【Shopify】Editions Winter 2026 The Ren‘ai’ssanse Edition Announcement! Introducing key items from over 150 updates

Shopify's major update information "Editions" is released every six months

The 2026 Winter version, "Renaissance Edition," has been announced!

Anyway, this landing page is very elaborately made, so I would really like everyone to take a look at it. A Shopify representative also said, "It's more elaborate than anything we've ever done before, and it's getting a lot of praise within the company."

It looks beautiful on mobile, but if you want to experience it for yourself, be sure to view it on a computer.

https://www.shopify.com/jp/editions/winter2026

This edition includes 12 items and a total of approximately 150 updates. These 150 include all the content that has been updated since the previous edition.

In this article, we'll give you a quick rundown of the major updates!

Already familiar to Shopify merchants? This AI provides powerful support for store operations. The highlight of this edition was Sidekick.

Sidekick is built into your store, so it directly accesses and retrieves information from your store. It not only retrieves data, but also executes requests within Shopify.

for example

• Create a collection of your best-selling products and add them to it

• Creating Discounts

• Shopify Email template updates

• Creating a segment

All of this can be done simply by asking in natural language, "Do this."

What's more, Sidekick now lets you create custom apps! Just like any other task, you can create apps by talking to it.

The demo video instructed users to "create an app that creates checkout links and QR codes for selected products," and the app was created.

It seems that there are only a limited number of stores that allow you to create apps, but we encourage you to give it a try!

You can now purchase products directly from AI agents such as ChatGPT! Set up your listing information on the Shopify admin screen and register frequently asked questions in the knowledge base app. The AI agent will read the registered information, organize it, and provide it to users.

Users can talk to an AI agent such as ChatGPT and say, "I want this," and the agent will provide product information and supplementary information, and the user can complete checkout on that screen.

Of course, the checkout completed there will be linked to your order information in Shopify.

It's an amazing time already!

"Schedule theme changes and perform A/B testing with Rollouts built directly into your admin."

Apparently, the long-awaited schedule function will be added!

Until now, scheduling theme changes required an app called Launchpad, which was only available with the Plus plan.

It seems that this Rollouts feature has not been officially released yet, but once it is released, it may make storefront management such as sales much easier!

An amazing device has been announced.

There may still be few Japanese merchants using Shopify POS, but there is great potential for it to become more widely used in Japan in the future.

When that happens, you may find that this is all you need for perfect store sales and inventory management.

Basically, what you can do is sell products from your Shopify store on other Shopify stores.

In the demo video, a customer was looking for a helmet at a skateboard store, but unfortunately the store did not carry helmets, so the customer left.

So what happens when a Product Network is set up?

Buy a board, search for a helmet, and other stores will show you the products you need to complete your purchase.

You can earn commissions when you sell products from other stores.

However, it is currently only available in the US. We look forward to seeing what happens in the future!

Customize your checkout screen for each market.

Enhancements to inventory transfers and the addition of in-person selling capabilities on the Shopify mobile app.

Added dynamic storefront and deals feed.

Learn more about the Shop app here

Shopify Collective's globalization, etc.

Many of the features are only available in the US, but there are enhancements such as fundraising and automatic transfers.

You can now set a default package for each variation.

The development support provided by MCP is amazing! This also supports development by talking to the AI as if you were talking to a person.

Be sure to check out the demo video too.

https://www.shopify.com/jp/editions/winter2026#developer

What did you think? This time we introduced Shopify Editions Winter 2019, "The Ren'ai'ssance Edition."

As you can see from the logo, this "Ren'ai'ssance" is an update that has significantly enhanced the AI overall.

Whatever people can do, people will continue to do it.

Let's ask AI to do what we can and aim to improve efficiency and productivity!