# Agentic Commerce Vendor and Platform Evaluation Scorecard

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Questions to ask a platform, processor, or vendor before committing to an agentic commerce integration. Score each from 1 (poor) to 5 (strong), or mark N/A, and add notes. A low score on trust and liability or on lock-in deserves extra weight.

## Standards and surfaces
- Which checkout standards do you support (ACP, UCP, both)?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- Which agent surfaces does this reach (ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Gemini, others)?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- Do you support the discovery (MCP) and authorization (AP2) layers, or only checkout?  [ 1 - 5 ]

## Data and feed
- How is our product feed ingested, and how is live-store parity maintained?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- How quickly do price and stock changes propagate to agent surfaces?  [ 1 - 5 ]

## Payments and economics
- What payment methods and tokens are supported (Shared Payment Token, network tokens, stablecoins)?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- What are the fees, including any per-sale fee on agent-initiated orders?  [ 1 - 5 ]

## Trust, fraud, and liability
- How do you verify that an agent is legitimately authorized to act for a customer?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- Who bears liability for an agent-initiated chargeback, and what are the dispute terms?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- What consumer-protection commitments apply?  [ 1 - 5 ]

## Independence and lock-in
- Is this built on open standards, or proprietary to one network or platform?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- How portable is our integration if we switch providers?  [ 1 - 5 ]

## Support and roadmap
- What is your support model and response commitment?  [ 1 - 5 ]
- What is on your agentic commerce roadmap for the next 6 to 12 months?  [ 1 - 5 ]

Total: ____ / 70. Add notes against each row, and weight trust, liability, and lock-in heavily.

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