Practical Ecommerce released its June 17, 2026 roundup of new services for ecommerce merchants (Practical Ecommerce). The installment covers product images, affiliate sales, agentic commerce, bot protection, less-than-load shipping, AI orchestration, product visibility, conversational search, and related tools. Notable launches include Pinterest's Amazon storefront linking for creators, ACI Worldwide's integration of the Wero digital wallet for European payments, and Visa's partnership with OpenAI to enable AI agents to initiate Visa payments (Practical Ecommerce).
Several startups are building agentic commerce infrastructure. ShopAgentic closed a €1.9 million pre-seed round to develop specialized AI agents for catalog management, dynamic pricing, customer service, and fulfillment (Practical Ecommerce). Merchantee raised €1.8 million to scale its agentic marketplace management platform, which manages data, decisions, execution, and optimization for sellers (Practical Ecommerce). Kyndryl released AI Orchestration for Business to support agentic workflows across store and enterprise operations, including agentic commerce and supply chain disruption management (Practical Ecommerce).
Product discovery and personalization tools are also advancing. Athos Commerce launched Commerce Intelligent Discovery, combining intelligent search, personalization, merchandising, and generative engine optimization to help brands improve product visibility and conversion (Practical Ecommerce). DoorDash introduced Ask DoorDash, a conversational search tool available on iOS for restaurant and grocery searches (Practical Ecommerce). Fast Simon launched AI personalization for mid-market and enterprise Shopify brands, optimizing collection strategy, product launches, promotions, and inventory management (Practical Ecommerce).