Use in Shopify

The Coveo AI Search & Discovery app makes it easy to implement Coveo-powered search interfaces in your Shopify storefront. It automates a lot of features that you would otherwise have to set up through tools like the Coveo Administration Console and Coveo Merchandising Hub (CMH).

The app also sets you up to add Coveo-powered product listing and recommendation interfaces by indexing your Shopify product catalog and implementing event tracking. However, you can’t currently create these interfaces directly in the app, so you’ll have to do some additional configuration in the Administration Console and CMH. See Further reading for more details.

Alternatively, you can create your own custom Coveo implementation without using the Coveo AI Search & Discovery app.

The Coveo Platform queries an index to return items. In the context of Shopify, your index stores the data from your Shopify product catalog in your Coveo organization.

For more information about how the Coveo AI Search & Discovery app indexes content, see Index content.

It’s crucial that you track touchpoints to analyze storefront performance, create reports, and power Coveo Machine Learning (Coveo ML) models. You can do this by sending events to the Coveo Usage Analytics (Coveo UA) service.

For more information about how the Coveo AI Search & Discovery app helps you track events, see Track events.

Whether you use the Coveo AI Search & Discovery app or create your own custom implementation, you’ll need to build your own commerce interface to leverage Coveo in your Shopify storefront. You can use either Coveo Atomic with Shopify Liquid or Coveo Headless with Shopify Hydrogen.

For more information, see Build commerce interfaces in Shopify.

Many aspects of Coveo for Commerce aren’t specific to Shopify. The following articles provide general information that may help you with your implementation.