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Global Selling for Shopify Markets

This article will help you learn how to enhance the shopping experience for global Shopify Markets with Boost.

Written by Thomas Ta
Updated this week

📖 Boost integrates seamlessly with Shopify Markets with Global Selling feature, enabling merchants to sell internationally with ease. This compatibility enhances the shopping experience by providing localized content, currencies, and language support, allowing merchants to expand globally.

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  • Available on Basic (Legacy) subscription and higher, and on all GMV-based plans.

  • The Activate Market catalogs and Stock status by shipping locations settings below are not available on the Free plan.


How to access Global Selling

On Boost App admin, go to Settings > Global selling.

(Optional) To open Global selling, you can also go to Integration > Third-party integration, filter by Global selling, and click Configure on the Global-E card.


Key features

Product Catalog Display

Boost ensures that shoppers only see products available in their selected market. This respects the Shopify Markets' catalog rules set by merchants, showing or hiding products accordingly.

What to Expect:
If a product is excluded from a market in Shopify’s settings, it will not appear in Boost-powered widgets such as search results, collection pages, or recommendations for that market.

Price Display

Boost supports Shopify Markets’ local pricing configuration.

What to Expect:
Shoppers will see prices in the correct currency and pricing tier based on the selected market. Any price adjustments or fixed market prices set in Shopify will be reflected in the Boost app’s product displays.

Translation

Boost supports multilingual selling via Shopify Markets with these specifics:

What Boost Translates:

  • All Boost-managed labels (e.g., filter titles, widget headings, search labels) follow Shopify’s default translation settings for the selected market.

What Boost Does Not Translate:

  • Filter option values and product data (like tags, titles, and vendors) are not automatically translated by Boost.

  • If you use a third-party translation app (e.g., Langify, Weglot), you must ensure it supports Shopify's native translation framework for compatibility.

Filters

Boost’s filter functionality is designed to work seamlessly with Shopify Markets.

What to Expect:

  • Filter options and values shown will only include products that are available in the selected market.

  • This ensures that irrelevant filters are removed, making the browsing experience smoother and more accurate for shoppers.

Sync Functionalities

Multiple Currencies

Boost syncs with Shopify’s multi-currency feature, displaying product prices accurately in each market’s preferred currency.

Multiple Languages

Boost supports Shopify’s multi-language functionality, enabling product and search content to appear in the appropriate language for each region.

Market Lists, Product Catalogs, and Price Adjustments

  • Product catalogs, pricing rules, and market lists are automatically updated to reflect each market’s specific needs.

  • Sync Options:

    • Automatic Sync: Real-time updates ensure store data is aligned with Shopify Markets. The auto-sync frequency varies based on your Boost plan.

    • Manual Sync: Trigger immediate updates via the Sync Overview menu for currencies, languages, and product catalogs.


Activate Market catalogs

The Market catalogs block lets you display the correct product list per market based on Shopify's catalog inclusion and exclusion rules. Activating it enables Storefront API / D2C sync directly from the app admin — no need to contact Support.

How to activate

  1. Go to Settings > Global selling.

  2. In the Market catalogs block, click Activate.

  3. If the required permissions are already granted, the button changes to Activated and the feature is enabled.

  4. If permissions are missing, you'll be redirected to Shopify's permission screen. After you approve, a success banner appears and the status switches to Activated.

Global-E integration

If you're using Global-E, activating Market catalogs also ensures accurate pricing and product availability based on your Global-E market configuration. No separate setup is needed, the same Activate step covers both Shopify Markets and Global-E.


Stock status by shipping locations

Use this setting to display stock status based on your fulfillment locations and shipping zones. Products that can't be shipped to the shopper's market are hidden on the storefront.

Turn this off if you're not using shipping-location settings in Shopify.

How to turn it on

  1. Go to Settings > Global selling.

  2. Find the Stock status by shipping locations block.

  3. Toggle it On.

  4. If the required permissions are already granted, the toggle stays on.

  5. If permissions are missing, you'll be redirected to Shopify's permission screen. After you approve, a success banner appears and the toggle stays on.

Note: By default, this toggle is off.

⚠️ If you downgrade from a paid plan to the Free plan while using these settings:

  • Market catalogs resets to Activate (disabled).

  • Stock status by shipping locations turns off (disabled).

Both settings stay disabled until you upgrade to a paid plan again.


Feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team via chat if you have any questions or require additional assistance.

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