Shopify Entrepreneur Weekly

Helping Shopify merchants navigate the Shopify ecosystem for winning outcomes

March 01, 2024

Hey there! 👋

I hope you're feeling great.

As March rolls in, let's take a moment to look back on the updates we've been introduced to and see how far we've come.

By the way, if you haven't made the move yet, how's it going with Checkout Extensibility? Only 167 days left until checkout.liquid is deactivated. Can't wait for the cool custom options and design features that extensions will bring to the table. Exciting times ahead with more room for creativity and innovation. Reach out if you need any help with migration.

Also, check out these other updates I shared below. Enjoy the read!

Lidia from HeyCarson

📰 Shopify news

  • Collective users can now delete a connection.

  • Easily update how payments are handled for each connection in Collective.

  • Grant your sales reps limited access to the admin to place orders and view account information only for their assigned customers, using the all-new Companies staff permissions.

  • Price after discount for custom discounts

  • Build and convert more in-store with draft orders available in POS

💡 4 reasons why you should add Shop Pay Installments Banners

…if you haven’t yet:

- Shop Pay Installments banners boost conversion rates by displaying payment options upfront

- They increase average order value by offering installment payments

- Easy implementation

- If you don’t feel comfortable with code theme updates do it free of charge through HeyCarson, a Shopify Partner agency

Leave your request here.

🛎 Theme version updates

Archetype themes upgraded Gem and Fetch themes with the Island Architecture. This update brings themes with better speed scores:

  • Gem and Fetch significantly enhanced speed, representing a 53% improvement from v1

  • Boosted LCP, from 3.95s in v1 to 1.85s using the liquid “section.index" property and "preload" attribute for resource hints

👀 Overheard on LinkedIn & X

🖼 Photo of the week

Google recently paused the generation of human images with its Gemini AI tool due to viral threads on Twitter with complaints about historical inaccuracies. Examples included a female pope or diverse vikings. Google aims to prevent bias in AI output, but efforts to eliminate stereotypes have led to some missteps, as acknowledged by Google.

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