If you are following our blog regularly, you might have noticed that we are releasing comprehensive pieces about every big event happening in the Shopify ecosystem. Especially this year, we did it for Shopify Pursuit Amsterdam 2020 and Shopify Shop release recently.
And the latest fruit of our tradition is on SHOPIFY REUNITE 2020 which happened as livestream on 20 May 2020. As you know, due to COVID-19 pandemic, the UNITE 2020 is cancelled. And Shopify came up with online events to announce this years e-commerce developments. These updates also shape how merchants can turn Shopify store into mobile app and adapt to the evolving eCommerce landscape. There were pretty important announcements in REUNITE 2020:
If you’d like to watch the whole livestream you can just play its recorded video below.
#Shopify #ShopifyReunite Welcome to Shopify Reunite—our first-ever virtual event for Shopify merchants. Today, our executives and product leaders share upcoming features, major announcements, and exc…
You can also visit Shopify’s blog post to read about everything announced and exclusive updates from Shopify Plus.
In this article, we would like to go deeper into the subject of ‘Borderless Commerce’ and understand what Shopify’s announcements mean for the future of e-commerce.
Obviously, it is the commerce beyond borders in literal meaning. For Shopify stores it means global sales, internationalization and localization. It’s been a long while since Shopify encouraged its merchants for international expansion. And it’s now providing the eCommerce store owners with a new supportive set after REUNITE 2020:
Let’s go through each.
You can scale your global eCommerce strategy with a localized buying experience for international customers. Whether you manage your business from one store or multiple stores, local domains are a simple way to tailor the currency and language based on your customer’s location to give them a local buying experience.
This is how will your local domains be like
This will be a huge advancement on localization. Especially, for the mid and big size Shopify stores that sell globally. According to Shopify, local domains will be available later this year.
At REUNITE 2020, Shopify announced that you can sell globally using different pricing strategies for different currencies with Custom FX or currencies. You can lock in a ‘set price’ for each currency you sell in. It is giving you more control over your price lists, so you no longer have to worry about constantly fluctuating exchange rates.
Custom FX
You don’t have to deal with the unnecessary figures as a result of dynamic currency conversion anymore. You can set solid prices for your products for each market.
Besides, you can advertise more effectively with Google and Facebook ads in your customers’ local currencies. Your customers will see the same price on your shop as they see in the ad.
This is also really important, because the price differences have always been confusing. And you know there is no tolerance to confusion in sales.
At Shopney, we are providing Shopify merchants +100 countries with the best mobile app solutions to help them win in mobile-centric global eCommerce games. To sell globally, you need to support your customers on following subjects:
We do provide great solutions for all of the subjects. How? You can have multi-currency pricing in your native iOS and Android mobile apps built by Shopney. It is a feature that we offer for a long long time now.
Besides, Shopney is the only mobile app builder in Shopify App Store that supports 15 different languages in dynamic fields of the mobile apps like buttons and pop-up windows.
Shopney – Weglot Integration translates your mobile app
With our latest integration with Weglot, you can now translate your store’s entire content at 100% including product names and descriptions. So, this feature eliminates the biggest barrier for global eCommerce success of your Shopify store. You can learn more about Shopney – Weglot integration in our related blog post.
Lastly, we have in-app live chat in all of our mobile apps. This feature is available for all plans, even if you are using SILVER PLAN of Shopney, you can still benefit from it for your global eCommerce strategy.
In-app live chat enables your mobile app users to start an instant conversation with you about any issue within the app. And all the conversation happens in real-time. As you know the importance of reaction time to a customer’s issues, you can guess how much of a value this feature means for your business.
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