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Black Friday Cyber Monday is the busiest sales season of the year.

To help you have a great BFCM, we’re making sure that you can manage your business anytime, anywhere—even if you’re away from your desk.

Last year during BFCM, more Shopify merchants logged in on mobile than on desktop. That’s why this year we focused on making key features you need for your #BFCMWin available on your phone or tablet.

Here's a roundup of the latest mobile-ready features. First up, a must-have: discounts on mobile.

Your customers expect fast, affordable shipping with guaranteed delivery dates. Now with UPS as an option in Shopify Shipping, U.S.-based Shopify merchants can offer a best-in-class delivery experience, just like enterprise retailers.

With UPS and Shopify Shipping, you’ll get competitive rates of up to 52% off list rates, just in time for the holiday season. No matter how big or small your business is, you can now access UPS’ guaranteed delivery date shipping options at industry-leading rates.

With this integration, you can easily offer your customers more choice, at more affordable rates, with the world’s largest package delivery company. That means happier customers and more sales for you.

Shopify and eBay have partnered to give you access to eBay’s customer base of over 170 million buyers, and this new sales channel is ready to use, just in time for Black Friday Cyber Monday.

Just like Shopify’s partnerships with Amazon, Facebook, and other top selling channels, the new eBay sales channel effortlessly syncs with your Shopify store. Merchants based in the U.S. and selling in USD can easily list and sell on eBay while conveniently managing the fulfillment and inventory process within Shopify.

Expand your brand footprint on eBay’s marketplace and gain access to millions of active buyers worldwide.

Finding new customers is an obsession for every business owner, but marketing can be complicated and intimidating. Shopify aims to simplify marketing and help you reach customers with more confidence while maximizing every dollar.

Just in time for Black Friday Cyber Monday, we’ve launched a new set of Marketing Activity and Sales Attribution Reports that give you a comprehensive understanding of how your marketing efforts are performing. You’ll see clearly and quickly what’s working (and what’s not), and can use that knowledge to improve your marketing campaigns.

Augmented Reality (or AR), through your smartphone camera, lets you see and interact with virtual objects in your real environment that aren't actually there.

But even with all the potential you can imagine for technology like this, the quality of the experiences so far meant it was still fairly easy to write off AR as a gimmick rather than a game-changer in the world of commerce.

Until now that is.

International shipping for U.S.-based Shopify merchants just got easier, faster, and more affordable.

DHL Express, the world’s leading international express shipping provider, is now an option in Shopify Shipping. You can ship with the same premium carrier the big global retailers use, with guaranteed express service, negotiated shipping rates, and service to over 220 countries and territories.

Google Autocomplete for address forms makes for an easy and speedy checkout experience for customers. And, it’s coming to Shopify. 

You put lots of work into creating an enjoyable buying experience. But, multiple fields to complete at checkout can slow down your customers or even discourage them from making a purchase. This becomes even more apparent for customers on mobile, where checking out on a tiny screen can be a long exercise in typing, misspelling, and re-typing.

As part of improving your customer experience and helping you achieve higher conversions, Google Autocomplete is starting to roll out to Shopify’s checkout pages over the coming weeks, at no additional cost.

This feature will soon be automatically enabled on your store.

Click, click, click no more. Printing shipping labels just got 10 times faster.

Now you can buy and print shipping labels for multiple orders at once. With bulk label printing, you’ll be able to fulfill your orders more efficiently, saving you precious time. This holiday season, use bulk label printing to get your products into your customers’ hands faster than ever.

Bulk shipping is a free upgrade for any merchant in Canada and the United States who buy and print their shipping labels through Shopify.

You’ve seen them everywhere: cryptic square barcodes that look like gibberish, but a computer would read as a link, a location, or whatever information is encoded into them.

QR codes have evolved a lot since their invention in 1994 to their current adoption as a mechanism of mobile commerce, powered by Android and iPhone devices. Now with the newly announced iOS 11 update, you can scan them with the native camera app.

That's why today we’re introducing Shopcodes: QR codes that consumers can scan to take them directly to a product in your Shopify store.

Games are more than just a pastime or even pieces of interactive art. They’re entire worlds that are built for us to visit, that are able to pull us back from time to time, that still cross our minds even as we go about our lives.

It’s these worlds that Snowman—a development studio based in Toronto— believes in building, and it's become the basis for many of the decisions they’ve made as both a business and as the developer of the award-winning indie game, Alto's Adventure.

That belief is also the reason they’re among the first in their industry to incorporate a merch store directly into their game with Shopify's Unity Buy SDK—a decision that resulted in them making 60% of their annual revenue from product sales in 30 days.

Today, we take a moment—amid the exhilarating madness of our days as entrepreneurs, dreamers, and Shopifyers—to mark a milestone in the history of our movement.

Shopify now powers over 500,000 online stores.

Selling in person with Shopify has never been easier.

Beautiful, simple, and secure, Shopify’s first in-house designed hardware—our new Chip & Swipe Reader—is now shipping in the U.S.

In April, we unveiled our latest addition to the Shopify POS hardware family, and started shipping pre-orders in July. Now, we’re excited to announce that the Chip & Swipe Reader is available to all U.S. Shopify merchants.