Shopify Sidekick

• Asking for a sales, costs, profit, and returns table for the top 100 products, charting daily sales for the last 90 days, and exporting the result to CSV
• Adding two units and a 10% line item discount to an existing order, or building a draft order for a B2B customer with payment terms
• Creating a segment of lapsed customers who are subscribed to marketing emails and drafting a win-back email campaign for them
• Generating a small admin app that suggests reorder quantities from sales velocity, or one that creates discounted checkout links and QR codes
• Describing a brand in Canvas and getting a new, unpublished theme to refine block by block before publishing
• Setting up a Shopify Flow workflow that tags small orders, or a recurring weekly performance summary saved as a skill

Sidekick's advantage is access, not cleverness: it reads the store's own orders, products, analytics, and settings and can fill in the same forms a merchant would, so routine admin work and reporting become a sentence instead of a dozen clicks. Because every change waits for approval and respects staff permissions, it is low risk to try, and since it costs nothing extra on a Shopify plan there is little reason for a Shopify merchant not to use it. The limits are the boundaries of the Shopify admin itself: it does not talk to customers, generation features carry store-wide plan limits, and the most ambitious parts, such as Canvas and Pulse, are still in early access with real restrictions like no third-party themes. Treat it as a capable operator for your admin, and keep separate tools for customer support and anything outside Shopify.

About Shopify Sidekick

Sidekick sits inside the Shopify admin, on desktop, in the Shopify mobile app, and on tablets, and works with the page you are on as context. You ask in text or by voice, mention a specific product, order, customer, or app with @, or click part of the admin with Target mode, and Sidekick either does the work or walks you to it. The work is concrete: it writes ShopifyQL queries and charts for Analytics, edits orders and draft orders, creates products, collections, customers, B2B companies, discounts, and customer segments, updates metafields and metaobjects, builds and edits Shopify Flow workflows, drafts Shopify Messaging email campaigns, generates images, checks Shopify Balance and prepares money transfers, and adjusts theme settings in the theme editor. Proposed changes are highlighted in purple and only take effect when you click Save, Update order, or Apply, and Shopify states that Sidekick cannot change the store without your approval. Longer jobs keep running in the background after you close the chat. On Grow, Advanced, and Plus, Sidekick can generate single-page admin apps against the Admin API, with an app editor, version history, and rolling hourly and weekly usage limits. Canvas, launched on October 1, 2026, is a desktop workspace where Sidekick builds a new theme from a description of your brand or restyles a copy of an existing one while you watch, then hands it back for you to publish. Memory carries preferences and about three months of conversations, frequently used prompts can be saved as up to 25 shortcut skills, and supported third-party apps such as Klaviyo and Judge.me can be used inside a chat after you approve them. Sidekick costs nothing extra, but it is not a standalone product: it only works for a Shopify store, features and usage limits vary by plan, it never talks to your customers, and several pieces (Canvas, Sidekick Pulse recommendations, and screen sharing) are still in early access for selected stores.