# Release Notes & Changelog

Read about new features, fixes, and improvements that we've made to Retail Cloud Connect.

If you have an idea for us, we'd love to hear it! Please contact us and we'll do our best to get it on the roadmap.

# 2024

Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now support additional translations for international catalogs
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now show availability as a toggle
We're funded! We're scaling up our engineering team to deliver an even better Shopify App experience in 2025

We've made it easier for Shopify merchants to sync their product catalog data between automatic scheduled imports
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block product cards now support additional public product metafields
We've made UX improvements throughout our Shopify App Blocks to improve product filtering on mobile and desktop devices

Shopify's rating metafield data type is now used to improve third-party and native app integrations
Shopify App Blocks can now be rendered as Web Components to support headless implementations such as Hydrogen

Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now use a Load More button or pagination to show multiple pages of results
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks have been optimized to load faster with fewer dependencies
Shopify fulfillment details and local inventory availability is now considered when returning online results

Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block price filters are now returned in localized Shopify Market currencies
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block filters are now collapsed by default on mobile devices
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block product cards now support additional wishlist app integrations
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks no longer display single-value facets that do not affect PLP filtering
Google Cloud introduced Remove from Cart User Events to improve AI model training

Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block filters now have a Clear Filters button
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now leverage custom JavaScript to fire onClick events such as opening a cart modal
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Block sections can now be re-ordered for additional design flexibility and customization
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now display product rating stars and review quantities
We've deployed additional serving infrastructure in Europe and Australia to improve global performance
Shopify Recommendations AI App Blocks have been optimized for speed and accessibility across devices
Our team took some awesome vacations to rest and recharge - work hard, play hard!

Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now return variants product sizes and/or colors
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks now display secondary images on hover
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks filters can now be positioned above products, offering more design flexibility

Believe it or not, our daily full Shopify catalog imports are even faster now
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks now display product reviews and badges such as, Sale
Shopify merchants can now create additional Retail API Custom Attributes using Shopify tags with Tag Groups
Shopify merchants can now use tags to ignore products during Retail API catalog imports
Shopify merchants can now import specific collections to the Retail API to improve merchandising experiences
Shopify Search Results and Product Grid App Blocks can now return a dynamic slider for attributes with a range of values such as product dimensions
Network calls have been optimized in our Storefront API to improve performance - average response time is now 48ms, and p95 is < 230ms

All of our Shopify customers can now use all of their markets and currencies with one Google Cloud retail catalog
Shopify collection updates are now sent to the Retail API in near-real-time and products are returned prior to the next scheduled catalog sync
Shopify merchants can now use a single Google Cloud catalog to serve all currencies and markets
Additional custom pricing is now available for Shopify merchants between our Starter and Growth plans

The search bar within Shopify App Blocks now updates search results as a customer types, merchants can also add this functionality to their primary search bar
Customers can now sort Search Results and Product Grid Shopify App Blocks by Newest
We have optimized Shopify App Block images to load faster
We have fixed a bug where Recommendations AI revenue was sporadically counted twice upon a Shopify conversion
We are now performing additional data enrichment and cleanup activities during catalog imports to improve navigation and search results
Merchants can now override default facet and filter sort order in Liquid, as opposed to strictly relying on Dynamic Facets

We have improved the Shopify App UX when enabling user event tracking on the Theme Installation page, this is now more clear when the installation is successful
Shopify merchants can now target individual components on App Blocks, such as facet names or headers, to rename them or apply translations
Shopify App Blocks now reference the store-wide currency format settings to ensure consistency in symbols and decimals across pages
The Product Grid Shopify App Block for Collection pages can now include the collection description and a search bar

Real-time inventory and pricing updates are now available to all Shopify App merchants to ensure accuracy between search results, collection, and product pages and avoid displaying out-of-stock products or inaccurate pricing
Shopify merchants can now select one or more product catalog Tags in the Google Cloud Retail API catalog import settings, this is particularly useful if the data is not available in a metafield
Shopify merchants can now select any metadata field for "Color" instead of the default, built-in product variant field
We now import Shopify SKUs by default and recommend that merchants set the attribute as "Exact Match" and "Searchable" in the Google Cloud Retail API settings - this was a common request for internal website users and support staff who prefer to search by SKU

We have unified App Block CSS classes to make it easier for Shopify merchants to customize the look and feel of their search results, collection pages, and recommendations - this includes the ability to target specific facet filters by name
Retail Cloud Connect has finished the private beta period and is now live on the Shopify App Store