Native AI Shopping Is Here - Are Your Upsells Agentic-Ready?

Shopify just made a massive leap toward native shopping inside AI conversations, introducing a powerful trio: the Shopify Catalog, Universal Cart, and the new Checkout Kit.

This unlocks seamless commerce flows for agent-based systems like personal shopping assistants, AI concierges, or voice-activated devices. But with this future comes new responsibilities: Shopify requires agentic checkouts to remain secure, compliant, and human-confirmed.
That’s exactly where Checkout Components excels.

What Is Agentic Commerce?

Agentic commerce is the ability for software agents like AI assistants to search for products, compare them, build carts, and guide users to purchase. But there’s a catch: automated agents can’t complete purchases without a final, intentional human confirmation.
Shopify is very clear in its stance:

"Checkouts are for humans."
 – Shopify, Agentic Commerce Update

That’s why Shopify’s Checkout Kit ensures agents remain in the loop, while giving users full control over the final purchase.

Checkout Components = Agentic-Compliant by Design

Checkout Components is built on Shopify’s Checkout Extensibility framework, which inherently meets all of Shopify’s compliance and security requirements including for agentic commerce.

Here’s how:

1. User-Driven Interactions Only
   Every component whether a checkbox upsell, a loyalty toggle, or a free shipping bar requires explicit customer interaction. Nothing is automated or background-triggered.
2. Checkout UI Extensions Compatible
   Our components are built using Shopify’s UI Extension APIs, ensuring they run in a secure, sandboxed environment, with no DOM overrides or custom JS hacks. This aligns with Shopify's requirements for both security and performance.
3. Dynamic, Branded, and Safe
   Just like the Checkout Kit, our components are fully styelable and designed to blend with your store’s brand. You get all the conversion power of custom upsells - without ever breaking Shopify’s guidelines.
4. Agent-Aware Checkout Flow
   Whether an AI assistant built the cart on behalf of a customer or a customer did it themselves, Checkout Components sit at the final step - ensuring the shopper stays in control. That makes your store ready for the new age of agentic shopping without rewriting your checkout.

Use Case: AI Assistant Recommends Add-On Product

Imagine an AI concierge helps your customer find a pair of shoes. They arrive at your store’s checkout with the cart pre-filled.
With Checkout Components:

• A checkbox upsell offers matching socks - but only adds the item if the user taps to accept.
• A free shipping bar encourages customers to reach the threshold.
• A radio list lets the shopper pick gift wrap or extended warranty.

All interactions are clearly customer-initiated. This keeps you in line with Shopify’s agentic commerce policies while improving AOV and conversion.

Shopify Checkout Kit + Checkout Components: The Perfect Pair

While Shopify’s Checkout Kit handles the AI-to-checkout handoff with secure, seamless integration, Checkout Components ensures that what happens within the checkout is smart, consistent with your storefront, and conversion-optimised.
Your upsell and cross-sell opportunities that you have on your storefront can still take place in the agentic customer journey via Checkout Components.

Final Thoughts

Shopify is enabling a future where every AI conversation could end in a sale - but only if that sale is human-confirmed, secure, and compliant.

Checkout Components is already there.

Whether you're preparing your store for AI agents, or just want the most flexible upsell toolkit available, our platform is agentic commerce ready out of the box

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