Release Notes / Autumn 2025
Shopify Release Notes September 2025: Instant Add to Cart and Better Metafield Support
By Stacy
Sept 11 2025
2 min to read
We’re always working on ways to make your store easier to manage and your customers’ shopping journey smoother. This month, we’re excited to introduce two updates that do just that.
The first makes the buying process faster and more convenient, letting shoppers add items directly to their cart without ever leaving search results. The second expands your control over product data, giving you more flexibility to fine-tune filters, collections, and merchandising strategies. Dive in!
The first makes the buying process faster and more convenient, letting shoppers add items directly to their cart without ever leaving search results. The second expands your control over product data, giving you more flexibility to fine-tune filters, collections, and merchandising strategies. Dive in!
Table of contents:
Instant Add to Cart from Search
Your customers can now add products directly to their cart from the Instant search widget (ISW).
Why It Matters
- Faster conversions: Reduce steps in the purchase journey and capture buying intent in the moment.
- Improve user experience and average order value: Encourage impulse purchases by removing friction from product discovery to checkout.
- Brand consistency: Customize button colors, text, and translations to align perfectly with your store’s style.
- Smart functionality: Automatically switches to "View Cart" after adding items.
Add to cart buttons displayed
How to Get Started
- Navigate to Search & Navigation > ISW > Content
- Enable the Show "Add to Cart" button setting
- Customize colors in Search & Navigation > ISW > Template & Colors
- Add custom text or translations if needed
Set up instructions
Metaobject & Category Metafield Support
We’ve expanded metafield functionality to now support metaobjects and category metafields. This gives you deeper control over product data, merchandising, and filtering.
You can now use Shopify's metaobjects and category metafields in your search and filtering setup with the familiar namespace.key format.
You can now use Shopify's metaobjects and category metafields in your search and filtering setup with the familiar namespace.key format.
Filters by metafield
Why This Matters for Your Business
- Metaobject support: Add metafields that reference metaobjects to search and filtering using namespace.key format
- Category metafield compatibility: Use Shopify's category metafields (with shopify.* namespace) for search and filters
- Support for Shopify’s metaobject-based collection conditions: Our app fully supports collections created in Shopify using metaobject conditions.
How to Get Started
Check out the following help articles:
How to create filters by product metafields
How to show product/variant metafield values in the widgets on Shopify
How to manage product preferences
Need a hand or want to dive deeper into features? Our support team is always here for you at feedback@searchanise.io
Explore more:
BFCM 2025 Content Hub
How to Show Shopify Product Variants as Separate Products (And Why You Should)
How to Increase Sales on Shopify: Guide with Proven Techniques
How to create filters by product metafields
How to show product/variant metafield values in the widgets on Shopify
How to manage product preferences
Need a hand or want to dive deeper into features? Our support team is always here for you at feedback@searchanise.io
Explore more:
BFCM 2025 Content Hub
How to Show Shopify Product Variants as Separate Products (And Why You Should)
How to Increase Sales on Shopify: Guide with Proven Techniques
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Stacy
Stacy is a content creator at Searchanise. Her professional areas of interest are SaaS solutions and ecommerce. Stacy believes that quality content must be valuable for readers and achieve business goals. When she is not busy writing, which does not happen often, she reads passionately, both fiction and non-fiction literature.
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