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The common language for platforms, agents and businesses.
UCP defines building blocks for agentic commerce—from discovering and buying to post purchase experiences—allowing the ecosystem to interoperate through one standard, without custom builds.
UCP was built by the industry, for the industry to solve for fragmented commerce journeys that lead to abandoned carts and frustrated shoppers, and enable agentic commerce.
Agentic commerce demands interoperability. UCP is built on industry standards — REST and JSON-RPC transports; Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), Agent2Agent (A2A), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) support built-in — so different systems can work together without custom integration.
Surface-agnostic design that can scale to support any commerce entity (from small businesses to enterprise scale) and all modalities (chat, visual commerce, voice, etc).
Built to facilitate commerce, ensuring retailers retain control of their business rules and remain the Merchant of Record with full ownership of the customer relationship.
Open and extensible by design, enabling development of community-driven capabilities and extensions across verticals.
Built on proven security standards for account linking (OAuth 2.0) and secure payment (AP2) via payment mandates and verifiable credentials.
Open wallet ecosystem with interoperability between providers to ensure buyers can pay with their preferred payment methods.
UCP is designed to facilitate the entire commerce lifecycle, from initial product discovery and search to final sale and post-purchase support. The protocol's initial launch focuses on three core capabilities: Checkout, Identity Linking, and Order Management.
Support complex cart logic, dynamic pricing, tax calculations, and more across millions of businesses through unified checkout sessions.
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OAuth 2.0 standard enables agents to maintain secure, authorized relationships without sharing credentials.
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From purchase confirmation to delivery. Real-time webhooks power status updates, shipment tracking, and return processing across every channel.
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Integrate and negotiate directly with a seller's checkout API to power native UI and workflows for your platform.
See how it worksEmbed and render business checkout UI to support complex checkout flows, with advanced capabilities like bidirectional communication, and payment and shipping address delegation.
Learn moreBuild the future of commerce on an open foundation. Join our community in evolving an open-source standard designed for the next generation of digital commerce.
View the technical specUCP empowers retailers to meet customers wherever they are—AI assistants, shopping agents, embedded experiences—without rebuilding your checkout for each. You remain the Merchant of Record and your business logic stays intact.
Integrate with UCPSimplify business onboarding with standardized APIs and provide your audience with an integrated shopping experience. Compatible with MCP, A2A, and existing agent frameworks.
Learn more about UCP core conceptsUniversal payments that are provable—every authorization backed by cryptographic proof of user consent. Open, modular payment handler design enables open interoperability and choice of payment methods.
Learn more about UCP and AP2UCP is an open standard designed to let AI agents, apps, businesses, and payment providers interact seamlessly without needing custom, one-off integrations for every connection. We actively seek your feedback and contributions to help build the future of commerce.
The complete technical specification, documentation, and reference implementations are hosted in our public GitHub repository.
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Experiment with the protocol and its different agent roles
Contribute your feedback and code to the public repository