- New Code reveals Chatgpt can soon support purchases in chat via Shopify
- The chat would offer prices, reviews and embedded box through AI
- The feature could give Shopify Merchants access to chatgpts users while making Openai an e-commerce platform
When you ask Chatgpt which sneakers are best for trail driving, you will get an overview of top examples and links to review places and product catalogs, but soon, but Chatgpt may just offer you to buy your choice among a series of Shopify Merchants directly in the chat, according to unreleased code discovered by testing catalog.
Instead of clicking on different sites, Shopify would fill in chatgpt with the proposed products, complete with price, reviews, shipping information and, most importantly, a “buy now” button.
Clicking on it doesn’t send you away from chatgpt either. You just want to buy these shoes through Chatgpt, which will be the store itself.
At least that’s what the uncovered code bits describe. The direct integration of Shopify into Chatgpt’s interface would make the AI assistant a retail office as well as a review compilator. The fact that some of the code is actually live, if hidden, suggests that the rollout comes before than you would expect.
For Shopify’s millions of merchants this can be a huge blessing. Right now, most small salespeople need to need to need for traffic, invest in SEO, ads or pray with mysterious social media algorithms to become viral. However, Chatgpt could make its products appear directly in front of AI Chatbots more than 800 million users.
And it can lead to more actual sales. After all, it’s a thing to stumble over a jacket on Instagram and follow a link to a place that requires you to find the jacket again and fill out payment information. It is much easier to buy something when you see that it appears in the middle of Chatgpt recommendations, with a purchase button there for you to click without intermediate steps.
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Of course, Openai doesn’t do this in a vacuum. The idea that AI can guide you not only to information, but through decision making and transactions, is called ‘Agentic Commerce’ and quickly becomes a great competition for AI developers.
Microsoft has its new Copilot Merchant program, and confusion has its “buy with pro” feature for shopping within his AI search engine to name two others.
Whatever competition is, this is a step that can create Openai for a new role in ‘to do’ and not just ‘know. Until now, Chatgpt’s value was mostly cerebral – it helped you think, organize and investigate. But letting you buy things directly with Shopify’s help may give many people a new perspective on what Chatgpt is for.
Openai has already experimented with the operator agent to browse the internet on your behalf. This just extends its power to transactions as well. Chatgpt does not just suggest things for you to do; It will perform these tasks for you.
It is not that AI-Assisted Shopping will end all sites to buy things, but the promise of AI-assisted shopping is that it can cut through the noise, teach your preferences and serve products tailored to you. However, it will not save you from the buyer’s regret; It just gets you there faster.
