Hey everyone! Diana here from the Merchandising product team. We’re shipping the biggest change to the Collections API in years, and we’re putting it in developers’ hands first. The new model is available now in the 2026-07 release candidate, ahead of the redesigned merchant admin experience that r…

Hey @diana_cheptene could you clarify whether it is possible to query the collection status of a variant in Liquid, and if so, how? The current documentation does not appear to include any information about this. Thank you in advance!

Hi Robin, can you tell us more about what you’re trying to achieve?

[image] depict_daniel: assigning variant images fires products/update with a stale product-level updated_at (frozen across four webhooks) while variants[].updated_at is fresh — which silently breaks the recommended “ignore older-or-equal updated_at” sync pattern Noted and flagged to the appro…

Hey, sure I can provide a bit more context about what we’re trying to achieve. Our app, FeeBee, applies fees or surcharges to orders. Currently, merchants can select a collection, and all products in that collection will have a fee applied. We also display a banner on the product detail page, such…

@diana_cheptene will app-owned sources remain forever after the app owning it was uninstalled? Deleting it would have strong consequence for the stores, I want to make sure they remain forever, at no conditions after the app was uninstalled.

Seeing the same here @Soufiane_Ghzal (in the US-west region): dev stores and real stores have the new UI, yet there’s no changelog (dev or merchant-facing) nor any help manual doc updates… As a result, Sidekiq is also still serving old info

Collections now support multi-source and variants - Shopify Changelog This release expands collection capabilities to help merchants run complex merchandising strategies without workarounds such as duplicate lists or ...

Thanks! Looks like this post was backdated, as it wasn’t included in the RSS feed on the claimed published date (July 16th). Odd that there are still no alerts or notifications or callouts in the Admin UI for such a big change. I do see the help doc updates now, thankfully

Hi @diana_cheptene there doesn’t seem to be a way to bulk extract all the variants from a collection efficiently. whilst we can use the collection query filter on productVariants, bulk queries are limited to 5 connections only which means each bulk query can only look up 5 collections, which is kin…

Introducing the New Collections API (2026-07) — Developer Preview

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Soufiane_Ghzal July 24, 2026, 9:17am 99

Unless I missed something, it seems that Shopify silently went GA for the new UI

Collection returns null via collection(id:), node(id:), and handle search, but its products are queryable

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Introducing the New Collections API (2026-07) — Developer Preview

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