Last week, Shopify launched its latest edition, Shopify Spring Edition 2026, with the slogan Everywhere, a firm commitment by Shopify to:
- Develop an e-commerce platform present across all channels, including e-commerce platforms.
- Democratize access to agentic commerce for any business, even those not working with Shopify, through the UCP protocol.
In this new edition, once again focused on AI, more than 150 platform improvements have been introduced. At Upango, we would like to highlight the following:
- Agentic Storefronts:
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- Automatically makes your store products visible on AI platforms.
- Unifies data from all sessions in a single place for easier management.
- Discover how your products rank on AI platforms and use Sidekick to improve their descriptions.
- The Catalog API and UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) allow you to create shopping experiences with AI agents, expanding the reach of your products.
- Enhanced Sidekick capabilities to offer greater personalization and faster responses. Some of the new features include multiple-choice answers, multitasking in the background, and your assistant being available anywhere in the app.
- Shopify Inbox, a virtual assistant that will recommend products based on history to all customers who have logged in with Shop.
- Free unification of physical and online stores, streamlining customer onboarding, cart product changes, and billing.
- Campaign Autopilot: a new feature that allows you to launch AI-powered marketing campaigns across different channels and manage them from your Shopify Admin. Autopilot creates your campaigns, launches them on the platforms it believes will deliver the highest return, and adjusts them based on results. From your Admin, you can modify the budget, pause, resume, and cancel any campaign at any time.
- Improvements to your store analytics so you can make better decisions.
- Insights: provides information on the most searched and/or best-selling products in your store, as well as changes in trends or customer segments.
- Visual markers with detailed information about charts for a better understanding of the data.
- Ability to apply metafield and metaobject filters, the attributes you used to design your store.
- Set metric goals in Analytics.
- Get analytics data in Shopify Flow: a new feature to run queries over a specific period of time and use the results to perform a subsequent action.
- Improved inventory management thanks to the information extracted by Sidekick on sales history, demand forecasting, and available stock.
- Shop App, Shopify's consumer-focused shopping application, built from the customer's purchase history within the Shopify ecosystem. It works as a personal environment where users can track orders, manage purchases, save information, and buy again from brands they have already interacted with.
- Shop Pay, the secure payment platform designed by Shopify, is now available to any business and any e-commerce platform.
A new edition designed to make it easier to create and manage your online store, improve the user experience, and democratize the use of AI to promote agentic commerce.
The market is moving quickly, and at Upango, an official Shopify partner, we will stay alert to all new developments.