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Shopify AR is an accessible toolkit for businesses to create their own AR experiences. Here's a look at how some Shopify store owners have already incorporated AR shopping and how you can get started too.

Today we’re excited to launch the new Shopify App Store, which makes it easier than ever to discover the right apps for your business.

Time is every entrepreneur’s most valuable resource. Between life’s many commitments and all the hats you wear to run your business, there’s never enough time to go around—especially if you’re part of a small team or the sole founder like many Shopify merchants. That’s why we’re launching Shopify Ping: a new way to run your business on the go by bringing customer conversations, marketing workflows, and more together in a single mobile app.

Our mission to make commerce better for everyone is the foundation for everything we do at Shopify. Part of delivering on that promise means continually improving the shopping experience for your customers, wherever they are in the world, and ensuring you have a similarly exceptional experience when you use Shopify.

The much-hyped “retail apocalypse” is just that—hype. You’ve seen the headlines of major brands shutting their doors, but that doesn’t signal the end of retail stores.

On the contrary: Data shows retail is thriving. The National Retail Federation reported that for every retail store that closed in 2017 in the U.S., another 2.7 new stores opened. Selling in-person is an opportunity for you to connect with customers and grow your business, and more merchants are realizing that. In the last year, 70,000 merchants used the Shopify platform to sell in-person, and that number continues to grow.

But as you can likely attest, juggling multiple sales channels, both online and in-person, can admittedly create some challenges. That’s where Shopify can help. We’re building a powerful commerce platform to help you sell seamlessly across many channels, including in-person.

We’re proud to announce a lineup of new Shopify POS hardware and features, rolling out this summer, to help merchants deliver standout experiences no matter where their customers decide to buy.

Your time is valuable, and it’s in especially short supply when you’re trying to build a business.

There are always going to be more items on your to-do list than hours in the day, which is why we’re continually looking for ways to help you streamline your work. The more time you save on routine to-dos and processes, the more time you have available to focus on growing and scaling your business.

Today at Unite, we announced four new ways to help you free up your day with simplified order processing, inventory management, order fulfillment, and Shopify Ping, your new mobile workspace. 

On May 8 and 9, Shopify Unite will announce new products and features designed to help you run your business better. The goal is to save you time, cut out unnecessarily complicated tasks, and give you superpowers to evolve your business alongside retail trends.

You shouldn’t have to worry about keeping your business relevant once you launch a Shopify store. We want to do the heavy lifting for you. At Unite, we'll outline our plans for the future and share an early look at what we're building for our merchants.

Shopping on Instagram is now available to Shopify merchants with businesses in the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Brazil.

Now you can let users discover and purchase products from your Instagram posts and checkout in your Shopify store.

Here's how to install this sales channel, enable product tagging, and start growing your sales on Instagram.

This past Sunday, February 18th, Jordan Brand dropped its latest limited edition Air Jordan III ‘Tinker’ as part of its 30th anniversary celebration of the historic Air Jordan III.

But this wasn’t your everyday sneaker release. Snapchat partnered with Jordan and Shopify to enable a fundamentally new kind of retail experience, one that combines real-world interactions with online shopping.

One of the perks of entrepreneurship is that you get to decide when and where you work. A desk, a beach, your kitchen table: it’s your call.

That’s why we’re always trying to make it easier for you to manage your business anytime, anywhere, with the Shopify app for iOS and Android.

Now, in addition to everything else you can do to run your business from your phone, our Canadian and American merchants can add shipping to the list. The Shopify app now supports buying and printing shipping labels from your phone.

With the biggest shopping season of the year upon us, hordes of customers are looking for juicy discounts. To help you make the most of the holiday shopping bonanza, we’ve added a simple new function to Shopify that will help you reach out and pull those deal-hunters right into your store. 

Shareable Discount Links direct customers to your homepage and automatically apply a discount code to their cart.

Today is a day of celebration.

As an independent business, you stepped up to make your mark on a weekend dominated by big box stores and massive chain retailers. And, collectively, you made over $1 billion USD in sales during Black Friday Cyber Monday.

Pause for just a moment (we know how busy you are) and appreciate your shared win: you are part of a large community of independent businesses working together to make commerce more diverse and resilient.

$1 billion is no small feat. And it’s all you.