Harnessing Shopify Summer ’25: Your All-In-One Guide

Welcome to Devignify Studio’s definitive overview of Shopify Editions Summer ’25. This summer release packs an array of innovations designed to empower merchants, developers, and marketers alike. Whether you’re launching a new storefront, scaling operations, or expanding into new markets, these features offer fresh ways to delight customers and drive growth.

Design & Themes

Horizon, Shopify’s new design foundation, unleashes total flexibility via block-based theming. You can:

• Choose from ten fresh Horizon themes optimized for conversion—Ritual, Fabric, Tinker, Dwell, Pitch, Vessel, Heritage, Savor, Atelier, and more

• Generate custom blocks on demand by simply describing what you need and letting AI build it for you

• Spin up an entire theme in seconds with AI-driven theme generation based on your brand’s style guide

• Work in a slick, supercharged editor featuring hover-to-preview, one-click text editing, rich predictive search, keyboard shortcuts, and more

AI-Powered Admin with Sidekick

• Multi-step reasoning: Sidekick now dives deeper into your data to deliver strategy-ready insights

• 20-language support: Reach global teams and markets from one admin interface

• Image generation, mobile access & live screen-share chat: Create visuals on the fly, get help anywhere via the Shopify app, or share your screen and talk Sidekick through tasks

Retail & POS v10

• Redesigned POS: A faster, more customizable checkout with smarter search and an adaptable cart

• Custom branding: Personalize customer-facing screens, receipts, and idle displays with your own logos, colours, and media

• Mixed-fulfilment checkout: Let shoppers take some items home and ship others in a single transaction (POS Pro)

• Advanced retail tools: Store credit, multi-entity selling, SMS opt-in, draft-order discounts, device-level payment settings, cash rounding, typo-tolerant search, and one-click multi-savings discounts—all in POS Pro

Fresh Update Scent

• Enhanced fraud prevention powered by AI-driven risk models on Shopify Payments

• Carbon-neutral shipping at checkout via the Planet app (Plus)

• PCI DSS v4 compliance across pixels, express checkouts, and more as of 1 April 2025

• Expanded Apple Pay support within custom checkout flows

Global Commerce

• Shopify Payments in 16 new countries across Europe and Mexico

• Multi-entity selling & multi-currency payouts: Run all your business entities from one admin and get paid in up to eight currencies

• Duties & taxes: Collect duties in checkout, embed them in product prices, or purchase DDP labels for cross-border shipping

• Local payment methods: Klarna in more EU markets, plus P24, BLIK, TWINT, Swish, MobilePay, and Apple Pay for subscriptions

• Advanced markets controls: Fine-tune Region and Managed Markets with sub-markets, graph views, and customer-account integration

Coming up next in the Devignify Studio blog series:

• Unlocking Creativity with Horizon: How to Build a Bespoke Shopify Theme in Minutes

• 10 Stunning Horizon Themes to Elevate Your Brand This Summer

• Sidekick Goes Multilingual: Reaching Global Customers with AI-Powered Admin Assistance

• Redesigning Retail: What’s New in Shopify POS v10 and How to Prepare Your Store

• Exploring Shopify’s Revamped Theme Editor: A Game-Changer for Merchants

• Migrating Your Existing App to Shopify’s Latest Developer Environment

• Five Surprising Ways AI-Generated Blocks Can Transform Your Store’s Look

• Preparing Your Store for Shopify Payments: A 2025 Compliance Checklist

Stay tuned for deep dives and tutorials on these powerful Summer ’25 features!

Explore the full Shopify Summer ’25 Editions release here.