Guides
Plain-language explainers on agentic commerce and the standards behind it, kept current as the specs evolve.
What Is Agentic Commerce?
How AI agents shop on a person's behalf, from discovery through checkout, why it is happening now, and the open standards making it possible.
GuideWhat Is the Universal Commerce Protocol?
Who built UCP, what a manifest actually contains, how it compares to ACP, and how to check if a site supports it.
GuideStripe and Agentic Commerce
Stripe's own standard is ACP, not UCP. What it does, what integration takes, and how the two compare.
How-to guideHow to Add a UCP Manifest in Shopify
Shopify does not require you to write a manifest by hand. Here is how the built-in Agentic storefronts channel actually works, step by step.
How-to guideHow to Add UCP to WordPress With WooCommerce
Unlike Shopify, there is no official integration. Here are the real third-party plugins that exist, verified against WordPress.org, plus the DIY option.