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Selling to AI agents on Shopify
AI agents such as Claude Duet now buy for people: they search a store's catalog, build a cart and pay with Shop Pay. These guides explain each step and what your store needs to get right.
Shopify Fall '26 Edition for AI shopping agents: what to check on your storeWhat Shopify's Fall '26 Edition (Exponential) changes for AI shopping agents: Catalog, UCP, Shop Pay in agents, business details for AI, per-channel product data. And what to verify on your store.Read the guide →Will AI shopping agents find your products when shoppers don't know the name?Shoppers ask agents for "lightweight wool sneakers for travel", not your product name. How an agent searches a Shopify catalog for that, why the same product can miss, and how to test it.Read the guide →Can Claude Duet buy from your Shopify store? What merchants need to checkClaude Duet and other AI agents now shop for people: they search a store's catalog, build a cart and pay with Shop Pay. What a Shopify store needs so those purchases go through, and how to test yours.Read the guide →How AI agents check out on Shopify: UCP, carts and Shop Pay explainedA plain-language walk through agentic checkout on Shopify: the UCP profile, the catalog, Cart MCP, Checkout MCP, the hand-off to your checkout page, and Shop Pay. What each step needs from your store.Read the guide →Why an AI agent can't add your product to its cart (and how to fix it)item_unavailable, out_of_stock and empty carts: why AI shopping agents fail to add Shopify products to a cart, and the Shopify admin settings that fix each one.Read the guide →Shop Pay for AI agents: why Claude Duet and other agents need itAI agents that buy for people pay with Shop Pay. How Shop Pay is offered to agents through a Shopify store's UCP profile, what happens without it, and how to turn it on.Read the guide →
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