Product & Platform

Magento to BigCommerce migration: protect your URLs, data and launch

Plan a Magento to BigCommerce migration with URL mapping, data checks, a launch rehearsal and clear recovery decisions. Keep your team in control.

From store events to action: bringing Adobe App Builder into Vortex IQ

How Vortex IQ is bringing Adobe App Builder into AI crews and automation workflows, with a demonstration on a DryRun copy of a live merchant’s store.

Turn Adobe Commerce events into controlled workflows with App Builder

See how Vortex IQ combines Adobe App Builder and I/O Events to turn Commerce activity into tested, approval-gated merchant workflows.

How Vortex IQ measures execution

The definitions of record for Time to Fix, Fix Acceptance Rate and Fix Reuse Rate: what counts, what does not, and how every figure is reported.

Inside Ask Viq: Jev, 758 Questions and Better Decisions

How we built Ask Viq around structured decisions, source-backed answers and 758 synthetic questions, and what testing taught us about useful ecommerce AI.

Why Jev Matters for Ecommerce: From Insight to Action

What Jev's decision models could unlock across 7,000+ KPIs, 14,000+ automation nodes and Vortex IQ's knowledge graph, with practical merchant examples.

BigCommerce Storefront MCP: How to Switch It On and Test It Safely

BigCommerce has its own Storefront MCP server. Here is how a store owner switches it on, connects an AI client, tests it, and what it does not do yet.

Adobe Commerce and Magento: How to Get Agent-Ready with MCP

Adobe has signalled the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the default agent protocol for commerce, but it has not shipped a first-party MCP server yet. Enterprise Magento and Adobe Commerce merchants who want to be…

Remote MCP and OAuth: How to Let Claude and AI Clients Securely Access Your Store

A remote MCP server lets an AI client such as Claude connect to your store over the network and act as a signed-in user, not an anonymous visitor. The hard part is not the tools, it is authentication. This guide explains…

Shopify Storefront MCP and Catalog MCP Explained: How to Get Chosen by AI Agents

Shopify now ships MCP servers to every store, so AI agents can discover, compare, and buy your products directly. Storefront MCP handles one store's catalog, cart, and checkout. Catalog MCP is the cross-store discovery…

How to Set Up an MCP Server on WooCommerce: A Practical Guide

WooCommerce does not expose your store to AI agents by default. To make products, orders and availability usable by assistants, you enable the official MCP beta, deploy a community server, or build a custom one over the…

Adobe Commerce & Magento Staging: The Complete Guide for 2026

Adobe Commerce Cloud includes one Staging branch, while on-premise Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source do not include a managed staging environment. See what each edition covers and where it stops.

Shopify Staging Environment: The Complete Guide for 2026

Shopify has no staging site. Here is what a duplicate theme, a development store and a staging app each copy, and how to move tested changes to production.

How to Test Theme Changes Without Breaking Your Store

Theme changes are the single most common reason ecommerce stores break in production. A theme update that renders perfectly in a preview can collapse on mobile. A CSS customisation that fixes one layout issue introduces…

BigCommerce Staging Environment: How to Test Changes Safely

BigCommerce has no built-in staging copy of your store. How to build one, keep it in sync with production, and move tested changes to live with an undo ready.

Best Ecommerce Backup Tools (2026): Compare Coverage and Restore Options

Compare six e-commerce backup options for Shopify, BigCommerce and Adobe Commerce. Review coverage, backup method, restore approach, pricing and technical effort before choosing a recovery plan.

Disaster Recovery Plan for Online Stores: Complete Guide

An ecommerce disaster recovery plan separates a store that recovers from a major incident in hours from one that spends days in chaos. Most ecommerce businesses do not have one. They have backup (sometimes), they have…

Ecommerce Backup & Data Protection: Complete Guide

Every ecommerce store has a moment where the need for backup becomes viscerally clear. For some stores it is a theme update that breaks the checkout at 6pm on a Friday. For others it is a bulk product import that…

Ecommerce Data Breach Response Plan: Complete Guide

Every ecommerce store should have a data breach response plan. Not because a data breach ecommerce stores face is inevitable, but because the quality of your store breach response (how quickly you contain it, how…

Ecommerce Data Security Best Practices

Your customer database is probably the most sensitive asset your business holds. Names, email addresses, physical addresses, purchase history, phone numbers, and depending on your payment setup, the last four digits of…

Ecommerce Payment Security Best Practices

Your checkout is the highest-stakes security environment in your entire store. It is where your customers trust you most completely - entering their card details, sharing their billing address, completing a financial…

Ecommerce Security & Compliance: Complete Guide

Ecommerce security is not a problem you solve once and forget. Every online store is a target. Not because yours is particularly notable, but because the volume of financial data, customer records, and payment…

Ecommerce Security 101: Threats Every Store Faces

Ecommerce security problems do not announce themselves. A card skimming script can sit on your checkout page collecting card data for weeks before anyone notices. A credential stuffing attack can test thousands of stolen…

Fraud Prevention for Ecommerce: AI-Powered Detection

Fraud is one of the most direct revenue threats an ecommerce store faces. Unlike a data breach, which may not affect your finances immediately, fraud has an immediate and measurable cost: the goods shipped, the revenue…

GDPR Compliance for Ecommerce: What You Must Know

GDPR compliance for ecommerce is one of those topics that generates more confusion than clarity. The regulation is written in legal language, published by regulators with enforcement responsibilities, and frequently…

GDPR & Data Retention for Ecommerce Backups

Ecommerce backup is not only an operational tool - it is a legal responsibility. The personal data stored in your backups falls under the same data protection regulations as your live store data, and the rules around how…

How AI Agents Protect Your Ecommerce Store 24/7

Most ecommerce security problems are not discovered by the store owner. They are discovered by customers reporting fraudulent charges, by payment processors flagging unusual transaction patterns, or by platform security…

How to Rollback Ecommerce Changes Safely

An ecommerce rollback is the most valuable capability your store can have when something goes wrong. The ability to revert ecommerce changes - whether a single product that was edited incorrectly or an entire store…

Shopify Backup Apps: Best Picks 2026

Every Shopify merchant needs a shopify backup app. Not because incidents are common on well-managed stores, but because when they do occur (a theme update that breaks checkout, a bulk import that corrupts pricing, an app…

The Day the Website Went Dark: An Ecommerce Backup Case Study

It was a Friday evening at 6:47pm when the Slack message arrived. "Has anyone else noticed the checkout is completely broken?" What followed was one of the most instructive nights in the store's operating history - not…

AP2 Is the Engine. Vortex IQ Is the Command Centre

BigCommerce AI Agents: Agentic Automation Now Available

Adobe Commerce and AI Agents: A Guide to Agentic Automation

Site Reliability Agent: Automated Uptime Monitoring

How We Built an AI Agent from Natural Language Using Our MCP Server

How Vortex IQ built an AI agent from plain English instructions with its MCP server: schema mapping for APIs, a prompt compiler and an agent skill builder.

The 22 MCP Servers We Released for Ecommerce in July 2025

In July 2025 we released MCP servers for 22 systems that sit around an ecommerce store. This page brings the 22 announcements together and explains what each one let an AI agent read and do.

BigCommerce Use Cases Powered by MCP + Vortex IQ

Vortex IQ now supports over 100+ automated actions across BigCommerce APIs, from product management to marketing, customer support to performance analytics.

Vertical AI Meets MCP: Instant AI Agents for Every Business

How Vortex IQ uses MCP to build skills, tools and AI agents for any API-enabled app, with examples from rollback and pricing sync to stock reorders.

MCP in Action: E-Commerce Use Cases

Ecommerce use cases for MCP: how connected AI agents handle product management, image optimisation, A/B testing, rollbacks and SEO fixes via store APIs.

Revolutionising E-commerce with AI Agents: MCP, Automation, Multi-Modal Conversations, and Smooth App Integrations

How AI agents use MCP and text and voice conversations to automate ecommerce tasks such as inventory monitoring, order fulfilment and product optimisation.

Building and deploying MCP-powered AI agents for ecommerce: a developer guide

How to build an MCP agent for a Shopify, BigCommerce or Adobe Commerce store and run it safely: server setup, tools and workflows, third-party APIs, OAuth, approvals, testing, deployment and operations.

MCP on Shopify, BigCommerce and Adobe Commerce: what AI agents can do on each platform

What AI agents can read, check and change through MCP on Shopify, BigCommerce and Adobe Commerce, what each platform offers today, and how your team stays in control of every change.

MCP compared: traditional APIs, LangChain, AutoGen and platform-native AI assistants

APIs, MCP, LangChain, AutoGen and platform assistants such as Shopify Sidekick solve different layers of the same problem, and most stacks use several. What each is for, and how to choose.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) for ecommerce: what it is and why it matters

MCP is the open standard AI assistants use to read data and call tools in other software. Here is what it means for a store, where Shopify and BigCommerce stand today, and how to get your stack ready.