Shopify said on Sept. 1, 2026, that developers can create an online store from the command line through Stripe Projects. The company said in a post on X that developers can add commerce to an app stack and use one Stripe account for provider setup and billing.
In a follow-up post the same minute, Shopify said developers could add Shopify directly to a project or start with its Trending Products template.
The Stripe Projects directory lists Shopify under stripe projects add shopify/store. It says developers can set up a hosted Shopify store within Stripe Projects, select a plan, launch the storefront and manage billing through Stripe. The catalog has 63 providers, including two in ecommerce: Shopify and Wix.
Stripe describes Projects as a public-preview plugin for its CLI. It provisions third-party services from the terminal, puts credentials in a local .env file and handles billing through Stripe. Stripe says users configure billing once for the stack. The plugin is free, while providers charge their usual rates.
Shopify’s linked template uses a prompt-first process to research trending products and launch a store. Its default command is stripe projects build my-app --template shopify/trending-products. The stack combines Shopify with Firecrawl for researching trends and competitors, OpenRouter for editing product photos, and Spaceship for finding and purchasing a domain. The template page also provides launch prompts for Codex and Claude that direct the coding agent to follow SKILL.md.
Shopify published the template in the public Shopify/trending-products GitHub repository under an MIT license. The repository is copyrighted by Shopify Inc., and its first commit is dated Aug. 28, 2026. Its workflow produces research-brief.md, brand-brief.md, catalog-plan.md, campaign-plan.md and launch-checklist.md in the artifacts/ directory.
According to the README, Shopify CLI supports development involving themes, apps and Hydrogen, as well as sending and publishing themes. Store creation and catalog administration instead use an authorized Shopify store process or the Admin API. The launch prompt directs agents to obtain the .myshopify.com domain from Stripe CLI project state after creating a store through Projects. The skill file blocks agents from purchasing a domain, changing a live catalog, publishing a theme, connecting a production domain or turning on paid services until the merchant confirms the action in that conversation.
