If you are not familiar with Shopify Editions, they are the most recent iterations of newly added features and future projects under development. Shopify updates its editions every six months, enabling users to leverage new features and utilize them to manage a profitable online business.
The good news? Shopify’s Horizons Summer 2025 Editions include more than 150+ changes, from creative freedom to AI-powered processes. There is something to help you sell, scale, and service your customers more efficiently, regardless of whether you are a one-person business or managing a multinational enterprise.
Along with these upgrades, Horizons has a delightful game called Horizon Drive that is destined to become viral, much like their inventive and entertaining “Boring” Editions from last winter. Excited to know more? Here are the top new features to look out for:
Horizon Themes: All-New Shopify Themes
Shopify unveiled a brand-new set of ten free themes. These themes, however, function completely differently from Shopify’s previous offerings. The themes feature built-in AI to simplify editing and offer numerous new features that enhance design versatility. By bridging the gap between design flexibility and usability, Shopify Hydrogen development gives merchants greater options without the usual design and development boundaries. What’s new?
- Teams can create stores that seem unique without starting from scratch, thanks to nested theme blocks, a smarter structure, and AI-assisted editing.
- Horizon is a significant advancement for brands that require creative freedom without sacrificing speed.
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Next-Gen AI Platform
Regular Shopify store maintenance services and upgrades result in higher sales, according to more than 40% of Shopify store owners. Without circumventing platform restrictions, developers can now work more quickly and produce products of a higher quality.
- Businesses can A/B test design concepts faster across geographies or verticals by creating different shop layouts based on descriptive keywords or market facts.
- Shopify’s growing machine learning models, trained on e-commerce trends, are utilized in AI-generated product content and visuals to ensure marketing appeals to target audiences.
- It integrates with Shopify Plus workflows, minimizing bottlenecks and accelerating time to market, enabling seamless cross-team collaboration among the marketing, merchandising, and UX teams.
The Sidekick Upgrade
We have been using Sidekick since its launch, and it is now becoming more aligned with what merchants actually require: contextual insights, multi-step reasoning, and real-time admin guidance. With this update, Sidekick becomes more than simply a conversation tool—it can now identify sales troughs and guide you through bulk adjustments. It now offers:
- Multi-step reasoning to assist in resolving complicated issues (such as detecting declines in sales).
- Visual creation within the administrator with easy-to-follow instructions.
- Screen sharing, voice chat, and mobile support.
- To accommodate international teams, it is now available in 20 languages.
Newer B2B Tools
Shopify is bridging the gap between direct-to-consumer (DTC) and business-to-business (B2B) experiences. Merchants can serve better wholesale customers by having the flexibility to design region-specific B2B storefronts with distinctive pricing, catalogs, and themes. Additionally, Shopify Plus becomes even more compliant right out of the box thanks to integrated VAT validation.
- Make B2B markets with unique storefronts and catalogs.
- Validation of VAT numbers and minimum and maximum order quantities.
- B2B gift cards are now accepted, and NetSuite integration is more tightly maintained.
- Additional B2B-compatible applications and a lower sales threshold to become a member of Shopify Collective.
Increasing SKU Complexity Without Sacrificing Quality
The complexity of enterprise product catalogs is well known. Shopify Plus’s recently extended variation restrictions permit:
- Each product has tens of thousands of variations, enabling intricate assortments that include multi-dimensional features, bundled offerings, and configurable items.
- Improved inventory control by using Shopify’s improved APIs to sync variant data with supply chain and ERP systems.
- Optimized variation loading has improved storefront speed, guaranteeing a smooth shopping experience even with a large number of product combinations.
Refund to Store Credits and Shipping
It is a significant change despite being one of the less noteworthy Shopify features revealed during the Summer Edition. Regardless of how the consumer made the purchase, refunds can now be issued as shop credit by the administrator or through the point-of-sale system. This increases control over retention and streamlines post-purchase processes. It includes:
- Print 250 labels in bulk at once.
- Barcode scanning for more reliable tracking and transfers.
- Flat delivery costs for orders from many locations.
- Enhanced suitability for new carriers (Puerator, SEUR, and BRT).
Quicker and Friendlier POS
Shopify’s POS transformation is more complex than it first appears. It all comes down to easier checkout processes and a more positive in-store atmosphere, from quicker navigation and more intelligent search to allowing customers to pick up a portion of an order and have the other items shipped later. You can now use Tap to Pay to transform your phone into a payment terminal, and you can even customize the POS panels with your colors and logos.
- The POS interface has been redesigned to enhance navigation.
- Personalized branding for receipts, carts, and screens.
- Smarter search, shop credit, more detailed payment choices, and the ability to ship and carry out in one order.
- Multi-entity retail setups for international brands are now supported (Shopify Plus only).
Sell Global More Seamlessly
Are you operating internationally or managing several entities? Greetings from the future. With a single admin panel, you can now manage global businesses with various legal entities, currencies, and payment methods. Additionally, scaling is now simpler than ever with Shopify Payments’ availability in 16 new European markets as well as Mexico.
- Payouts in several currencies to cut down on foreign exchange costs.
- Product pricing that incorporates duties, DDP shipping, and Klarna’s expansion into further EU nations.
- Create submarkets and tailor each region’s experience to meet its unique needs.
Better, Actionable, and Customizable Analytics
The 24-hour lag is eliminated with real-time analytics, which is essential for retailers conducting flash deals and time-sensitive marketing. With the advent of fully configurable dashboards, businesses can now target data to important stakeholders, such as operations teams tracking inventory velocity or C-level executives concentrating on ROI indicators. Data pipelines can now feed enterprise-wide analytics ecosystems with advanced reporting features, such as drag-and-drop report generation and connectivity with third-party business intelligence (BI) solutions.
- More intelligent real-time product recommendations.
- Product detail pages that are shoppable and connect to your store.
- Enhanced oversight, store credit support, and customer-selected collections.
Summing Up
The Summer 2025 Edition of Horizons is more than just a list of enhancements; it’s a clear sign that Shopify is actively building the future of commerce! Every improvement, from global payment capabilities to AI-assisted design, suggests a platform that is growing stronger, more adaptable, and more developer and merchant-friendly with every release.
Where to begin with the new POS, Sidekick or Horizon? We’ll assist you in unlocking these updates, customizing them to fit your business, and confidently expanding your operations. Explore our Shopify development services to learn more about the interesting updates and transform your Shopify business store today!
