Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents

摘要: While some retailers, like

, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective pl

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While some retailers, like

, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their respective platforms, e-commerce platform Shopify has moved in the other direction.

On Monday, the company

announced

that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchants’ sites, extending their capabilities beyond just searching for products and adding items to carts.

Shopify previously supported

for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailer’s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart. The addition of WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay, means these agents can now read the checkout screen, update it, and submit the transaction with the buyer’s authorization, without relying on screenshots or scraping web pages, the company said.

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This update introduces three new tools — get_checkout, update_checkout, and complete_checkout — that allow agents to inspect a checkout, change things like the customer’s address or delivery option, and then place an order after the buyer authorizes it.

The feature is rolling out to all eligible Shopify merchants, said

Gil Greenberg

, a staff product manager who works on agentic commerce at Shopify, in a

post on X

.

Shopping with an agent shouldn’t feel like watching paint dry. 🥱

Today, we’re launching WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay, for all eligible Shopify merchants.

Learn how it works, where UCP fits, and what the data shows:

https://t.co/U96VtJaeyc

— Gil (@gilgNYC)

September 28, 2026

Shopify already offers a hosted

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

server, which allows agents to work server-to-server. The proposed standard WebMCP, meanwhile, is designed for agents that work inside the buyer’s browser. Both leverage Shopify’s

Universal Commerce Protocol

(UCP), which provides a common way to search for and discover products, build carts, a

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