Greg Thomson

Whichever agent a merchant prefers, Shopify will be there. Today, we’re adding @perplexity_ai to that list.

Universal Commerce Protocol is now live for all merchants Teach your agent to search billions of products with Shopify Catalog, build carts, and check out with the new UCP skill

Mood

We're not just winning today's biggest brands. We’re also powering tomorrow's. $100M+ GMV merchants have nearly doubled in two years. And brands that started on @Shopify are scaling to nine figures faster than ever. All on our platform. Always a good time with @jordihays and @johncoogan. 🤝

Shopify is the epicenter of the AI era. Our merchants are among the first to sell in AI channels, with @Shopify powering the full end-to-end commerce journey. Over 1 billion products are surfaced in AI chats through the Shopify Catalog, so they show up with accurate and up to date information. Our AI-powered tools blend two decades of commerce intelligence with completely personalized guidance for each merchant. Our merchants aren't just keeping up. They're better positioned than anyone who isn't on Shopify. Great conversation as always, @jimcramer.

Shopify just reported on Q1. The numbers speak for themselves. → $101B in merchant sales, second consecutive quarter over $100B, up 35% YoY → $3.2B revenue, up 34% YoY → $476M free cash flow, 15% margin That’s what a clear strategy, well executed, looks like. For Q2 and beyond, here’s what really matters. AI will accelerate entrepreneurship more than any other job.

The most future-proof job: Entrepreneurship shopify.com/news/future-pr… via @Shopify

the Shopify AI Toolkit is here manage your store with your favorite agent Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, and more

Shopify brings native B2B features to millions more merchants shopify.com/news/b2b-for-a… via @Shopify

There has never been a better time to start a business. The tools are cheaper. The reach is global. The barriers are gone. And for the first time, AI is a co-founder anyone can afford. If you’ve been waiting, this is your signal.

The most AI proof job in the world is entrepreneurship Use it to make products and services. Build more companies. On Shopify or otherwise.

Tinkering has always been a core part of @Shopify’s culture. We believe it’s the best way to find the creative limits of a tool. AI has potential unlike any technology we’ve seen before. It’s clear the world will be much better as entrepreneurs explore and understand its limits. So we built Tinker to help pull that future forward. It’s a mobile app where entrepreneurs can easily explore, play, and create with the latest AI applications. We can’t wait to see what you Tinker towards. Launching early 2026.

never lose a sale to flaky Bluetooth again introducing POS Hub connect hardware directly to your iPad or Android tablet by USB

We just dropped over 20 Sidekick updates. If you thought Sidekick was powerful before, just wait 👇 Sidekick Pulse: Sidekick now gives proactive business advice. Instead of waiting for you to need help, Sidekick anticipates your next best move with personalized tips. Rollout is starting now and coming to more merchants in 2026. Sidekick generates Shopify Flow automations: Tell Sidekick what you want to automate and watch it create a custom workflow. Sidekick edits images on mobile: Turn your camera roll into polished product photos. The @Shopify mobile app now has image gen capabilities. Sidekick is just one of the AI powered tools that's moving us into a renaissance of entrepreneurship.

Your apps can integrate with Sidekick Build Sidekick app extensions to enable access to your app data directly from the chat

The Winter ’26 Edition is here. Welcome to the RenAIssance.

RenAIssance? eh, i see what you did there

Congratulations to our merchants on another record breaking Black Friday. LFG → Merchants total Black Friday sales were $6.2 billion, up 25% YoY → Edge peaked at 489 million requests per minute. App servers handled a peak of 117 million requests per minute, up 40% from last year → Shopify’s egress processed 237 billion requests → Peak database queries reached over 53 million per second and writes reached over 2 million per second → API processed over 31 million requests per minute at peak

merchants hit new milestones every day take a look at a few who accomplished 10K, 100K, or 1M lifetime orders this holiday season congratulations