Shopify is giving away eCommerce sites with over 100 new features

Shopify is giving away eCommerce sites with over 100 new features

Shopify has announced over 100 new features as part of its effort to improve its eCommerce platform.

At its semi-annual showcase, Editions, Shopify launched a new headless commerce offering called Hydrogen & Oxygen, along with a new ecosystem, paid developer capabilities, and several other updates.

Hydrogen is a React-based framework for creating powerful commerce experiences and Oxygen is a purpose-built commerce hosting platform.

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Shopify says that its Hydrogen tool improves development phase speed and optimizes website performance for large eCommerce websites and merchants, while its Oxygen tool hosts and maintains DevOps for back-end business developers.

"At Shopify, we believe in infinite play. That means we're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible for entrepreneurs," said Tobi Lütke, Shopify's founder and CEO.

"We work hard to solve the complex challenges merchants face today while imagining entirely new ways for them to grow their businesses. With Shopify Editions, we share our big bets and the latest innovations in commerce so that those who are sufficiently ambitious enough to give it a try in entrepreneurship you can start and scale faster than ever before.

Along with Hydrogen and Oxygen, Shopify has also launched a new checkout extensibility feature for developers and merchants to create functional checkout customizations that focus on speed and flexibility.

With the new tool, developers and merchants using Shopify will be able to create checkout customizations with Checkout UI extensions and features and deliver via a custom app or a public app in our app store.

The eCommerce website builder has also introduced Shopify features based on its ShopifyVM platform, which allows users to create custom discounts, shipping and checkout features and sell them on its app store.

“Discounts are the number one issue expressed by merchants; now merchants will be able to access apps with better, faster, and more personalized discount options for their customers right on their dashboard, with no coding required,” Shopify said in an email to TechRadar Pro.

“App developers will now be able to reach millions of merchants with Functions-based remittance apps, giving merchants more reliable, secure and powerful remittance features than ever before. Shopify Functions was built with performance and scalability in mind and can scale to handle global sales events, while executing code in less than 5 milliseconds.

Other announcements include Google Local Inventory, which automatically lets nearby customers know when a product is available in-store through Shopify's Google Channel, as well as the launch of Shopify's new Twitter sales channel and its Tap functionality. to Pay on iPhone exclusively for the United States. states in society. with Ray.