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Shopify just shipped its biggest update of the year, and most store owners will miss the part that matters.

Summer '26 Editions went live today. 150 merchant-facing changes. The headline everyone will share is the AI tools. The part worth your attention is what those tools replace.

AI Collection Sort, Predictive Cross-Sell Blocks, and Merchandising Insights are now native in the admin. If you are paying a third-party app for any of those, that line item might be dead weight starting today.

Checkout Components also went generally available for Plus. Drag-and-drop checkout customization, no code. And SimGym lets you simulate how shoppers react to a change before you push it live.

Spend 30 minutes this week auditing your app stack against the new features. The cheapest revenue you will find this month is the subscription you cancel.

Read the full breakdown: https://www.onlinestorecoach.com/news/shopify-launches-ai-tools-and-custom-checkout/r/recbCOSrPP6jFsURh

Shopify Scripts are shutting down on June 30, and Shopify Plus stores need to act now.

If you have any custom Scripts running for discounts, shipping rules, or checkout flows, those features stop working without warning on July 1. Your checkout doesn't show an error. It just silently reverts to Shopify's default behavior.

Making things tighter: Shopify stopped allowing Script edits on April 15. So any bugs in live Scripts can't be fixed. The only option is migrating to Shopify Functions before the deadline.

Here's how to start today. First, check your Shopify admin under Apps and Sales Channels for any active Scripts. Second, get your developer or agency on the phone this week. Third, head to shopify.dev for Shopify's official migration guides.

Five weeks. No grace period. Real checkout consequences if you miss it.

Non-Plus stores: this doesn't affect you.