Shopify stores were added automatically. Here is the exact process for everyone else.
People now browse and compare products inside ChatGPT, then buy on the merchant’s own site. Shopify and Etsy stores were added to ChatGPT Shopping automatically. If your store runs on WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento or a custom stack, you have no direct feed in: your products may still surface from third-party data, but with no control over accuracy, price or stock. Preparing to apply is a defined process; approval is OpenAI’s decision and, today, limited to approved partners with a waitlist. Here is the whole thing, with nothing held back.
item_id, title (≤150 chars), description (plain text, ≤5,000), url, image_url, brand, price with ISO currency (“29.00 USD”), and availability. Plus seller_name, target_countries and the control flags is_eligible_search and is_eligible_checkout (is_ads_eligible only if you run ads). GTIN and MPN are optional but recommended. Availability and price are ranking factors, so a stale feed can cost you placement.OAI-SearchBot. Your robots.txt must not block it, your product pages must return HTTP 200 to it, and a sitemap helps. Many stores block AI bots with a blanket rule and lock themselves out without knowing.Enter your store on the homepage and we generate your actual OpenAI-spec feed on the spot, with a line-by-line readout of what blocks search and checkout eligibility.
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