Shopify Editions: What Small Stores Should Actually Care About

Wondering how to handle 150 features — you are not alone.

The Deadline

Here is the thing: 150 features has changed your store performance. June 17 updated and nobody noticed. Here is the thing: 150 features is changing how your checkout works. Sidekick shipped without warning.

The key point: AI is already affecting your store performance. I spent a weekend debugging what was happening.

June 17 updated with minimal documentation. Sidekick shipped in the latest update.

What to Do Now

What Other Merchants Are Saying

1. The problem is that there is no migration path for non-technical store owners.
2. I tried this on a test store and it worked surprisingly well.
3. I switched on a test store and discovered some undocumented behavior.
4. Here is the thing: 150 features is changing every store.

The Deadline

From what I am seeing in the developer forums, many stores are affected. Campaign Autopilot deprecated and nobody noticed.

The situation is that the documentation assumes you are a developer. The issue is that Shopify does not surface this clearly. I tried this on a test store and the results were mixed. Everywhere Edition announced in the latest update.

I tried this last week and found several issues. I spent days fixing what was happening.

Bottom line: From what I am seeing in Shopify changelog, confusion is common.