Shopify shipped Horizons in May 2025 with 150+ updates. The infrastructure layer underneath — Storefront MCP, Catalog API, Knowledge Base App — is what most merchants missed.

Shopify auto-enrolled 5.6 million stores into ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode, and Gemini on March 24, 2026. Enrollment and visibility are not the same thing. This guide covers every step required to make your products actually appear and convert.

Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol lets AI agents connect directly to merchants and complete transactions. This changes everything for e-commerce discovery in 2026 — and most stores aren't ready.

AI shopping agents are live on Shopify. A third of merchants haven't started preparing. This article covers what changed in March 2026, why most stores are invisible to ChatGPT, Google AI, and Copilot, and the fastest path to full AI commerce readiness.