Shopify released its Fall '26 Edition, 'Exponential,' on October 28 — more than 150 updates, with agentic commerce at the center. The headline for shoppers is Shop.md, a shopping skill buyers can point any AI agent to: it searches more than a billion products, uses Shop preferences and order history for recommendations, checks out with Shop Pay and tracks orders.

Shop Pay checkout now also runs inside personal AI agents, starting with Meta's Muse, Claude Duet and Instinct. Claude Duet, Grok Bot and Instinct go a step further and can offer Shop Pay for brands that are not on Shopify at all, using card-network tokens from Mastercard, Visa and Discover — American Express is listed as coming soon — so the buyer's card is never shared with the agent.

For merchants, Shopify's connectors now work with nine AI agents — ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Duet, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, Grok, Grok Bot, Muse and Perplexity — letting them manage products, inventory, orders and performance from a conversation. Shopify says more than 400 million people already use Shop Pay.