- Short answer
- Yes, if your store is eligible: Meta's direct checkout, Muse included when available, is on by default for shoppers in the US, Canada and Mexico.
- Who qualifies
- Stores selling to US, Canadian or Mexican customers, with Catalog-eligible products, three completed policies and accepted Agentic Storefronts terms.
- Shop Pay in Muse
- Can show as a wallet when available; no Muse-specific activation. If not used, eligible purchases can use another supported method.
- Products Meta can't check out
- Subscriptions, product bundles, customizable products and B2B-only products.
- Fees
- No fees for Meta's direct checkout; you pay only your standard payment processing fees.
- Analytics
- Google Analytics and custom pixels don't fire in Meta's direct checkout.
- Switching it off
- Meta shoppers still find your products but finish the purchase on your online store.
How does your Shopify store end up selling in Muse?
Muse is one of the Meta surfaces served by the Meta channel of Shopify's agentic storefronts. Shopify's Selling on Meta page says the channel "lets customers complete their purchases through a Shopify-powered direct checkout on Meta surfaces, including Muse when available." Products are made available on Meta through Shopify Catalog, and you don't need to do anything for your products to be discovered by Meta through it.
Buying is where eligibility comes in. When your store is eligible, purchasing through Meta's direct checkout is active by default in your Shopify admin, and it has to remain active for customers on Meta surfaces to buy your products directly. With it on, a customer can start a purchase in Muse and complete the order without leaving Meta.
Is Shop Pay live in Muse for your store?
As of September 2026, Shopify's help page puts it conditionally:
Shop Pay can display as a wallet or checkout option for customers in Muse when available. You don't need to activate Shop Pay specifically for Muse.
If Shop Pay isn't used, customers can complete eligible purchases with another supported payment method.
The news trail behind the headlines starts with Meta's Muse announcement of September 8, 2026, which said Muse was rolling out in the US and that "Shop Pay is coming soon as another way to pay"; Meta's Connect 2026 recap lists "Shop Pay and PayPal for payments".
On September 21, 2026, Shopify's Tobi Lütke announced agentic checkout with Shop Pay "on all Shopify stores", as reported by PYMNTS. No Shopify news entry or Meta newsroom post we found, read on September 25, 2026, dates Shop Pay in Muse as live for every eligible merchant.
Meta's direct checkout supports a subset of the accelerated checkout options activated on your store, and Shop Pay is included as part of Shopify Payments, processed at your Shopify Payments rates — see what Shop Pay requires of your store.
Is your store eligible for Meta's direct checkout?
Shopify lists the store-side requirements on the same Selling on Meta page:
- You must sell to customers in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
- Your products must be eligible for Shopify Catalog.
- You must read and agree to the Shopify Agentic Storefronts Supplemental Terms of Service.
- Your Terms of service, Privacy policy, and Return and refund policy must be completed in Settings > Policies.
- For shoppable ads only: the Facebook and Instagram by Meta sales channel, with product syncing activated in its Product feed section.
That channel matters for shoppable ads; the direct checkout switch for Muse and other Meta surfaces sits under Sales channels > Agentic, covered below.
A second gate is the shopper's location. Meta's direct checkout is displayed only to customers based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico, and Meta said on September 8, 2026 that Muse was rolling out in the US.
Four product types can't be bought in Meta's direct checkout: subscriptions, product bundles, customizable products and B2B-only products. Local delivery, pickup in store and pickup points aren't supported as delivery methods, and you can't require customers to sign in to their account before checkout.
Meta's Muse announcement and Connect 2026 recap, read on September 25, 2026, carry no separate merchant requirements for Muse that we could find.
What changes for your orders, fees and analytics?
There are no fees associated with selling in Meta's direct checkout — you pay only your standard payment processing fees. Orders placed on Meta surfaces are attributed to Meta and appear in your Shopify admin the same way as orders from any other sales channel, and the work behind them stays with you:
You remain the merchant of record, and you continue to manage fulfillment, returns, and customer service for these orders.
Analytics is where the gap shows. Google Analytics and custom pixels won't fire in Meta's direct checkout; it fires only server-to-server pixels (started, completed), so client-side tools won't see these checkouts. Use our guide to tracking agentic orders across every AI channel to measure them.
How do you switch off Meta's direct checkout, and what happens then?
Direct checkout is a switch you can flip back. To change it:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Sales channels > Agentic.
- Deactivate Allow Shopify to manage for me.
- Click Meta.
- Activate or deactivate Direct checkout.
- Click Save.
The same Meta screen holds another lever, Shopify Catalog access. Here is what a shopper gets under each setting:
Three settings, three shopper experiences
| Your setting for Meta | What a shopper in Muse or on another Meta surface gets |
|---|---|
| Direct checkout on (the default) | Buys without leaving Meta; if checkout needs details Meta can't collect, finishes in your checkout inside Meta's in-app browser |
| Direct checkout off | Still discovers your products through Shopify Catalog, then is redirected to your online store to buy |
| Shopify Catalog access off for Meta | Might still see your products, displayed through other methods such as web crawling and indexing instead of Shopify Catalog |
Shopify Help Center, Selling on Meta, read on September 25, 2026.
Shopify's agentic storefronts management page documents the checkout cascade for the store-wide Shopify Catalog access setting, which removes Shopify Catalog access for all third-party agentic storefronts channels: "Direct checkout is also deactivated when Shopify Catalog access is turned off." Removing Catalog access for Meta alone doesn't affect how Shopify Catalog shows your products on other platforms, such as Shop.
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