API

AI shopping agents from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude read your store through APIs and structured data, not through your storefront design. Shopify, BigCommerce, and WooCommerce each expose product data through fundamentally different API architectures, and those differences directly determine whether your products show up in AI recommendations. This comparison covers what each platform’s API actually returns, what AI agents need to make purchase recommendations, and where the gaps are that store owners must fix manually. ...