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Your store can now take Apple Pay and Google Pay. When a customer signs up, or updates their payment info later, they can tap once to save their card instead of typing the number. Faster signup, fewer people bailing partway, and the card still bills on your normal weekly schedule.

Nothing changes in how you bill. Apple Pay and Google Pay save the card the same way a typed card does, so your weekly charges (box plus fees, plus any add-ons that week) run exactly like they do now.

To turn it on, go to Payments → Apple Pay & Google Pay and register the web domain your store runs on. Register your www. and non-www. addresses separately if you use both. Once a domain is registered, the buttons show up on their own at signup and on the payment-info page for customers whose phone or browser supports them (Apple Pay in Safari on Apple devices, Google Pay in Chrome).

Your store can now publish its own press releases. Write one in the admin, hit publish, and it lands on a clean Press & Media page with its own web address you can send straight to reporters.

There's a built-in RSS feed, so journalists, search engines, and news aggregators pick up your announcements automatically. Your blog got its own feed too.

Every release is machine-readable. Each one carries structured data (the same format Google uses for news results) and now shows up in your sitemap and llms.txt, so Google and AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can find and cite your news, not just subscribe to the feed.

A couple weeks back your store started publishing an llms.txt so AI assistants could read who you are. This is the next step: getting those assistants enough to describe your store accurately and point a real customer at it.

Your store now publishes an agent guide at /agents.md that lays out how your store actually works: check the delivery zip, pick a box, sign up, then customize and add on when the weekly menu opens (or anytime, if you run Shop Anytime). It's upfront that this is a box-first store and not a one-click cart, and that the customer signs up themselves, so an assistant walks a shopper down the right path instead of making something up.

There's also a catalog feed assistants can read: your boxes at /ai/catalog.json, plus a Google Merchant version at /ai/catalog.xml so your products can show up in Google Shopping, both with live prices and stock. Alongside the delivery-coverage answer at /ai/delivery-check, that's what an assistant needs to recommend you accurately.

To be straight about where this is at: an AI agent can't sign a customer up or check out for them yet, that part still happens with a person. The standards for agent checkout are still being built, and this gets your store ready for them. For now it means when someone asks an assistant where to get a box delivered, yours can be the one it recommends, with the right details instead of a guess.

You can now run a promotion straight off a page URL. Point a QR code, a flyer, an ad, or an email link at one of your page builder pages, and the discount is already applied by the time someone signs up. They don't type a code, they don't hunt for a box to check. They land, they sign up, the deal is on.

The trick is a code in the link. Add ?code=YOURCODE to the end of any page builder page URL and that code rides along and auto applies at signup. Because the code lives in the link, one page can run a bunch of promotions at once. Give each source its own code and your reports tell you exactly who sent the signups:

Same page, different links.

To make it land for the customer, there's a new block called Promo Code Unlocked. Drop it anywhere on a page and it shows a banner with the real offer, "20% OFF" or "$10 OFF" or whatever the promo is named, plus a note that it's applied automatically with no code to enter. Best part, it only appears when the visitor actually has a code. No code, no banner, so it's safe to leave on any page and it just lights up for people who followed a promo link.

Your content pages, home page, How It Works, landing pages, all of it, can now be built and edited just by chatting with an AI. Connect Claude Code to your store's Page Builder and tell it what you want in plain English: "update my How It Works page," "build a landing page for the fall promo," "write me an About Us page about our local farms." It makes the changes right in your page builder. No HTML, no design tools, no waiting on anyone.

You ask, it does the work, then hands you a draft to review. It's upfront about what's real and what's a placeholder, and it won't publish or change anything on your live site until you say so.

Your Page Builder pages can now carry a discount code that gets applied automatically when someone signs up from that page. No typing, no fumbled codes, no "the code isn't working" comments under your ads.

The problem it solves: you run an ad with a promo code and a chunk of people never type it in correctly, or at all. You lose the signup even though the code was fine. Now the code is already waiting when they land. Point the ad at a landing page and everyone who arrives has it saved.

To set it up, open any page in the Page Builder, click the settings gear, and drop a code into the new Auto-apply discount code field. Every visitor who lands on that page has the code saved to their browser for 16 days, and it's already applied when they sign up.

Each page holds its own code, so you can run a separate landing page for every ad or campaign and keep them straight. If a customer types their own code instead, theirs wins.

More and more people are shopping through AI now. They ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity what to buy and where to get it, and those assistants go read your website to answer. Your store just got a set of tools that let them read it correctly and recommend you, instead of guessing at your delivery area and making things up.

Four things are now published automatically on every store:

You can see and test every one of these in one place. Go to Settings → Business Info → AI Business Info, and look for the new AI Surfaces & Tools panel. Open any surface, or hit Test to see exactly what an AI sees. The delivery checker even fills in real in-area and out-of-area ZIPs from your own coverage so you can try it without looking codes up.

Every store on Kiva Logic now publishes an llms.txt file. When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini "where can I get produce delivered near me," this is the file those assistants read to figure out what your business is and who it's for. Yours is live right now at yourstore.com/llms.txt.

It builds itself from your own data: your business description, delivery area, box types and prices, product categories, key pages, and contact info. Nothing to set up. Your site is also now open to the major AI crawlers so they can actually read it (all of them except one known bad actor).

If you publish press releases, those are part of it too: your Press & Media page is listed in your llms.txt, and each release carries the structured data search engines and AI assistants read, so your announcements show up when they describe you.

Go look at yours and make sure it reads right. The part that matters most is the business description at the top, since that's the line an AI leads with when it describes you. If it's blank, off, or someone once typed your store hours into it, update it under Settings → Business Info. Change the Business Description there and your llms.txt catches up within a day.

Your storefront now has Google's Preferred Sources button built right into the footer, on every store, automatically.

Preferred Sources is a Google Search feature that lets your shoppers mark your site as one they want to see more of. When someone sets you as a preferred source, Google leans toward showing your content more prominently in spots like Top Stories and its AI results. It's a small but real SEO win, and the button is what turns it into one click for your customer instead of a setting buried inside Google.

There's nothing to switch on. The button is already sitting in your footer and works on whatever domain your store runs on. The one part outside anyone's hands is Google itself: the button shows up once Google recognizes your domain as eligible, which happens automatically for established stores and can take a little while for brand-new ones.

Hey folks!

I have an interesting shopify/plugin comparison, a few features to share, and a couple questions. Skip ahead to the features section of this email and come back to the questions section of this email if you are short on time.

Plugin Comparison

So we are working with someone coming over from Shopify right now, and the number of plugins they use are pretty astounding. It got me thinking (uhoh), what are the most popular plugins on Shopify and do we have a similar or matching feature built in?