Shopify adds seven local payment methods, Shop Pay checkout inside AI agents and free fraud tools

Shopify released its Fall '26 Edition on 28 October 2026, and several of the changes affect how its merchants get paid. Seven payment methods have been added to Shopify Payments: Alipay, WeChat Pay, MB WAY, OXXO, Satispay, Scalapay and GrabPay. Shopify says all seven work in online checkout and most also work with Shop Pay, the Shop app and in-person Shopify POS. It did not say which markets each method covers. Shop Pay is now available as a checkout inside third-party AI shopping agents. Shopify names Muse from Meta, Claude Duet and Instinct as agents where Shop Pay checkout runs, and says Claude Duet, Grok Bot and Instinct also offer Shop Pay for brands that do not use Shopify. Card details are not passed to the agent. For agent purchases from merchants off Shopify, payments use network tokens from Mastercard, Visa and Discover, and Shopify says American Express tokens are coming soon. Shop Pay has more than 400 million users, according to the company. The third change is Shopify Protect, a set of fraud and dispute tools in the Shopify admin that comes at no extra cost to merchants using Shopify Payments. It blocks high-risk orders before authorisation and fights chargebacks automatically. A Rule Builder lets merchants write their own fraud rules and test them against past orders before switching them on. Shopify says its payments arm stops more than 12,000 high-risk payments every minute. For online merchants, the timing matters. These tools arrive just before the peak holiday season, when new payment methods, agent-driven orders and dispute volumes all tend to rise together.