agentic storefronts

Shopify’s insistence that “LLMs do not bypass Shopify’s checkout” was not a throwaway line; it was the framing of an argument that the company is trying to win as AI turns conversational interfaces into a mainstream shopping surface. On its Q4 2025 earnings call, Shopify executives described the...

Shopify and Google’s joint push around a new open standard — the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) — and Shopify’s concurrent rollout of Agentic Storefronts and an expanded Shopify Catalog mark a decisive moment in the evolution of conversational commerce. The announcements position UCP as the...

Shopify’s new Agentic Storefronts and the co‑developed Universal Commerce Protocol mark a decisive step toward making AI assistants not just discovery surfaces but full shopping environments — letting Google’s Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT and other agents find, present and complete...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 push and its Q3 results together sketch a rare moment when product momentum, profitable unit economics, and strategic partnerships converge — creating a credible path for the company to move from platform leader to foundational commerce infrastructure in the AI era...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 roll‑out makes AI-driven commerce not just a feature but an operating model — Agentic Storefronts, the expanded Shopify Catalog, and a suite of merchant tools knit product discovery, attribution, and in‑chat checkout into a single commerce ecosystem that could materially...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition turns a headline product launch into an explicitly strategic play: make millions of merchants agent-ready for AI-driven shopping, stitch catalogs and checkout into conversational agents, and use payments and product-data scale to defend a central position in the next...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 “RenAIssance” edition pushes conversational AI from curiosity to commerce-ready channel, letting merchants make their entire product catalogs discoverable, shoppable, and controllable inside assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — all from a single...

Title: Shopify’s Winter ’26 “RenAIssance”: What Agentic Storefronts, Sidekick and SimGym Mean for Australian (and Windows-focused) Retailers Deck: Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition — branded the “RenAIssance” — is a large, platform-wide push that stitches AI into storefronts, POS, developer tools and...

Shopify’s Winter ’26 Edition rolls out a sweeping new capability — Agentic Storefronts — designed to make any Shopify merchant discoverable and sellable inside AI-powered conversations on assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot with a single setup in the Shopify admin. This is...

Shopify’s latest Editions release turns a previously theoretical shift—selling directly through conversational AI—into something merchants can opt into now, with the company rolling out agentic storefronts that make products discoverable inside AI chat platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and...