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Meet your customers where they are—it's the golden rule. In that spirit, we're thrilled to share a first-ever preview of Facebook Shops for Shopify merchants: a new shopping experience that lets you create a customizable storefront on the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps.

Size has always been a challenge to convey on product pages. That's why we built Size.link: a free tool that lets anyone view the size of a product in the space around them with their smartphone camera. With it, you can create size links for your products, which customers can click to visualize product dimensions directly through their mobile browsers using augmented reality.

As retail stores start to re-open around the country and business owners prepare for the future of retail, we’re bringing contactless payments hardware to Canadian with the Shopify Tap & Chip Card Reader. Coupled with the Shopify Retail Kit and Shopify Tap & Chip Case, Canadian retailers can provide mobile checkout experiences and serve their customers anywhere, whether in-store or curbside. 

We conducted a study of our 10,000 largest Shopify merchants with Shop Pay enabled, over a 1-month period spanning mid-January to mid-February 2020. Our study showed that checkouts going through Shop Pay have an average checkout-to-order rate of 1.72x times higher than those going through regular checkouts.

At Shopify, we believe retail is poised to adapt to the recent crisis and rebound stronger than ever. That’s why we’re introducing the all-new Shopify POS, our fully reimagined point-of-sale solution, to help brick-and-mortar retailers reopen stores into the modern retail environment. And we're making it completely free until October 31, 2020.

Say hello to Shop, a digital shopping assistant that makes it easy for customers to speed through checkout, track their order and shipment details, and rediscover brands they love. Shop takes care of the little extras to make online shopping more personal and convenient.

Previously, the Shopping tab consisted only of paid listings but starting today, free listings will appear alongside paid ads in relevant search results. Shopify is partnering with Google to make it easy for merchants to sync, submit, and optimize their products for these free listings through Shopify’s Google channel.

In recent weeks, Shopify Partners have quickly sprung into action to help business owners find safe harbor during COVID-19. We’re highlighting three places where you can connect with these Shopify experts and access the services, products, and resources they’re currently offering to support independent businesses.

Shopify is steadfast in our support of small businesses during these challenging times, and we're actively looking for ways we can alleviate this pressure. To start, we're enabling our gift cards feature on all Shopify plans indefinitely to give communities another way to support small businesses.

As retailers are forced to close their doors to combat further COVID-19 outbreak, one of the biggest concerns (especially among “non-essentials” retailers), is how to compensate for lost in-store revenue. In this post, we'll share a list of resources and advice on how to mitigate cash flow constraints. 

Governments around the world are rolling out financial relief measures and programs to support small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We've curated this list of available programs in different countries to help raise their visibility and keep you informed. 

There are ways that we, as a global community, can secure the futures of our local small businesses and help them shine. We have choices right now. To help you navigate this new reality and direct your dollars to shopping small, we’re handpicking products from independent businesses around the world.