What’s New at Shopify

1. Shopify goes multilingual

In the spirit of making commerce better for everyone, everywhere, Shopify is becoming multilingual! The first beta launched in early May, giving merchants the option of managing the core features of their store in six additional languages: French, German, Japanese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.

2. Automated abandoned checkout emails

Statistically, 67 percent of online shoppers leave products in their cart without completing their order. Now, if a customer abandons their checkout after they’ve provided their contact information, they’re automatically emailed a reminder to prompt them to return to checkout. This gives all merchants with online stores the ability to boost sales with zero effort.

3. New premium fonts

Hundreds of new premium fonts are available on all themes in the Shopify Theme Store. The new fonts are from both Google and Monotype, and require that the latest version of a theme be downloaded from the Theme Store to access them. If you’re an advanced user, you can also follow our help doc to manually add fonts to themes.

4. GDPR updates

Over the past month, GDPR has been a hot topic in the Shopify community (and the rest of the world, too). The law came into effect on May 25th, 2018, and affects how personal data of individuals located in Europe can be collected, stored, and processed.

5. Collaborator account request expiry date

We updated pending collaborator account requests to be valid for 7 days after the request is made. If the merchant does not accept within this time frame, the request expires.

This update will help clear the clutter in your dashboard and reduce the risk of your business exceeding the limit of 200 pending requests, should merchants not reply promptly.