MCP readiness checklist for Shopify merchants

Start with legibility, not prompts

Before tuning prompts or ad copy, confirm agents can read your store:

• Public product pages render clean text (not image-only descriptions)
• JSON-LD product schema validates on top SKUs
• An llms.txt or equivalent discovery file points to canonical URLs

Wire live commerce data

Static scrapes go stale. A hosted MCP endpoint exposes tools like stock checks and price lookups using your Shopify Admin connection — read-only product and inventory scopes only.

Validate with a controlled audit

Run the same shopper query twice:

• Without your MCP / llms context (before)
• With context injected (after)

The delta is your citation lift — the metric finance and growth teams can track weekly.

Connect once, re-measure often

Install from the merchant console, open the audit dashboard, and save runs to history. Trend sparklines appear automatically as you improve schema and content gaps.