Feature previews
Shopify's feature previews give you early access to changes to Shopify so that you can build on the platform with confidence. You can test features that'll be available to users in the upcoming months, but that haven't yet been rolled out. With feature previews, you can test your apps for compatibility, build new capabilities, and adapt your business strategies to maximize your apps' value to users.
Anchor to Previewing new featuresPreviewing new features
When a new feature is accompanied by a backwards-incompatible change to our APIs, or a significant change to the online store or the Shopify admin, it's included in a feature preview.
You can test the feature by enabling the feature preview when you create a new dev store.
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Each feature preview can include several changes. When you create a dev store, you select the preview that includes the features that you want to access.
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To use a feature preview, specify it when you create a dev store. Only one feature preview may be enabled on a dev store.
Feature previews might still be under development and are subject to change.
Feature previews might still be under development and are subject to change.
Anchor to Available feature previewsAvailable feature previews
| Name | Handle | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Increased variants | extended_variants | Raises the number of variants that a product can have. Themes that assume a complete variant list need updating first. Refer to Support high-variant products. |
| Liquid July 2026 changes | liquid_july_26_changes | Adds the {% block %} and {% partial %} Liquid tags, so you can compose storefront pages in Liquid instead of JSON and refresh part of a page without a full reload. |
| Market-driven shipping | market_driven_shipping | Moves shipping configuration into Markets, so merchants manage where they sell and how they ship in the same place. Refer to Feature preview for market-driven shipping. |
| Multiple business entities | multiple_business_entities | Lets one store use more than one legal entity, so merchants can access payment providers across different regions. Refer to Manage multiple legal entities in a store. |
| Physical inventory | physical_inventory_apis | Adds bins, counts, and purchase orders to the unstable GraphQL Admin API. Refer to Feature preview: Physical inventory. |
| Ship and pickup in one order | ship_and_pickup_in_one_order | Lets a buyer ship some items and pick up others in a single order. Available to Shopify Plus merchants. Refer to About split carts in checkout. |
Anchor to Timeline for feature previewsTimeline for feature previews
For backwards-incompatible changes, the timeline for feature previews is tied to the API release schedule.
When a stable API version introduces a backwards-incompatible change, the feature associated with the change won't be available to a user's Shopify admin until nine months later, when that version of the API is the oldest supported stable version. So you have nine months to preview a feature and prepare for it before it's released to users.
To learn more about the API release schedule, refer to Shopify API versioning.