agentic-commerce-protocol

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stripe

Introducing the Agentic Commerce Suite: A complete solution for selling on AI agents (opens in new tab)

Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite is designed to help businesses sell through AI agents without building separate integrations for every platform. It provides product discovery, checkout, payments, fraud protection, and order-event handling through a single, modular integration while allowing merchants to retain their existing commerce systems. The suite is rolling out through Stripe, ecommerce platforms, and omnichannel commerce providers. ## The Integration Challenge - Supporting each AI agent can require up to six months of work. - Businesses otherwise need to maintain: - Public, versioned ACP endpoints - Agent-specific catalogs and APIs - Access controls and commerce-stack integrations - The Agentic Commerce Suite aims to standardize these requirements. ## Making Products Discoverable - Merchants connect their product catalog to Stripe or import it from supported product syndicators. - Stripe provides a hosted Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) endpoint. - Product, pricing, and availability data can be shared with AI agents in near real time. - Merchants can select supported AI agents in the Stripe Dashboard and enable payments with minimal additional work. ## Simplifying Checkout and Order Management - Stripe Checkout Sessions API supports agentic checkout, including taxes and shipping. - Businesses can use Stripe Tax and other Stripe products or continue using their existing systems for: - Tax codes - Inventory checks - Dynamic shipping rates - Existing order management and fulfillment workflows remain in place. - Merchants stay responsible for customer relationships, refunds, and disputes as the merchant of record. ## Agentic Payments and Fraud Protection - AI-agent transactions introduce different fraud risks because automated traffic can resemble suspicious activity or be manipulated by attackers. - The suite supports Shared Payment Tokens (SPTs), which let agents use a buyer’s saved payment method without exposing payment credentials. - SPTs can be restricted by: - Seller - Time period - Transaction amount - Tokens are observable throughout their lifecycle to help prevent unauthorized actions and disputes. - Stripe Radar can evaluate risk signals such as card testing, stolen cards, issuer declines, and likely fraudulent disputes. ## Availability and Adoption - Early participants include Etsy, URBN brands, Ashley Furniture, Coach, Kate Spade, Revolve, and others. - The suite will be available through: - Stripe Dashboard and APIs - Wix, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Squarespace, and commercetools - Omnichannel platforms including Akeneo, Mirakl, Pipe17, and Rithum - Businesses can join the waitlist and consult Stripe’s integration guides. Businesses seeking to sell through AI agents can use the suite to avoid bespoke integrations while preserving their existing catalog, checkout, fulfillment, and customer-service operations.