PageFly now plugs into Shopify Sidekick, so you can ask Shopify's AI assistant about your own PageFly pages — what you built, what's published, your CRO scores and A/B test results — without opening the app.
Shopify's AI assistant just learned to read your PageFly pages.
Sidekick usage is climbing fast. Shopify says weekly active shops using Sidekick were up 4x year over year in Q1, and that Sidekick is "becoming where merchants run their business" (Spring '26 Edition, June 2026). The same Edition opened Sidekick to app developers and launched App Extensions with 15+ partners, including Klaviyo, Judge.me, Smile and Yotpo.
PageFly is now one of them. Which means the answer to "which of my landing pages are actually live?" no longer needs a second app — it is a page that can answer for itself, through the assistant you already have open.
Key takeaways
- PageFly now ships a Sidekick data extension: ask Shopify's AI about your own PageFly pages from anywhere in your admin.
- Six tools, all tested first-hand. Four read your own store — your page list, page-health scan, CRO checkup findings and A/B test results. Two search PageFly's catalogs — the template library and the help center.
- It is read-only. Sidekick can report on your pages; it cannot edit, publish or build one. Nothing in your store changes.
- It is free with PageFly — no setup and no connection step. The first time you ask, Sidekick checks with you before reading your PageFly data.
- Sidekick returns up to 6 results per question, and returns nothing rather than guessing when a scan has not been run or your plan does not include that feature.
What is PageFly in Shopify Sidekick?
Sidekick app extensions are a way for a Shopify app to hand its own data to Shopify's built-in AI assistant, so Sidekick can answer questions about that app without the merchant leaving the conversation. Shopify splits them in two: data extensions, which are read-only, and action extensions, which change something and ask the merchant to confirm. Shopify's own guidance is blunt about the split — "Keep data extensions read-only" (Shopify developer docs).
PageFly's integration is a data extension. Sidekick can look at the pages you have built with PageFly, a Shopify page builder — landing pages, product pages, collection pages, any of your Shopify pages — summarise their state, and report what is wrong. But it never touches them. That is the whole idea behind a page that can answer for itself: the data walks to you instead of you walking to the data.
New to Sidekick? What Shopify's AI assistant actually does
Shopify Sidekick is the AI assistant built into your Shopify admin. You open it from the icon in the admin top bar and ask questions in plain language instead of hunting through menus — it reads your store data, explains settings, and walks you through tasks. Since Shopify opened Sidekick to app developers in the Spring '26 Edition, it can also answer using data from the apps you have installed. That is the door PageFly walked through.
Two things worth knowing before your first question:
- It lives in the admin, not the storefront. Sidekick helps you run the store. It is not the chat widget your shoppers see.
- It answers from real data. Ask about your own store and Sidekick goes and reads it rather than generalising — which is exactly what makes an app integration useful instead of decorative.
Source: Learn With Shopify (Shopify's official channel) — the Sidekick walkthrough: where to find it in the admin and how to ask.
For a fuller picture of where Sidekick is strong and where it still falls short, read our Shopify Sidekick review. If you are weighing it against a general-purpose assistant, Sidekick vs ChatGPT vs Claude puts the three side by side.
What you can ask Sidekick about PageFly
Six tools ship with the integration, in two groups. Ask in plain language — Sidekick picks the tool. It covers every page type you build, from a campaign landing page to a product page.
Four that read your own store
| Ask Sidekick | What comes back | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| "What PageFly pages do I have?" | Page title, page type (page / product / collection / blog), published or not, last updated | PageFly installed |
| "Are my pages healthy? What should I fix?" | Your latest page-health scan: pages scanned, total issues, and the pages with the most issues — deleted products, missing images | A scan already run in PageFly |
| "How can I improve conversions on my pages?" | Per page: health score, number of critical issues, and the top issue to fix | A CRO checkup already run; feature included in your plan |
| "How is my A/B test going? Which variant is winning?" | Each test's status (live or complete), the goal metric, win probability, and which side is ahead | At least one A/B test set up |
Two that search PageFly's catalogs
These two never touch your store. They search PageFly's public template library and help center, so they work before you have built anything at all.
| Ask Sidekick | What comes back | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| "Show me PageFly landing page templates for a sale" | Up to 6 templates, each with a name, a one-line description and a link to open it. Add "section" to search section templates instead of whole pages | Nothing |
| "How do I publish a PageFly page?" | The matching PageFly Help Center articles, with links — plus Sidekick's own summary of the steps | Nothing |
Asking for sale templates on our test store returned six — Sales Promotion - Valentine, Olis - Singles' Day, Halo, Teki - BFCM, Denka and Teaser - BFCM — each with a description and an opening link. Sidekick then narrowed it down on its own: because the store sells electronics, it flagged the three electronics-focused templates as the best bets. That is the difference between a search box and an assistant that has read your catalog.
The help search behaves the same way: ask a how-to question and you get the real Help Center articles rather than a generic answer.
Constraints, answered
Merchants do not ask "does it have feature X". They ask "does it work on my plan, on my store, today". So:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Extra cost? | No. It comes with PageFly. |
| Setup needed? | None. No connection step — just approve Sidekick's one-time permission prompt the first time you ask. |
| Where does it work? | Anywhere in your Shopify admin where Sidekick is available. |
| Skill level? | No code. Plain-language questions. |
| Does it change my store? | No — read-only, every tool. |
| How many results? | Up to 6 per question. Ask a narrower question for a narrower answer. |
| Whose data? | The page list, page health, CRO findings and A/B tests are your store's. Templates and help articles come from PageFly's public catalogs. |
| Works on a brand-new store? | Yes for templates and help search. The other four need pages, a scan, a checkup or a test to exist first. |
| What if there is no data? | Sidekick says so. It does not invent a score. |
The same idea drives the PageFly visual editor — fewer clicks between a question and the page itself.
What we found testing it first-hand
We ran this on our own Shopify Plus test store, from the admin Home page, with PageFly installed.
Asking "What PageFly pages do I have?" returned both pages by name, with publish status and page type — and Sidekick added something the raw data did not: it noticed the second page was a clone of the first and offered to publish it. That is the part that is easy to miss about a data extension. Sidekick does not just print the rows; it reasons over them.
Asking about page health with no scan on file was the more interesting test. Sidekick did not guess and did not error — it said no scan had been run yet and told us to run one inside PageFly. For anyone who has watched an AI tool confidently invent a number, that restraint is the feature.
Asking two things at once — "How are my A/B tests going, and what CRO issues do my pages have?" — Sidekick answered "let me check both at the same time", called both tools, and came back with one summary: no A/B tests set up yet, and our published sales page scoring 88/100 with no critical issues, its single flagged issue being a missing FAQ section.
A "missing FAQ section" flag is a small thing that matters twice over: FAQs answer buyer hesitation before checkout, and they are one of the formats AI assistants quote most when they recommend a store — which is the whole game in Shopify GEO. Worth fixing on a page already scoring 88.
What the integration cannot do yet
Being straight about this is more useful than a feature list.
- It cannot build or edit a page. Sidekick can tell you a page is unpublished and find you a template; you still build and publish in PageFly. Page-changing work needs an action extension, and this release is a data extension.
- It reports scans, it does not run them. No page-health or CRO checkup result exists until you run one in PageFly.
- Plan gating is real. Page health and CRO findings depend on your PageFly plan and entitlements. Not included, or never run? You get an empty answer, not an error.
- Six results, max. Larger stores should ask by page type — "list my product pages" — instead of "list everything".
- If Sidekick does not seem to see your PageFly data, move off the PageFly app screen and ask again from elsewhere in the admin. There is a known Shopify-side issue where an app's Sidekick tools can fail while the merchant is sitting on that app's own page.
How to try it on your store
Four steps to your first answer. The screenshots below are from our own admin.
- Install or open PageFly. Nothing else to switch on — the Sidekick tools ship with the app. (PageFly Help Center if you are starting from zero.)
- Open Sidekick from the icon in your Shopify admin top bar, next to the notification bell. The panel slides in on the right.
- Approve the permission prompt, and pick the right option. The first time you ask something about PageFly, Sidekick checks with you: "Can Sidekick use PageFly Page Builder to list your pages and access your store's PageFly data?" Sidekick itself recommends "Yes, and don't ask again" so it does not have to prompt you again each session.
- Ask. Start with templates if your store is new — "show me PageFly landing page templates for a sale" needs no pages at all. Otherwise go straight at your own store: "what PageFly pages do I have", "which of my pages are published", "how can I improve conversions on my pages", "which variant is winning".
If Sidekick says there is no data, run a page-health scan or a CRO checkup in PageFly first, then ask again. New to experiments? Start with Shopify A/B testing.
Then act on what you get. Sidekick hands you the finding; you make the change in PageFly — most often on a landing page.
Why this matters beyond a page list
Merchants are starting to run their stores by asking, and stores are starting to be discovered the same way — see agentic commerce and Shopify AI agents. A page builder an assistant can read is a page builder that shows up in those answers.
This is the first release. Read-only now; we will say more when there is more that is shipped and tested.
Building pages in PageFly? See how the visual editor works.
Pagefly Shopify Sidekick FAQ
It is a Sidekick data extension: it lets Shopify's AI assistant read PageFly data and answer questions about it. Six read-only tools ship with it — four read your own store (pages, page health, CRO findings, A/B tests) and two search PageFly's template library and help center.
No. This release is read-only, so Sidekick can report on pages and find templates but cannot create, edit or publish one. Page changes still happen in the PageFly editor.
No. It comes with PageFly and needs no setup. The only step is approving Sidekick's permission prompt the first time you ask about your PageFly data.
Which PageFly pages you have and whether they are published, your latest page-health scan, your CRO checkup findings and health scores, and the status and winning variant of your A/B tests. You can also ask it to find PageFly templates or help articles.
Yes. Ask in plain language, for example "show me PageFly landing page templates for a sale", and Sidekick returns up to 6 templates with descriptions and links. Say "section" to search section templates instead of whole pages. It works on a brand-new store because it searches PageFly's public catalog, not your store.
Page health and CRO findings only exist after you run a scan or checkup in PageFly, and some features depend on your plan. Sidekick returns an empty answer instead of guessing a number.
Yes. The first time you ask something about PageFly, Sidekick shows a permission prompt. Choose "Yes, and don't ask again" — Sidekick recommends that option itself so it does not need to prompt you again each session.
Ask from somewhere other than the PageFly app screen. There is a known Shopify-side issue where an app's Sidekick tools can fail while you are on that app's own admin page.
