Agent Commerce Guide

Agentic Checkout Readiness Checklist for Merchants

Use this agentic commerce readiness checklist to identify the boundary that would stop an authorized purchase. Evaluate one product and one route, record evidence for each answer and export the unresolved work. The worksheet does not certify security, legal compliance or access to a shopping channel.

Scope the purchase before marking answers

Choose a specific product, platform, buyer route and payment method. A store can support an ordinary checkout while a new agent interface still lacks delivery recovery. Assess the actual intended journey rather than giving the entire business a broad readiness label.

For a teaching example, imagine a $29 digital report with a one-time buyer limit of $35. The useful result is one permitted payment and access to the correct edition. The values are synthetic and do not represent a tested merchant transaction.

Merchant purchase readiness worksheet

Stable product identity

The selected edition or variant has an unambiguous identifier.

Accurate deliverable

The offer states exactly what the customer receives.

Current availability

The agent route checks the authoritative availability or capacity.

Product eligibility

The actual product type is supported by the intended route.

Merchant identity

The buyer can identify the intended seller.

Current total

The merchant calculates the final payable amount.

Currency or asset

The quote clearly identifies what the buyer pays.

Changed terms

Material changes trigger the applicable authority check.

Missing input

The caller receives a specific supported next action.

Expiry and reservation

The implemented quote and availability rules are explicit.

Buyer permission

The final purchase fits the buyer’s current authority.

Agent context

The implemented route verifies the required caller context.

Credential protection

Payment secrets stay within their supported handling boundary.

Required human action

The route stops for necessary customer confirmation.

Merchant destination

The configured receiving account or wallet is correct.

Authoritative result

The order uses a verified financial outcome.

Status retrieval

An uncertain attempt can be resolved before another purchase.

Repeat-operation handling

Supported retries preserve one intended financial action.

Durable order reference

The customer and support can identify the purchase later.

Event verification

Repeated or delayed events preserve coherent order state.

Correct entitlement

The buyer receives the purchased variant or license.

Paid-order recovery

Delivery failure does not require another payment.

Refund and dispute owner

The actual payment route has an assigned resolution workflow.

Bounded acceptance record

Success and material failure cases have expected outcomes.

All checks start unknown. Choose an answer based on actual evidence; this is not a compliance score.
Answers stay on this page unless you save or export them.
Choose pass, fail, unknown or not applicable for each item. Save on this device only when you choose to; clear removes the saved worksheet. Tool answers are not sent to a server.

Use four states and keep the evidence

Pass means you have evidence for this configuration. Fail means the current behavior does not meet the requirement. Unknown means the answer has not been established. Not applicable needs a reason tied to the actual route; it should not hide a missing payment or authority check.

The checks are recommendations organized around a complete purchase. Current protocol documentation defines the exact fields and operations where applicable. Use the official contract for ACP, UCP or another selected route, and verify channel eligibility separately. A protocol implementation is not automatic merchant onboarding. [1] [2]

Export concrete work rather than a score

Review failed and unknown items first. Assign the next action to the catalog, checkout, payment, delivery or operations owner. A single unresolved financial ownership issue can be more consequential than several minor catalog issues, so this tool does not turn answers into a universal percentage score.

The export preview illustrates the kind of work record to keep. Your selected answers can be exported in JSON, Markdown or CSV. Save on this device stores the worksheet locally in your browser when you request it; Clear removes that saved local state. The site does not receive the answers.

Example blocker export

Item
Payment status retrieval
Assessment
Unknown in this illustrative review
Next action
Payment owner documents and tests retrieval of the original attempt after a timeout.
Evidence to add
Supported operation, configuration date and observed acceptance result.

Fail and unknown answers appear here as you complete the worksheet. Keep an owner and next action for each unresolved control.

Synthetic export example. The live export uses your selected worksheet answers and does not invent a completed test.

Follow the route that resolves the blocker

Use the platform guide for channel and connector questions, the authentication guide for purchase authority, the checkout API guide for current terms and retries, and order management for fulfilment. The gateway guide helps assign financial operations and event ownership.

Agentify’s affiliated public HTTP audit checks website signals and readability. It can support an initial investigation of how an offer is presented. It does not guarantee that ChatGPT recommends a product or that a purchase can complete. Use the transaction worksheet and actual acceptance evidence for those separate questions. [3]

Products for this workflow

Agentify public HTTP audit

Agentify’s public HTTP audit inspects website signals and readability. Affiliated product; its findings do not guarantee AI recommendations or completed purchases.

Explore Agentify public HTTP audit ↗

Editorial disclosure: the publisher is connected to the products in this section. Their inclusion is based on the task described here.

Sources and evidence

  1. OpenAI Agentic Checkout specification ↗

    Checkout session create, update, complete, cancel and retrieve operations; merchant-calculated totals and documented session states.

  2. Universal Commerce Protocol ↗

    Modular commerce capabilities, business profiles, checkout, identity linking, payment handlers and order management.

  3. Agentify public HTTP diagnostic ↗

    Public website readability and HTTP diagnostics; separate from purchase completion or recommendation guarantees.