Merges Release Notes

Merges Works with Shipping in Markets

Shopify is moving shipping from shipping profiles to Markets, store by store, starting October 1, 2026. Once your store has switched, Settings, Shipping and delivery shows “Shipping has moved to Markets”. Merges works with both the old and the new setup and adjusts automatically when your store switches.

What this means for you:

• Your rates stay as they are: Merges never changes the shipping rates you set up.
• Rates from apps carry over: If an app, such as a print-on-demand service, provides shipping rates for your original products, your merged products get the same rates.
• Collections carry over: Merged products join the same manual collections as their originals, so rates you set for a collection apply to them too.

Shipping sync is included in every paid plan. You’ll find it in Merges under Settings, Shipping & delivery.

August 17, 2026

Smarter Option and Variant Generation

Merges works out which options a merged product needs and how every source variant maps onto them. We have rebuilt that step from the ground up. Instead of filling options product by product, Merges now looks at the whole selection first, decides on one consistent option structure, and only then assigns values. The result is fewer surprises in the editor, especially on large merges and on products that already use three options.

What’s new:

• Nothing gets dropped: When your source products already use three options, Merges no longer removes an option to make room. Every option that matters to shoppers is kept, and values are combined sensibly where it has to.
• Consistent names and values across the whole merge: Option names follow Shopify’s standard product taxonomy where one applies, and values are written the same way on every variant, so “Size” is not “Größe” on one product and “size” on the next.
• Your language, your instructions: Option names and values stay in your shop’s language, including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian spellings. Custom option instructions, preferred option names and allowed option names are now enforced, not just suggested. …

Ask Sidekick About Your Merged Products

When you merge products, Shopify archives the originals, and from that moment the connection between a merged variant and the product it came from lives in Merges. Sidekick, Shopify’s AI assistant, could not see that connection. Now it can. Merges answers Sidekick’s questions about your merged catalog directly, so you can ask in plain language and get correct answers, whether you’re on the Shopify home screen, the product list, or inside Merges itself.

What’s new:

• Trace any variant to its origin: Ask “which products did this merged product come from?” and Sidekick lists the original product behind each variant, including cases where an original has since been deleted.
• Follow a SKU through a merge: “Where did SKU LIN-BLU-M end up?” returns the merged product and variant carrying it today, plus the product it was taken from.
• Check inventory sync in conversation: “Is my inventory sync working?” gets a store-wide summary by state, and any failing variants come back with the location and the reason in plain language. If sync is off for your store, Sidekick says so instead of guessing. …

Mirror Original Products: Live Inventory and Pricing for Merged Listings

Until now, a merged product was a snapshot: accurate on the day you merged, drifting a little more every day after. Mirror original products closes that gap. Your merged listings can now follow their source products automatically, so what customers see is what your warehouse actually holds.

Who is this for? Mirroring is needed only when a third party service still manages stock or pricing through your original products, such as a print-on-demand service, a dropshipping supplier, a warehouse, or an ERP that cannot be switched over to the merged products and cannot match them by SKU. If you manage stock yourself in Shopify, you can leave it off.

What’s new:

• Live inventory mirroring: When stock moves on an original product, the merged listing follows within moments. Units already committed to open orders are counted correctly, so a busy day cannot oversell a merged product.
• Prices and details stay current: Price, compare-at price, SKU and barcode mirror from the original, each with its own toggle per location. End a sale on the original and the strikethrough disappears from the merged product too. …

Route Orders to Originals: New Orders Carry Your Original Products

Merged products are great for your storefront and tricky for fulfillment: print-on-demand and dropshipping partners only recognize the original variants they were set up with. Route orders to originals resolves that the moment an order arrives. New orders containing merged products are edited automatically so the original variants are on the order, and your existing fulfillment setup just works.

Who is this for? Routing is needed only when a third party service handles fulfillment through your original products, such as a print-on-demand service, a dropshipper, a warehouse, or an ERP that cannot be switched over to the merged products and cannot match them by SKU. If your service finds products by SKU, or you fulfill orders yourself, you can leave it off.

What’s new:

• Automatic swapping on new orders: The moment an order comes in, merged items are replaced with their originals, so your fulfillment partner sees exactly the product it expects.
• The total never moves: Every swap is checked to keep the order total identical before it is applied, including orders with discount codes. Your customer pays what they saw at checkout, always. …

Credit Rollover Extended: Bank Up to 6x Your Monthly Credits

Your unused merge credits now go much further. Credit rollover has been extended from 2x to 6x your monthly allowance, and every paid billing cycle now adds its credits to your balance, even the months you don’t open the app.

What’s new:

• A 6x rollover cap: Unused credits accumulate up to 6x your plan’s monthly credits. BASIC (500 per month) banks up to 3,000, and PRO (3,000 per month) banks up to 18,000.
• Credits for every paid month: Step away for a season and each billing cycle’s credits are still added to your balance, up to the cap. This also covers past months, so if you’re returning from a break, your balance may already have grown.
• Downgrades keep your banked credits: Switch to a smaller plan and your accumulated credits come along, capped at the new plan’s 6x limit.
• Built for seasonal stores: Keep your subscription through the off-season and your credits wait for you. Six unused months on BASIC banks the full 3,000.

Good to know: banked credits stay with you for as long as your subscription is active; cancelling forfeits the remaining balance. Trial credits are one-time and don’t roll over, and the UNLIMITED plan doesn’t count credits at all. …

A Refreshed Interface, Built to Shopify's Latest Standards

Merges has been refreshed from top to bottom to follow Shopify’s latest design standards. Every page now looks and feels like a native part of your Shopify admin, so nothing gets between you and your next merge.

What’s new:

• Native look and feel: Pages, navigation, and actions now match the rest of your admin, right down to spacing and typography.
• Cleaner product and variant tables: The product picker, merge selection, and variant lists follow the admin’s familiar table layout, and they now work smoothly inside dialogs too.
• Faster first loads: Pages show a lightweight preview while your data loads, so you always see structure instead of a blank screen.
• Better readability: Improved color contrast on badges, links, and icons makes the app easier to read for everyone.

Under the hood, the interface now runs on the same building blocks Shopify uses for the admin itself, which keeps Merges fast and consistent as Shopify evolves.

The refreshed interface is already live for everyone. Open Merges and everything works the way you expect, right where you expect it.

July 8, 2026

Find Products Faster: Bulk SKU Lookup & Smarter Filters

Selecting the products for a merge is the first step of every workflow in Merges — so we made it dramatically faster.

Bulk SKU lookup. You can now paste an entire list of SKUs into the product picker. Type sku: in the search field and paste your SKUs after it, separated by commas, spaces, or line breaks. A column copied from a spreadsheet works as is, up to 200 SKUs at a time. Merges finds and selects the matching products as you paste: no pressing Enter, no searching one by one. If a SKU can’t be found, a clear banner tells you exactly which ones, so nothing slips through unnoticed. See Find products by SKU for the full format.

A smarter filter bar. We replaced the old filters with a faster, redesigned filter bar:

• Vendor and product type autocomplete: Start typing and matching values from your store appear immediately — no more scrolling through long lists.
• Cleaner sorting: A reorganized sort panel puts the field and direction side by side, one tap away.
• Snappier interactions: Dropdowns are lighter and quicker, with one panel open at a time so the picker always stays readable.

Together with bulk SKU lookup, narrowing down even a catalog with thousands of products now takes seconds. …