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Shopify Development Blog
Notes on Shopify development, integrations, and building things that hold up at scale.
Shopify's Built-In Returns vs a Returns App: Which Do You Need?
What Shopify's own self-serve returns handle well, where UK stores tend to outgrow them, and the questions to ask before installing a returns app.
Exchanges vs Refunds: How Shopify Stores Can Keep the Sale
Why offering exchanges and store credit at the moment of return keeps revenue a refund would lose, and how to set it up without making customers feel trapped.
UK Returns Law for Online Shops: What Shopify Merchants Need to Know
The 14-day right to cancel, refund deadlines, who pays return postage and which items are exempt, explained for UK Shopify stores.
How to Set Up Royal Mail Returns on Shopify
Three ways to handle Royal Mail return labels on Shopify, from doing it by hand in Click & Drop to sending one automatically the moment you approve.
Shopify Headless Commerce: What Hydrogen Actually Buys You
A Shopify developer's take on headless commerce: what Hydrogen and the Storefront API change, and what building a live multi-brand storefront taught me.
Shopify's 2026 Collections Update: Automation and Curation, Finally Together
A Shopify developer's take on the 2026 Collections update: multi-source collections, variant-level targeting, and what it means for merchandising.
Shopify's Block and Partial Tags: A Developer Preview Worth Paying Attention To
A Shopify developer's take on the new {% block %} and {% partial %} Liquid tags in developer preview, and why they're a real theme-building improvement.
Shopify's Spring '26 Edition: What Developers Should Actually Be Happy About
A working Shopify developer's take on the Spring '26 Edition: the API, Functions and CLI changes that make a real difference day-to-day.