Agentic Commerce: A Merchant Readiness Checklist
What merchants should ship now to be ready for autonomous-agent purchasing flows.
Catalog and price
Expose structured product, price, and inventory data through a stable, well-documented API surface.
Policy and authorization
Define the agent-token scopes you accept, the spend policies you enforce, and the error semantics agents can rely on.
Disputes and reversals
Plan dispute and reversal flows for agent-initiated transactions before they show up at volume.
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