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Productsup launches Meta Open Catalog alongside Shopify and Wix. Open Catalog will allow merchants to launch their products within Meta's Muse. At Meta in London, we spoke about UCP and the different challenges that smal…
We’re still tackling the big question: Will Agentic Commerce ❌ disintermediate your business? We’re looking forward to our collaborative Think Tank on Oct 14th with me and Felix Schirl. We’re cutting through the hype to…
UCP in Google Merchant Center! Google is paving the way for agentic commerce. I just saw the new Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) integrations in some of our Google Merchant Center accounts. 🚀 🤖 UCP: UCP is an open pr…
Agents 🤖. The more the merrier. TikTok’s launched a new AI shopping assistant paired with direct brand checkout via UCP. We are entering the era where AI doesn’t just recommend products, it shops on the customer’s behal…
Products that are enabled for checkout can now be added to a universal cart that lets users create orders across multiple merchants. For example, I can let an AI agent pick shoes from Merchant A, pants from Merchant B, a…
Microsoft is dumping ACP for UCP. Once again, it is confirmed: if you are in digital commerce, win with Google to win the rest. In their latest blog post Microsoft writes "Generally available today for everyone in the U.…
1) No need to FOMO on Agentic Checkout. Adoption is slow. Most retailers don't want it. Walmart has even reported lower conversion rates from agentic checkout compared to their own site 2) Double down on discovery. Agent…
It's been a while since I last wrote about Blockchain, but with recent developments around Agentic Commerce that we see at Productsup it was about time to look into this again. 🚨 Spoiler Alert: #NFT might come back. Whi…
I dove into the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) specification to understand exactly what data is being passed to merchants. What you get is currently quite limited: 📦 Product ID 🔢 Quantity 📧 Buyer email 📍 Shipping…
Think of it as a universal translator for the shopping world. Before UCP, if an AI agent (like Gemini or a shopping bot) wanted to buy something from a store, it needed a custom-built connection to that specific store's…