Shopify has quietly set boundaries for 'buy-for-me' AI bots on merchant sites

Shopify has quietly set boundaries for 'buy-for-me' AI bots on merchant sites

Shopify now includes a warning in the code that powers merchant storefronts, telling bots what they can and can’t do.

Shopify Draws Battle Lines in the Agentic AI Revolution

A Strategic Divergence in E-Commerce AI The e-commerce landscape is witnessing a fascinating strategic divergence as artificial intelligence capabilities rapidly advance. While industry giants like Amazon and Walmart race to embrace fully autonomous shopping agents, Shopify has taken a decidedly different approach—one that reveals important insights about the future of retail automation and platform control. The Technical Move That Signals Strat…

Shopify Lays Out New Rules Governing AI Agents

Shopify has reportedly introduced rules governing merchants’ use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI). [contact-form-7] As Modern Retail reported Monday (July 14), the eCommerce platform has begun including a warning in the code powering merchant storefronts, establishing what these autonomous bots can and cannot do. “Automated scraping, ‘buy-for-me’ agents, or any end-to-end flow that completes payment without a final review step is…

Why Shopify is blocking AI bots at checkout - RetailDetail EU

Shopify has added a guideline to its platform, limiting the use of agentic AI. Fully autonomous purchasing bots are not welcome on the platform, it states in a remarkable statement. Limits on AI Automation Shopify has included new guidelines in the robots.txt file of the online stores it hosts, aiming to limit uncontrolled AI automation. The new instruction states that automated scraping, ‘buy-for-me’ agents and other end-to-end processes where …