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When Shopify goes down on a sales day: a small shop's outage plan before Black Friday
Last Cyber Monday a Shopify login fault locked merchants out of their admin and POS during the busiest hours of the year. You can't prevent a platform outage. You can shorten the damage. Here is a one-page plan to set up before Black Friday.
Oct 20, 2026
Where AI shopping agents get stuck on your store: MERJ's 100 tests, turned into a checkout fix list
MERJ ran 100 controlled tests of AI agents using websites. Success roughly doubled in five months, but icon-only buttons, click-eating overlays, cookie walls and pre-checked add-ons still trip them. A prioritised fix list for a small shop, and how to test one real purchase.
Oct 5, 2026
Shopify's checkout now talks to browser agents: what get_checkout, update_checkout and complete_checkout mean for your store
Since 28 September, AI agents in a shopper's browser can read, edit and submit a Shopify checkout through WebMCP, after the buyer says yes. What the four tools do, what agents can't touch, how this differs from Shopify's MCP server, and a checklist so agent-placed orders come out right.
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