Shopify Launches ‘AI Store Builder’ To Allow Merchants To Set Up Online Stores Through Keywords

Shopify Launches ‘AI Store Builder’ To Allow Merchants To Set Up Online Stores Through Keywords

It is the first integrated feature that fully automates the website

Shopify has introduced ‘AI Store Builder’, a generative artificial intelligence feature to allow merchants on its e-commerce platform to set up online stores by entering descriptive keywords.

It generates three store layouts (with images and text), based on the keywords. The medium helps sellers by reducing the time and resources needed to design their store website.

Even though Shopify earlier offered various AI-based tools and third-party applications to assist merchants in building their stores, the AI Store Builder is the first integrated feature that fully automates the website.

Vanessa Lee, the vice president of product at Shopify expressed, "Instead of just having a merchant click and drag and fill out text fields on how they want their site to look, which can be daunting for some, we thought why not ask them more open-ended questions and set up their store in the best likeness we can imagine, using AI."

Depending heavily on AI products to draw more merchants to its platform, Shopify offers tools ranging from image generation to inventory management.