Letting AI shopping agents read your store
What Is Agent Commerce?
AI shopping agents — assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, and the shopping tools built on top of them — are starting to browse and buy on a shopper's behalf. Agent Commerce makes your storefront easy for those agents to read: a machine-readable summary of your store, richer product data on every page, and a simple way for an agent to look up your products, prices, and stock status.
Nothing about how your storefront looks or works for human shoppers changes. Agent Commerce adds a second, machine-readable layer alongside your normal storefront pages.
What It Does
- Publishes a small discovery file describing your store, so an agent knows it found a real online store and where to look next
- Adds richer, more complete product information (price, availability, SKU, ratings) to the structured data already embedded in your product pages for search engines
- Lets an agent look up your products, prices, and availability directly, without needing to sign in or hold an API key
Turning It On or Off
Agent Commerce is on by default for every store — there's nothing to set up. To review or change it, go to Settings → Agent Commerce in your admin.
Turning the toggle off opts your store out of the AI-agent-specific surface: the discovery file reports your store as not agent-ready, agents are asked not to crawl your storefront, and the anonymous catalog lookup stops responding. Your product pages themselves are untouched.
What Opting Out Does Not Change
- Your search engine indexing and SEO are unaffected — Google and other search engines keep working exactly as before
- The rich product data on your storefront pages stays in place; only the AI-agent-specific lookup and discovery file turn off
- Nothing about your storefront's appearance or normal checkout flow changes either way
What Agents Can See
Only information that's already public on your storefront: product titles, descriptions, images, prices, availability (in stock / low stock / out of stock, never exact counts), and your published collections and pages. No customer data, no order data, and no admin data are ever exposed.
Technical Details
For the exact endpoints, request parameters, and example responses — useful if you or a developer are building or debugging an integration — see the Agent Commerce API guide in the Developer Portal.