Google's Universal Cart lets shoppers buy across stores from Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. Here's how Shopify merchants get their catalog in — and what actually matters.
15 Shopify app ideas worth building in 2026: merchant pain, competition level, and monetization for each, weighted toward AI and agentic commerce.
Consumers say they want AI shopping but also say they will never use it. With agentic commerce still 3% of sales, here is what the trust gap means for you.
Every Shopify store now exposes an API that AI agents can shop. Here are the tools agents use and what your catalog has to get right to win.
Visa and OpenAI's June 10, 2026 deal lets ChatGPT and Codex agents buy at any Visa merchant. Here's how Shopify stores become the product an agent picks.
Mastercard's June 10, 2026 Agent Pay for Machines lets AI agents pay each other. Here's what micropayment rails mean for your e-commerce marketing stack.
AI agents are making purchases on behalf of users. Here's how Shopify brands should optimize PDPs, APIs, and inventory for agentic commerce.
OpenAI scrapped ChatGPT's in-chat Instant Checkout in early 2026 and pivoted to product discovery. Here's what actually happened and what Shopify merchants should do instead.
OpenAI's April 2026 ChatGPT updates: GPT-5.5 agentic model, Images 2.0, and the shift from Instant Checkout to product discovery for merchants.
OpenAI's May 2026 ChatGPT updates: GPT-5.5 Instant default model, deeper memory, Excel and Sheets, plus a new visual shopping experience for merchants.
Shopify's Winter '26 Edition dominated March 2026 with 150+ updates: agentic storefronts, a proactive Sidekick, 2048 variants, and new dev tooling.
Shopify's May 2026 updates: a dedicated Agentic Storefronts admin page, theme Rollouts with A/B testing, an LLM-file editor, and a 34% Q1 revenue beat.
Stripe's Agentic Commerce Suite brings native checkout inside Facebook ads plus Link's agent wallet. Here's what Shopify + Meta advertisers should set up.
Agentic commerce lets autonomous AI agents shop, support, and sell for Shopify merchants. Learn the tech, use cases, and how to prepare your store now.