Issue 217 - Host Your Own Tools on Internal Shopify Pages

Host your own internal tools inside regular Shopify pages

Did you know you can host your own internal tools inside regular Shopify pages? Here's how

By Filippos Dematis

After building on Shopify for years, I finally shipped my first app

After building on Shopify for years, I finally shipped my first app. Metaobjects are powerful… but editing them one-by-one is a pain, so I built Structa – Metaobject Bulk Editor.

By Taksh Shah

AskUCP - Global AI Shopping Search

AskUCP is one of the first applications built on the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard developed by Google and Shopify that enables any application to query products across e-commerce platforms without APIs, integrations, or middlemen.

By Ask UCP

How to Copy and Paste Sections in Shopify (and When You Should Use It)

If you spend a lot of time in Shopify’s theme editor, you’ve probably had this moment: you build a section, get it looking exactly right, and then realize you want that same layout somewhere else. Another page. Another template. Another landing page.

By Brendan Quigley

Introducing functionHandle for Shopify Functions

As of the 2025-10 API version, we’re introducing support for user-defined handles as the identifier for Shopify Functions in GraphQL mutations. Instead of passing a globally unique functionId in mutations that create or manage function owners, you can pass a stable, app-scoped handle that you define

By Shopify

Standardized target and operation names across Function APIs

We’ve standardized target and operation names in the Cart Transform, Delivery Customization, Fulfillment Constraints, Order Routing, Payment Customization, Cart and Checkout Validation APIs for better consistency and extensibility

By Shopify

Cart metafields are accessible in Shopify Functions and Checkout UI extensions

You can now read cart metafields in the GraphQL input query for Shopify Functions. Checkout UI extensions can also read and write cart metafields for abandoned carts, order edits, and draft orders, in addition to previously supported resources.

By Shopify