Find published research by company, product, platform or technology.
Showing 1–20 of 430 dossiers
A new public MCP endpoint lets agents search without an API key and complete shopper-authorised purchases. It is separate from the Global Catalog REST API retirement and earlier browser-only WebMCP checkout; webhooks are not available at launch.
Agent checkout builders using UCP 2026-08-25 can now negotiate consent options, propagate customer choices and handle missing-data warnings instead of hardcoding merchant privacy defaults.
Shopify is turning off its old cross-merchant catalog REST API on November 2. The replacement is a UCP-compatible MCP server, not a renamed URL: agents must remap tools, payloads and saved-catalog identifiers.
Hydrogen 2026-10 is generally available as a JavaScript commerce library with React Router and Next.js starters and examples for other frameworks. Existing Hydrogen storefronts still work; migration is optional.
Agent Plugins 1.0 now has documented support across VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT/Codex, Kiro and several open-source agents. That makes the format materially more useful for cross-client distribution, but portable components remain limited to Agent Skills and MCP servers while permissions, hooks, commands and host UX stay client-specific.
Shopify's App Pricing migration is now clearer: directly matching subscriptions can move through plan setup, while usage-based and price-mismatched subscriptions stay on the Billing API until a separate Migration API arrives.
The October Shopify API is now production-stable. Apps adopting it must audit financial mutations, removed GraphQL fields, customer-segment filters and discount rollout schedules rather than relying on the earlier release-candidate checklist.
Shopify's new Events system can send the change and the data your app needs in one delivery. It's a significant alternative to classic webhooks, but not a forced shutdown or universal replacement yet.
The migration is now much safer for background-only and bulk-installed apps: a timed-out direct conversion no longer automatically strands the store. The retry window is bounded and can end earlier after the issued pair is refreshed or another token acquisition supersedes it.
Canvas moves AI store building into production theme code, but the official requirements make the maintenance boundary clearer: entering Canvas can cut off normal theme downloads and upstream theme updates.
Theme developers using Shopify CLI 3.83.x and older against password-protected storefronts are now past the documented cutoff. Shopify requires 3.84.0 or later for these flows; the live changelog's September 23 date supersedes the earlier October 1 deadline in this dossier.
The useful shift is not another CLI convenience. A coding agent can now create a Shopify dev environment, populate it with existing API and bulk-operation tooling, test against it and tear it down without a person opening the Dev Dashboard.
The distribution shift matters beyond another sales-channel integration: product discovery, checkout, attribution and analytics can now happen off the merchant’s own storefront, and some familiar client-side pixels and checkout customizations do not travel with the order.
The migration risk is subtle: nothing breaks immediately, yet ERP, marketplace, POS and supplier integrations can become incomplete as soon as merchants start attaching multiple UPC, EAN, GTIN, ISBN or ASIN identifiers to one variant.
The change is both a media-buying default and an API migration. Advertisers that want online-only Shopping campaigns must move that intent into listing scope or the inventory filter instead of relying on `ShoppingSetting.enable_local=false`.
The non-Plus checkout migration is now an active compatibility boundary rather than an approaching deadline. Orders can continue while old post-purchase scripts, pixels or widgets stop working, making end-to-end conversion and app-behavior checks important after the cutover.
The checkout ScriptTag shutdown already had an earlier deadline; this is the separate storefront cutoff. Pinning an old Admin API version will not preserve write access after October, and any feature still depending on an injected storefront script stops working in March.
The integration brings Amazon’s catalog into YouTube’s native shopping layer. It reduces the gap between product recommendation and purchase compared with description links, but access currently requires both YouTube and Amazon affiliate eligibility and is still limited to a select group of creators.
For deals and store transfers from August 10, Shopify partners can earn both subscription revenue share and a slice of merchant GMV, while the earning window becomes four years instead of perpetual.
From December 3, agent workflows that ask Atlassian's Teamwork Graph for cross-product context will need a cost budget. Most enriched tool calls use 1–10 Rovo credits, with paid overages at $0.01 per credit.