Shopify Sidekick: The GenAI Feature for Merchants

Make way for AI in your Shopify store with Shopify AI –  Sidekick.

A pivotal feature that can be your savior during emergency hours and assist you in the right direction.

In this blog, learn the ins and outs of Shopify Sidekick AI to manage your Shopify store efficiently.

Table Of Contents

• Shopify Sidekick: What It Is?
• Things Shopify Sidekick Can Do
• Frequently Asked Questions

What is Shopify Sidekick

Shopify Sidekick is an AI assistant powered by Shopify Magic.

You can ask Sidekick any questions or command-specific actions related to your Shopify store, and it will do it deftly.

As you can see in the above screenshot.

Using an advanced machine learning algorithm, it analyzes your store’s vast data, learns from every conversation, and offers answers specific to your business needs.

Some might say that Sidekick is more like ChatGPT, but it does more than just give answers to your questions.

Things Shopify Sidekick Can Do

1.  It Can Efficiently Manage Your Inventory

Sidekick can be a great helping hand in keeping track of your inventory.

And to be honest, that is such a great relief for a store owner. As you already know, how chaotic this process is.

Sidekick can help you track your inventory across multiple sales channels, alert you when certain products run out of stock, and ensure you are in stock.

Besides this, it understands customer behavior and can tell you the product that is selling faster, helping you to keep a stock of them accordingly.

2. Create Attractive Homepage

On the one hand, this feature can answer your questions; on the other, it can create designs.

Sidekick works at different levels when it comes to enhancing your store.  Let us see 3 different levels here:

Level 1:

It can re-write your existing copies. Suppose, during a festival season, you wish to change things up and give it a fresh approach. This feature will come in very handy to create quality content to generate more leads.

Level 2:

It can execute any edits you wish to make on your home page. For example, if you want to remove a collection from your store, Sidekick can swiftly do this. Likewise, it can add a new collection on your home page on your command.

Level 3:

It can create discount tags and apply them to products as you wish. Sidekick also offers you suggestions before making the sale live.

3. Get Detail Insights in Your Store’s Performance

This Shopify Sidekick AI provides you with data to make more informed decisions than just shooting in the dark.

Based on your store’s performance, it can provide you with reports to measure your efforts and closely understand what’s working for you.

This takes away a lot of your time in creating the report but instead analyzing and making strategies accordingly.

4. Takes Away Your Tedious Tasks

As a store owner, you have multiple things on your plate, and spending daily hours on small tasks can shift your attention from the other essential tasks

AI Sidekick Shopify comes in handy in overseeing your daily tasks like managing your inventory, reordering high-in-demand products, editing themes, and even changing copies for your website.

5. Ask Anything And Get Personalized Answers

Sidekick Shopify is built with the aim of helping enterprises and store owners like you to have a sidekick who can answer your questions, bring clarity, and be a helping hand during busy hours.

Impressively, you can ask any question to Sidekick, and its answer will be personalized to your store. The answer is not general, but it is as per what you have asked and the current performance of your store.

Sidekick powered by Shopify Magic is Shopify’s steps to move towards its AI Shopify approach. Aiming to connect e-commerce merchants and technology. Since Sidekick is not live yet, here is a little peek at the look and feel of this feature.

The Sidekick icon comes in the shape of a Robin (as Lütke says, every entrepreneur is a superhero).

The icon is on the top right side row, and when you start interacting with it, the chat buddle will open on the right side of your screen.

Please note the feature is still not available on any Shopify store. You can sign up for early access and get assistance from day 1.

• Visit Sidekick powered by Shopify Magic
• Enter your email address and link to your Shopify store
• & hit submit to join the wishlist

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is Shopify Sidekick free?
Yes, Shopify Sidekick is free. It is a free feature within all its plans.

2. When will Shopify Sidekick be available?
Unfortunately, Shopify has not officially announced the date of launch yet.

3. Is there an AI for Shopify?
Sidekick is an AI assistant for merchants powered by Shopify Magic.

Conclusion

We hope you are clear now on Shopify Sidekick!

The important part here is not to shy away but to include AI in your store to optimize your operations and have a competitive edge. One AI-rich feature you can instantly include in your store is our AI content generator.

Using this tool, you can create content in a few seconds. This tool can write

• Product titles
• Meta descriptions
• Collection descriptions

All you need to do is give a few inputs and see the AI magic unfold before you!