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Agentic storefronts

Definition

Shopify's way of selling inside AI channels such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Mode — active by default for eligible stores and managed under Sales channels → Agentic.

Defined in The Agentic Commerce Glossary.

The full guide: Shopify Agentic Storefronts: What Each Setting Does and When to Turn It Off.

How else it gets framed

The same term carries different emphasis depending on the surface it’s used on. Both readings are correct.

Shopify's feature that lets customers discover and buy your products in AI channels such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Gemini. It is managed under Sales channels → Agentic in the Shopify admin. Shopify says orders from AI channels display in your admin with channel or referrer attribution.

How to Track ChatGPT Traffic and Revenue on Shopify →

Shopify's feature that lets customers discover and buy your products inside AI channels: ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Meta. It's active by default for eligible stores and managed under Sales channels → Agentic. Product data reaches most channels through Shopify Catalog. Google and Meta discovery comes from their own sales channels.

Shopify Agentic Storefronts: What Each Setting Does and When to Turn It Off →

Shopify's feature for discovery and purchase inside AI channels such as ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Meta. It's managed under Sales channels → Agentic in the Shopify admin and is active by default for eligible stores on standard plans.

Shopify's Agentic Plan: Who It's For and What It Leaves Out →

Shopify's feature that lets customers discover and buy your products in AI channels, managed under Sales channels → Agentic in the Shopify admin. Shopify's help center lists ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Meta surfaces. It is active by default for eligible stores.

AI Shopping Channels: How Products Get Into ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity →

Shopify's feature that lets customers discover and buy your products inside AI channels such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Mode and Gemini, and Meta surfaces. It is active by default for eligible stores and managed in Sales channels → Agentic. Product data reaches most of these channels through Shopify Catalog. On ChatGPT, the purchase is completed on your own online store checkout.

Shopify Products Not Showing in ChatGPT? Every Cause, in the Order to Check →

Shopify's feature that lets shoppers discover and buy your products inside AI channels, currently ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Meta surfaces. Products reach them through Shopify Catalog.

Running Shopify in 2026: The Operator's Guide →

Shopify's name for the AI channels that receive a store's eligible product data through Shopify Catalog, managed under Sales channels → Agentic, where direct checkout can be turned on or off per channel.

Agentic Commerce on Shopify: The 2026 Guide →

Where Agentic storefronts comes up

The guides that put this term to work, rather than just defining it.

Related terms

AI Mode: Google Search's conversational mode, launched in the U.S. on May 20, 2025. Google describes it as using a "query fan-out" technique that breaks a question into subtopics and searches each one. In Search Console, a follow-up question in AI Mode counts as a new query.
Agentic Commerce Protocol: An open standard, licensed under Apache 2.0, for how AI agents, buyers and businesses complete purchases through APIs. Released by OpenAI and Stripe on September 29, 2025; Meta joined as a lead maintainer on April 24, 2026. It defines agentic checkout, cart and product feeds, delegated payment, delegated authentication, and order webhooks. The spec is labeled beta.
Agentic Commerce Suite: Stripe's product for selling through AI agents, launched December 11, 2025. A seller shares a catalog feed with Stripe; Stripe syndicates products to connected agents, manages the checkout, processes the payment and sends the seller an order event. Each stage can be taken over by the seller. Stripe describes it as working across protocols, including ACP and Google's UCP.
Shared Payment Token: A Stripe payment credential an AI agent grants to a seller: a scoped, limited reference to the buyer's payment method, tied to the seller's Stripe profile with a maximum amount and an expiry. The seller charges it like a card and never sees the card number. OpenAI's docs call it the first implementation of OpenAI's Delegated Payment Spec.
Agentic checkout: A checkout initiated or completed by an AI agent for a shopper, either inside the AI surface the shopper is using or on the merchant's site, using payment credentials the shopper has authorized. The merchant remains the seller and merchant of record; the agent handles the steps a person would otherwise click through.
Agentic e-commerce: Online selling in which AI agents, rather than people, carry out some of the shopping steps: searching catalogs, comparing products against a shopper's constraints, and in some channels completing checkout after the shopper confirms. Also called agentic commerce or agentic AI e-commerce.

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