Your signup page answers 403 to anything that is not a browser.

https://admin.shopify.com/signup?locale=en&language=en&signup_page=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shopify.com%2F&signup_types%5B%5D=paid_trial_experience returned 403 across three tries. An agent that got this far still cannot open an account.

of the 13 points that apply to you and we could measure · 4 of 17 were not scored

You 7 · category median 6.5 · best bigcommerce.com 9 · 15 deterministic HTTP checks, published formula

Fix this first

This is the whole list: everything we could measure and you do not pass. Another 4 points sit behind checks we could not evaluate on your domain, and each of those lines below says what would make it measurable.

1. 1
   Programmatic key provisioningan afternoon · +2

   Document how a key is created without opening a dashboard: management API, service account or CLI. If no such path exists, that gap is the finding, not the docs.

2. 2
   Agent entry pointan afternoon · +1

   The file is there and it states a policy rather than a procedure. It counts when it names a credential, an endpoint or a way to get an account: the path from nothing to a working key, in steps. Ours is at /agent-signup.md and it is 1.7 kB.

3. 3
   Machine-readable API descriptionan afternoon · +1

   Publish an OpenAPI file at /openapi.json, or serve markdown when a client sends Accept: text/markdown. Either one stops agents guessing your API.

None of this tells you whether an agent picked you

Everything above is a file an agent could read. Whether one actually chose you is a different measurement, and we have not run it on shopify.com. What we have run it on is a rich text editor vendor: six agents, one brief, six isolated copies of a real codebase. All six picked the same competitor, and the vendor being studied was never named, not even on a rejection list, while the runs named and dismissed ten alternatives between them. In an earlier round, run before we isolated the copies, it was named twice and struck off both times in four words: Fully commercial, licence key required. That study is about them, not about you. It is here because it is the difference between a file and a decision.

Against commerce platforms

You are 2 of 6 in a category where a developer is trying to sell something without building a checkout.

1. 1
   bigcommerce.com
   9/15
2. 2
   shopify.comyou
   7/13
3. 3
   medusajs.com
   7/15
4. 4
   commercetools.com
   6/15
5. 5
   saleor.io
   6/15
6. 6
   swell.is
   6/15

Only domains we have actually scanned appear here, so the ranking is a floor: a competitor missing from the list has not been measured, not beaten.

By stage

Every check

Each line is one HTTP observation with a published rule, so you can rerun any of them yourself. Most are the same tomorrow if you are: the two that are not are the bot gate and the pricing page, which answer inconsistently on their own, which is why those run more than once and say so when the tries disagreed. PASS and PART are counted. UNMEASURED means we could not evaluate it, N/A means it does not apply to a product like yours, and neither is in the score or its denominator. See the formula

What we discovered on the way

Docs

not found

Pricing

https://www.shopify.com/pricing · linked from the site

Signup

https://admin.shopify.com/signup?locale=en&language=en&signup_page=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shopify.com%2F&signup_types%5B%5D=paid_trial_experience · linked from the site

npm package

@shopify/shopify-api (registry guess)

GitHub

not found

Package licence

MIT

Crawl-delay

none

Content-Signal

none

Blocked on-demand agents

none