Agentic commerce

What is agentic commerce?

Agentic commerce is shopping in which an agent can discover, compare, and sometimes pay, with a person’s permission. The store remains the seller.

Google’s Canada post on November 4, 2026 uses the phrase for AI that completes a task on a person’s behalf, with that person’s permission. Visa’s April 30, 2025 announcement uses it for agents that find and buy inside limits the cardholder set. The payment step is agentic checkout. The software that takes the step is a shopping agent.

The credential is the part people skip. A product feed lets the agent quote a price. A delegated payment token, an AP2 mandate, a Visa purchase instruction, or a Mastercard agentic token is what lets someone charge. Know Your Agent is Mastercard’s registration rule for that last token. Visa’s parallel control is its Agent Registry and Trusted Agent Protocol. They are separate programs.

How the money moves, with the protocol table read November 12, 2026, is How do AI shopping agents pay?. Which assistant can finish a purchase is Can an AI shopping agent check out for you?. The sourced product table is Best AI agent for shopping. The six-month calendar is AI shopping agents next 6 months.