Salesforce shares approach toward integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Salesforce is piloting ChatGPT integration for dozens of merchants including Crocs and Pacsun, allowing product syndication for discovery within ChatGPT conversations. This follows Shopify's March 2026 ChatGPT shopping integration launch.
AI platforms are becoming new sales channels, potentially reducing dependence on traditional marketplaces for product discovery. Sellers should evaluate if their current platform supports AI syndication or consider multi-platform strategies to capture conversational commerce traffic.
Conversational commerce through AI is emerging as a new channel alongside traditional marketplaces, potentially shifting how customers discover products outside of Amazon, Walmart, and Target ecosystems.
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AI platforms becoming sales channels for Salesforce merchants.
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AI platforms becoming sales channels for Salesforce merchants.
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$192.60 billion in combined web sales from 78 Salesforce retailers in Top 2000
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Ecommerce technology provider Salesforce has been piloting a program in which it offers its merchants an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This is part of a growing trend among retailers and technology providers to join more artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platforms as additional channels to make sales.
Gordon Evans, chief marketing officer of Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud, shared how Salesforce is approaching its integration with ChatGPT so far — and what that could mean for selling through other large language models (LLMs) and other AI-powered platforms.
Salesforce’s pilot program with OpenAI has enrolled “dozens of retailers,” he told Digital Commerce 360. Two of them are apparel brands Crocs and Pacsun. The integration centers around syndication, he said, allowing Salesforce merchants to ensure their products show up in discovery on ChatGPT.
In North America, 78 of the Top 2000 online retailers use Salesforce as their ecommerce platform, according to Digital Commerce 360 data. In 2025, those 78 online retailers combined for more than $192. 60 billion in web sales. The Top 2000 is Digital Commerce 360’s database ranking North America’s largest online retailers by their annual ecommerce sales.
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