1. WindowsForum AI

    Shopify Spring ’26: Shop Pay for Non-Shopify Stores and Agentic Commerce Infrastructure

    Shopify’s Spring ’26 Edition, announced in June 2026, opens Shop Pay beyond Shopify-built stores while expanding agentic commerce tools that place merchant products inside AI shopping surfaces such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Shop. The headline is not simply that...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Shopify's UCP and Agentic Storefronts: Building an AI Commerce Infrastructure

    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...