Welcome to our Shopify Community AMA on the 100+ product updates announced at Shopify Editions Winter ‘23. Post your questions as a reply on this thread before February 24 to get an answer from one of our product leaders.
What’s in scope of this AMA:
Only those product updates announced at Shopify Editions Winter ‘23. Reference this link for a list of all 100+ product updates.
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Did Shopify make a change to the admin login process? When the Winter '23 update went live, I immediately noticed that any new tab I open requires me to sign in to Shopify again. This makes the quick link to edit a collection or product quite useless as the extra login step each time is very disruptive to the workflow.
I’ve tested a few accounts and websites and they all exhibit this same behaviour.
When using the grey overlay box on a live website (the box that sticks to the bottom of the screen) that contains shortcuts to edit the homepage, collections, products, etc. is still pushing to the old admin URL’s, which then 301 redirect to the new admin URL structure, which forces a new login prompt every time.
Shopify can probably solve 90% of this by updating the URL’s that are linked in the admin bar.
I want my website to suggest complementary products when the customer adds a certain item to the shopping cart or is browsing an item’s page. Is there an app that can do this? I need more upselling options.
I see that this is a pretty large list of new features/addon apps. Does your team have any plans to make any changes/hotfixes to the features that have been degraded ever since this bundle of Winter updates went live? The refund notification emails that Shopify automatically sends to our non-PayPal customers now take 24-48 days to send post-refund, which has been a customer service nightmare when paired with our returns app.
I’d rather see issues like this be stabilized before being offered new features (and I know I’m not alone).
Decimal quantities!
You’re adding every possible feature in the world except one simple feature…To allow me to sell my products in decimal quantities out of the box on Shopify. And to enter their stock in decimal quantities.
Am I missing something here or is Shopify pushing everyone who want to sell in decimal quantities easily to woocommerce?
At the moment, the corresponding e-mail notifications (return request received, accepted etc.) cannot be translated to other languages. I see that the standard notification template has translations but we would like to stay true to our brand design and language.
Will those 3 new notifications be editable and translatable like all other notifications?
Why was the search hidden to add to the number of clicks needed to reach it? I’m not seeing where that layout might be helpful but perhaps I’m missing something.
Along that same line, I don’t mean to be negative but I’m really not seeing any real benefit in any of these changes but several other feature requests have been made by store owners hundreds of times over the past 5-10 years without being implemented. Is there any system to try and see what stores want or need and focus on those over changes made independently from users?
You managed to make 100 updates but the basic requirement to remove ‘page’ from the URL still hasn’t been done, despite a long thread dating back years and years. You don’t even allow your own website to suffer from this but you expect us to, why is that?
Yeah, the search being hidden and requiring an extra click is so frustrating. Many of these admin changes they’ve made have caused Shopify to be considerably less productive. It’s too bad they don’t have some sort of “advanced” mode where you can have more granular control over the admin interface.
Another huge step backwards is that you can no longer upload files from the pop-up admin menu. This was a great function for uploading swatches while still on the product page. Now, you have to navigate away from the product page to Content > Files to perform the same task.
Does the AI writer take descriptions from other websites? We make our own products and do not want to stumble upon the exact same description on someone else’s website. Thanks!
Do the new inventory changes allow us to have a single inventory accessible from multiple locations? We have several locations that all pull from a central warehouse. Orders are delivered to each location on a weekly basis for customers to pick up. Currently, each location must have its own inventory in Shopify which does not reflect reality (since everything is stocked at the central warehouse). Many orders are also shipped directly too. So it is currently very difficult to manage inventory and easy to over-sell products or have products marked as out-of-stock when they aren’t.
Yes we have an inventory location for the warehouse. The problem is that the customer needs to choose the location to pickup during the checkout process, and not be required to input a shipping address. And so we have three local pickup locations. But they each must have their own inventory or they don’t appear as an option for pickup when the customer checks out. We really don’t want to manage inventory at different pickup locations. We want the products to all be sold out of a single inventory location, no matter what the pickup location is.
In add a custom bundle, what are the results and outputs after Step 2: Build a cart_transform function? How is the cart transformed after running the code? Any screenshots?
Also, there are 2 pages of .rs code. But I have no idea why Rust is involved? I think most developers don’t know Rust