Shopify Updates 12/24/2024 – 01/20/2025

Checkout Blocks is now available under apps and is no longer a sales channel.

Shopify has updated the Checkout Blocks app to no longer act as a sales channel. Previously, It was listed on every sales channel publication card, including products, collections, and discounts. Now, you’ll find it in the Apps section, making it easier to interact with It. No action is required!

Continuous cart authentication to checkout.

Shopify recently implemented a change that provides continuous authentication from cart to checkout, allowing authenticated customers to proceed to checkout without re-entering their credentials. Add customerAccessToken to the Buyer Identity object in the Storefront API Cart to enable this feature and specify the customer’s IP address when making server-side requests. Note that for security reasons, the checkout URL should be requested when the buyer is ready to proceed to checkout and can be requested again if necessary. Sellers building mobile apps with Checkout Sheet Kit can check out this detailed guide on how to create authenticated checkout for buyers in mobile apps. Previously, you could only open an authenticated checkout using multipass, which was limited to Shopify Plus plans and legacy customer accounts. Now authenticated checkouts are available to merchants on all pricing plans and customer account versions.

Each Headless storefront supports unique resource publishing and order attribution.

Shopify is releasing a feature that allows you to publish different products and collections to each Headless storefront. This means that if you have multiple Headless storefronts, different products and collections can be available for each storefront. In the Shopify admin, where you used to see “Headless” as the channel name, you will now see the name of each of your Headless storefronts as a possible publishing location. The same change applies to the Orders page and other areas of the admin. Each Headless showcase is now treated as a unique channel. This means that API calls that passed the publication ID for the Headless sales channel app now need to pass the publication ID for the Headless storefront channel. For example, if you previously used the publishablePublish mutation with the publish ID for the Headless sales channel application, you will now need to call that mutation with the publish ID for each Headless storefront you want to publish to.