- Shopify announces more than 150 small updates
- Updates are designed to improve general performance
- The company continues to implement AI
One of the best electronic commerce platforms worldwide, Shopify, has recently made more than 150 changes, designed to improve performance and “make sure everything works well together.”
In a deep blog, published in mid -December, the company said the update is “boring” since the changes are mostly small increases that “softened the rough edges,” but some notable mentions still highlighted.
Shopify’s payment should now be faster, since cart infrastructure was optimized to increase load speeds by up to 50%, the company said. In addition, the payment blocks are now available for all personalized gratitude pages, and Chat applications are now integrated into payment.
Shopify also improved the sale in person. Apparently, POS sales grew 31% year after year worldwide, during the most recent black Friday, he said. This led the team to improve the sale in person, allowing merchants to administer and sell packages directly through Shopify Pos, or allow the search results to be displayed through a divided screen, so that the results are always visible together with the cart.
Shopify Flow, an automation tool that helps store owners to optimize their commercial operations without coding, has also been updated. It now allows merchants to establish personalized workflows to avoid repetitive tasks for inventory management, loyalty programs and discounts. Among the things that “now work better” are returns and exchanges, marketing automations and segment triggers.
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Finally, no update is complete without improvements in the application of artificial intelligence (AI). Sidekick, a trade with AI of Shopify, will continue to launch into English language merchants worldwide, confirmed the company. He added that the tool will give the business owners “more super powers”, since it is designed to answer questions and help with the business scale.
“The distinctive seal of the good software is that it simply works,” the company concluded in its announcement. “That predictability and reliability is what our merchants tell.”
The complete list of improvements, for those interested in more reading, can be found in this link.
Owain Williams
Owain is the Builders and CRM editor in Techradar. He has built several electronic commerce businesses over the years, has tried countless electronic commerce platforms and interviewed several key actors in the website construction industry.
Although more than 150 updates sound as a radical change and may seem a bit discouraging for existing Shopify users, in reality, these changes will have little impact on how it uses and interacts with the Shopify platform.
Scratch the surface and discover that most of these changes have been made “behind the scene” with the aim of making existing tools and processes softer for users and their customers.
Innovation is always welcome in the space of the website builder, but it is great to see Shopify listen to users and focus their resources on improving the current characteristics, instead of ignoring them in favor of new tools.
