Over a million Shopify merchants are coming online to allow agent-mediated transactions.

“Shopify has announced initiatives like "Agentic Storefronts" to allow its merchants to sell products through AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. According to a March 2026 announcement, "millions of merchants" can now sell to ChatGPT users via these storefronts, which are being launched by default for stores. While Shopify has over 2 million merchants total, and the infrastructure is being rolled out to "millions," the exact number actively online and transacting via agents is not specified as being "over a million" at this moment, though the capability is being extended to them. Context: Shopify is actively enabling its merchant base, which numbers in the millions, for "agentic commerce." This is being done through new features like Agentic Storefronts and the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), co-developed with Google, which are designed to make products discoverable and purchasable within AI chat interfaces. The rollout is happening by default, meaning merchants are being opted-in automatically.”