--- title: "Get your Shopify store ready for AI agents · Specoria" description: "Where to fix each check on Shopify: robots.txt, product JSON-LD, return and shipping policies, guest checkout, search. We only read your public pages." source_url: "https://specoria.com/platforms/shopify/" lang: "en" --- PLATFORM GUIDE · READ-ONLY # Getting a Shopify store ready for AI shopping agents Where to make each fix on Shopify, check by check: robots.txt, product data (JSON-LD), return and shipping policies, guest checkout and search. You or your team apply the changes; Specoria only reads your public pages and then measures again. **Read-only guide. Following it doesn’t connect Specoria to your Shopify admin or install anything; you make each change yourself.** The free test recognizes a Shopify store from public signatures in its pages, such as cdn.shopify.com. ## Let AI agents in If robots.txt or a firewall turns AI search bots away, they can’t read your pages, so your products are unlikely to show up in their answers. Where on Shopify Online Store › Themes › Edit code › robots.txt.liquid (if missing, Add a new template › robots). If you use Cloudflare or a bot-protection app, allow agent identities there; the sitemap is published automatically at /sitemap.xml. Checks - [Search and user agents allowed (robots.txt)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/bots-search/) - [Is bot protection open to agents?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/waf-access/) - [Sitemap](https://specoria.com/method/checks/sitemap/) - [Can the product page be indexed?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/indexable/) ### Agents to allow in robots.txt AI search bots: OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot. Agents fetching for a user: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User, Google-Agent. A block on OAI-SearchBot and Googlebot is a critical blocker in our score. robots.txt controls crawling, not listing: a blocked page can still show up as a bare link (for example when other sites link to it), but the bot can’t read it, so your prices, stock and product details stay out of that surface’s index and answers. If you give these agents their own group, repeat the Disallow lines from your “User-agent: *” group in it: a bot with its own group ignores the * group. [Test your robots.txt in your browser →](https://specoria.com/tools/) ## Product facts in the first HTML Many agents read the page without running JavaScript. Name, price and stock must be in the HTML the server sends. Where on Shopify Move sections that render product name, price and stock only through JavaScript apps into the theme’s Liquid sections; they must appear in the server HTML. Checks - [Product name and price readable without JavaScript](https://specoria.com/method/checks/no-js/) ## Product data (JSON-LD) Structured Product and Offer data is how an agent reads price, currency, stock and identity without guessing. Where on Shopify Add the missing fields to the JSON-LD in Edit code › sections/main-product (or your theme’s product template); fill in products’ Barcode field for GTIN. Checks - [Product structured data (schema.org)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-schema/) - [Price, currency, availability and URL](https://specoria.com/method/checks/offer-complete/) - [Product identity (GTIN/MPN, brand, SKU)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-identity/) - [Images and description](https://specoria.com/method/checks/product-media/) - [Reviews and rating](https://specoria.com/method/checks/reviews/) - [Can variants (size, color) be addressed?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/variants/) ## Returns and shipping, machine-readable Agents compare stores on delivery time and return terms; a business JSON-LD block states them in a form they can parse. Where on Shopify Add the business JSON-LD block (OnlineStore, returns and shipping) before in Edit code › layout/theme.liquid. Checks - [Machine-readable return policy](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-machine/) - [Machine-readable shipping information](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-machine/) - [Business identity](https://specoria.com/method/checks/org-identity/) ## Policy pages people and agents can read Returns, shipping, legal and order-tracking pages, linked from every page, answer the questions shoppers ask assistants. Where on Shopify Settings › Policies (returns, shipping, terms) and Online Store › Pages; link the policies in the footer. Checks - [Returns page and window](https://specoria.com/method/checks/returns-human/) - [Shipping cost and time on the page](https://specoria.com/method/checks/shipping-human/) - [Legal pages (distance selling, Türkiye)](https://specoria.com/method/checks/legal-pages/) - [Taxes-included wording](https://specoria.com/method/checks/price-transparency/) - [Order tracking](https://specoria.com/method/checks/order-tracking/) ## One price, one stock When the page, the structured data and your feeds disagree, an agent can’t trust any of them. Where on Shopify The channel that serves the feed (e.g. Google & YouTube) and the product page must use the same price and stock fields; check the currency in Markets settings. Checks - [Price consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/price-match/) - [Stock consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/stock-match/) - [Currency and language](https://specoria.com/method/checks/market-match/) - [Return window consistency](https://specoria.com/method/checks/policy-match/) ## Cart and guest checkout An agent can’t create an account or sign in for its user. A required login is where its journey ends. Where on Shopify Settings › Checkout › Customer accounts: allow guest checkout (don’t require an account). Checks - [Add-to-cart button in the initial HTML](https://specoria.com/method/checks/add-to-cart/) - [Is the cart button accessible?](https://specoria.com/method/checks/cart-accessible/) - [Buying without an account](https://specoria.com/method/checks/guest-checkout/) ## Search by address If search works from an address such as /search?q=, an agent can look through your catalog without clicking. Where on Shopify Shopify search works at /search?q=; don’t hide the theme’s search box. Checks - [Site search that works by URL](https://specoria.com/method/checks/site-search/) ## Check the result - Run the free test again after each change: it measures the same 27 checks and shows what moved. - Watch two AI agents shop your store in a real browser with the simulator; it stops at checkout and never orders. [Run the free test →](https://specoria.com/platforms/shopify/#test)[Send the agents →](https://specoria.com/agent-simulator/)[How the score is calculated →](https://specoria.com/glossary/) **Other platform guides:** [ikas](https://specoria.com/platforms/ikas/) · [Ticimax](https://specoria.com/platforms/ticimax/) · [IdeaSoft](https://specoria.com/platforms/ideasoft/) · [T-Soft](https://specoria.com/platforms/t-soft/) · [WooCommerce](https://specoria.com/platforms/woocommerce/) ## Related - [How the free test works](https://specoria.com/method/) Every check, its weight and how “couldn’t verify” is counted - [Scan API, MCP server and GitHub Action](https://specoria.com/developers/) Run the free test from your own scripts or CI - [Agent protocol map: UCP, ACP, AP2, MCP, WebMCP](https://specoria.com/agent-protocols/) What each protocol does and what the free test checks FREE TEST ## Test your store now Enter your store’s address: 27 checks on your public pages, the way a shopping agent reads them. The free test runs in your browser and needs JavaScript. [Request the free deep audit by email instead →](https://specoria.com/#contact) Your result opens on its own page. Want the full picture? The free deep audit and panel come next, by email.