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Agentic checkout

The completion of a purchase executed by an agent: cart building, payment application and confirmation, without the user visiting the merchant's site.

DEFINITION

Agentic checkout — The completion of a purchase executed by an agent: cart building, payment application and confirmation, without the user visiting the merchant's site.

In practice

In practice: the user says “buy it”, the agent opens a checkout session with the merchant and passes a single-use payment token. ChatGPT's Instant Checkout (ACP protocol) is the most widely deployed example.

See also

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