Varshika Prasanna(@varshikaARK):$SHOP is proof that agentic commerce is here to stay. > AI traffic to merchants is up 3x YoY. Orders from AI search are up 3x YoY. New buyer order rates are 2x those on agentic channels vs other channels. > Sidekick, Shopify's AI assistant for merchants, logged 34M conversations, with daily active merchants up 3.6x YoY and 36k custom apps created with Sidekick vs 12k in 1Q. > AI searches powered by Shopify catalog convert 2x more than those using scraped data, and 75% of AI attributed orders came outside of top 100 categories. AI is going to change how we shop and how merchants sell, and Shopify is powering that agentic commerce engine.

2026.08.05 12:27

$SHOP is proof that agentic commerce is here to stay. > AI traffic to merchants is up 3x YoY. Orders from AI search are up 3x YoY. New buyer order rates are 2x those on agentic channels vs other channels. > Sidekick, Shopify's AI assistant for merchants, logged 34M conversations, with daily active merchants up 3.6x YoY and 36k custom apps created with Sidekick vs 12k in 1Q. > AI searches powered by Shopify catalog convert 2x more than those using scraped data, and 75% of AI attributed orders came outside of top 100 categories. AI is going to change how we shop and how merchants sell, and Shopify is powering that agentic commerce engine.