UNIVERSAL COMMERCE PROTOCOL

What Is UCP?

The Universal Commerce Protocol is your store's interface for AI shopping agents — a machine-readable manifest that tells agents what you sell and how to interact with your catalog.

Discover

AI agents find your product catalog through a standardized manifest at a well-known URL, eliminating guesswork and ensuring every product is surfaced.

Access

Structured product data — prices, availability, images, and variants — served in a format AI agents can parse instantly without scraping.

Transact

Facilitate cart and checkout flows so AI agents can complete purchases on behalf of consumers, turning recommendations into revenue.

How UCP Works

A UCP manifest is a JSON document served at a well-known URL on your domain. It tells AI shopping agents what your store sells, where to find product data, and how to interact with your catalog programmatically.

{
  "protocol": "ucp",
  "version": "1.0",
  "store": {
    "name": "My Store",
    "url": "https://mystore.com",
    "platform": "shopify"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "product_discovery",
    "cart_management",
    "checkout"
  ]
}

Shopify Has You Covered

Shopify's Agentic Storefronts feature includes built-in UCP support. Enable it in your admin, and your store automatically serves a UCP manifest that AI agents can discover.

1

Open your Shopify admin and navigate to Settings > Apps & Sales Channels

2

Enable the Agentic Storefronts feature under the AI Commerce section

3

Your UCP manifest is live — AI agents can now discover and interact with your store

What About WooCommerce?

WooCommerce doesn't have built-in UCP support yet, but you can still improve your AI shopping readiness through schema.org markup, crawler configuration, and sitemaps. Our scanner checks all of these.

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