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Tap Into the Future of AI with the Shopify Agentic Plan

An amazing opportunity for non-Shopify merchants to tap into Shopify's deep work with OpenAI ChatGPT, Google AI & Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Drive better product discovery and boost traffic conversion - without migrating your existing store.


On this page, you will find a complete guide to launching your AI sales channel. Explore what the Shopify agentic plan is, learn why the Shopify agentic plan costs nothing to start, and uncover the critical agentic plan setup steps needed to ensure your product catalog is perfectly optimized for LLMs.

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Shopify Agentic Plan: Get Your Products Recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot

AI is changing how consumers search for and buy products. The Shopify agentic plan allows brands to directly integrate their product catalogs into the world's leading Large Language Models (LLMs). Treat it as a brand-new, AI-powered sales channel for your existing online store.

AI Product Discovery
Put your products directly in front of shoppers asking OpenAI ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.
Zero Migration Required
You do not need to migrate your core ecommerce business to Shopify. Non-Shopify merchants can simply use this as an add-on sales channel.
Free to Use
The plan itself is actually free, giving you an unparalleled, low-risk entry into agentic commerce.

What is the Shopify Agentic Plan?

Think of the Shopify Agentic Plan as a bridge between your current online store and the world’s smartest AI assistants.

Instead of typing keywords into a search engine, millions of shoppers are now asking OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot to find products for them. The Shopify Agentic Plan is exactly how you get your products included in those AI answers - and where customers can buy directly without visiting your site. Talk about seamless!
It’s a New Sales Channel: It feeds your product catalog directly to top AI platforms, allowing them to confidently recommend your brand to shoppers.
Keep Your Current Store: You do not have to move your website or migrate your business to Shopify. Your current ecommerce setup stays exactly the same.
It is Completely Free: The plan itself costs zero dollars. It is simply a way to open up a brand-new, AI-driven revenue stream with no upfront platform fees.

What is the Shopify Agentic Plan pricing? How will it work?

When it comes to Shopify agentic plan costs, the good news is that the plan itself is entirely free.

While there is no monthly subscription, there are specific, performance-based usage costs depending on which AI assistant generates the sale.
Processing Fees: Standard processing fees (via Shopify Payments or your third-party provider) will still apply to finalize the checkout.
Shopify OpenAI ChatGPT: OpenAI charges a 4% transaction fee on completed sales generated directly through their chat interface (typically applied after a 30-day free trial).
Shopify Google Gemini: Currently charge 0% additional transaction fees. This is essentially free distribution for your products.
Shopify Microsoft Copilot: Also currently charge 0% additional transaction fees.

Shopify Agentic Plan Setup & Strategic Considerations

Connecting your brand to the AI ecosystem is a powerful move, but doing it right requires a strategic approach. Discover the high-level steps Hong Kong brands selling globally need to seamlessly bridge the gap between your current business and the future of AI-driven commerce.

What are considerations for setting up Shopify Agentic Plan's agentic commerce sales channels?

A successful Shopify Agentic Plan setup requires more than just turning on a switch. LLMs need properly structured data to understand and recommend your products. Here is what you need to consider:
Product Data Mapping: Making sure you have optimized product content for LLMs to pick up is crucial. This will require transforming your existing product data sets into a format that Shopify and LLMs can easily consume.
Optimized Checkout Experience: If you want to optimize for maximum sales conversions, you should use Shopify Payments and enable Shopify Checkout to provide a seamless, high-converting buying experience for AI-referred traffic.
Ongoing Store Integration: While a deep backend integration with Shopify is not strictly required, it can heavily simplify ongoing operations, especially if your business has a rapidly changing product catalog.

How does the Shopify Agentic Plan work? A step-by-step breakdown

Instead of overhauling your entire business, you simply plug your products into Shopify's AI network. Here is how the process works:
Step 1: Connect Without Migrating: Keep your existing ecommerce backend exactly as it is (WooCommerce, SFCC, Custom, etc.). You are simply setting up a parallel product catalog that is hosted on Shopify to act as your dedicated AI sales channel.
Step 2: Map Your Product Data: The most critical part of your Shopify Agentic Plan setup is transforming and syncing your product catalog into Shopify. Your data must be structured, stored securely on Shopify's database, and optimized with rich context so that LLMs can easily read and recommend your items over a competitor's.
Step 3: Get Discovered by AI: Once your data is flowing into the Shopify Catalog, your products can be dynamically matched to high-intent shoppers using ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot.
Step 4: Drive Seamless Conversions: When an AI assistant recommends your product, the buying process happens instantly in the chat. By utilizing Shopify Payments and Shopify Checkout for the items stored in your Shopify catalog, you ensure a secure, frictionless purchasing experience for all AI-referred traffic while remaining the merchant of record.

Launch your Shopify Agentic Plan with Wave Commerce

Need help navigating your Shopify Agentic Plan setup? Wave Commerce can help you set up and launch seamlessly. As a recognized leader for the Hong Kong Shopify community, our team has deep experience with complex Shopify ecosystem integrations and enterprise-grade data migrations.

Our unique background positions us perfectly to help Hong Kong and global businesses with large, complex product catalogs transform their data, integrate with Shopify, and accelerate their agentic commerce business.

Sell anywhere your customers are & unify customer order data

Run your online and offline business with the same POS - seamlessly connecting your online Shopify store, brick-and-mortar offline stores, and even pop-up shops. Sync customer profiles from every channel to gain accurate and actionable data.

Just turn any mobile device or tablet into a point-of-sale (POS) and get started selling!

Streamline your business & operations

Synchronize inventory, customer orders, operation flows like purchase orders and stock transfers, and more.

Gain better insights about your business in a single view to plan for growth with confidence - such as what products sell best and where, to when you’re busiest. Shopify POS offers unbeatable omnichannel insights for Hong Kong Shopify merchants!

Boost Online + Offline sales

No more expensive integration projects to deliver online + offline customer experiences. Unlock omnichannel sales potential with Shopify POS by enabling “buy online, pickup offline”, “endless aisle” and more so customers can shop how they want.
  • Customizable smart grid that adapts based on interactions
  • Pin popular items and on-sale goods at the front for effeciency
  • Facilitate multi-store returns and exchanges

Fast and easy checkouts

Shopify’s online storefront is optimized to boost conversions with fast and easy checkouts. If you’re looking to boost your in-store POS experience, speak with our team to better understand how the Shopify POS payment model works and the additional add-on options that are available for the Hong Kong market.

Contact us to learn more about Shopify POS for Hong Kong!

Boost OMO customer loyalty with OMNI by Wave Commerce

As a longtime Shopify app developer, our team at Wave Commerce has created OMNI - a customer loyalty app designed to drives sales. OMNI syncs customer profiles across online and offline channels to provide a delightful and seamless loyalty experience.
  • Create a branded loyalty program with points, VIP tiers, special offers - and level up beyond “points” with instant rewards/discounts and free gifts to drive sales
  • Best-in-class “welcome” and “birthday” offers including birthday discounts, free products or 2X/3X point earning applied only on birthday month
  • Integrate with key marketing tools such as Klaviyo and WhatsApp to drive customer engagement via targeted and personalized campaigns
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"VIP Everywhere" experience and staff incentives

Give in-store staff visibility into customers to improve customer support (VIP tier, purchase history, available offers and rewards) on Shopify POS.

Provide incentive to staff to sign up new loyalty users by binding the staff and the customer - and attributing all future online and offline sales from the customer to the bound staff. In-store staff can take ownership of customers and drive online sales, without fear of missing their sales attribution.

If want to know more about OMNI, request a demo here.

Get Shopify POS hardware for Hong Kong

While Shopify POS hardware is not directly available via Shopify's site in Hong Kong yet, Wave Commerce has partnered with respected POS providers locally that can help brands like yours obtain POS equipment compatible with Shopify POS.

If you're looking for Shopify POS compatible hardware for your offline store, then please contact us!

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FAQ

Is Shopify Agentic Plan available for Shopify Hong Kong businesses?
Yes! Shopify is rolling this out globally to all merchants, including those in Hong Kong. However, please note that during the initial launches, this feature is primarily designed and optimized for merchants selling cross-border into the US market. Meaning, customers in the US can search and buy your products on OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. You do not need a US Business Registration at all, but this makes most sense for Hong Kong merchants who are already selling into the US market.
What LLM's are supported by the Shopify Agentic Plan?
The Shopify agentic plan is built to plug your product catalog directly into the world’s most popular conversational AI assistants without needing complex, separate integrations. Currently, the plan supports deep connections with OpenAI to surface your products to millions of active users through Shopify ChatGPT, as well as Google AI to ensure your brand is part of the next generation of search via Shopify Google Gemini. It also seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Copilot to help you tap into their rapidly expanding ecosystem. By centralizing your optimized product data during your agentic plan setup, Shopify acts as the single source of truth. This means that no matter which of these leading AI assistants a shopper uses, your products can be accurately sourced, recommended, and purchased right within the chat interface.
How do I track sales and performance from these AI channels?
Tracking your AI-driven success is built directly into the platform, ensuring you do not need complex third-party software to measure your ROI . Once your products are live, orders generated through these LLMs flow directly into your centralized Shopify Admin with clear referral attribution attached to every transaction. This means you can easily isolate traditional organic and paid traffic from AI-attributed orders, seeing exactly which platform, whether it is ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft Copilot is driving the highest conversions. Furthermore, because you retain complete ownership of your customer data and the checkout experience, you can confidently analyze both top-of-funnel agent visibility and bottom-line sales to see exactly how this new channel impacts your overall revenue.

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