Shopify shipped its Spring ’26 Edition, a twice-yearly release of more than 150 updates built around agentic commerce and getting merchants’ products discovered and bought inside AI channels. The backbone is Shopify Catalog, which structures product data and feeds it to AI surfaces like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Google’s AI Mode, alongside the Universal Commerce Protocol, the open agentic-commerce standard Shopify co-developed with Google, both on by default for merchants. A new Agentic Storefronts dashboard lets merchants manage those AI channels and see orders, sales, and conversions from each in one view, with search intelligence surfacing the AI queries they don’t yet rank for. Shopify also opened Shop Pay to brands not on its platform for the first time, giving them access to its 250M-plus Shop shoppers and one-click checkout.
