Meet Sidekick: Shopify AI e-Commerce Assistant (2023)
As many companies across industries invest in AI (artificial intelligence) in 2023, Shopify would be no exception. In the summer of 2023, it announced a new assistant for all Shopify Merchants – Sidekick, your personal assistant in your e-commerce adventures, because every Merchant deserves their own Sidekick 😉. Shopify describes Sidekick as a deeply competent, incredibly intelligent, passionate, and non-judgmental advisor—available to you whenever you need them. E-commerce is certainly constantly evolving, and the tools they offer us allow us to focus on the things that matter most to your business and your online store.
Using everyday language (English for now) as a tool and input, you can:
- Optimize your Shopify eshop
- Complete tasks in less time than it usually takes you
- Lead to smarter business decisions
- Get recommendations for the best Shopify apps for your business
- Get help with marketing campaigns to increase purchases on your Shopify Eshop
Sidekick solves your problems, answers your questions, and helps you get your work done faster 😉
See what Shopify says too
Read above about Sidekick's capabilities.
1.Predefined Actions
Once you call Sidekick into action, you will be able to choose from a range of predefined actions, such as:
- Create a discount coupon
- Shopify store analysis
- Editing Shopify Theme
2. Answer any question
At any given time, we have tons of questions about what's really going on in our business. Sidekick can be used to get these answers. For example, in the screenshot from the video, we see why sales have decreased in the eshop from March to today? The impressive thing about Shopify AI Sidekick is that it accompanies the answer with a chart and a link to the Shopify report!
Sidekick is powered by over 4 million online stores and they really help Sidekick provide very good answers to what the modern entrepreneur needs.
3. Create discount coupons
As mentioned above, the ability to request a discount with natural language AI in Shopify will free up many hands. With a simple phrase like “Put everything on Sale” Sidekick will create a coupon for all products. Of course, we can also tell it to specific collections (Shopify Collections).
4. Editing the Shopify Theme
Sidekick AI can edit the theme based on the input prompt you provide.
For example, in the video he adds the surfboard collection and then starts going through the suggestions to give it a look and feel like a surf eshop.
When will Sidekick be available?
Unfortunately, Sidekick is not yet available and there is no official release date yet but we certainly hope before the end of 2023! But we can't wait to play with it and show it to all our Shopify customers!
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