Agentic commerce

What is ChatGPT Shopping?

Definition: ChatGPT Shopping is OpenAI's feature that lets ChatGPT recommend products drawn from merchant feeds via the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Since OpenAI retired in-chat Instant Checkout in March 2026, ChatGPT surfaces and shortlists products, then hands buyers off to the merchant's own checkout.

When a user asks ChatGPT for product help, it can present a shortlist drawn from merchant feeds through ACP. Over a million Shopify merchants are auto-enrolled; the question isn't whether you participate but whether your product data is structured well enough to be selected. The March 2026 pivot to discovery-first (checkout completes on your site) makes feed and schema quality — not a payments integration — the deciding factor.

How do I appear in ChatGPT Shopping?

Keep a clean structured product feed, ship Product/Offer schema, and allow OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt. Shopify stores are largely enrolled automatically.

Put it into practice

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