We've improved the order shipment process for manually added shipping details, including notifications to customers with tracking information. This update especially benefits our international sellers. Improvements include:

• Added 18 new carriers

• Based on your shop’s account country, we recommend certain carriers as "top" carriers which will more commonly match what they are looking for. Previously we were always recommending USPS, UPS and Fedex only.

• Optimized the workflow to make it faster and less error-prone

We’ve added express checkout for shops using Stripe as their payment processor. Express checkout allows your customers to quickly complete their purchase by skipping billing and shipping information, leading to higher conversion rates and increased sales. Express checkout works with Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe Link.

We’ve added our first new shop template in 4 years! Introducing Cosmos, our latest template that is available for sellers on both free and paid plans.

It’s a theme that is suitable for both beginners and experienced sellers who want a flexible and visually appealing template that can be easily customized to meet their specific needs. Whether you are just getting started or looking to change things up, Cosmos has you covered.

For all templates, we’ve also introduced a new Style Picker which makes it easier to pick visually appealing combinations of colors and fonts. The style picker gives you single click presets for each theme that can get you and running more quickly.

Added support for 4 new currencies: UAE Dirham (AED), Bulgarian Lev (BGN), Croatian Kuna (HRK) and Romanian Leu (RON).

If you want to switch to one of these new currencies in your shop, head over to your location and currency settings.

To help checkout conversion for shops with limited inventory during periods of higher sales volume and traffic, we've added the following note within checkout that reminds shoppers that products aren't reserved until they checkout:

Heads up! Items in your cart are not guaranteed until you complete check out.

All shops now have the most up-to-date and best code to support search engine optimization (SEO) using the JSON-LD standard. This ensures that Google and other search engines index and showcase your shops the best way possible which can boost your traffic by helping your rank higher in search and drive more clickthrough. Curious to learn more? Read more on Google's site.

Every shop automatically benefits from this, no opt-in required.

In the Shop Designer, we've made it clearer when a new version of your shop's template is available for upgrade. The button caption now reads "Upgrade to x.y" where x.y is the latest version number of the template. Prior to this, the button would always say "Reset".

We’ve spent the last several months completely redesigning our checkout experience to improve conversion. Benefits include:

• Expanded payment methods, including popular “buy now, pay later” options

• Fewer clicks to get from cart to completed checkout

• Custom domains supported throughout checkout

• Autofill customer payment info when possible

• Discount field earlier in checkout

• View order summary and total earlier in checkout

In addition to a better designed checkout experience, we now support more payment options including Buy Now, Pay Later options through Stripe such as Affirm, ClearPay and Afterpay.

This new checkout is available to all shops. There’s nothing you need to do on your side, except make sure that your store is connected to Stripe if you’d like to access Afterpay or other specific payment options. Read more here.