| | Hello there. Checkout got a new look for stores with a short list of payment methods, and AI shopping agents can now find your physical locations. Also today: the scripts that keep tracking after a shopper clicks Decline, Affirm's new deal with Sam's Club and two questions about trust badges and wholesale pricing. In today’s newsletter, we’ll get into: - Checkout now shows payment methods as tiles when a store offers four or fewer options, and keeps the list view otherwise.
- AI agents talking to Shopify storefronts can now search and look up a merchant's retail stores through UCP.
- A merchant warns that fonts, videos and chat widgets can keep loading after a Decline click, with real GDPR exposure.
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| | 💳 Checkout shows payment methods as tiles. Shopify has refreshed how payment methods look in checkout. When a store meets certain display criteria, including offering four or fewer payment methods, buyers now see a tiled layout instead of a list. Stores with other setups keep the standard list view. If you trimmed your payment options recently, place a test order to check which layout appears. 📍 AI agents can now find your physical stores. Shopify storefronts now support UCP location search and lookup, starting with UCP version 2026-08-25. An AI agent that negotiates these capabilities over the storefront MCP endpoint can find a merchant's physical store locations. For brands with shops or pickup points, it is one more reason to keep store addresses and details in Shopify accurate. | |
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| | 🍪 Tracking that ignores the Decline button. A merchant points out that Shopify handles app pixels under consent, but YouTube embeds, Google Fonts, chat widgets and other scripts can still load after a shopper declines. They cite a 2022 Munich ruling that awarded a visitor 100 euros over Google Fonts, and German fines of up to 300,000 euros for cookies set without consent. One reply says US stores face similar suits under CIPA. 🛒 Affirm becomes Sam's Club's pay-over-time option. Affirm signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Sam's Club, launching on SamsClub.com within weeks and in physical clubs in 2027. Shoppers get an eligibility check for each purchase at checkout and pick a monthly plan if approved. It is another sign that big-box buyers expect pay-over-time options, which matters if your average order value is high. | |
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| | 🛡️ Where should trust badges sit on a product page? A store with strong proof points, in business since 1986 with a 60-day money-back guarantee that covers shipping and third-party lab testing, asks where trust and story sections should go without cluttering the buy box. Every attempt to move them near the top crowds the add to cart area. If you have tested placement on a standard theme, the thread wants your results. 🏷️ Wholesale prices without another app. A merchant tired of app pitches asks how others offer wholesale pricing without an app or extra subscription, giving wholesale buyers a lower price than retail customers. It is a common need for brands that sell to shops and consumers from one store, and the thread is collecting the workarounds people actually use. | |
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| | 📱 How Shopify lets AI agents build its mobile apps. Shopify's engineers explain Remote Dev, a remote mobile environment for AI agents. Three or four agent workflows were enough to max out a laptop, so each session of River, their Slack agent, now gets its own environment to build the app, run tests, use simulators, take screenshots and open a pull request. It is a look at where the apps your store runs on are heading. | |
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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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