# Merchant Agent-Readiness Checklist

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A practical checklist to assess whether your business is ready for AI agents to find and buy your products. Work top to bottom; the early items are foundational.

## 1. Product data
- [ ] Every product has complete attributes (title, description, price, currency, availability, images, brand, category, identifiers, variants)
- [ ] Your product feed is structured and machine-readable (a recognized schema), not just web-page prose
- [ ] Feed prices and stock match your live store exactly, to the cent and the unit
- [ ] Price and availability sync in near real time, not in slow batches
- [ ] You monitor for drift between the feed and the live store

## 2. Discoverability
- [ ] Your products are present on at least one live agent surface your customers use
- [ ] You have verified how agents represent and rank your products
- [ ] If you sell through a platform, syndication to agent surfaces is enabled and checked

## 3. Transactability
- [ ] Your checkout is reachable via an API that returns structured data, not only rendered web-page elements
- [ ] You support, or have a clear path to support, a checkout standard (ACP and/or UCP) for the surfaces you care about
- [ ] You have completed an agent-initiated order end to end in a test

## 4. Payments and verification
- [ ] You rely on the networks' agent-verification and scoped-token mechanisms rather than building your own trust layer
- [ ] You understand the Shared Payment Token or delegated-payment flow for your processor
- [ ] You have read the terms of any agent-payment program you have joined

## 5. Evidence and monitoring
- [ ] You log agent authorization and behavior continuously across the transaction
- [ ] You can defend a dispute with a recorded audit trail rather than a reconstruction

## 6. Governance and risk
- [ ] Agentic commerce has a named owner in your organization
- [ ] Leadership is briefed on the two contested points: the checkout-standard question and the liability picture
- [ ] You handle agent-channel data to the same standard as the rest of your customer data
- [ ] You have a deliberate plan to protect your first-party customer relationship

How to read it: mostly unchecked means start with section 1 (product data); mostly checked means you are ready to run a real pilot and measure.

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