Agents will become a common way people shop. So today we are releasing 3 tools to make adding commerce to those agents trivial: - Checkout Kit: embed commerce widgets and checkout(!) directly into your agent and chat. This is already being used by Microsoft’s Microsoft Copilot. - Shopify Catalog:... low latency global product search across millions of merchants - Universal Cart: shop from any store, anywhere, in one cart With these, you can build seamless embedded commerce experiences quickly, starting with all the best products by the best merchants in the world instead of having to sign them all up individually. No need to build a complex new checkout, or dealing with regulatory marketplace rules. Commerce just plugs in and feels seamless in conversations. We believe commerce should be everywhere people are, so we’re making that as easy as possible for the AI age.show more

There are some really cool technical details in how this all works. We heavily invested in MCP-UI, an extension of the MCP protocol to allow exposing widgets that a host can choose to display. The product cards you see in the video are exposed through MCP-UI and then securely rendered.

This means you don’t need to to fiddle with things like product variants, color swatches, subscriptions, minimums, bundles etc. The Web Components know about it all and render things correctly.

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@Copilot Thanks @tobi! Already implementing it in our agents 🤩 Great job!! 👏

@Copilot cool

@Copilot MCP-UI is awesome @liadyosef and @idosal1 are going to demo this at MCP Night on Thursday RSVP:

@Copilot universal cart is awesome

@Copilot Super impressive work making a shared catalog a reality.

@Copilot you're going to lose your direction if you chase ai in this way. the beautiful thing about shopify is that it is simple and it works. don't go adding ai and complicating things for the sake of it. this is a distraction and waste of money. focus on the signal. forget the noise.

@Copilot This is awesome! We already enable it for customers of @alhena_ai , but we had to do a lot of wodoo to get that done. This will make it a lot simpler for us as well as customers to have Agentic checkout.

@Copilot Amazing! “Including stores not powered by Shopify." Wow, how does this work at checkout? 🤯

@Copilot MCP-Ui is a game changer for Agent’s UX and interactions! At @getpostman we have also released support for it in our Agent Mode and MCP client. Download our latest app version to try it out!

@Copilot Speaking of agents, can you tell Cloudflare to chill so that I can have my little agent grab numbers from a few shopify reports and put them in my little spreadsheet every day? The human verification thing kills any automation I try to build and its sad

@Copilot Tobi just fukd all shopify sellers and the race to the bottom has begun.

@Copilot This is excellent. I'm curious who is liable in case an agent makes a mistake? The deployer of the agent, the foundation model company, or Shopify?

@Copilot 🔥

@Copilot Stellar execution. Thanks 🙏

@Copilot Shopify can lead the agentic Ecommerce race specifically helping DTC brands. I like it!

@Copilot putting this here: happy that we were early with some of the ideas here with @AddToCartAI .

@Copilot Epic job building the future. Catalog is nuts

@Copilot This is a HUGE step in the right direction. Do you think it would be possible to have a full API driven interface for the checkout like

@Copilot Excited for this!

@Copilot This is incredible

@Copilot Please make the Shopify Catalog available as a public API. MCP is great for initial discovery, but once a system indexes a product, getting updates (inventory!) through MCP is too slow Niche agents will end up indexing catalogs to support non-Shopify stores anyway.

@Copilot Let’s goooooo 🚀🚀🚀🚀

@Copilot Amazing seeing the embedded commerce world growing! We've been powering this for AI agents and apps with products from Shopify, WooCommerce + major stores and a universal checkout.

@Copilot Universal cart just put you into an eniterely new category of ecommerce. Great move

@Copilot This is really smart!

@Copilot Very cool! I would love to shop like this! It would be even better if customers can have an option to checkout all the products in multiple shops in one click instead multiple clicks.

@Copilot Ahead of the curve 👏

@Copilot Shopify powering AI commerce makes sense

@Copilot Agent driven business is the next evolution of business. Businesses will need AI agents like they needed websites

@Copilot Very technical vocabulary. Hopefully there are people who understand this but for 80% of store owners…. hmmm, not so sure. Hope this helps.

@Copilot I just spit out my coffee in amazement. Getting this up asap.

@Copilot Amazing. We've been building @mercuri_cx with a similar vision that commerce is going to become conversational. Would love to get early access.

@Copilot guide to learn about UCP as business owners:

@Copilot Are promo codes supported?

@Copilot Well a red flag 🚩 goes up because Shop Pay is unable to handle certain checkout functions that have restrictions so is Shop Pay also improving as well otherwise you’re by passing all these rules out in place by these merchants. What do the error messages look like in UC?