Shopify Unite is Shopify's largest annual event, featuring updates and various events for partners. Following last year's event, this year's event was held entirely online due to COVID-19. Here's a brief summary of the key topics.

"Shopify is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2020, over 450 million people made payments on Shopify, generating approximately $120 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV)."

App Store Fee

• 0% commission on sales under $1 million starting August 1, 2021
• A one-time registration fee will be charged upon app registration.

Online Store 2.0

• A wider range of store modifications without code modifications
• We're launching a new set of developer features, including sections on every page, a new editor, and theme app extensions.
• New default theme Dawn released
• Expanding hosting areas to all regions with CDN logic running on over 100 servers, with the upcoming launch of hosting platform Oxygen.
• Ability to add metafields and custom content properties

Shopify Checkout Extension

• Process tens of thousands of purchases per minute across all your stores with Shopify Checkout.
• Added Checkout extension to enable developers to build apps securely.
• Easily build your own unique checkout experience with Shopify Plus
• Launch of a payments platform that provides merchants with new sales growth opportunities by integrating third-party payment gateways with Shopify Checkout.

Developer-Entrepreneurs

• Developer Console Release
• Google Cloud Pub/Sub Integration
• Updated App Store search functionality and introduced app advertising.

Storefront API update

• Multi-currency, store pickup, and meta field updates
• Storefront API schema update

Hydrogen

• Launching a development kit that includes React components