Shopify Agentic Commerce Has Arrived | Add Shopping to your AI Agent

Shopify are bringing native shopping into your AI conversations.

Shopify’s developer documentation introduces a new way to create AI-powered shopping assistants, or “agents,” that make online shopping easier and more interactive.

Use their APIs and MCPs to add shopping capabilities to your agent across a vast merchant ecosystem with hundreds of millions of products.

These agents can search through millions of products across different merchants, manage shopping carts, and guide customers through a smooth checkout process.

By using Shopify’s tools, like the Catalog MCP server and web components, developers can build agents that show product previews, handle various product types (like subscriptions or bundles), and ensure a seamless, branded checkout experience. The system simplifies complex tasks like meeting legal and payment requirements, making it easier for businesses to integrate these AI agents into their platforms.

Shopify has you covered from querying for products to showing them to buyers. There’s no need to worry about all the ways in which products are sold, such as variants, subscriptions, bundles, or kit configurations. It just works.

Shopify loads the merchant’s checkout, combining the customizations they need to run their business with your agent’s branding so it feels native to your application. Meeting common compliance requirements is simple, including GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS v4, and more.

And because Shopify handles checkout for you, you shouldn’t have to worry about the usual marketplace compliance requirements faced by platforms that handle their own payments.