Building and managing your store with third-party AI tools

You can connect your Shopify store to a third-party AI tool such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity, and then manage your store from inside that tool. Some AI tools and vibe code partners can also create a Shopify store for you.

This section covers AI tools that you connect to a store you own. To make your products discoverable to shoppers who use AI assistants instead, refer to Shopify agentic storefronts, Selling on ChatGPT, and the Agentic plan.

Managing your store from an AI tool

Connect ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity to your store. To install an integration and set how much data it can access, refer to authorizing AI tool access to your store.

Reviewing what each AI tool can do

The Shopify plugin for ChatGPT and the Shopify connector for Claude can build a store from a storefront preview and manage a store that you own. The Shopify connector for Perplexity manages an existing store only.

Creating a store with an AI tool or vibe code partner

If an AI tool or a vibe code partner created your store, then claim it and finish setup. Refer to setting up a store created with an AI tool or vibe code partner and building a store with a vibe code partner.

Connecting an AI tool from your local device

If you're a developer connecting from your own machine, then refer to the Shopify CLI connector.

Reviewing access and resolving issues