Welcome to our monthly product newsletter for Shopify developers. Read on for important updates and new features.

Find out how Checkout Blocks scaled successfully on Shopify

Read about how solo developer, Gil Greenberg, leveraged Shopify’s Checkout Extensibility tools to bring Checkout Blocks, the popular all-in-one customization app, to life.

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Store Credit Primitive and API now available in developer preview

Help merchants with post-purchase customer service by enabling them to issue, track, and report accurately on store credit using Shopify’s new Store Credit Primitive and API, now available in developer preview.

Streamline checkout, customer support, and workflows with a single, reloadable store credit balance for customers. The store credit GraphQL API enables merchants and developers to:

Increase customer loyalty by offering store credit in returns, loyalty, and customer support flows
Issue, track, and report on store credit, directly in the Shopify admin
Link store credit to a sole customer
Support expiring credits
Maintain a concurrency safe store credit ledger

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Going headless on Shopify: ButcherBox’s principal engineer takes you inside their migration

Our Winter '24 Edition included many features specifically for devs, but what do these updates and tools feel like to use? To give you an idea, we interviewed David House, Principal Engineer at ButcherBox, one of the leading direct-to-consumer meat brands, about his migration to Shopify using Hydrogen and Oxygen.

Hear David's insights

New Hydrogen tools that make your path to production painless

Hydrogen and Oxygen’s newest developer tools enable you to easily debug and optimize your build before deploying. We also released a new suite of implementation examples to support development.

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Build merchant trust and streamline the install experience

Make the installation process smoother and build merchant trust by defining the permissions your app requests. Once defined, merchants can see the information on your app listing page and experience a more streamlined modal install flow. You can further enhance this by implementing OAuth2 Token Exchange and managed install to eliminate screen flickering and improve app load times.

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Show off your app’s key features

You can now highlight key features that merchants frequently look for as they’re evaluating apps through our new, category-specific structured fields. This information will soon show up on your app listing page and new comparison view to help showcase your app. Structured fields are available for 10 app categories, with more coming throughout the year.

Visit your Partner Dashboard to add your app category details.

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Improved app discovery across Shopify

We’ve made improvements to the ways merchants search for and find apps in the Shopify App Store and admin.

Merchants can now discover your app in more places, including our new AI-powered guided search, which supports natural language queries and provides insights to help merchants make more informed app selections. We also made it possible for merchants to search for specific apps in the Shopify admin search bar and get results that take them directly to the app’s detail page.

To optimize app discovery, make sure your app details page is up to date.

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That's all for this month

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The Shopify Team