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Shopify Now Lets Stores Pay The Company Behind Your AI Shopping Agent via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic

Shopify pays the company behind an AI agent 0.3% of promoted-product orders, and stores can add more. Here is what that commission changes.

If I send an agent to buy something for me from the Shopify catalog, is it finding the best possible product for me, or the product that will make whoever is behind the agent the most money? As of Oct. 27, 2026, Shopify’s documentation gives the agent a reason to work for two others besides me: the company that built it, and Shop, Shopify’s app and website.

Shopify mixes products that pay a commission into the search results its catalog gives AI agents. It calls them promoted placements. When a shopper buys one, Shopify pays the company behind the agent (Shopify calls it the developer) 0.3% of the order.

Stores can pay more. If a store runs Shop Campaigns, Shopify’s paid promotion program, and turns on external platforms, Shopify turns the store’s campaign “into a commission” on top of the 0.3%. In search results, the total comes back with the product, next to its price, rating, and review count. Shopify’s example shows 1.5% on one product.

Shopify pays the store’s extra commission “only when the buyer completes the purchase in Shop, either in the Shop mobile app or on shop.com.” For those products, the links the agent gets point to shop.com, not to the store’s website. A sale on the store’s website earns only the 0.3%.

So the agent has a reason to pick the product that pays its developer more, and a reason to send me to Shop to buy it.


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