Shopify
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Building the Universal Commerce Protocol

Our short summary of Shopify’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Merchants have many different payment, discount, and fulfillment rules, making it hard for AI agents to handle purchases.

Solution

They created the Universal Commerce Protocol, a layered, extensible API that lets agents discover merchant capabilities, negotiate terms, and complete transactions across any store.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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