Shopify's Biggest AI Update Yet (Editions 2026)

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🎬 About this Video
Shopify Editions 2026 just dropped, packed with updates that change how developers build. To break down what they actually mean, I sat down with Ethan, VP of Product at Shopify (developer platform, admin experience, analytics, and Flow).
We cover webhooks rebuilt from scratch, an honest take on Sidekick AI, the new World Wide Product Catalog API, UCP (the open commerce protocol from Shopify, Google and others), static apps you can host fully on Shopify, and the new transparent app pricing model. If you build on Shopify, this is the one to watch.
⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 What's in today
00:20 Meet VP of Product
01:40 Webhooks are changing completely
06:15 Honest take on Sidekick AI
08:54 Generating Apps with Sidekick
09:50 New Sidekick AI Extensions for Developers
14:51 New AI Sales Channels unfolding
16:00 World Wide Product Catalog API
18:30 UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)
21:00 UCP CLI for Developers
22:53 State of Agentic Commerce
25:06 Static Apps (Shopify Hosted Apps)
28:00 The New App Pricing Model
31:12 Wrapping up
🔎 Seo Description
A developer's breakdown of Shopify Editions 2026, with Ethan, VP of Product at Shopify. Learn how the new webhooks (next-gen Shopify events) let you define your own GraphQL payloads and trigger on exact field changes, replacing the old product-update webhook system. We cover Sidekick AI and the new Sidekick app extensions (data extensions and action extensions) that let your app plug into the conversation, the World Wide Product Catalog API for searching billions of products across millions of Shopify stores, and UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol), the open agentic-commerce protocol built by Shopify, Google, Wayfair and others that lets AI agents build carts and check out across merchants. Plus the UCP CLI, the state of agentic commerce (sales through ChatGPT and AI agents), Shopify static apps (fully Shopify-hosted, no server required), and the new usage-based app pricing model for transparent merchant billing.
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