https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/ The neutral reference for agentic commerce: the protocols (ACP, AP2, UCP, MCP, A2A, x402, MPP), the players, the payments, and what it all means for merchants, builders, and decision-makers. en Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:42:18 GMT https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/agentic-commerce-merchant-side-2026/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/agentic-commerce-merchant-side-2026/ In a quieter week after Europe's payment rails went live, the visible work moved to the merchant's side: Salesforce made its Agentforce Commerce agents generally available, Akeneo put agents into the product-data work that makes a catalog agent-readable, and Mastercard switched on one more market. The signal is that agentic commerce is becoming something a business stands up and owns, not only a capability on someone else's platform. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson News https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/european-agentic-commerce-goes-live-2026/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/european-agentic-commerce-goes-live-2026/ At the Visa Payments Forum in Paris, Visa and more than 30 European issuers said AI agents are now making real purchases at independent merchants. Worldline, Nuvei and Cleverbridge published proof points the same day, and the organizing constraint has shifted from whether an agent can pay to how you identify the agent and prove which one acted. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson News https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-for-retailers/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-for-retailers/ A retailer-focused playbook for agentic commerce: how to prepare product data, agent discoverability, checkout, payments, authorization, operations, measurement, and channel economics. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-examples/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-examples/ Concrete examples of agentic commerce across retail, subscriptions, services, B2B procurement, travel, and machine-to-machine payments, with live, announced, and hypothetical flows separated. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-readiness-checklist/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-readiness-checklist/ A practical readiness checklist for merchants preparing for agentic commerce: product data, discoverability, checkout, payments, authorization, evidence, governance, and risk. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-rfp-questions/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-rfp-questions/ A buyer-ready guide to agentic commerce RFP questions for evaluating platforms, processors, payment providers, AI vendors, and agentic checkout integrations. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ai-shopping-agent-payment-authorization/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ai-shopping-agent-payment-authorization/ How payment authorization works when AI shopping agents buy for users: mandates, scoped tokens, passkeys, network agent programs, liability gaps, and merchant evidence. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mcp-for-ecommerce/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mcp-for-ecommerce/ A practical guide to MCP for ecommerce: the merchant tools an AI agent needs, how MCP fits with ACP and UCP, what to expose, what to protect, and how to design a commerce MCP server. Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/acp-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/acp-explained/ A neutral guide to the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP): what it is, who maintains it, how payment flows through a Shared Payment Token, what is actually live, and how it relates to AP2, MCP, and UCP. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/acp-vs-ucp/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/acp-vs-ucp/ A neutral, side-by-side comparison of ACP and UCP, the two open agentic commerce checkout standards: who backs each, how their scope differs, what is live, how payment works, and whether a merchant should support one or both. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-glossary/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-glossary/ Plain-language definitions of the key agentic commerce terms and acronyms: agent, mandate, ACP, AP2, UCP, MCP, x402, MPP, Shared Payment Token, tokenization, passkey, merchant of record, verifiable credential, and more. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/landscape/agentic-commerce-landscape/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/landscape/agentic-commerce-landscape/ A maintained map of the agentic commerce landscape: the model providers, commerce protocols, payment networks, processors, platforms, and standards bodies, and how they fit together across the stack. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Landscape https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-protocol-stack/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-protocol-stack/ A neutral, plain-language comparison of the protocols behind agentic commerce: ACP, AP2, UCP, MCP, A2A, x402, and MPP. What each one does, who backs it, and how they fit together. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/landscape/agentic-commerce-timeline/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/landscape/agentic-commerce-timeline/ A dated, primary-sourced timeline of the key milestones in agentic commerce, from the first payment-network programs in April 2025 through the protocol launches and standards-body handovers of 2026. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Landscape https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ucp-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ucp-explained/ A neutral guide to the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP): Google's open standard for the full agentic shopping journey, who governs it, how it relates to ACP and AP2, and what is actually live. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/cannes-lions-2026-agentic-commerce/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/news/cannes-lions-2026-agentic-commerce/ At the Cannes Lions advertising festival, agentic commerce surfaced at the discovery end of the buying journey: Amazon's Alexa+ Agentic Ads complete a purchase inside the conversation, Glance and Samsung put agent-led shopping on smart TVs, and Amazon is reported to be buying ads inside ChatGPT. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson News https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/a2a-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/a2a-explained/ A short, neutral guide to A2A, the Agent-to-Agent protocol: the open standard for agents to communicate and delegate to one another, and the coordination layer that AP2 and x402 build on in agentic commerce. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-vs-network-tokens/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-vs-network-tokens/ A neutral comparison of AP2, the open agent payment-authorization standard, and the card networks' own agent-payment programs (Visa Intelligent Commerce, Mastercard Agent Pay, American Express): how they differ, where they overlap, and why they are converging rather than simply competing. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mcp-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mcp-explained/ A neutral guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its role in agentic commerce: the discovery layer agents use to find and call a merchant's tools, how it composes with the commerce protocols, and how it shows up in payments. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/product-catalog-for-agentic-commerce/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/product-catalog-for-agentic-commerce/ A practical, protocol-agnostic guide to getting your product data agent-ready: what 'agent-ready' means, the fields that matter most, why live-store parity is non-negotiable, where the feed goes, and how to curate and keep it current. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/x402-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/x402-explained/ A neutral guide to x402: Coinbase's open protocol that revives the HTTP 402 status so software can pay software in stablecoins, how the facilitator model works, who governs it, and how it relates to MPP and AP2. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/x402-vs-mpp/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/x402-vs-mpp/ A neutral comparison of x402 and MPP, the two machine-native settlement standards for agents paying for APIs, compute, and services: what they share, how they differ in sponsor, settlement, and rails, and when to use each. Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-by-business-type/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-by-business-type/ Deeper, role-specific guidance for agentic commerce: the distinct opportunity, the specific risk, the concrete first moves, the metrics, and the protocols that matter most for a retailer, a brand or manufacturer, a marketplace or platform, and a services business. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-risks-and-readiness/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/agentic-commerce-risks-and-readiness/ A neutral guide to the real risks of agentic commerce, agent impersonation, unauthorized purchases, chargebacks and liability, privacy, and channel disintermediation, how the standards address each, and a readiness checklist for getting in safely. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-explained/ A neutral guide to the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2): how it proves a user authorized an agent's purchase, the mandate model, its move to the FIDO Alliance, and how it relates to ACP, A2A, MCP, and x402. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-mandates-in-practice/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/ap2-mandates-in-practice/ A builder's guide to AP2 mandates as they actually work in v0.2: the Checkout and Payment mandates, their open and closed states, the SD-JWT verifiable-credential structure, how the delegation chain is signed and verified, and how human-present and human-not-present flows differ in the data. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/build-a-remote-mcp-server/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/build-a-remote-mcp-server/ A practical builder's guide to shipping a remote Model Context Protocol server, using the Agentic Commerce Atlas's own Cloudflare Worker as the worked example: the Streamable HTTP transport, the JSON-RPC methods you must implement, how to define and serve tools, and how to deploy and test it. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/how-ai-agents-pay/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/how-ai-agents-pay/ How AI agents actually pay: tokenization, signed mandates, passkeys and delegated authority, and the network products from Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Stripe, and the x402 stablecoin rail. What is live versus announced. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/implement-acp/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/implement-acp/ A practical builder's guide to integrating the Agentic Commerce Protocol as a merchant: the three responsibilities (product feed, the Agentic Checkout API, and accepting a Shared Payment Token), the real endpoints and payloads, and how the payment flows without your store ever seeing a card. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/introducing-agentic-commerce/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/introducing-agentic-commerce/ A plain-language, no-jargon introduction to agentic commerce for newcomers: what it is, why it matters, and how it differs from normal online shopping, in a few minutes. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mpp-explained/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/mpp-explained/ A neutral guide to the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP): the open standard from Stripe and Tempo that lets AI agents pay for APIs, compute, and services programmatically, how it works, what it settles in, and how it relates to x402, ACP, and AP2. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/analysis/what-agentic-commerce-means-for-your-business/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/analysis/what-agentic-commerce-means-for-your-business/ A decision guide for leaders: what agentic commerce actually changes, whether to act now or wait, how to tell if you are ready, and the concrete first steps for retailers, brands, marketplaces, and service businesses. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Analysis https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/what-is-agentic-commerce/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/learn/what-is-agentic-commerce/ A plain-language explanation of agentic commerce: AI agents that browse, choose, and pay on a person's behalf. How a transaction flows, why it is happening now, what is actually live, and who the players are. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Learn https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/analysis/when-agentic-commerce-becomes-table-stakes/ https://agenticcommerceatlas.com/analysis/when-agentic-commerce-becomes-table-stakes/ A forward-looking view for leaders on when agentic commerce shifts from optional to unavoidable: what 'table stakes' means here, a signals-based staged timeline, why adoption will be uneven by surface and vertical, and how to time your investment. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Andrew McPherson Analysis