| | Hello there. UK shoppers can now pick Royal Mail pickup points at checkout, Flow can buy shipping labels for you, and a wave of card-testing bots is filling abandoned-cart reports again. Friday is a good day to lock shipping and harden checkout. In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into: - Royal Mail is now a pickup point provider across the UK, with map and list choice at checkout including hours and price.
- A new Shopify Flow action can buy shipping labels automatically for orders that match your rules.
- Merchants report another wave of fake checkouts from card-testing bots that flood abandoned carts and analytics.
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| | 📮 Royal Mail pickup points land at UK checkout. Shopify added Royal Mail as a pickup point provider across the UK. At checkout, customers pick a location from a map or list and see name, address, opening hours and price before they pay. Turn it on under Settings, Shipping and delivery, Pickup points, choose a UK location, enable ship to pickup points, then edit the rate to include Royal Mail. 🏷️ Shopify Flow can buy shipping labels automatically. Merchants can now buy shipping labels with a Flow action. Set which orders qualify by tag, product, single-item status or other attributes, then choose carrier, service, package, weight and ship date. Matching orders get a label ready to print from Shipping labels; others are left alone. Start from a ready-made Flow template and adjust it for your store. 🤖 Shopify's product team on running your store with AI. A new In-Session video walks through what shipped this summer for AI on Shopify: Sidekick 2.0, the agentic sales channel, Knowledge Base, Sim Gym, Inbox 2.0, Flow and Campaign Autopilot. Dom Coryell and Misha Damjanic show how to put those pieces to work on a live store before peak season. | |
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| | 🃏 Card-testing bots are flooding checkouts again. After a quiet stretch, merchants say fake checkouts from card-testing bots are back, generating hundreds of abandoned carts that have to be excluded from flows and analytics. If your abandoned-cart numbers suddenly spike with no real sales lift, check bot protection, captcha and payment fraud settings before you rewrite your recovery emails. 🚫 Third Merchant Center suspension for Misrepresentation. A German wooden-toy seller asks whether there is still a realistic path back after repeated Merchant Center suspensions for Misrepresentation, and how to protect the linked Google Ads account while appeals drag on. Earlier accounts were opened in a presale phase before stock landed. Worth reading if you advise clients on Google Shopping compliance. 📉 95% bounce on cheap Instagram ad traffic. Site or ads? A new made-to-order streetwear store reports 600-plus mostly mobile sessions from Instagram ads, a 95% bounce rate and clicks around $0.22. The ask is whether that usually means wrong traffic or a broken site. Useful checklist territory: mobile speed, above-the-fold clarity, landing match to the ad and intent quality of ultra-cheap clicks. | |
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| | 🇨🇦 Canadian sellers ask how accurate checkout duty math is. Sellers who create their own labels and prepay duties so customers pay nothing on delivery want to know whether Shopify's checkout duty calculator matches what couriers actually charge. If you ship cross-border from Canada, comparing a few real labels to the checkout estimate is a smart Q4 check. 👕 What actually cut apparel returns? A fashion seller is collecting honest results on return-reduction tactics: size charts, fit polls, runs-small notes, virtual try-on apps and exchange-first policies. They want measurable effect sizes, including "it did nothing." If you have run those tests, the thread is asking for numbers, not slogans. 📦 ShipStation fees add up. What are people switching to? One merchant wants ShipStation alternatives with solid Shopify integration and real discounted rates that do not get painful on per-label fees as volume grows. With Flow now able to buy labels natively, it is a fair moment to compare your stack before holiday volume hits. | |
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| | 🔒 Shopify Devs ships an app security check tool. Shopify Developers says merchant trust means security, and introduced an `app security check` tool that finds common vulnerability patterns in Shopify apps, including runs with AI tooling. If you build or review apps, add it to your pre-review checklist. 🪪 SSN in the EIN field blocked a sole-prop checkout. A merchant changed business type to Sole Proprietor, entered their SSN in the EIN field by mistake, and now checkout is blocked with "Individual with that SSN already exists" when switching to Individual. Merchant Verification has the ticket, but payments stay stuck meantime. A reminder to double-check tax ID fields before saving. 📊 Repeat rate looks down? Compare cohorts at equal age windows. A useful analytics tip: do not compare a 25-day-old cohort to a 90-day-old one. Pick a return window that fits your buying cycle, then only compare months where every first-time buyer has had the full window. If same-age repeat rate falls, dig into acquisition source, first product, discounts and fulfillment after that. | |
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| | Three remote roles posted in the last two weeks, each linked to its own posting with the source named. Each posting is linked from the source named on its line, with the date it was posted. Check the details on the posting itself. | |
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