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Shopify caps each customer at 3,000 API requests a minute
Shopify’s October 7 changelog adds a Customer Account API cap of 3,000 requests per minute per customer, per store, shared across apps.
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Xem trực tiếp trang sản phẩm 3 store trước Q4 · Live product page review
45 phút trên Google Meet. Mở trực tiếp trang sản phẩm của 3 store trong cộng đồng: chỉ ra chỗ làm mất đơn (có người xem mà không thêm vào giỏ) và cách tăng giá…
ArticleAI Shopping Needs Customer-Controlled Limits
On October 6, @btaylor announced an open protocol under development for how personal agents interact with businesses.
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Shopify caps each customer at 3,000 API requests a minute
Shopify’s October 7 changelog adds a Customer Account API cap of 3,000 requests per minute per customer, per store, shared across apps.
Case studyKitchenware store reports Q3 revenue fell from about 187k to just over 128k
*An r/ecommerce poster reports a Q3 revenue drop despite steady ad spend and falling organic clicks: thread. The owner has shifted SEO money, but results are n…
Article5 product pages that answer the buyer's next question first
Five brands are pushing fresh ad budget behind product pages this fall, and what counts as new ranges from a second-generation device to a bundle offer on an e…
ArticleA 7-Day plan for Shopify Sellers facing a payout hold
@hamzabandz said Shopify Payments had been disabled and €84,000 was being held for up to 120 days. The post also listed 2,196 orders and a 0.09% chargeback rat…
Hot NewsSeller says Shopify Payments froze €84,000 and rejected appeal
In a post, @hamzabandz said Shopify Payments had disabled the account about two hours earlier, freezing €84,000 for up to 120 days and stopping customers from…
ArticleAI Product Photos: Test the scene, Keep the product accurate
Two reports point in opposite directions on AI product photos. One brand reported a higher ad click-through rate after using AI to change the scene around real…
ArticleSmall Shopify stores can’t always compete on speed, but they can offer delivery clarity
On October 5, 2026, u/Adapowers asked r/ecommerce whether two giant retailers are a real Q4 threat: one is gearing up to offer same-day delivery on some orders…
Hot NewsGoogle asks publishers to fact-check AI content by hand
For Shopify teams using AI to fill catalogues in bulk, the practical task is to check titles, alt text and product facts before each page goes live.
Hot NewsHalloween has become a Shopping Season, and it now overlaps with Prime Big Deal Days
Halloween in the US is expected to draw a record $13.5 billion this year, per retaildive.com, and the season now stretches across weeks instead of one night. T…
ArticleChatGPT now pulls from Shopify Catalog: what your product pages need in text before you redesign
On September 16, 2026, @harleyf announced that ChatGPT Ads for Shopify is live and that Shopify became OpenAI's first commerce partner.
Hot NewsSeveral AI video tools now take a product link and fix scenes by chat
On September 22, Pexo showed a launch video in which every fix was a chat message, aimed at a known AI video problem: one wrong word meant paying to regenerate…
Hot NewsAdobe forecasts $275.1B in US online holiday sales, with Cyber Week jumps in everyday goods
Adobe forecast that US shoppers will spend $275.1 billion online from November 1 to December 31, up 6.7% from last year, according to Adobe's announcement. Ado…
Hot NewsInstinct says more than $1B a year goes through its agent; in Accenture's survey, 9% of consumers would let an agent buy alone
Noah Shinn, the founder of the personal AI agent Instinct, said in an episode of the Invest Like the Best podcast published September 28 that more than $1 bill…
Hot NewsShopify launches Canvas, an AI store designer for faster builds
On October 1, 2026, Shopify announced Canvas, a design surface that shows every page of a store on one board and lets merchants edit by click or by chat with S…
Hot NewsA Shopify seller says a conversion-rate drop was a counting gap
On August 31, Shopify seller @jlarkin353 said on X that they spent a week looking for the cause of a falling conversion rate and found it in the report. The re…
Hot NewsShopify says median store TTFB (time to first byte) fell about 29% at p75
On September 22, Shopify said on its performance blog that it now streams Liquid storefronts (stores whose pages are rendered from Shopify's Liquid theme templ…
Hot NewsDiscount apps can now register with Sidekick: what sellers check
Shopify said on September 30 that discount apps built with Shopify Functions can register an intent that lets Sidekick open their create and edit flows, two da…
Hot NewsAmazon asked out of Meta's Muse as Shopify opened to it: why a small Shopify store may stay in
On September 24, the ecommerce trade publication Practical Ecommerce set two answers to Meta's Muse shopping agent side by side: Shopify opened to Muse and Ama…
Hot NewsBrowser AI agents can now fill in Shopify checkouts, with the buyer confirming the order
On September 28, Shopify added WebMCP tools for checkout, which let an AI agent running in a shopper's browser read and update an eligible Shopify checkout, pe…
ArticleBefore You Buy Stock: A 7-Day Demand Check for Shopify Sellers
Two founders on r/ecommerce say they spent about 18 months developing a linen and cotton blanket that folds into a flower bouquet. Product development, manufac…
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