated with the shop credit transaction (if applicable). You can view this information by going to the Customers section of the admin, selecting the customer of interest, and then clicking on their shop credit balance.
3. The Winter ‘25 Edition is here. 150+ updates for Shopify have been announced. See the updates.
4. Now link product meta fields to product options. Until now, merchants could link their options to category meta fields, allowing them to use those option values in similar products. This release extends this functionality to include any list of links to meta-objects.
5. Metafields for Order Routing. Location meta fields can now be used to define order routing rules, offering a more versatile, dynamic, and scalable way to rank order fulfillment locations when placing new orders.
6. Shop Campaigns is now available on all Shopify plans. Shop Campaigns is now available for merchants on all Shopify plans. Run campaigns across multiple platforms that convert new or departing customers to Shop. Set a CAC, target ROAS, and daily budget – and let Shopify do the rest. We optimize creative, placement, and audience. You control costs and only pay when customers convert. It’s a risk-free growth channel.
7. Handle the Canadian Tax Holiday Automatically with Shopify. Shopify has automated tax compliance for the Canadian GST/HST holidays, so you don’t have to do it yourself. Here’s what you need to know:
   What’s changing?
   Starting December 14, 2024, the Canadian government is temporarily canceling the GST/HST on certain categories of goods. Shopify will automatically apply the zero rate to eligible products in your shop with the right categories; no manual tax adjustment is required.
   Which products can be claimed?
   Tax credits apply to the categories listed here. If your products fall into one of these categories, the zero rate will be applied automatically, provided you don’t have manual overrides.
   If your shop does not use registration-based taxes (if you enter your own rates in the Taxes and Charges settings), you will not have an automatic zero-rate GST/HST for the duration of the tax holiday.

What you need to do.

– Check the categories of goods

– Make sure that the relevant goods are assigned to the correct categories, before 14 December.

– That’s it! If your goods fall under the bolded category in the above PDF, tax will not be charged automatically due to the tax holiday.

Tip: Use the bulk item editor to quickly view and update multiple items at once.