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Shopify Editions Fall '26: The Exponential Edition
"Shopping is in our blood. It's the one thing that we care about the most, more than anyone else. And so if anyone's gonna do that work, why not us?"
Shopify VP of Product Vanessa Lee returns to break down the Fall '26 Edition, Shopify's tenth, which Shopify calls the Exponential Edition. The theme is network effects: features only Shopify can build because millions of merchants share one platform.
Vanessa covers Shopify Protect writing chargeback evidence with AI, Shop Promise opening to far more stores, and Shop MCP and shop.md, which turn any AI agent into a personal shopper. Then the…
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